Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-07-21
KENDALL GIVES
RINGING TALK!
Speaker for Homecoming
Day Gives Patriotic Ad-
dress at Double City
Parks.
PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE
Speaks of American Sol
diers' Part in War and
Country's Destiny.

the appeal to the thoughtful American
in world affairs was not overlooked in
the splendid welcoming address deliv-
cred by Hon. Nate Kendall, IOwan.
Long before the hour for the speech,
as indicated on the program, the dOu-
bic parks began to fill with people and
by 80 o'clock one Of the largest
crowds of the day had assembled to
hear Mr.. Kendall, the assurance being
that his address was one Of the big
things on the program. This assurance
was not belied. Mr. Kendall was in
troduced by Prof. d. NJ. Kelly as an
1owan and a patriot, the one man in
Iowa for the Occasion-a man who
yielded to none in patriotic oratory.
"After the declaration Of war and
before the signing Of the armistice we
thought only of the boys" the speaker
affirmed But during that time there
has been growing an enlarged interest
in mankind, and an increasing attach
ment for our own country. Politics,
Mr.. Kendall said, sis adjourned ard
partisanship renowned. We are not
republicans. We are not democrats. We
are something better, higher. finer; we
are simply Americans. We are citizens
of common country. We have a part
to perform" Quoting Sir Walter
SCOTS immortal words-"Breathe
there man witM soul so dead. who
never to himself has said, this is my
own, my native land ?"-the speaker
said he liked to think they were writ
ten with a thought of America.
fs,' Recites History.
strength for the future can be gain
ed by rehearsing the legends of the
past and he briefly related historic in
cidents from the annals of American
history-the great names and deeds +
Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, the
two Adams and Patrick Henry, End
hence through the days Of the great
rebellion and the brilliant enconntcr
with Spain.
DO we comprehend the wonderful
government that has descended to us?
Shall we not exemplify our predeces-
sors in wider, more philanthropic
thought of the welfare of people every
where? These are some of the ques
tons which were asked in the recent
time of stress, he said.
Boys Back.
with heads bloody, but unbowed
our boys have returned to us. God help
us that the price paid may not have
been in vain in the winning of the
most awful war in history. Originat-
ing in Belgium" the speaker said ''it
was not Belgian war, extending to
France, it was not French war. 1t
drew in England, but it was not an
English war. In the last analysis, it
was an American war for the pre-
servation of the American people"
Quoting the presidents executive
statement, the speaker declared: I'VE
entered this war because violation of
rights had occurred which touched to
the quick and made impossible the free
life of the American people. So far as
we are concerned, in the last analysis,
to make the United States safe for AM
erican citizens" And the speaker re-
iterated numerous accounts of the per-
fidy and hideOus cruelty of the German
war machine as directed against Amer
lea.
Tribute to Soldiers.
Mr.. Kendall paid his tribute to the
100000 young Americans who went
lover there to stop it, and then di-
verged to call attention to the 'monu-
mental stupidity of our prewar policy
that, he said, I'VE may gain for the flu
ture by the past. We recognized at
the eleventh hour what we had known
all alOng-there had been no radical
metamOrphosis in human nature"
He made a strong plea for the
maintaining of an army as an insur-
ance against attack, looking forward to
the time when an international union
should be perfected which would leave
the Monroe doctrine supreme in the
western hemisphere and permit Of the
settlement of domestic questions at
home. With England grabbing, the
French grabbing, the Japanese grab
bling and Italy grabbing territory and
with twenty-three wars in progress in
twenty-three separate states, the glad
day of the millennium is in small! pos
pect and until then, he advised that
I'VE speak softly, but carry the big
stick"
"Sir Douglas Haig Notwithstanding"