Cleveland County herald., 1918-05-23
PRESIDENT TELLS OF
RED CROSS PURPOSE
STARTS NEW YoRK'S DRIVE BY
LEADING PARADE-REVlEWS
DUTY IN SPEECH.
Is FIRST UNSELFiSH WAR
President Declares He Will Stand BY
Russia as Well as France-Crowd
Arises-Scores Germans For
Not Respecting Red Cross.

Not Respecting Red Cross.
New York. Opening with n
speech here, the Red Cross drive for
q second 100000 900 war fund, Presi-
dent Wilson announced the purposes
of the United States to set no limits
on its effort to win the war.
The United States. the president
said, will not be diverted from it's
purpose by insincere approaches on
the subject of peace.
81 can say with clear conscience"
he said, that l have tested those in
tentions ard have found them insin-
cere | now recognize them for what
they are, an opportunity to have a
free hand to play in the east, to carry
out purpose of conquest and exploit
tation. Every proposal with regard
to accommodation in the west in
wolves a reservation in regard to
accommodation in the west involves
a reservation in regard to the east. |
intend to stand by Russia as we'll as
France"
Not To Save World
The statement brought the house to
Its feet cheering.
German rulers, the president de
clared, are mistaken if they think
the United States will sacrifice any
body for its own sake.
"They wish peace, let them come
forward = and law their terms OF
the table. We have laid ours am
they know what they are" he said.
The war the president declared Is
war to save the world. The con
fiict, he said, will knit the world to
gether.
Dwelling on the duty of American
to give to the Red Cross the presi
dent declared no man could afford tt
make money out of the war.
The Presidents Speech.
The presidents speech in full fol
lows:
MIR. Chairman and Fellow Goun
trymen: l should be very sorry t.
think that Mr. Davidson in any degree
curtailed his exceedingly interestin;
speech for fear that he was postpon
ing mine, because l am sure you lis
tened with the same intens and in
tiras-t~-.sr-s<---t.--se>--- I If-rCreu &
the extraordinary vivid account h.
gave of the things which he had re
allied because he had come in con
tact with on the other side of the
waters.
I'VE compass them with our imagi
nation: he compassed them in hi'
personal experience, and l am no
come here tonight to. review for you
the work of the Red Cross; l am not
competent to do so because | haYt
not had the time or the opportunity tC
follow it in detail. | have come hers
simply to say a few words to you as
to what it all seems to me to mean -
and it means a great deal.
Not To Limit Efforts.
There are two duties with which
we are face to face. The first duty
is to win the war. And the second
duty goes hand in hand with it, is &c
win it greatly and worthily, showing
the real quality of our power not only
but the real quality OF our purpose
and of ourselves.
"Of course, the first duty, the duty
that we must keep in the foreground
of thought until it is accomplished, is
to win the war. l have heard gen
tlemen recently say that we must ger
100000 men ready. Why limit &c
5000, 900?
81 have asked the Congress of the
United States to name no limit be
cause the Congress intends. l an
sure, as we all intend, that every
ship that can carry men or supplies
shall go laden upon every voyage
with every man and every supply she
can carry.
And we are not to be diverted
from the grim purpose of winning the
war by any insincere approaches
upon the subject of peace. l can say
with a clear conscience that l have
tested those limitations and have
found them insincere. l now recos-
nise them for what they are, an op
portunity to have free hand, par
1cularly in the East, to carry out the
purposes of conquest and exploita-
ton.
To Stand BY Russia.
Every proposal with regard to &C
commodation in the West involves a
reservation with regard to the East.
Now, SO far as | am concerned, | in
tend to stand by Russia as well as
France"
voice from the audience inter
$1,000