Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-25

. tpUHlhnutl Inc l twenty slAlh NlNl-
AiOn and saw what they aid under
my direction. Ana everybody praises
! The American soldier with tho feel
| INK that IN prnisinR him he II sub
| tracing from the credit Of no one
| clsc. ! hay" been searching Tor the
| fundamental fact that converted Eu-
| rope to believe In us Before this
! war Europe did not believe In us
hs she does nov She did not he
lieve In US throughout the first
| three years OF The war. She seems
really to have believed that We were
| holding Off because we thought We
could mako more by staying out than
| by going In And all OF a sudden,
| In short IS months, the whole ycr-
diet In TcverH"d, There can be put
| one explanation for II. They saw
what we did--thHt without making =
single claim We put all our men ana
All our means nt the disposal Of
those who were fighting for their
homes. IN the FIRST Instance. hut for
n cause, the cause OF human rightB
ana Justice. ana that wa went in
/ not tn support their national claims
but 10 support the great cause which
! they held In common.
Ana when they Raw that America
| not only held ideals. but acted ideals,
they were converted TO America and
became firm paTtisans OF those
ideals
met group OF sCholhra when
| was In Paris some gentlemen
from one of the Grcek universities,
who had come to see me. and Ia
whose presence, or rather In tho
presence Of those traditions of learn
ing, | f"lt very young indeed. | told
them that I had one Of the delight
ful revenges that sometime comes
Ia II man. An my lifo | had heard
men speak with "A sort OF Condosccn-
sion OF idonls and idealists and par
ticularly those separated. cnclOis-
tered persons. whom they choose TO
term academic. who were In the
habit OF uttcring ideals In tho free
atmosphere when they clash with
nobody In particular.
And | said ! have had this sweet
revenge, Speaking with perfect
frankness In tho name bf the people
or tho United states ! have uttered
~ The objects OF th'a great war ideals
and nothing but Ideals and the war
has been won by that hsplrat on
Men were fighting with tense mus.
clcs and lowered head until they
came to realize those things. feeling
they were fighting for their lives and
their country and when these ac-
cents of what It was ali about
reached them they lifted their
heads. they raised their eyes TO
heaven. when they saw men In khaki
coming acros the sea In the spirit Of
crusaders. and they found that these
were strong men, reckless OF danger
only hnt Rn.LIaus h..s
seemed to see somathing that made
that danger worth while. Men have
testified to me In Europe that our
men were possessed by something
that they could only call religious
forvor. They were not like any Of the
other soldiers They had vision.
, they had "A dream, and they were
fighting In the dream, and fighting
In the dream they turned the whole
tide OF the battle and 1t never came
back.
ono OF our American humohis,s,
meeting the criticism that American
soldiers were not trained long enough
said; ut takes only half as long TO
train an American soldier ms any
other. because you only have to train
him one way. and he did only 20 one
way and he never came back until
|
Burden IL Imposed.
| And now do you realize that this
confidence we have established
throughout tho world imposes a
burden upon us--it you choose TO cal
! II n burden. II Is one OF those
burdens which any nation ought "a
be proud TO carry, Any man who re.
sists the present tides that run In the
world will find himself thrown upon
"A shore so high and barren that II
will seem as II he had tsen separated
from his humankind forever.
The Europe that we left the other
day was full OF something that II had
never felt I'll its heart 40 fun he
fore. 1t was fun Yf hope. The Eu'
rope OF thoesccond year OF the war
the Europe of the third year Of the
war, was sinking into sort OF
stubborn desperation They did no
see any great thing to he achieved
even when the war should be won
They hoped there would he some
salvage. they hoped that they could
clear their territories of invadinl
armies; they hoped they could so
lup their homes and start their In,
dustries nfresh But they though
II would simply be the resumption o
tho old life that Europe had led
led In fear; led In anxiety; led II
constant suspicious watchfulncss
EThey never dreamed that II woulS
be Europe OF settled peace or o
Justified hope, And now thcs,
ideals have wrought this new magic
that all the peoples OF Europe arr
buoyed up and confident in tho splri
Iof hope, because they believe tina
wo are Rt the eve OF a new age II
tho world when nations will under
stand one another. when ma
tons Will support one another IL
every Just cause, when nations vii
unite every moral and every physl
cal strength to see that tho righ
shall prevail.
America Hope OF World.
II America were at this junction
to fail the world, what would com,
lof It? | do not mean any dlsrc
spect 10 any other great peopl,
Of tho world; nnd II she does not
Justify that hope then the result,
when | say that America ls the hops
are unthinkable. Men will be throw
back upon the bitterness OF disap.
pointment not only. but the bitter.
ness OF despair. All nations Will hc
set up as hostile camps again; the
men at the pace conference will EC
home with thew heads upon theIi
breasts, knowing that they hav,
failed for they were bidden not &c
come home from there until they
did something more than sign d
treaty OF peace.
suppose we sign the treaty Of