Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-12

third largest in the Union. Huge
mountains from east ito west cut
the state in half. 1t is impossible
to travel from the northern to the
southern parts without going
around the state. At a war con-
ference recently held there, every
township in the state was repre-
scented. The delegates came pay
ing their own expenses, which in
some instances amounted to $1,000.
81 shall never forget George
Weeks, a rough old miner, who it
seems to me, exemplifies the spirit
of the West. He sat across the
table from me at conference one
day, his face the very picture of
tragedy, and drank in every sug-
gestion that was made. After the
meeting had adjourned he took
from his pocket a letter from a
captain in France, which told of
the number on the little wooden
cross that marks the grave of his
son in France. When this war is
over he said, 4 am going over to
France and find that grave and lie
down upon it and weep my heart
out. But I'll not weep till then.
There is no time for weeping now.
| must make it my business and my
only business to see that that boys
sacrifice is not in vain. That is
what we mean by morale, friends;
the morale of the American people.
Neither shall l ever forget a
collective incident in Idaho. / re-
member a dinner in honor Of 1t.
Paul Peragor, a soldier priest,
man thirty-fve years old, a native
Frenchman, who fought for three
years, was paralyzed for three
months; a man decorated with six
crosses of war, now using his
tongue eloquently to arouse others
to action. The Jewish governor of
Idaho presided over the confer
ence; on one side sat Catholic
priest and on the other blue
stocking Presbyterian minister. We
are getting together everywhere.
The heart of the nation is beating
in unison. l can tell you the heart
Of the West is beating true to the
heart of the nation.
Il have even worded in my own
imagination the note that | would
have that German spy send to the
Kaiser. | would say, May it
please your majesty, these people
are a strange folk, naturally most
peaceful, and foolishly patient. For
two and one half years they never
even bought water bucket, in pre-
pairing to defend themselves. But
now a flame Of patriotism is sweep
ing like a praire fire over the land.
Uncle Sam has his jaw set. The
same blood that twice defeated
England courses through his veins.
Even if you break the British and
French lines in Flanders you must
still meet an unconquerable AM
erica And l honestly believe be-
fore we are through the old Kaiser
will sit in his palace at Potsdam,
and wiring his hands, and say,
'Mein Colt! Mein Colt! why did I
stir up those Americans already
yet
"What are we going to get out
of all this, every traitor and every
near traitor will ask. We are 60
ing to get for one thing a better
grade of patriotism. We are going
to love all newcomers who become
Americans and ship all the rest
home. We are going to tell them
that the language of Chaucer,
Shakspere, and Lincoln is good
enough here; we are going to con-
suit with the |. w. w. and see if
they have a grievance, and if not
invite them to cut it out. We are
going to have a new United States
in which we shall hate nobody but
be prepared to fight anyone. Our
provincialism will have gone from
the touch Of our kindred over the
sea. We shall rewrite our histor-
les. They will tell of Runnymede
and Marston Moor and Lexington
and Concord, all steps toward the
political liberty craved by the
Anglo Saxon race. They will tell
that the colonists were essentially
Englishmen; that they were Sc
parated by distance only from
those democrats, Burke and Pitt,
who plead just as eloquently for
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