The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-05-23
TEE PRESIDENT APPEALS
FOR SUPPORT OF RED CROSS

New York.-To a great throng
here tonight, President Wilson
launched his appeal to America for a
hundred million dollars for the Red
Cross.
When the president arrived at the
threatre following dinner at the
home of Col. E. NJ. House with Sec
retary Tumulty and Mr.. Carey n
Grayson, he was greeted by wild ap-
plause.
1t was his first speech in New
=, Yor,, since America entered the war.
The president said:
II have come here simply to say a
few words to you as to what it ali
seems to me TO mean, and it means a
great deal.
There are two duties with which
we are face to face. The first duty
is to win the war. And the second
duty, that goes hand in hand with it.
is to win it greatly and worthily.
showing the real quality of our power
not only, but the real quality of our
purpose and Of our claim. Of course
the first duty, the duty that we must
keep in the foreground Of our
: thought until it is accomplished, is
to win the war l have heard gentle
men recently Say that we must get
five million men ready Why limit
it to five million?
81 have asked the congress of the
United States to name no limit be.
cause the congress intends, as am
sure we all intended, that every ship
thaffsn carry men or supplies shall
Ep'Nhden upon every voyage with
every man and every supply she can
carry. And we are not to be divert
ed from the grim purpose of winning
The war by any insincere approaches
upon the subject of peace can say
with clear conscience that l have
tested those intimations and have
found them insincere l now recog
nize them for what they are, an op-
portunity to have free hand, par
ticularly in the East, to carry tn,
purposes of conquest and exploiting.
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 a.
France.
THE helpless and the friendless
are the very ones that need friend
and succor, and if any man in Ger
many thinks we are going to sacrifice
aybody for our own sake, tell them
now they are mistaken. For the
glory of this war, my fellow citizens.
so far as we are concerned, is that
1t is perhaps for the first time in his
tory an unselfish war could no,
be proud to fight for selfish purpose
but l can be proud to fight for man.
kind. If they wish peace let then
come forward through accredited re.
personalities and lay their terms on
the table. We have laid ours and
they know what they are. But be-
hind all this grim purpose, m,
Trends, lies the opportunity to de. |
monstrate not only force, which viii
be demonstrated to the utmost, bu
the opportunity to demonstrate char
acter and it is that opportunity tha
we have most conspicuously in tn
work of the Red Cross, not that ou,
Een in arms do not represent ou
character, for they do, and it is
character which those who see and
realize appreciate and admire; bu:
their dnty is the duty of force. Tn,
duty OF the Red Cross is the duty Of
mercy and succor and friendship.
Have you formed a picture ir
your Imagination Of what war is do.
ing for US and for the world? In
my own mind, l am convinced tha
not one hundred years of peace
could have knitted this nation to-
gether as this single year of war
mas knitted it together, and, better
even than that, if possible, it is knit
ting the world together. Look at
the picture. In the center of the
scene, four nations engaged against
the world and at every point of van
tage showing that they are seeking
selfish ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and against
them 23 governments representing
the greater part of the population
OF the world, drawn together into a
new sense of community of interest.
new sense of unity of life. The
secretary Of war told me an interest
ng rcident the other day He said
"ben he was in Italy a member of
the government was explaining to
him the many reasons why Italy felt
near 10 the United States. He said
III you want to try an interesting ex-
perm ent, go up to any one of these
troop trains and ask in English how
r'any have been in America and see
what happens He tried the expert