Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-07-10
PRESIDENT Is C0NFlINT
that NATION VIII RISE
TO SUPPORT THE { LEAGUE

constantly rem1nulng me OF nome.
They did not walk the streets like
anybody else. I do not mean that
they walked the streets self-assert-
lively. They did not. They walked
the streets as II they knew that they
belonged wherever free men lived,
that they were welcome in the great
republic of France and were COM
rades with the other armies that had
helped to win the war and to share
the great sacrifice. Because it is q
wonderful thing for this nation, hith-
erto isolated from the large affairs Of
the world, to win not only the uni
versal confidence of the people of the
world, but their universal affections.
''And that is what has happened.
Wherever it was suggested that
troops should be sent and it was de-
sired that troops Of occupation
should excite no prejudice, no uneas-
ness on the part Of those to whom
they were sent, the men who repre-
sented the other nations came to me
and asked me to send American SOL
diers. They not only implied, but
they said,s that the presence Of Amer
ican soldiers would be known not to
mean anything except friendly pro-
lection and assistance. Do you won
der that 1T made out hearts swell
with pride?
Eager to Get Home.
"But while these things in some
degree softened my homesickness,
they made me all the more eager to
set home, where the rest of the folks
live; to get home where the great
dynamo OF national energy was situ-
ated; tosget home where the great
purposes Of national action were
formed and to be allowed to take
part IN the counsels and in the ac-
tions which were formed, and to be
taken by this great nation which
from first to last has followed the
vision of the men who set it up and
created it. We have had our eyes
very close upon our tasks at times,
but whenever we lifted them, as we
were accustomed to lift them to a
distant horizon, we were aware that
all the peoples of the earth had turn
ed their faces towards us as those
who were the friends of freedom and
right, and whenever we thot of ma
tional policy and of its relation upon
the affairs of the world, we knew we
were under bonds to do the large
thing and the right thing.
Some Do Not Under stand.
'.It is q privilege, therefore, be-
yond all computation, for man,
whether in great capacity or
small, to take in the counsels and in,
the resolutions of people like this.
I am afraid some people, some per-
sons, do not understand that vision.
They do not see it. They have look.
ed too much upon the ground. They
have thought too much of the inter-
ests that were near them, and they
have not listened to the voices Of
their neighbors.
81 have never had moments
doubt as to where the heart and pur-
pose Of this people lay. When any
one on the other. side Of the water
has raised the question, will Amer
lea come in and help?' have said
.of course, America will come in and
help. She cannot do anything else.
She will not disappoint any high hope
that has been formed Of her. Least
Of all will she in this day Of new
born liberty all over the world, fail
to extend her hand of support and
assistance to those who have been
made free. ..s.s
.as wonder II at this distance you
can have got any conception Of the
t4agfc intensity Of the feeling Of
those peoples In Europe who have
Just had yokes thrown of theta.
Have yous reckoned up in your mind,
how many peoples, how many ma
tions, were held unwillingly under
the yoke Of the Austro-Iungarian
empire, under the yoke 5of Turkey,
under the yoke ofS Germany?
MI Yokes Thrown Or
These yokes have been thrown
on These peoples breathe the air
and look around to see q new day
dawn about them, and whenever they
think Of what q going Sto All the day
with action, they think first of us:
they think hrst S5of the friends Who
thruout the long years have spokenl
for them. Who wereS priYil ilegeds ITO del
clare that they came into the var tol
release them no sai that theyslls IL
you'd npt make peace upon any other