Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-07-11
to point out and say-"These
are my fellesT eountrymen.
Won Universal Affection,

are my fell9sT countrymen.
Won Universal Affection.
1T softens the ,homesickness
a good deal to have so much Of
home along with you, and these
boys We're constantly reminding
me of home. They did not walk
the streets like anybody else. l
do not mean that they walked
the streets self-assertively. They |
did not. They walked the streets
as if they knew that they be-
longed wherever free men lived,
that they were welcome in the
great republic of France and
were comrades with the other
armies that had helped to win
the war and to share the great
sacrifice. Because it is a Won
derful thing for this nation,
hitherto isolated from the large
affairs of the world, to win not
only the universal confidence of
the people of the world, but
their UNIVERSAL affections.
And that is what has hap
pened. Wherever it was sug-
gested that troops should be sent.
and it was desired that troops of
occupation should excite no pref
udice, no uneasiness on the part
of those to whom they were sent,
the men who represented the
other nations came to me and
asked me to send American
soldiers.
'They not only implied, but
they said, that the presence of
American soldiers would be
know not to mean anything ex-
cept friendly protection and
assistance. Do you wonder that
it made our hearts swell with
pride?
Eager to Get Home
But while these things in
some degree softened my home
sickness, they made me all the
more eager to get home, where
the rest of the folks live; to get
home where the great dynamo
of national energy was situated !;
to get home where the great pur-
poses of national action were
formed and to be allowed to take
part in the counsels and in the
actions which were formed, and
to be taken by this great nation
which from first to last has fol-
lowed the vision of the men who
set it up and created it.
1--WE have had our eyes very
close upon our tasks at times,
but whenever we lifted them, as
we were accustomed to lift them
to a distant horizon, we were
aware that all the peoples of the
earth had turned their faces to-
ward us as those who were
friends of freedom and right,
and whenever we thought of
national policy and of it's relation
upon the affairs of the world, we
knew we were under bonds to do
the large thing and the right
thing.
"1t was a privilege, therefore,
beyond all computation, for a
man, whether in a great caparity
or a small, to take part in the
counsels and in the resolutions Of
a people like this. | am afraid
some people, some persons, do
not understand that vision.
They have looked too much upon
the ground. They have thought
too much Of the interests that
were near them, and they have
not listened to the voices of their
neighbors.
Help for Liberty.
81 have never had a moments
doubt as to where the heart and
purpose of this people lay. When
anyone on the other side of the
water has raised the question,
will America come in and help
| have said of course, America
will come in and help She will
not disappoint any high hope
that has been formed of her.
Least of all will she, in this day
born liberty all over the world,
fail to extend her hand of sup
port and assistance to those who
have been made free.
81 wonder if at this distance
you can have got any conception
of the tragic intensity of the
feeling of those peoples in
! EurOne who have inst had vokaS