Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-11
|sIOENT DECLARES PEACE
 \ RflGuE NECESSITY TO | AVERT FUTURE WARS
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I'd themselves IOld uo oo' .iS AiiSh
 nf o1r men-of their vigor, of
 l'' offect 4t that showed itself in ev.
 .aovo,nent of thelr stalWart fig.
 N and every turn of their march
 s sha;r aN steady experiencing eyes
 'n. nasv discipline, in the indomita-
 " o;r E that added spirit to everything
 2, "1t them that memorable day, real
 !" +hat , something had happened that
 as mnch more than a mere incident
 % tbe fighting, something very diff
 S tho mere arrival of fresh troops
 M "a great moral force had flung
 o1f # ;nto the struggle. The fine
 Svsical force of those spirited men
 soLe of something more than bodily Bgor @ They carried the great ideals
 free people at their hearts and
 ;+b that vision were unconquerable
 ho;r @ very presence brought reassur- nce. @ their fighting made victory cer- in. they were recognized as crusad-
 .s and as their thousands swelled tc .;ll;ons their strength was seen tC paan salvation. And they were fit pen to carry such hope and make ood the assurance it forecast. Finer Sen never went into battle, and then fficers were worthy of then.
 Proud of Army
 This is not the occasion upon which utter a eulogy of the armies of
 merica. those she sent to France, nt nerhaps, since I am speaking of so;r n,;ssion. I may speak also of the ride I shared with every American vho saw or dealt with them there. rbey were the sort of men America tould wish to be represented by. The |ort of men every American would Vish to claim as fellow count.ymen ind comrades in a great cause. They were terrible in battle, and gentle and elpful out of it, remembering. the ootbers and the sisters, the wives and he little children at home. They were free men under arms, not for letting their ideals of duty in the midst of tasks of violence. l am proud to have had the privilege of be- hg associated with them, of calling myself their leader.
 But I speak now of what they heant to the men by whose sides they Fought and to the people with whom hem mingled with such utter son. blicity, as friends who asked only b be of service. They were for all he visible embodiment of America. What they did made America and all hat she stood for a living reality h the thoughts not only of the people f France, but also of tens of millions # men and women throughout all he toiling nations of a world stand hg everywhere in peril of it's free lom and of the loss of everything it held dear, in deadly fear that it's bonds were never to be loosed, it's hopes forever to be mocked and ris- Appointed.
 America at Peace Table.
 And the compulsion of what they stood for was upon us who represent led America at the peace table. It was |our duty to see to it that every direc- |tlon we took part in contributed, so liar as we were able to infer it, to |quiet the fears and realize the hopes |oef the peoples who had been living in that shadow, the nations that had come by our assistance to their free dom' It was our duty to do every thing that it was within our power to make the triumph of reedom, and right lasting triumph in the assur- ance of which men might everywhere live without fear.
 "old entanglements of every kind stood in the way-promises which governments had made to one another m the days when might and right we were confused and the power of the vlctor was without restraint. En- which contemplated any dispositions of territory, and exten- slohs of sovereignty that might seem ts to De to the interest of those who had she power to insist upon them, had been entered into without thought of what the peoples concerned might wish or profit by; and these could not al- ways be honorably brushed aside. It W. was not easy to graft the new order eI Ideas on the old, and some of the lfults l! of the grating may, fear. for q s tune be bitter. But, with very , Jew exceptions, the men who sat with us, us at the peace table desired as since ttely as we did to get away from the oao influences, the illsgitimate pur- ;mt' 1uses' the demoralizing ambitions, the na international counsels and expedients Ca. Co oI winch the sinister desings of eGermany had sprung as a natural ,.+ it had been our privilege to formu- o ,a'e the priciples which were accepted ds dsos .ne basis of the peace, but they had oeen oe accomplished. not because we had to tune Tn to hasten anc assure the vic. co, co,y as insisted upon them. but be- tese the nr;ne;. ;ney were readily acceded to as en1;aph en1 phrlnclples to which honorable and bag minds everywhere had Of ofel1 th pred. They spoke the conscience uf pf sne world as we'll as the conscience tr;hnta tr america, and I am happy to pay my ahla alpu'e e. of respect and gratitude to to the the ;t aD,e, n 1orward-looking men with whom II tbo;' was my privilege to co-operate for the;r r un1a,ling spirit of co-operateion the't 'h constant effort to accomado+a nr;na;,t1 ri interests they represented to the
 1p,es rpns we were all agreed upon.
 "rho rSho"lerence Had Full Vision.
 m,nr rne difficulties, which were not ;n lay in the circumstance