Arizona republican., 1918-05-13

every town and city In france, rom | Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, Aus tralia. It is. an echo of that mighty | voice that I bring to you today. It was happy day on which l saw the stars and stripes flying over the trenches in France.
 For many months had been asked where the United states was-why she was not aiding her sister. war-torn France. l answered to them to be patient They are coming, l said. knew the day would come when you would see the light. And l am glad to say I was not disappointed. And to commemorate that day l am bringing you the warmest embraces of the | French nation.
 France always has rushed to the aid of any nation fighting for freedom. So when the most powerful military or
 ganization the world has ever seen
 entered French territory through back door kept open through the agreement of honorable nations, France
 rushed to the frontier and made a living wall of breasts of her children.
 But France had been dreaming dreams of peace, as you had been, and had not spent forty years preparing for world domination she was crushed down and then the whole world
 gasped. Was Prussia to destroy the
 world? No! God heard the cry. Then
 took place the greatest miracle Of
 modern times. We poor soldiers, broken. bruised, raised the cry Vic
 tory or death.' And it was death fof
 thousands, for the rivers ran red with
 their blood, but the victory at the
 Marne was the dawn of day, the
 Sun of which will never set
 Honor to Women
 You will never know what France
 has endured in those three years, while
 Russia was preparing, while the United
 States was deliberating. What France endured is almost beyond human speech, but it must be said. Her wom- en were ravished, her girls placed in bondage, her children mutilated. "All honor to the women of France; to them their full measure of tribute can never be paid. Women who never
 had done a days work now are in fac tories every day, all laboring side by \ side to help in any manner possible the men at the front. Only the very young and very old men are now al a home.
 What has France done? She has , mobilized 100000 men at the presen = time. To do that well in the United e States in the same proportion. it would
 unnecessary for you to mobilize 1S,,
 100000 men. Why are the boys O |. France so brave and strong? It is no if because they are better than othe
 boys. No. It is because they hav' il such mothers. The French mother | l. proud to give her son to her country d The French army never can be con {. quered because the women of Franc e are too strong and brave. Tn
 strength of the French army lies les
 in the arms of the men than in tn
 hearts of the women.
 The German army cannot win n Every time she puts up a clean, decen V fight she has been beaten"
 I- The speaker paid a tribute to Eng y land. France has not always bee y friends with England" said he "The " have fought fights, but the fights wer
 always chivalrous fights. England to le day stands as the defender of Franc J. and liberty"
 IS Word to Ireland
 le T know that you expect me to sa IS something about Ireland.' declare es Lieutenant Perigord. If Ireland > loved anywhere, she is in France. To
 day I feel like begging of the Iris people and all with Irish sympathies {
 be worthy of their boys sent to Franc n to fight. It is not when the house G burning time to sit down and discus
 domestic questions. The house of ci,
 ilization is burning. A liberty ft - Ireland is coming, the only kind of in liberty worthy of the irish nation. ed What helped France most durir ss. the three years before the Unite ed States got into the war was the syn h. pathy of the American people. Befo ITS you entered the war your boys can we over and joined the foreign legion al he the aviation branch and you sent yo, s. nurses and doctors. When the wom. e." of America learned that there we rd widows and orphans in France in de D. perate need they sent. not only the ad money, but they became mothers
 the orphans and sisters to the widows
 The speaker described an intervie an with French orphan who had bea as tiful godmother in New York who nd the lieutenant promised to look up al gre to kiss. He never has found her, ng declared. A mighty tribute also w mt paid the American Red Cross.
 nd President Wilson was eulogized old the speaker. His message at the e led trance of the United States into { nd war was read in every school al
 church in France, he declared. m Not FaithIess
 IT. Describing an incident in Pal Of when General Pershing was waiti
 for taxicab. the driver who was 'an woman. was reminded that she W three minutes late. The woman ta, Tn driver replied: Why. general v vas were three years late"
 len tbot Iv,ox ere nation. the lieutenant told of incider au' just before the desperate attack hs' the army of the crown prince at VI re- dun when men of the French arr or, were called upon to go forward to
 most certain death. Six thousand os them knelt to receive the blessing ,,;n Lieutenant Perigord, who in priv; sn M fife is Catholic priest. The comma with which the lieutenant and his n .ho were connected were holding a posit "a; in the front. Reserves were della, .u an, and could not get there until o'clo ny n' Each minute the attack grew m .,ys, desperate. Smelling and gas were f .isS lowed by charges by fresh divisic
 ;. German brigade came forward ,,,s was crushed at the foot of the l on, Another unit came and got the sa ere thing, and still no reserves came a.d help the French. The men with Lii lief tenant Perigord begged for the pri nn lege of charging again. The reser ,Ss came at o'clock and the day |,
 tn saved. and so was Verdun. The ere bed VI I,.s s,. o'e ano ,so' & see in.o uun ark, ,o,,. ~. ene o.Vgo men w,lo nao ni'eis W
 there were only 1.500 left. These l, lor- .na' to,I .,ea .s VIZ
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