Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-05-23
must get 100000 men ready. Why
limit to s, 900 900?

limit because Congress intends. am
sure, as we all intend, that every ship
that can carry men or supplies shall
60 laden on every voyage with every
man and every supply she can carry.
Not to Be Diverted.
"And we are not to be diverted
from the grim purpose of winning
the war by any insincere approaches
'on the subject of peace. I can say
with clear conscience that l have
tested those intimations, and have
found them insincere. u now recog-
nize them for. what they are, an op-
Eportunity to have a free hand, par
ticularly in the East to carry out
purposes of conquest and exploita-
tion.
Every proposal with regard to ac-
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 we'll as
France,
Voice Interrupts.
A voice from the audience inter-
rupted with:
God bless you."
"The helpless and the friendless
are the very ones that need friends
and succor; and il any man in Ger
many thinks we are going to sacri-
fee anybody for our own sake tell
"For the glory of the war, my fel-
low citizens, in SO far as we are con-
cerned, is that it. is, perhaps, for the
first time in history, an unselfish war.
I could not be proud to fight for
selfish purpose, but I can be proud
to fight for mankind.
If they wish peace let them come
forward through accredited represen-
tatives and lay their terms on the
table. We have laid ours and they
know what they are. @
Duty Of Mercy.
"But behind all this grim purpose,
my friends; lies the opportunity to
demonstrate not, only force which
will be demonstrated to the utmost,
but the opportunity that we have
most cohspicuously in the work of
arms do not represent our character,
for they do, and it is q character
which those who see and realize ap-
|preciate and admire; but their duty
Is the duty of force. The duty of
the Red Cross is the duty of mercy
and succor and friendship.
Have you formed picture in
your Imagination OF what this war is
doing for us and for the world in my
own mind am Convinced that not
100 years of peace could have knit
ted this nation togsth this4single
year of war has and better even than
that, If possible, it is knitting the
world together.
Selfish in Center.
Look at the picture in the center
Of the scene, four nations engaged
gainst the world and at every. point
seeking selfish aggrandizement, and,
against them, twenty-three govern
ments representing the greater part
of the populations of the world,
drawn together into new sense of
community or purpose, a new sense
Of unity Of life.
THE Secretary of War told me an
Interesting incident the other day.
He said when he was in Italy a men,
Der Of the Italian government was
explaining to him the many reasons
why italy felt near to the United
States. He said: .5;
II you want to try an interesting
experiment 60 up to any one Of these
troop trains and ask in English how
many OF them have been in America
and see what happens q
Heart of America There.
He tried to experiment. He went
up to q troop train and said: How
many. Of you boys have been in Amer
ica7' and he said it seemed to him
as IL half of them sprang up: Me
from San Francisco; me from New
York, all over.
There was part Of. the heart Of
America In the Italian army. People
that had been knitted to us by assO-
citation, who knew US, who had work.
ed shoulder to shoulder with us, and
now, friends of America, were fight y
ing for their native Italy.
Friendship Only Cement.
Friendship is the only cement that
ever will hold, the world together.
And this intimate contact Of the
Red Cross with the peoples who are
suffering the terrors and depriva-
tions Of this war is going to be one
OF the greatest instrumentalities Of
friendship that the world ever knew.
And the center of the heart Of It'll
81. B if we sustain it properly, will be
this land that we 80 dearly love.
Day Of Duty Comes.
my friends. q great day of duty
has come, and duty finds q mans
soul Eas no kind Of work can ever find
,it. 1; I. S
s,5 May II say this? The duty that
faces us all now is to serve one an
other, and no man can afford to make
q afortune out OF this war. There are
men amongst us who have forgotten
that, if they ever saw it. & Some OF
you are old en0ugh - am old enough
-5-stt remember men who mad for
times ont Of the Civil war, and you
know how they: were regarded BY
their fellow citizens. That sWae II war