The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-03-07

| mankind.
whenever 1t is desired to send
| small force of soldiers to occupy
| piece OF territory where IL IL though
nobody else will be welcome. they ash
other soldiers would be looked upoI
with suspicion and perhaps met with
resistance. the American soldiers ar,
| welcomed with acclaim.
| Il have had SO many grounds fol
pride on the other side OF the watei
that l am very thankful that the,
for national pride. III they wer,
| grounds for personal pride I'd be thS
most stuckup man in the world. Anc
it has been an infinite pleasure to m,
| to see those gallant soldiers of ours
of whom the constitution of the United
states made me the proud commander
You may be proud OF the Twenty
SIX division; but | commanded tn,
Twenty-sixth division daughter and
applause). and see what they did ,un.
der my direction, And every body
feeling that in praising him he is sub
tracing from the credit of no one else
Il have been searching for the fun
damental fact that converted Europe
to believe in us. Before this war Eu-
rope did not believe in us a. she does
now. She did not believe in us
throughout the first three years of the
war. She seems really to have be-
lieved that we were holding off be-
cause we thought we could make more
by staying out than by going in. And
!
months. the whole verdict is reversed.
There can be but one explanation for
IT. They saw what we did-that with
out making a single claim We put all
our men and all our means at the dis
posal of those who We're fighting for
their homes in the first instance. but
for a cause, the cause 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
became firm partisans of those ideals
Il met group OF scholars when
was in Paris, Some gentlemen from
one Of tho Greek universities who had
come To see me, and in whose pres-
whose traditions of learning. felt
very young indeed. And / told them
that | had had one OF the delightful
revcnses that sometimes come 10 a
man. All my life ] have heard men
speak with sort Of coudesCension Of
idealists and particularly OF those sep
arnte. inClolstered persons whom they
choae to term academic. who were in
the habit Of uttering ideals in the free
atmosphere when they clash with no.
body in particular.
And l have said ] have this sweet
revenge. Speaking with perfect frank
ness in the name OF the United States
have uttered as the objects OF this
great war. ideals and nothing but
ideals. and the war has been won by
that Inspiration. Men were fighting
with tense muscle and lowered head
until they came To realize those things
feeling they Were fighting for their
lives and their country. and when
these accounts OF what It was Nil about
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 the
those were strange men. reckless of
danger not only, but reckless because
they seemed to see something that
made danger worth while. Men have
testified TO me In Europe that men
were possessed by sonnet thing they
could only call religious fervor. They
were not like any Of the other soldiers
They had vision. they had a dream.
and they Were fighting in the dream
and fighting In the dream they turned
the whole tide Of battle and IL never
came back.
And now do you realize this conrI-
dcnce We have established throughout
the world imposes a burden upon u.s.
II you choose to call it a burden 1t
Is one of those burdens which any ma
ton ought to be proud to carry. Any
man who resists the present tides that
run in the world will find himself
thrown upon shore SO high and bar
rem that ii will seem as If he had been
separated from his human kind for
ever.
81 invite him to test the sentiments
of the nation. We set this nation IN
to make men free and we did not con-
fine our conception and purpose to
America.
Now" said the President. this con-
ference We have established calls for
s2mcthing The Europe / left was full
OF nope The Europe of the third year
of the war was sinking to n stubborn
desperation. They thought the end OF
ne ne war would eventually be a resump
ton OF the old order. They never
dreamed 1t would be a Europe of set
tied peace.
Now all the peoples of Europe are
vAd ~ IN, DO 49,.
tons OF the world shall unite their
moral and physical forces that right
shall prevail. If America should fail
the world of its hope the nations viii
be set up as hostile camps again. and
the men at the peace conference Will
go home with their heads upon their
We would leave on the pence table
nothing but a modern scrap of paper -
Men. he declared who would have
america fan the world in its hopes saw
only beyond the nearest horizon.
They do not know the sentiment of
America" he said.
Speaking Of hopes of the people of
Europe for lasting peace which he
said were pinned to the United States
as the friend Of mankind" the Pres
iasnt sald he had no more doubt OF
the verdict of America in this matter
that is in me-
The nations Of the world have set
their heads now to do a great thing
and they are not going to stop short
of their purpose" he said
L do not speak OF the governments
put of the peoples who will see that II
their present governments do not do
their VIII some others viii. And the
secret Is out and the present governs
ment knows II.
Il have come back for an attempt TO
transact business for a little while in
America, but / say in all soberness
that nave been trying to speak your
thoughts. Probing deep in nv hen
and trying to see the things that are
right rather than the things that are
America. ~
II find that in loving America I have
Joined the majority of my fellow men
throughout the world"
U. S. TONNAGE Bio.