The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-07-05
Speaks Proudly and With Confident
Hope of Victory.
AN INTERIM TIONAL AUDIENCE
Fourth of July Address Is Notable Document in the
Records of America s Part in War to Guarantee
Liberties of All Nations.

place to which men out of every ma
tion might resort who wished to
share with them the rights and privi-
leges OF free men. And we take our
clue from them-do we not? We In
tend what they intended. We here
In America believe our participation
in this present war to be only the
ffuitage OF what they planted. Our
case differs from theirs only In this,
that 1t Is our inestimable privilege to
concert with men out Of every nation
what shall make not only the liber-
ties of America secure out dlipNliber-
ties of every other people as well. We
are happy in the thought that we are
permitted to do what they would have
done had they been In our place.
There must now be settled once for
all what was settled for America in
the great age upon whose inspiration
we draw today. This is surely fit
ting place from which calmly to look
out upon our task, that we may forti-
fy our spirits for its accomplishment.
And this is the appropriate place
from which to avow, alike To the
friends who look on and to friends
with whom we have the happiness to
be associated in action, the faith and
purpose with which we act.
This, then, is our conception of tho
great struggle in which we are ON.
gagged. The plot is written plain upon
every scene and every act of he SUI
preme tragedy On the one hand
stand the peoples of the world-not
only the peoples actually engaged, but
many others also who suffer under
mastery but cannot act, peoples of
many races and in every part Of the
world-the people of stricken Russia
STILL among the rest, though they are
for the moment unorganized aud help
less.
Opposed to them, masters Of many
armies. stand an isolated, friendiess
group OF governments who speak no
common purpose bur only selfish am
bitions of their own by which none
can profit but themselves, and whose
peoples are fuel in their hands: gov
ernments which fear their people and
yet are for the time their sovereign
lords, making every choice for them
and disposing of their lives and for
tunes as they will, as well as of the
lives and fortunes of every people who
fall under their power--goyernmen
clothed with the strange trappings
and the primitive authority of an age
that is altogether alien and hostile to
our own. The past and the present
are in deadly grapple and the peoples
of the world are being done to death
between them.
There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise. No half way de-
cision would be tolerable. No half
way decision is conceivable. These
are the ends for which the associated
peoples of the world are fighting and
which must be conceded them before
there can be peace:
1.-The destruction of every arbi-
trary power anywhere that can sep
arately, secretly. and Of its single
choice disturb the peace of tine world;
or. if it cannot be presently destroy
ed, at the least its reduction to virtual
impotence.
4 2-The settlement Of every ques-
tion, whether Of territory. OF sover-
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