Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1918-08-29

not man, woman or child in North
Canaan, nor in the United States of
America who tonight is not under
personal obligation to every one of
them.
Let's show them that we appreciate
it, show it to them now at time
when the thoughts of love and inter
est at home will sustain and be a COM
fort to them in the mighty task they
have set out to accomplish. Let us
throw off the mantle of puritanical
Yankee reserve and whoop it up for
the boys. Let US remember that
there is not a single one of those lads
who goes bravely across the water
and faces the shell fire of battle who
cannot look any man in this country
in the face, from the President down,
and truthfully say, 81 am doing as
much for my fellow man as you are",
because no man can do more than
offer to give his life for his fellow
men.
l like to think that because of some
subtle cause of nature the men who
go from this side of the Atlantic are
, of just as good, if not of a little bet
ter stuff, than any man who ever
wore a uniform. l like to think that
| perhaps due to the fact that the bone
and muscle of this country has in its
fibre component parts of the bone and
muscle of almost every people of
the globe, and that because the
country on this side of the water
and by this designation l include
those endless forests and fertile
fields of the great Dominion to the
north, has for several generations
been the great melting pot of all the
nations of the earth, and because
the forefathers of this country came
here for the reasons that they did and
made their great sacrifice, building a
nation which would be a suitable
home for their principles and beliefs,
and because they barred their breasts
and gave their hearts blood to de-
fend that nation, say like to think
it because l believe it is true that the
sons of those forefathers and the pro-
duct of that melting pot of humanity
have no superiors, if they have any
equals, in the world today.
During the dark days which fol-
lowed the 18th of March of this year
did we not often think where are
the boys" Do not misunderstood
me as making the slightest attempt
to put on the so-called American
Z boast. Do not understand me as
minimizing in the least the heroic
work of England or the bleeding sa d
rice of France, or the great, daI-
ing and wonderful work of Italy. For
almost four years these nations stood
against skilled and trained machine
of slaughter, three years of which we
, were debating which path to follow.
; For four long years they more than
held their own, but we know, because
their leaders unhesitatingly told us,
! that their limit was nearly reached
, when on the 18th of March the great
! so-called German peace offensive was
, launched. AS we see it now that
, great master of strategy, Marshal
: Foch, held and yielded his hard
, pressed forces like an elastic band,
, using and saving his men until the
German line was crawfished on the
> map of Europe. Meanwhile i'm this
country the mighty mills. were work
ing overtime. The timber was being
| felled in the forests, sawed, cut and
; fitted. The steel was pouring out of
r great furnaces. Millions of laborers
{ were converting the lumber and steel
, into great ocean going steamers. Our
E great fabric mills were working. Uni
forms, guns and munitions were pour
. ing forth. In every country, village
and town the boys were saying fare
- well to the loved ones at home and
4 leaving for the great environments
Y where they were rapidly being made
: into soldiers, and as fast as made
! were embarked and rapidly
f transported to the succor of tired
= and war-worn armies of France
e and England, yes, until a
= full million and half of those clean
4 limbed, clear-eyed, fully-trained
Y American tigers were there ready to
e do and die. Then what happened?
r Do you remember that day in July
when things looked dark and gloomy
@ over there? The censor does not
@ let us read much, but we did read the
;, message Of the commanding Amcri-
II can general, name deleted, to the
French commanding general, some,
e thing like this: eve, the Americana
h present our compliments to tho
G French who are our masters and say
v that even though the ground we have
IS given up to the enemy is unimportant
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