White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-02
PRESIDENT CHALLENGES CRITICS
TO TEST AMERICAN SENTIMENT

member rights that il was attempted
TO extort they remember political am
billions, which 1t was attempted TO real
ize-and, while they believe that men
have come into n different temper
they annot forget these things. and
so they do not resort to one another
for Il dispassionate view of the mat
tiers in controversy. They resort to
thar nation which has won the envi.
able distinction of being regarded as
the friend of mankipd.
Whenever 1t was desired to send a
small force OF soldiers to occupy a
piece of territory where 1t is though.
nobody else will be welcome. they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upOn
with suspicion and perhaps meet with
resistance, the American soldier Is
welcomed with acclaim. | have so
many grounds for pride on the other
! q of the water that | am very thank
fui that they are not grounds for per.
sonal pride.
And II has been an infinite pleasure
to me to see those gallant soldiers of
ours, of whom the constitution of the
United States made me the proud COM
mander. You may be proud of the
Twenty-sixth division, but | command
the T~wenty-sixth division. and see
what they did under my direction ! And
everybody praises the American sol
dler with the feeling that in praising
him he is subtracting from the credit
of no one eles.
America Acted Her Ideals.
| have been searching for the fun
damental fact that converted Europe
10 believe in us. Before the war Eu.
rope did not believe in US as 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 o u than by going in. And.
all of a sudden, in a short eighteen
months, the whole verdict is reyerseo.
There can be but one explanation for
ii. 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.
Fighting for Lives and Country.
Me were fighting with tense muscle
and lowered head until they came 10
realize those things. feeling they were
fighting for their lives aud their coun-
try. and when these accents of what IL
was all about reached them from
America they lifted their heads. they
raised their eyes 10 heaven, when they
saw men in khaki coming across the
sea in the spirit of crusaders, and they
found that these We're strange men.
reckless Of danger not only. hut recs-
less because they seemed 10 see some
thing that made that danger worth
while.
Men have testified TO me in Europe
thar our men were possessed by some
thing that they could only call a reli-
giouS fcrver. They were not like any
of the other soldiers. They had a
%",sion. they had n dream. and they
were lighting in the dream. and, fight
ing IN the dream. they turned the
whole tide of battle and It never came
hack.
And now do you realize that this
confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes a bur
den upon us-if YOU choose 10 call 1t
"A burden? Ii Is one of those burdens
which any nation ought 10 be proud
TO carry. ANY man who resists the
present tides that run in the world
will find himself thrown upon n shore
so high and barren that il will seem as
IL he had been separated from his hui
man kind forever.
Europe Continent Of Hope.
The Europe that ! left the other day
was full of something that IL n never
felt fill its heart so full before. II
was full of hope. The Europe of the
second year of the war. the Europe of
the third year of the war was sinking
To n sort of stubborn desperation. They
did NOT see any great thing 10 be
achieved even when the war should DE
won. They hoped there would be some
salvage; they hoped that they could
clear their territories of invading ar
mics; they hoped they could set up
their homes and start their industries
afresh. But they thought 1t would
simply be the resumption of the old
life that Europe had led-led In fear,
led In anxiety. led In constant suspr
cious watchfulness. They never
dreamed that II would be n Europe OF
settled peace and of justified hope.
And now these Ideals have wrought
this new magic, that all the peoples OF
Europe are buoyed up and confident In
the spirit of hope, because they be-
lieve that we are at the eve OF a new
age I'm the world. when nations VIII
understand n another, when nations
will support II another in every jusr
cause. when nations will unite every
moral and every physical strength 10
see that the right shall prevail.
We Must Not Fail the World.
If America were at this juncture TO
fail the world, what would come OF III
n -. mons. anR I1cFnGnnRf tn any