The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-03-26
nronerlY indeed.

whole case hear Ii from the mouths
of men most interested; hear II from
those who are officially commissioned
to state 1t; hear 1t from the rival
claims; hear the claims that affect
new nationalities, that affect new
areas of the world, that affect new
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
have gone.
"And l have been struck by the
moderateness of those who have rep
resented national claims.
81 can testify that believe nowhere
have l seen the CLEAN Of passion.
"Tears Of Ardent Hope"
81 have seen earnestness, 1 have
seen tears come to the eyes of men
who plead for down-trodden peoples
whom they were privileged to speak
Tor; but they were not the tears of
anger, they were the tears Of ardent
hope.
Il don't see how any man can fail
to have been subdued by these pleas:
subdued to this feeling that lie was
not there to assert an individual
judgment of his own, but to try to
assist the cause of humanity, and in
the midst of all every interest seeks
out, first of all, when it reaches Paris,
the representatives of the United
States.
"Why? Because-and | think
am stating the most wonderful fact
in his.ory-because there is no nation
in Europe that suspects the motives of
the United States.
"Was there ever so wonderful
thing seen before? Was there ever
so moving a thing? Was there ever
any fact that so bound the nation that
had won that esteem forever to de-
serve it?
Il would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference are
d.sesteemed by those who know them
Quite the contrary.
But you understand that the ma
tons of Europe have again and again
FLASHED with one another in COMPETE
tive interests.
Cannot Forget Old Issues.
ut is impossible for men to forget
these sharp issues that were drawn
between them in times past. 1t is i'm
possible for men to believe that all
have all of a sudden been
fOregone.
"They remember territory that was
coveted; they remember rights that |
it was attempted to eXtOrt; they re- |
political ambitions which it |
was attempted to realize-and, while |
they believe the men have come into |
a different temper, they cannot forget |
these things, and so they do not re-
sort to one another for a dispassiOnate |
view of the matters in controversy.
They first resort to that nation |
which has won the enviable distinction |
Of being regarded as the friend of |
whenever it is desired to send a |
small force of soldiers to occupy a |
piece of territory where it is thought |
nobody else will be welcome, they |
ask for American soldiers.
"And where other soldiers would |
be looked upon with suspicion and |
perhaps met with resistance, the
American soldiers are welcomed with
acclaim.
II have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side of the water
hat l am very thankful that they
ire not grounds for personal pride,
tut for national pride.
IF they were grounds for personal
pride I'd be the most stuck-up man
n the world.
And 1t has been great pleasure
. see those gallant soldiers of ours
If whom the constitution of the United
States made me the proud commander.
"YOu may be proud of the Twenty
sixth Division, but / commanded the
Division daughter and
lpplause) and see what they did under
ny direction!
sand everybody praises the Amer
can soldier with the feeling that In
,raising him he is subtracting from the
'redit of no one else.
Confidence Established.
II have been searching for the fun
lamental fact that has brought Eu-
'ope to believe In us. She seemed for
he first three years to believe we felt
We could make more by staying out
han going In. Then suddenly the
whole verdict was reversed II was
when they saw that America not only
leld ideas but acted ideas, they
became the confirmed partisans of
and became converted TO
hese ideas"
do you believe IN the Polish cause
is l do? Are you going to set up Po-
and, immature, inexperienced, as yet
and leave her with cir
lie of armies around her? Do you be-
ieve In the aspiration OF the Czecho-
slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs as i do?
DO you know how many Powers would
~ mick In nounce unon them n thara