New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
but from tho heart, then We. too, shall

but from the heart. then We, too, shall
change, not before. =.
"Has he understood. has he changed -!
Only yesterday. as reported, the man
whom they worship. both in flesh and
as a wooden idol, Hindenburg. was say.
ing that all of US, the defenders OK
right, who had been so bold a. to dare
fight for our hearths and our ideals;
we. whose women have been carried
into captivity. whose villagers have
been shot, are what? We are, in his
words, 'helots and pariahs.' Do you be-
licve that men who think thus would
hesitate to try again the destruction OF
helots and pariahs. il they could? They
must be prevented, that is all.
During my recent stay In France, !
made the most memorable journey OF
my life. visiting first those parts or
my country, which are French again,
owing to American valor, Chateau
Thierry, st. Mihiel and some re-
conquered by our British friends, like
Lens and Vimy Ridge. then Vcrdun.
where the Germans did not pass; then
Metz, then Strasbourg, then the valley
of the Rhine. to Mainz with the French,
Coblenz with the Americans. Cologne
with the British, the three Yorktown
nations, now friends forever; mangled
France, victorious France, vanQuished
Germany.
"The situation Of the winners seemed
to US in a number Of places harsh in
deed and cruel; that Of the vanquished,
prosperous and enviable. One French
village we crossed had been burned de-
liberately by the Germans. Some fifty
civilians had been shot. Not one house
remained. The assistant Mayor was
busy trying 70 recover from among the
ruins the body Of his mother, woman
of eighty, shot by the Germans IN cold
blood in August. 1914. He wanted to
give her decent burial.
Metz Is French at Heart
"Then it was Metz. then Strasbourgh
with the tricolor flying at the top Of
the stecple; Metz where, in the first
part of the sixteenth century, the earl
lest plebiscite on record was held, and
by self determination, the city declared
she wanted TO be French; when r
medal was struck with an appropriate
admonition to Emperor Charles the
Fifth, and pun on tho name Of tho
city: 'Iiaec sibi meta'-a word for
word equivalent of our Thou shalt not
pass
"And We thought too. Of that dinner,
in more recent times, given by Count
d Broglie, the Governor Of the place
in 1916, where tall, keen-eyed, but
silent young officer, aged nineteen, was
present, heard for the first time Of
American independence, and there and
then, in this capital Of Lorraine. the
province of Joan of Arc. his heart.
as he wrote later, enlisted At Metz
indeed began the wonderful career OF
the man whom We honor to-day, Mar
ouis de Lafayette.
The reoccupation of Metz last year
released General Maud-Huy. a native
of the city and its present garrison
commander, from a pledge kept for
twenty-five years not TO attend a play
until the city was again under the tri
color.
He told u.s." said n. Jusscrand. at
had occurred to him in 1894 that it
was a shame for son of Metz, the
prisoner city, TO take any amusement.
and he vowed 10 himself that he would
never 60 to play until he could enter
the theatre of Metz preceded by his
buglers. He had kept his word, and.
his VOW being accomplished. he had
entered the theatre OF his native city.
in his uniform and decorations. pre-
ceded by twenty buglers, sounding, all
the audience rising. wild with en-
thusiasm. And here ia now my recon-
pense.' ne added. y can go to the play
any night; anything they perform is
new to me-
AT Strasbourg one thing we heard
deeply touching. When N the midst
Of cheers and applause our troops en-
tered city where they he'd not been
seen for forty-seven years. the lnhabi-
tants exhibited at their windows the
portraits Of their dead parents. so that
they too should know rrd see"
Americas Debt tc France
Mr.. Hcrrlck said Amer.cs's debt 70
France often was spoken cf tco lightly,
and added that but for Lafayette tre
United States never would have gained
independence.
Wf Lafayette had never lived" he
said. France never would have come
To the aid Of the American colonists-
Our forefathers would lave failed IN
their efforts to throw off the English
yoke. George Washington, instead Of
going down in history as the father Of
his country. would have become an out
law He had even planned retreat
over the mountains into the Western
wilderness in case Of final defeat"
DR.. Finley referred to the heroic ex-
ploits Of the French armies in the war.
At the conclusion Of the exercises
Ambassador Jusserand presented to
Justice Victor J. bowling the Cross OF
the Legion of Honor in recognition Of
Judge Dowling's efforts on behalf Of
French orphans during the war.
At the Lafayette statue the cere-
monies were participated in by the So
ciety of the Cincinnati, Lafayette Post,
G.. A. R.; Sons OF the Revolution, So
ciety of the Colonial Wars and the So
ciety Of Founders and Patriots Of
America. Lawrence F. Abbott pre-
sided, and the Rev. William 7. Man
ming was the principal speaker. Divine
aid. he said, in his belief had been ac-
corded the French army at the Marne
in order that, when all had seemed lost,
France might be preserved.
The Angels Were There
"Meu tell us they saw saints and
angels ut the battlefront he said.
IL see no reason to doubt this. be-
lieve in the existence Of spirits Of evil
and in the existence Of spirits of good
and that, in the hour Of need, the
spirits of good are near to help US.
Never in all history was the need so
great as when the hosts of Germany
reached the Marne and stood at the