The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-26

we're not the guarantees Of the world
behind their liberty?
Have you thought Of the suffering
" Armenia? You poured out your
money to help succor the Armenians
'fter they suffered; now set your
strength so that they shall never suf-
| fer again.
"The arrangements of the present
cannot stand generation unless they
are guaranteed by the united forces OF
The civilized world.
And II we do not guarantee them
cannot you see the picture? Your
hearts have instructed you where the
burden Of this war fell. II did not fall
,pOn the national treasures: IL dill
not fall upon the Instruments of adj
ministration II did not fall upon the
resources Of the nations. II fell upon
the victims homes everywhere, where
women were toiling in hope that their
men would come back.
"Now. this confidence we have es-
tabl.shed calls for something. The
fSHi'l't Itlt was lull VI Hopt lHc
Europe of the third year of the war
was sinking TO a stubborn desperation.
They thought the end of the war would
eventually be resumption of the old
order. They never dreamed II would
be Europe of settled peace. Now
all the people of Europe are buoyed
up in the hope that all the nations Of
the world shall unite their moral and
physical forces that right shall prevail
What would happen If America should
fail the world of its hopes, all nations
will be set up as hostile camps again
and the men at the peace conference
Will go home with their heads upon
their breasts because they will have
failed. We would leave on the peace
table nothing but modern scrap of
paper"
No Rebuff From America.
"Any man who thinks that America
will take part in giving the world any
such rebuff and disappointment as that
does not know America"
Il invite him to test the sentiments
Of the nation. We set this up to make
men free and we did not confine our
conception and purpose to America,
and now we will make men free. If
we did not do that the fame of Amer
lea would he gone and all her powers
would be dissipated. She then would
have to keep her power for those
narrow, selfish, provincial purposes
which seem so dear to some minds
that have no sweep beyond the nearest
horizon. / should welcome no sweeter
challenge than that"
81 have fighting blood in me, and it
is some times delight to let it have
scope: hut if it is challenge on this
occasion ii will be an indulgence.
Think of the picture, think of the utter
blackness that would fall upon the
world. America has failed"
america said: Here is our power
to vindicate right and then the next
day said: Let right take care of itself
and we will take care of ourselves
American said: we set up a light to
lead men along the paths of liberty,
but we have lowered it; ii is intended
only to light our own PATH"
"We set up a great ideal of liberty
and then we said: Liberty is thing
that you must win for yourself. Do
not call upon u.s. and think of the
world that we would leave. Do you
realize how many new nations are
going to be set up in the presence of
Did and powerful nations in Europe
and left there, if left by us without
a disinterested friend?
"When think of the homes upon
which dull despair would settle were
his great hope disappointed l should
wish, for my part, never to have had
play any part whatever in
his attempt to emancipate the world. |
But / talk as if there were any ques-
lion. l have no more doubt of the |
'erdict of America in this matter than
have doubt of the blood that is in
me-.
Speak of Peoples.
And so, my fellow citizens, / have |
come back to report progress, and l do
lot believe that the progress is going |
o stop short of the goal. The nations |
If the world have, set their heads now |
% do great thing, and they are not |
going to slacken their purpose. And |
when / speak of the nations of the |
world do not speak of the Govern
',"nts Of the world.