Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-03-01
PRESIDENT CHALLENGES CRITICS
To TEST AMERICAN SENTIMENT

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member rights that it was attempted
IN extort: they remember political am
Ibitions. which it was attempted To real
Iize-and. while they believe that men
have come into a different temper,
they cannot forget these things. ana
so thes do not resort to one another
for II dispassionate view OF life mat
t,rs i'm controversy They resort 10
thar nation which has won the enNi-
able distinction of being regarded as
The friend of mankird.
Whenever it was desired to send a
small force Of soldiers to occupy Il
niece of territory where it is though.
nohodv else will be welcome, they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion and perhaps meet witt
resistance the American soldier is
welcomed with acclaim. | have so
many grounds for pride on the other
side of the water that am very thank
! full that they are not grounds for per
sonal pride.
And it has been an infinite pleasure
| TO me to see those gallant soldiers Of
ours. of whom the constitution of the
| United States made me the proud com
mander You may be proud of the
Twenty-sixth division, but | command
the Twenty-sixth division, and see
what they did under my direction And
everybody praises the American sol
der with the feeling that in praising
him he is subtracting from the credit
of no one eleS.
America Acted Her Ideals.
| have been searching for the fun
dameutnl fact that converted Europe
to believe I'm us Before the war Eu-
rope did not believe in us Is she doe
now. Size did not believe in us
throughout HE first three years OF the
war. she seems really % have be-
lieved t'ut we were holding off be
cause .va thought we could make NOR
by staying on tAan by going i'm. An
all OF q sudden, in q short eighteen
months. tie hole verdict is reTCrse...
There can be- bus one explanation Iet
it. They saw what ~e dt-that with
out making single ciuU, We put aii
our men and ALI our means at the lis
poSal OF those who were fighting Tor
their homes, in the first instance, bur
for a canSe, the cause of human rights
and Justice, and thar we went in, not
10 support their national claims, but
to support the great cause which they
held in common.
And when they saw that America
not only held ideals but acted Ideals,
they were converted to America and
became firm partisanS of those ideals
Fighting for Lives and Country.
Men were fighting with tense muscle
and lowered head until they came To
realize those things, feeling they were
fighting for their lives and their coun-
try. and when these accents of what it
was all about reached them from
America they lifted their heads, they
raised their eyes to heaven, when they
saw men in khaki coming across the
sea in the spirit of crusaders, and they
found that these We're strange men,
reckless of danger not only, but recs-
less because they seemed to see some
thing that made that danger worth
while.
Men have testified TO me in Europe
that our men were possessed by some
thing that they could only call a reli-
gious ferver They were not like any
of the other soldiers They had a
vision, they had "a dream, and they
were lighting in the dream. and, figE'
ing in the dream, they turned the
whole tide of battle and it never came
back.
And now do you realize that this
confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes bur-
den upon us-if you choose to call ii
burden? 1t is one of those burdens
which any nation ought to be proud
to carry Any man who resists the
present tides that run in the world
will find himself thrown upon a shore
so high and barren that ii will seem as
if he had been separated from his hui
man kind forever.
Europe Continent of Hope.
The Europe that | left the other day
was full of something that it had never
felt fill its heart so full before. 1t
was full of hope. The Europe of the
second year of the war, the Europe of
the third year of the war was sinking
to a sort of stubborn desperation. They
did not see any great thing to be
achieved even when the war should De
won. They hoped there would be some
salvage; they hoped that they could
clear their territories of invading ar
mics; they hoped they could set up
their homes and start their industries
afresh. But they thought ii would
simply be the resumption of the old
life that Europe had led-led in fear,
led in anxiety, led in constant suspi-
cious watchfulness. They never
dreamed that it would be "A Europe of
settled peace and of justified hope.
And now these ideals have wrought
this new magic, that all the peoples or
Europe are buoyed up and confident in
the spirit of hope, because they be-
lieve that we are at the eve of new
age in the world. when nations will
understand one another, when nations
will support one another in every jus,
cause, when nations will unite every
moral and every physical strength 10
see that the right shall prevail.
We Must Not Fail the World.