The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-28
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haps q concrete illustration will ex-
plain what | mean.
/ have been in your country now
four weeks. nearly five weeks. 1 left
France on the 18th of April, in the
middle Or, rother, the latter part OF
that terrific drive at Cambria. The
first two weeks ] spent in Iowa and
was in a town in the, south of the state
of Iowa. And | saw some boys going
away as you say, on draft. The whole
town was filled with enthusiasm and
great excitement prevailed. Those
boys, twenty of them, were going away
to the camp to be trained; and when
saw the enthusiasm and the excite
ment and the partings, thought OF
the drafted men had taKen--we cal:
our reinforcements drafts, will call
them reinforcements, that had taken
During tho Cambri fight came 10
England three times in ten days, and
once had to take 1000 men to stop
the breach. marched those 2,O0o
men through one OF our southern prts
ON a Sunday morning. The people
were standing along the streets, there
were thousands of them there, but as
I marched those men to the boat i
marched silent men through silent
steets. the street was as silent as
YOU are this evening. There were 1000
men going over, but they were glng
there to die. They knew it, and 9th
ers knew it; and l remember seeing
an old gray.headed man with a gray
suit and a black band on his arm
that told it's own, story, raising his hat
reyerently to the lads as they went
by, and the women standing there
fluttered their black-edged handker-
chiefs which told their own story. Men
marching in silence through spectators
in silence, men going to die-We
drank the cup Of bitterness to the
dregs. There is no glamor, no halo, no
romance about war for England to-
day. ~
War Calls For Mettle. ..
You know war is sor'id thing, but
it calls for splendid qualities, You
know war calls for courage. for reso-
luton, for selfdenial, for sacrifice;
yes, you say. from the man IN the
line-oh no, that is where you make
the mistake. 1t calls for these Guall'
ties as much from the man behind the
line as it does from the men who are
in the line. It calls for these quail
ties, not only from your lads in the
line but from your men an" women IN
the nation that sent them there; sor-
did thing, but il calls for splendid
Qualities. Yes, America. the WOW has
called out splendid qualities, from you.
too. You know that your nation, great
as it was in the past, was never so
great as it was in the past, was never
so great as in the hour when you
stepped down from your pedestal OF
neutrality and took your partsin this
world conflict for right and GOD.
Some OF you here fathers and moth
ers of boys who are gone, you know
your boys, much as you love them in
the past were never so worthy OF your
love as in the day you sent them out
knight-errants of God, to take part to
fight for right and truth. But you
know this great war, its cost in sacri-
flee to your allies perhaps has never
really been brought home to your
homes you don't know what 1t has
cost England. You know, never sit
down to a meal in your country, this
, is literally true-I never sit down to
q meal in your country without feel
ing of sadness. Oh. the plenty Of
your boards pairs me, when remem>
Der England. | have found on my
plate on several occasions more meat
for one meal than my wife and three
\ little Children at home in England can
possibly hope to get in whole week.
You don't know war,syet, America!
have seen groups Of women nd chill
dren, almost equal to this audience,
out in the streets of our great towns,
waiting hour after hour in the rain
and weather for store to open for
little while that they might possibly
obtain quarter of pound Of mar
garine, butter, being quite out of the
question. When in France coming
home on leave | have been very. anx
ious to bring home something that
would be treasured and valued by my
little children, and have gone to the
uAPCuAIAOAAoA SuAItSu OAu
have been very pleased and very
proud II have been able to purchase
a pound of raisins or pound of cur
rants to put in my, bag and take home
as one Of. the greatest prizes could
bring them.
= The Banker Brigade. ~
A. man, asked ME the other day,
there were q large number of bankers
gathered together: Have you ever
seen so many bankers together, before
in one room?" had the pleasure OF
addressing hundreds of bankers down
in Iowa. don't think saw quite as
many as are here this evening, but,
gentlemen. have seen many more
bankers than this assembled together,