The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-07-05
MANY SHIPS CHR|STENED
FOR USE IN THE WAR
TROOPS HEAR BAKER
Secretary of War Speaks at
Camp Grant on Fourth.
Declares Y. S. Soldiers Duty 10 to
Save France From invader and
End German Tyranny.

End German Tyranny.
chicago, July 6.-Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker brought an optimis-
tlc, hghting message to Chicago and
Camp Grant on the Fourth.
He will take back with him to Wash
1ngton first-hand assurances that the
people OF this territory not only are In
the war to win. but that they have
furnished to the Eighty-sixth division
OF the National army as fine body Of
soldier material as there Is In the
world
Mr.. Baker arrived in the city Thurs
day morning, was whisked Immediate
ly to special train, which landed him
In Camp Grant at II 1T o'clock, and
after an inspection Of their canton
ment he delivered an inspiring speech
to 10000 civilians and soldiers in the
new stadium.
In the evening he addressed a mass
meeting in the Auditorium theater,
which was packed with a wildly en-
thusiastic Fourth Of July crowd.
Gen. Charles H. Martin introduced
Secretary Baker as follows:
''Men of the Eighty-sixth Division,
Ladies and Gentlemen: It Is q great
pleasure for me to Introduce to you
the secretary Of war;"
Secretary Baker said, in part:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Men of the
E1ghty-sixth Division: It gives me
pleasure to greet, on this birthday cele-
bration Of our nation, young America
In arms.
"What l have to say is chiefly to
these young soldiers. They are select
ed out Of the body of the citizenship Of
this great republic.
"They have assumed the uniform Of
their country's army and they are
about to sail overseas to defend, on
new frontiers, liberties which our IA
theirs acquired for us and transmitted
to us for Safekeeping and enlargement.
"Your country Is sending you to res
cue France from the heel OF an invader
who represents the last, we hope the
last, autOcratic and despotic principle
upon this earth Of ours in order that,
when your. victory Is finally won, it
will mean no acres or square miles
filled with servient populations to be
governed by victors, but 1t will be a
victory which rescues from the clouds
the very essentials and vital principles
of liberty themselves-fOr common dis
tributiOn over the sons Of men every
where, and that future generations,
your children, the children of France,
the children of Great Britain and of
Italy and Of all peoples everywhere,
may be baptized with the new spirit
and have the new opportunity, which
means the greatest possible develop
ment for each individual, under insti-
tutions Of his own fabrication and his
own power to change.
''Let me be little more intimate
with you. I am not speaking about
any individual in that group, nor tc
that group, but am speaking to the
whole company of two and a half mil
lion. Men who comprise the army Of
the United States today.
"You have been selected by demo-
cratic and free process for this serV-
Ice.
"And you are going to Join your
fellows on the other side, where from
the day you touch French soil until
you come home victorious you will feel
the Intoxicating inspiration Of great
ideal and the inspiring presence OF a
population which has been sanctlted
by sacrifice and by suffering.
"Great Britain is strengthening her
forces. France Is strengthening hers.
Italy Is strengthening hers and pano-
ramic stream Of ships crosses the At
lantic carrying you and your fellows
until the allied army is becoming tri-
umphantly superior in numbers and In
force.
"You are going to have the great
privilege of seeing the final vindicatiOn
of right, on the very frontiers Of free
dom.
"The thing that distinguishes us.
that makes this celebration OF our
Fourth of July an era In the history OF
the world, Is that our army, young and
brave and free, knows why 1t Is enter
ing this contest, and realizes that the
rescue of the principles OF freedom
and liberty, upon which our own coun-
try has in these years grown so great
ard so strong, counts more than life,
counts more than any other thing, that
whatever the cost or the sacrifice, it
must be made.
ut will not be long until you 60. I
wish you safe Journey across the