Cheyenne record., 1919-02-27
of being regarded as the friend Of

for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be, looked upon
Resistance. the American soldiers are
Welcomed with acclaim. >.
pride "nns ON the aae other he % side Of the water
that am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride. but
grounds for personal pride I'd be the
most stuckup man in the world. And
1t has been an infinite pleasure to me
Of whom the constitption Of the United
States made me the proud commander.
You may be proud of the Twenty
Twenty-sixth division daughter: and
applause. and see what they did un-
der. my direction! And everybody
feeling that in praising him he is SUB
have been searching for the fun
to believe in us. Before this war Eu-
rope did not believe in us as she does
now. She did not believe in us
war. She, seems really to have be-
lieved that we were holding off be-
cause we thought we could make more
by staying out than by going in. And
all of a sudden, in short eighteen
months. the whole verdict Is reversed
There can be but one explanation for
out making a single claim we put all
our men and all our means at the dis
posal of those who were fighting for
for a cause. the cause of human rights
and Justice, and that we went in, not
to support their national claims. but to
held In common.
And when they saw that America
not only held ideals. but acted ideals.
became firm partisans of those ideals.
II met group of scholars when Z
was in Paris. Some gentlemen from
come to see me. and In whose pres.
snee. enc: or rather in the presence t Of
that I had had one Of the delightful
revenges that sometimes come to
man. All my life / have heard men
idealists and particularly of those sep
arate incloistered persons whom they
chose to term academic. who were In
atmosphere when they clash with mo-
body in particular.
And l have said have this sweet
ness in IL name Of the United States.
I have uttered as the objects of this
great war var tSs ideals and hnethna but St
with tense muscle and lowered head.
they fbes to er tRe
lives and their country, and when
these accounts of what 1t was all about
TedCneu Cnem from america Iney llII-
ed their heads. they raised their eyes
khaki coming across the sea in the
sRose o. We're gassS stranee % men reeRIess Eh h Of
danger not only. but reckless because
they seemed to see something that
testified to me in Europe that men
were possessed by something they
could only call religious fervor. They
They had vision they had a dream,
and they were fighting in the dream
and fighting in the dream they turned
the whole tide of battle and 1t never
came back.
"And now do you realize this conf.
dence we have established throughout
II you choose to call It burden. It
10 one Of those burdens which any ma
tion ought to be proud to carry Amy
run in the world will find himself
thrown upon q shore SO high and bar
rem that Il will seem as II he had been
.T invite him to test the sentiments
MIKE sns ths d not
fine our conception and purpose to
::'S sse ess 'ae
Of hope. The Europe Of the third year
They the end
the war would eventually be a resump-
ton OF the old order. They never
dreamed It would be a Europe Of set
Now ali the peoples Of Europe are
buoyed up in the hope that all the ma
monsl and he ehysiesl foree, shss rsht rhaa
shall prevail. II America should fail
the world of its hope. the nations will
the men at the peace conference will
go home with their headN upon their
breasts because they will have failed.
nothing but . modern scrap of paper"
Men. he declared. who would have
america al' @ fail the the world in its hopes saw
They DO not know the sentiment of
pasSa 9HE Of n. Of sss ss es
as the "friend Of mankind" the Pres
vssaot Of n this mato
that is in me"
their heads now to do a great thing
Of their purpose" he said.
but Of the @ peoples copies W Who % viii ff's sss1that Il
their present governments. do not do
their will some others will. And the
secret Is out and the present govern
II have come back for an attempt to
transact business for little while in
America. but I say in all soberness
that have been trying to speak your
thoughts. Probing deep in my heart
and trying to see the things that are
right rather than the things that are
expedient, I am finding the heart of
America.
II find that in loving America I have
Joined the majority of my fellow mon
throughout the world
v. s. Tonnage Big.
Observation-Disclosures the Amer
lean merchant marine problem in the