The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-03-05
pie Of the United States would sup
port this covenant . am an Anleri-
can and / knew they would.
LAUGHED AT rs ONCE"

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what sweet revenge. 1t is upon
the world. They laughed at US onceI
they thought we did not mean our pro
LESSONS Of principles. They thought
SO until April of 1917 1t was Hardly
credible to them that we would do
more than send few men over and
60 through the forms OF helping and
when they saw multitudes Fastening
across the sea and saw what these
multitudes We're eager to- do, when
they got to the other side, they stood
amazed. land said, the thing is real.
this nation is the friend Of mankind
as it said it war; The esthusiasm. the
hope, 1.-The trust, the confidence in the
future bred by that change Of view is
indescribable. -. ~ D..
Take an individual American and
YOU may often find him selfish. and
confined to his special interests, but
take the American in the mass an !
he is willing to die for an ideal. The
sewet reve1ltie, therefore, is this, that
we believed in Righteousness, and now
we are ready to make the supreme sac
rifice for it, the supreme sacrifice 'Of
throwing in our fortune with the for
tunes with men everywhere. Mr.. Taft
was speaking of Washington's utter
ance about entangling alliances, and if
he will permit me to say so, he put
exactly the right Interpretation upon
what Washington said.>th illtcrpreta-
ton that is inevitable if you read
what he said, as most of these gentle
men do not and the thing he longed
for was just what we are now about
to supply; an arrangement which will
disentanglc all the alliances in the
world.
Nothing entangles. nothing en-
meshes a man except Il selfish combin
alton with somebody else. Nothing ell
tansles a nation. hampers it, binds it
except to enter into q combination with
some other nation against the'othel
nations OF the world.
PROGRESS IN PARIS
"What are we to say then, as tC
the future think, my fellow citizens
that we can look forward to 1t with
great confidence l have heard cheer
ing news since l came to this side OF
the water about the progress that is
being made in Paris toward the dis
cnssion and Qualification Of a great
many difficult matters: and 1 believe
that settlements will begin to be made
Father rapidly from this time Oh al
those conferences. .. ~
but what Il believe--what I know
as well as believes this that the
men engaged in those conferences are
gathering heart as they go; not. los
ing it; that they are finding com
munity OF purpose and community OF
ideal to an extent that they did not
expect and that amidst all the inter
play of influence--because it is infinite
~. cOmplicated-ther is II forward
movement which is running towards
the right. Men have ut last perceived
that the only permanent thing in the
world is the right. md that wrong
settlement is bounHto be a temporary
settlement-hQund to be tempOrar,
settlement for the very. best reason
of all. that it ought to be a temporary
settlement and the spirits of men viii
rebel against it. and the spirits OF
men are now in the saddle
BUT ONE COMBINATION
Nations promise not to have ALI
al,ceS Nations promise not to make
combinations against each other. IA
T lions agree that there shall be but one
combination and that is the combina
ton of all against the wrong-doer
And 50 I am going back to my task
on the other side with renewed vig0r
l had not forgotten what the spirit OF
the American people is. but l have
been Immensely refreshed by coming
i'll contact with it again. I did not