Arizona republican., 1919-02-25

national claims, but to support the great cause which they hold in com
 mon.
 | And when they saw that America ' not only held ideals, but acted ideals.
 they were converted to America and
 became firm partisans of those ideals l met group of scholars when I 1 was Tn Parls-some gentlemen from
 one of the Greek universities who had come to see me, and in whose presence,
 or rather in the presence of those tra- ditions of learning. l felt very young indeed. l told them that I had one of the delightful revenges that sometimes comes to q man. All my life I had
 heard men speak with sort of con- descension of ideals and idealists and particularly those separated, enclois- tered persons, whom they chose to term academic, who were in the habit
 ot uttering ideals in the free atmos- phere, when they clash with nobody in
 particular.
 And l said have had this sweet re- venge. Speaking with perfect frank
 ness in the name of the people of the 1 United States, I have uttered, as the objects Of this great war, ideals, and nothing but ideals, and the war has
 been won by that inspiration. Men
 were fighting with tense muscle and
 lowered heads until they came to re-
 allze those things feeling they were Ilgntlng for their lives and their coun- try and when these accounts of what it
 was all about reached them from
 America, they lifted their heads, they
 raised their eyes to heaven, when they
 saw men in khaki coming across the ] sea in the spirit of crusaders, and they ' IOln0 that fhpSa ctr i reckless of danger not only, but reck less because they seemed to see some l thing that made that danger worth ! while. Men have testified to me in Europe that our men were possessed l py something that they could only call
 a religious fervor They were not like
 any of the other soldiers They had n Nlslon; they had a dream, and they
 were lighting in the dream, and fight
 ing in the dream they turned the whole
 ude or battle and it never came back. ! One of our American humorists.
 meeting the criticism that American soldiers were not trained long enough.
 said: It takes only half as long to ] traIn an American soldier as any other
 because you only have to train him one
 way and he did only go one way. and
 ne never came back until he could do IL NHeH He pleased.
 And now do you realize that this
 confluence we have estab blished throughout the world imposes a bur- uen upon us-lf you choose to call ii
 burden. IT is one of those burdens which any nation ought to be nroud to
 carry. Any man who resists the pres ent tides that run in the world will find hlmselt thrown upon a shore so high ana barren that it will seem as if he
 Iad been separated from the human kind forever.
 The Europe that left the other day
 was iuIl of something that it had never Ie't luIl m It's heart before. IL was full or nope. The Europe Of the second year or the war: the Europe of in. thlrd year of the war, was sinking to :, sort or stubborn despair. They did not see any great thing to be achieved
 even when the war should he won
 They hoped there would be some sal wage they hoped that they could clear thelr territories of invading armies. they hoped they could set up their homes and start their industries afresh But they thought it would simply he tpe resumption Of the old life that Eu- iope nad led-led in fear; led in anx- ietyf led in constant suspicious watch fuiness. They never dreamt that :, would De Europe of settled peace and Of justified hope.
 And now these ideals have wroupbt ms new magic. that all the peoples of europe are buoyed up and confident in the spirit of hope, because Shey believe tnat We are at the eve of a new age in the world, when nations will under stand one another: when nations will support one another in every ine. cause; when nations will unite every moral and every physical strength to see that the right shall prevail.
 III America were. at this juncture to iall the world, what would come of it9 do not mean any disrespect 10 any other great people when I say that America isthe hope of the world; ana II sne does not justify that hope. the results are unthinkable.
 Men will be thrown hack mon tho bitterness of disappointment. not only but the bitterness of despair All no tions Will be set mp as hostile .canps again; the men at the peace conferenc, VIII go home with their heads upon thelr breasts, knowing that they have Ialled; for they were bidden not to come nome from there until they did something more than sign a treaty of peace
 suppose we sign a treaty of peace anu that It is the most satisfactory treaty ot peace that the confusing ele Inents or the modern world will afford ana go home and think about our la DOTS: we will know that we have Jeff written upon the history table at Yer saiiies, upon which Vergennes and benJamin Franklin wrote their names nothing but a modern scrap of paper. no nations united to defend it: no great iorce combined to make it good: no as surance given to the down -trodden and fearful people of the world that they shdll De sale. Any man who thinks that America will take rart in giving the world any such rebuff and disap- continent as that. does not know America
 'I invite him to test the sentiments - the nation We set this up to make men free. and we did not confine our conception and intention to America and now we will make men free If We did not do that. the fame of Amer ica would be gone and all her powers would De dissipated. She then would nave 10 keep her power for those mar row seiflsh, provincial purposes which seem so dear to some minds, that have no sweep beyond the nearest horizon l shouid welcome no sweeter challenge than that. l have fighting blood in me ana It Is sometimes a delight to let if nave scope, but if it is a challenge on s .nis occasion. it will be an indulgence. J, nlnk or the picture. think of the utter oIackness that would fall upon the world. America has failed, America mace little essay at generosity and then withdrew. America said: I've are your friends" but it was only for tonay, not for tomorrow. America said.
 Here is our power to yindicate right Ana then the next day said: Let right take care of itself and we will take care of ourselves
 America said: We set up light to iead men along the paths of liberty