Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-24

teen forever to deserve ar
Il would not have you understand
that the great men who represent the
other nations there in conference, are
disesteemed by those who know them.
Quite the contrary. But you UNDER
stand the countries of Europe have
again and again clashed with en-
other in competitive interests. 1t is
impossible for men to forget the sharp
issues that were drawn between them
in times past 1t is impossible for men
to believe that all ambitions have all
of a sudden been foregone.
BREACH NEVER HEALED.
"They remember territory that was
coveted; they remember rights that 1t
was attempted to extort; they remem-
Der political ambitions which 1t was
attempted to realize-and while they
believe that men have come into n diff
ferent temper, they can not forget
these things and so they do not re-
sort to one another for dispassiohate
view of the matters in controversy
They resort to that nation which has
won the enviable distinction of being
regarded as the friend OF mankind.
whenever it is desired to send a
small force of soldiers to occupy a
piece of territory where it thought no.
body else will be welcome, they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be booked 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
that / am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride,
but for national pride. If they were
grounds for personal pride, I'd be
the most stuck-up man in the
world.
And it has been an infinite pleas
ure to me to see those gallant SOL
= diers Of ours, of whom the consti-
tuition of the United made mo tho
proud commander. You may be
proud of tho 26th division, but
commanded the 26th division
daughter and applause) and see
what they did under my direction.
PRAISE EVERYWHERE.
'And everybody praises the
American soldier with the feeling
that in praising him he Is subtract
ing from the credit of no one else.
II have been searching for the
fundamental facts that converted
Europe to believe in us. Before
this war Europe 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 believed that We
were holding off because we
thought we could make more by
staying out than by going in. And
all of a sudden, in short is
months, the whole story Is revers-
cd. There can be but one explana-
ton for 1t. They saw what we did
that without making single
claim we put all our men and all
our means at the disposal Of those
who were fighting for their homes.
in the first instance, but for a
cause of human right and Justice
and that we went in, not to sup
port their NATIONAL claims. but to
support the great cause which they
held in common.
and when they saw that Amer
lea not only held ideals but acted
ideals. they We're converted to AM
erica and became firm partisans OF
those ideals.
DELIGHTFUL REVENGE
II met q group Of scholars when
I was in Paris. Some gentlemen
from one OF the. Greek universities
who had come to see me. and In
whose presence, or rather IN the
presence of whose traditions Of
learning, felt very young. indeed.
And ! told them that had had
one Of the delightful revenges that
sometimes como to man. All my
life have heard men speak vita a
sort OF condescension OF ideslists
and particularly of those separate.
encloistered persons whom they
choose to term academic. who were
In the habit OF uttering ideals In
ths fres atmosphere when they