The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-03-05

other if you yourself expect to perish
Why should you be pitiful if you car
get no pity? Why should you, be just
if upon every hand YOU are put upon /:
BOYS IN KHAKI
'"rhere is another thing which
think the critics of this covenant have
not observed They not only have not
observed the temper of the world, but
they have not even observed the tenn.
per Of those splendid boys in khaki
that they sent across the seas. l have
had the proud consciousness Of the re
Elected glory of those boys. because the
constitution made me their command
cr-in-chief and they have taught me
some lessons. When we went into the
war, we went into it on the basis of
declarations. which it was my privilege
to utter, because i believed them to be
an Interpretation of the purpose and
thought Of the people of the United
States
And those boys went over there
with the feeling that they were sacred
~ bound to the realization of those
ideals: that they were not only going
over there to beat Germany they were
not going over there merely with re.
sentiment in their hearts against Il par
ticular outlaw nation: but, that they
were crossing these three thousand
miles Of sea- in order to show Europe
that the United States, when it be-
came necessary, would go anywhere
where the rights Of mankind were
threatened. 1913. .e.
''They~ would not sit still in the
trenches. They would not be restrained
by the prudence Of experienced con-
tinental commanders. They thought
they had come over there to do Il par
tioular thing and they were going to
soon as that rush of spirit as well
as rush of body came in contact with
the lines of the enemy. they began to
break and they continued to break
until the end. They continued to
break. my fellow citizens, not merely
because Of the physical force of those
lusty youngsters. but because of ir-
resistible spiritual force Of the armies
Of the United States. 1t was that, they
felt. 1t was that that aWed them.
Ii was that that made them feel. if
these youngsters ever got foOtbOld
they could never be dislOdged and
therefore every foot Of ground that
they won was permanently won for
the liberty of mankind.
SOLDIERS SACREDLY BOUND
Americas soldiers. he said, went
overseas feeling they were sacredly
bound to the realization Of those
ideals which their president had enun-
cated when the United States went
into the war.
''And do you suppose" continued. the
president. "that having felt that cru"
sadng spirit Of these youngsters. who
went over there not to glorify Ameri7
ca. but to serve their felloWnen. | am
going to permit myself for one mo-
mcnt to slacken in my effort to be
worthy of them and of their cause?
WILL NOT QUIT
"And do you suppose that. having
felt that crrlsading spirit of these
youngsters, who. went over there not
to glorify America but to serve their
fellow men. ! am going to permit my.
self for one moment to slacken in my
effort to be worthy of them and their
SuuSc. w HAT Sttlu Ut lllS
said with a deeper meaning than per.
haps you have caught; l do mean not
to come back until it's over. over there
and it must not be over until the ma
lions of the world are assured OF the
permanency of peace. -,}.aea.-
''Gentlemen on this side Of the water
would be very much prOtiteu by get:
ting into communication with some
gentlemen on the other side Of the Wa
ter. We sometimes think, my fellow
citizens, that the experienced states
men of the European nations are an
unusually hard headed set of1nen, by
which we generally mean, although we
do not admit it. that they are Il bit
cynical that they say this is a very
practical world,' by which you always
mean that it is not an ideal world
that they do not believe that things
can be- settled Gl,on an ideal basis
Well. l never came into intimate con.
tact with them before, but if they used
to be that way, they are not that way
now. They have been subdued, if that
vas once their temper. by the awful
significance Of recent events and the
awful importance Of what is to ensue
and there is not one of them with
whom l have come in contact. who
does not feel th;t he cannot in con
science return to jx'neople from Paris
unless he has done his utmost to &c
something more than attach his name
to Il treaty of peace, .s.. &c..
livery man in that conference knows
that the treaty of neace in itself viii
be imperative. as Mr.. Taft has said
without this constant support and el:.
eigy of a great organization such as
is supplied by the league Of nations.
r.. .. LEAGUE INVALUABLE
And men who. when I first went
over there. were skeptical of the pos
sibility of forming a league Of nations
admitted that if we could but form it
it would he an Invaluable instrumen
tally through which to secure the opt
Grafton of the various parts of tho
treaty: and when that treaty comes
back gentlemen on this side will find
the covenant not only in it, but sc
many threads of the treaty tied tc
the covenant that YOU cannot dissect
the covenant from the treaty without
destroying the whole vital structure
The structure of peace will not be vital
without the league of nations,Sand nc
man is going to bring back "A cadsvc,
with him. f.
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