Gilpin observer., 1919-02-27
of being regarded As the friend Of

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piece of territory where it is thought
nobody else will be welcome, they ask
FOR American soldiers. And where
with suspicion and perhaps met with
resistance, the American soldiers are
welcomed with acclaim.
have had so many grounds for
pride on the other side. OF the water
that 1 am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride. but
M far pras Pride thsy "a be the
most stuckup man in the world. And
II has been an infinite pleasure to me
to see those gallant soldiers of ours.
Of whom the constitution of the United
states made me the proud commander.
., f9n Sin,n1ay may be proud of the Twenty
sM but the
applause), and see what they did un-
der my drection! And everybody
praises the American soldier with the
feelins that in praising him he is sub
traGting from the credit of no one else.
! have been searching for the fun
damental ga he,iu,a fact that converted Europe
rope did not believe in us as she does
now. She did not believe in US
throughout the first three years of the
war. She seems really to have be-
lfeved that we were holding off be-
cause we thought we could make more
by staying out than by going in. And
months, the whole verdict is reversed.
There can be but one explanation for
1T. They saw what we did-that with
out making a single claim we put all
our men and all our means at the dis
posal of those who We're fighting for
their homes, in the first instance, but
for cause the cause OF human rights
ana justice and that we went in. not
to support their national claims, but to
support the great cause which they
held In common.
not only held ideals. but acted ideals.
they We're converted to America and
became firm partisans of those ideals.
was in Paris. Some gentlemen nnn from
one of the Greek universities who had
come to see me. and in whose pres
whose traditions Of learning. / felt
very young indeed. And 1 told them
that I had had one of the delightful
revenges ,,esn that ,ssI sometimes come to a
speak with a sort of condescension Of
idealists and particularly of those sep
arate. incloistered persons whom they
the habit of uttering ideals in the free
atmosphere when they clash with no.
body in particular.
revenge. Speaking with perfect frank
ness in the name of the United States,
I haye uttered as the objects OF this
ideals and the war has been won by
that inspiration. Men were fighting
with tense muscle and lowered head,
0Ath thcy CdIne TO TedllZe InOS0 Things.
feeling they were fighting for their
lives and their country and when
these accounts of what 1t was all about
re fhei them from ON, America they lift
to heaven; then they saw men in
Khaki coming across the sea in the
spirit of crusaders and they found that
those were strange men. reckless of
danger not only. but reckless because
they seemed to see something that
made danger worth while. Men have
. fAd tn tv,
were possessed by something they
could only call religious fervor. They
were not like any of the other soldiers.
They had q vision. they had a dream.
and they were fighting in the dream
and fighting in the dream they turned
the whole tide of battle and 1t never
came back.
And now do you realize this conf
dence we have established throughout
tho world imposes burden upon usi
yos Of tSsse to ea 1t burden
tion ought to be proud to carry. Any
man who resists the present tides that
run in the world will find himself
thrown upon a shore so high and bar
rem that It will seem as If he had been
| separated from his human kind for
ever.
''I invite him to test the sentiments
of the nation. We set this nation up
to make men free and we did not con-
fine our conception and purpose to
Now" said the President. this con-
ference we have established calls for
something. The Europe left was full
of the war was sinking to stubborn
desperation. They thought the end of
the war would eventually be a resump-
dreamed It would be- ti a Europe pe' Of revs- s.s-
Now all the peoples of Europe are
SS9yed on, up I'm In the er hope that all the ma
moral and physical forces that right
shall prevail. II America should faii
the world of its hope. the nations will
the men at the peace conference will
go home with their heads upon their
breasts r because they will have failed.
nothing but a modern scrap of paper"
Men. he declared. who would have
America fail the world in its hopes saw
"They do not know the sentiment of
America" he said.
Speaking Of hopes of the people OF
said were pinned to the United States
as the "friend of mankind" the Press
ident said he had no more doubt of
T'ss hs doubt tn of hs lie asss Socs
that Is in me-"
The nations of the world have set
their heads now to do a great thing
of their purpose" he said.
II do not speak of the governments.
put OF the peoples who Will see that II
their present governments do not do
their Will some others will And the
secret is out and the present govern
ment knows 1t.
II have come back for an attempt to
transact business for a little while in
America. but I say in all soberness
that have been trying to speak your
and trying to see the things that are
right rather than the things that are
eNpedient. l am finding the heart of
America.
81 find that in loving America have
Joined the majority of my fellow men
throughout the world"
II G Tono,oa Rio