Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-25
DECLARES FULL FAITH
IN ALLIES STRENGTH
Marcosson, Dined in New
York, Sure Haig Is to Be
Victor
HURLEY FOR MORE SHIPS
Merchant Marine Must Take Fore
most Place in World, Is His
Warning
New York, April rs.


on business topics and or the war, vas
the guest of honor at dinner at the
Waldorf last night attended by many
prominent men. +. n. Hurley, chair
man of the shipping board. was one OF
the speakers and James NJ. Beck pre-
sided
General Leonard Wood was another
notable speaker. The 1900 diners rep
resented men from many walks of life.
finanCiers, actors, lawyers, musicians
and writer's.
Mr.. Marcosson said:
There can be no moment for self
congratulation until the war Is won ;
until there is complete and unCompro-
missing victory from which there can be
no comeback. This is why I maintain
that the great offensive of this year is
? sign and a portent that the epic of
Haig's retreat has merely foreshadowed,
however long 1t may take. the final halt
which Is to be called on the whole Teu-
tonic effort.
THE world will some day make an
adequate appraisal of the service to
civilization that the British armies are
heroic line is bent, ! have an unfalter-
ing conviction that 1t will never break
] base this on the fact that under that
British khaki there ba2ts the British
heart that does not know the meaning
of the word defeat To see those
British lines in action as | have seen
them on a dozen bitter fields is to know
fight.
EuloEizes HaIg
"And in this dark hour of suspense
like to recall the picture of Sir Douglas
Haig as I have seen him riding down the
highways Of France This soft-voc ced,
fair-haired, blue-eyed man, who has been
standing as "Stonewalr Jackson stood
at Bull Run and Thomas at Chicka-
mauga. will emerge as one of the out
standing props of world democracy To
meet this soldier is to have your conf
dence in the righteousness of this war
reborn; to see him in action is to feel an
overwhelming sense Of confidence in the
outcome. When Haig issued that memo
rable order on the day which called his
troops to stand and die to the last man
IL need be--a trumpet blast from the
very mountain peaks of hope and cour-
age-he sounded the note that America
must take to her heart in this kindling
hour of rededication. There were no
heroics in that order. Like all the great
and undying utterances of the world. 1t
was spoken in simple truth and honest
faith. IT incarnated Haig. ! regard 1t
as privilege to pay my small tribute
to the almost incredible heroism and
sacrifice of those Incompatible British
armies who have not only fought Brit
aims battles in this war. but our own
The combination of Foch, the master
strategist, and Haig. the bulldog fighter,
spells final and conclusive victory.
Crisis Not Passed
But, though the German advance
is stayed. let US not delude ourselves
that the long night has passed 1 have
felt for two years, and / have never
felt 1t so keenly as do at this moment,
that the German, instead of declining
in power, has maintained his strength.
The German annexation of Russia, a
greater blow to the Allied cause than
the annihilation of two Of Haig's ar
mics, has only given the Germans
new grasp on self-sufficiency, a fresh
lease on war life. The German peace
has proved that behind the SNUG mask
OF Germany's expressed aims in this
war there lies disclosed the form and
the substance of a robber State.
There never was an hour when the
American people should take to their
hearts so seriously the real aims of the
war. What impresses me as 1 have
gone about from city 10 city is the lack
OF understanding oe a great mass of the
American people of the purpose of the
war. Nor is It confined TO our own
country. one day last autumn | was
waiting at a little station in France,
where had met half a dozen American
soldiers. Curious to know how they felt
about the war, ! asked them why they
had come to France. Three of them
said, We had to come The other
three said, Well, of course, the British
and the French could not lick the Ger
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finish the job Now. of course, this
Of July celebration, with the fireworks
popping and the eagle screaming. but
II was not the truth. The thing that
shocked me was that these men who
had crossed the seas on the greatest OF
all adventures. did not know the real
reason why they had flung their very
lives into the great scales of war. This
is why / maintain that course OF
instruction In war aims is as essential
70 the education OF the American man,
woman and child today as the means
with which to earn their daily bread,
We must know why we fight and why
We dare all.
when you see this war YOU realize
as never before that II is the great up-
setter Of precedents, the prize smashsr
of traditions. Maintaining the integrity
Of civilization's self-respect, however. is
only one OF the great war aims. just
as this war is being fought TO rid the
world of the menace OF predatory Prus-
sianism and to make the world safe
and free for democracy SO Is IL also
being waged for a democracy of trade
J which will give each nation, and through
thai nation every Individual. the rlrhf
Of an unbampered norfment N co,n-
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