The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-17

| lakes, and enarging the political rights of everybody in this part of
 the contnent-becoming in a word,
 the promised land of all liberty
 loving people, (Applause) I re-
 membered then how early it was that Turgot represented the Ameri- | can people as the hope of man.
 kind" and how justly he appreciated and foresaw at that time the char acter and importance of your peo- nle for the civilization of mankind. l The American people, he thought, must show the world by it's exam pie that men can be free and tran
 quil, and can do without the chains that tyrants and cheats of all garbs have tried to lay upon them under the pretense of public good. It must give the example of political lib
 erty, religious liberty, commercial
 and industrial liberty"
 This prophecy of the great French statesman, made in the second half of the eighteenth century, has be-
 come a reality. And so, in my desolate eagerness, l said to myself | that the Nation with this origin and this history, l know. can not con sent to the overwhelming of the
 whole civilized world by the barbar- ous rule which centuries ago had forced them to leave their native country and to seek other homes, and that the day is not far off
 when the Star Spangled Banner will l join the flags of the nations fight 1 ing for freedom, for right, and for justice, and that then better days will come for the nations suffering injustice in Europe and throughout
 the world (Applause.)
 The Serbian nation, with their kinsmen the Croats and Slovenes,
 have suffered in this war more than any other nations But I shall not appeal today to your commisera-
 tion. am happy and proud to say
 we have fought for our liberties
 as bravely as any one of our gal lant allies. (Applause) In thus fulfilling our sacred duty to our country we venture to think that we have a real service, however small it may be, to the better future of humanity, for in defending our be-
 loved land our regiments have sown the greater portion of our territory
 with the lives of the best of their men. These seeds of virtue can
 not, they will not, perish. They
 have even begun to give their bles- sed fruits. To them we owe the interest which the civilized world has taken in our national cause i; | to them, and because of their mar tyrdom, we owe the heartiness with which your great Nation has opened
 her magnanimous arms to us; to them my friends here present and I myself owe the great honor of be- | ing received in your Senate, which
 we regard as the strongest asylum
 of right. of liberty. and of justice and as the noblest temple for the prayer of a better future for the
 human race. (Applause.)
 We. too, believe with you, Mir
 President of the Senate; we. too
 have faith today that the morning | light will break in this good year al
 hand, and that it will break with
 the sun of liberty rising upon a
 rose-tinted sky. We. too, have in
 this solemn hour a vision, and we
 voice our unalterable faith that this
 magnificent Republic is to lead the
 nations of the world unto the noun
 tain of perfect peace and to become the arbiter of them all, because we know that the American com mandments of peace are command
 ments of justice. which alone will en