The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1919-02-27


( other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion and perhaps met with
resistance. the American soldiers are
] welcomed with acclaim
4 have had SO many grounds for
pride on the other side of the water
that l am very thankful that they
for national pride; II they were
| srounds for personal pride I'd be the
| most stuokup man in the world. And
| IT has been an infinite pleasure to me
| Of whom the constitution of the United
| states made me the proud commander.
You may be proud of the Twenty
siA division. but ! commanded the
. Twenty-siHth division daughter and
! appIause). and see what they did un
der my direction! And everybody
| feeling that In praising him he 10 sub
| tractins from the credit of no one else.
have been searching for the fun
damentsl fact that converted Europe
, to believe in us. Before this war Eu
| rope did not believe In us As she does
now. Sh. did not believe In uA
| throughout the first three years of the
war. She seems really to have be-
ii-ved that We were holding off be-
| cause we thought we could make mora
by staying out than by going in. And
all of y sudden. in a short eighteen
| months. the whole verdict 10 reversed.
| There can be but one explanation for
| 1t. They saw what We did-that with
out making q single claim we put all
| our men and all our means At the dis>
posai of those who were fighting foE
their homes. in the first instance. but
for a cause. the Causc of human rights
| and justice. and that We went In not
To support their national claims. but to
support the great cause which they
held in common.
! And when they saw that America
not only held ideals. but acted ideals.
they were converted TO America and
Il met group Of scholars when
was in Paris. Some gentlemen :tom
| one of the Greek universities who had
come to -" me. and In whose pres
ence. or rather In the presence Of
| whose traditions OF learning, felt
very young indeed And ! told them
revcnses that sometimes come TO .
| man. All my lif. ! have heard men
| speak with a sort OF ndescension Of
idealists and particularly of those sep-
arate. incloistered persons whom they
| chose to term academic. who were in
the habit of uttering ideals In the fres
atmosphere when they clash with no.
body in particular
| And ] have said I have this sweet
| revenge. Speaking with perfect frank
ness in tn" nam" Of tn" United States
! Er"at war. ideals and nothing but
/ ideals. and the war has been won by
| that inspiration. Men were fighting
| with tens" muscl" and lowered head
| until they came to realize those things
| feeling they were fighting for their
| lives and their country. and v'hcn
these accounts Of what It was all ah,ut
| reached them from America they lift
| ed their heads. they raised their eyes
| TO heaven; then they saw men in
| khaki coming across the sea in thu
| spirit of crusaders and they found that
those We're strang" men, reckless Of
| danger not only. but reckless because
| they seemed to see something that
made danger worth while. Men have
testified I" me in Europe that men
| were possessed by something thcy
could only call religious f"Tvor. They
! Th.y had a vision. they had "A dream
| and they Were fighting in tho dream
! and fighting in the dream they turned
| tn" whole tide of battle and II never
came back.
And now d" You realize this conN-
d"nce We have established througho
| IA" world imposes a burden upon us,
| II You choos" to call 1t burden. 1t
| is one of those burdens which any ma.
| tion ought to be proud to carry ANY
man VIII" resists the present tides that
rem that it will seem as If he had been
| separated from his human kind for.
| ever.
- invite him t. test the scntiment.
of the nation. We set this nation up
TO make men free and We did not con-
| fine our conception and purpose to
Now" said the President. this con,
ference we have csta blished calls for
s%mrthinE; r The Europe left was full
| OF the war was sinking to a stubborn
desperation. They thought the end oi
thS ton az M"uld ns o,S sysnsriiy be re.ump
dreamed 1t would be q Europe Of sst.
| tied peace.
Vow all the peoples Of Europe are
| n"ns Of the world shall unite their
moral and .physical forces that right
shall prevail. If America should fall
the world Of its hope. the nations will
| be set up as hostile camps again. and
the men at the peace conference Will
| =" home with their heads upon their
We would leave on the peace table
nothing but modern scrap of paper"
Men. h" declared who would have
Am"r,ga an, i RAJ, The world In Its hopes saw
ohlA beyond the nearest horizon
| Thcy d" not know the sentiment 81
| America" he said.
=, Spcaking Of h"p"s of the people of
I Eur"pe for n lasting peace which he
SAD wcr: pinned to the United States
az the friend Of mankind" the Pres
!dHnt aiHn , sa,d he had n" NOR" doubt o,
the verdict of America in this matter
that Is in me- ''''
The nations of the world have Sc,
their heads now to do 81 great thinc
and they are not going to stop short
"' then purpose" n" said
% not speak of tn" Governments
their will some others viii And tbs
, secret is out and the present govern
! mcnt knows 1t.
Il have com" back for an ATTEMPT tn
transact business for little while in
| Nm"'lca. but ] say in all sobcrress
| that | have been trying to speak Won,
| thoughts Probing deep in my heart
ana trying to see tn" things that nrs
right rather thnn the things that are
.Np'di"nt, ] am finding tn. heart Of
America. 80
II lind that in loving America bav,
Joined tn" majority Of my fellow men
| throughout the world
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