Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-05

affairs of the world, we will sink back lnto q period of struggle in which there will he no hope, and therefore, no mercy. There can be no mercy where there k no hope, for why should you spare another if you your self expect to perish? Why should you br pltlful if you can get no pity? Why should you be just, if, upon every band you arc put upon?
 'There is another thing which 1! think the critics of this covenant have not observed. They not only have not observed the temper of the world, but they have not even observed the tenn per of those splendid boys in khaki that they sent across the seas. l have had the proud consciousness of the re- flectod glory of those boys, because the constitution made me their com mander in chief and they have taught me some lessons. When we went into the war, We went into it on the basis of declarations, which it was my privilege to utter, because 1 believed them to be an interpretation of the purpose and thought of the people of the United States.
 Mission Was Sacred.
 "And those boys went over there with the feeling that they were sac really bound to the realization of those ideals; that they were not only going over there to beat Germany: they were not going over there merely with resentment in their hearts against particular outlaw nation. but they were crossing those three thousand miles of sea in order to show to Eu- rope that the United States, when it became necessary, would go any. where where the rights of mankind were threatened.
 "rhey would not sit still in the trenches. They would not be restrain ed by the prudence of experienced continental commanders. They thought they had come over there to do a particular thing and they were going to do it and do it at once. And just as soon as that rush of spirit as we'll as rush of body came in contact with the lines of the enemy, they be- gan to break, my fellow citizens, not merely because of the physical force on those lusty youngsters, put De- cause of the irresistible spiritual force of the armies of the United States; l, was that they felt. It was that that awed them. It was that that made them feel. if these youngsters ever got q foothold, they could never be dis lodged and therefore, every foot o1 ground they won was permanently won for the liberty of mankind.
 Will Not Slacken.
 "And do you suppose that, having felt that crusading spirits of these youngsters, who went over there. not to- glorify America, but to serve their fellow men, am going to permit myself for one moment to slacken in my effort to be worthy of them and their cause? What said at the open- ing l said with deeper meaning than perhaps you have caught; l do not mean not to come back until it's over over there, and it must not be over un- til the nations of the world are as- sured of the permanency of peace.
 Gentlemen, on this side of the wa ter would be very much profited bv getting into communication with some gentlemen on the other side of the water. We sometimes think, my fellow citizens, that the experienced statesmen of the European nations are an unusually hard-headed set of men, by which we generally mean, although we do not admit it, that they are bit cynical; that they say this is very practical world,' by which you always mean that it is not an ideal world; that they do not believe that things can be settled upon an ideal basis. Well, never came into intimate con- tact with them before, but if they used 4o be that. they are not that way now. They have been subdued. if that was once their temper, by the awful significance of recent events and the awful importance of what is to ensue and there is not one of them with whom I have come in contact, who does not feel that he cannot in conscience return to his people from Paris unless he has done his utmost to ] do something more than attach his name to a treaty of peace. Every man in that conference knows that the treaty of peace in itself will be mop l erative, as Mir. Taft has said, without | lCoptinued on page six'