Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-09
FULL TEXT OF SPLENDID
ADDRESS BY NELL B.
FIELD AT CELEBRATION

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dim the ulster OF that record, but the
record of the British fighting forces
scarcely surpasses that of those who
stayed at home and fought behind the
lines. 1t is said that every man and
woman and every child above the age
of ten years physically fit was en-
gagged in some kind of war work at
the time the armistice was signed.
ana had been so engaged practically
throughout the period of the war.
Class distinctions had practically dis
appeared. The title daughter of Brit
ish aristocracy worked side by side
with the daughter of the tradesman,
the mechanic and the tenant farmer
In muniticn factories putting in the
same hours and submitting to the
same discipline in every way. The
titled son of the same class fought
and died shoulder to shoulder with
the merchant, the tradesman, the pro-
fessional man, the mechanic and the
cockney in the trenches and shared
The hardships, the discomforts and
the glory, if you please. of war with
out thought of caste. | think | may
be pardoned if l relate a single incl
dent which came under my own OBJ
servation:
Rigid Food Conservation.
In New York in June of this year
we met in social way an English
gentlemen of wealth and distinction
who had been in this country since
and before our entrance into the war
looking after for his country the pro-
duction of an important necessity Of
wir and who was then waiting for
ship TO take him to England for a
conference. Among other things he
told us that he had a letter from his
wife in which she asked him to bring
some sugar when he came If only
pound or two and stated that she had
no had scrap of sugar IN the house
for months, Think of that you people
who feel that you have male saeri.
flces on ace9unt of the war British
women and children for rlonths with
out scrap of sugar in the house
while some of us have been FESTIVE I'M
der an allowance of two pounds per
person per month. | may add that
when this gentleman was ready to
sail he received a request from his
government to remain on this side for
further service and at last accounts
he was still here and his wife with
out her sugar.
Hundred Years of Friendship
If there are here those who would
say that Britain has only done her
share, who moved by that hereditary
hatred to which | have referred
would minimize our praise and insist
that Britain was fighting for self-pre-
servation and is entitled to no more
credit than the other nations who
contributed to the winning of the war.
/ doubt not those others who take a
broader view concede to them the
right to their opinion, but after all
they cannot deny that for almost a
hundred years before the beginning of
this war we have been upon terms Of
friendship with the British and aside
from two or three negligible incidents
that there has been no friction be-
tween MS; that a continuation of this
= friendship and a better understanding
between ourselves and our English
speaking associates is to be one of the
beneficial results of this war ] do
not permit myself to doubt. but if that
understandable is to 0eall that 1t
ought to be it behooves us to bear in
mind that German king was on the
throne of Great Britain at the time
of the revolt by the American colo
nies that there was never time
when the colonists were without
strong friends and sympathizers in the
mother country and the army sent
against them largely consisted of
"hired Hessians;" that Britain has
stood with us for the Monroe doctrine
and that there has never been an hour
tai +l,l,, tod a INN >iftut1
pie was unable to command united
British support in any controversy.
American People United.
! use the expression united Ameri-
can people with the intention to en-
phasize the fact that | have not over
looked the controversies arising out
of our own civil war nor the adjust
ments which happily followed those
controversies, nor yet the trifiing
boundary dispute in Venezuela and
the Alaskan fisheries difficulty, all of
which are more than outweighed and
overborne by the incident with which
Won are all familiar when Won Diet
rich contemplated a controversy with
Dewey in Manila Bay in 1898. | said
awhile ago that the problems OF peace
are infinitely more difficult and. COM
Dlicated than those of war To win
the war we all knew that what was
required was unity of action and sus-
tanned purpose. All we had to do was
10 fight hard enough and hang on
long enough and eventually victory
would be ours, and certainly none OF
us. and when | say us | mean Ameri-
cans. have doubted that at some time
and in some way the Huns would pe
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