The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-05

the world today-belieyes and and would be thrown back into the backness of despair if we deserted it.
 say o circles friends larger bodies what be the real hope of the peoples of Europe and I tell you frankly I not been able to do so because when the thought tries to crowd It. self into speech the profound of the thing tragedy the hope those suffering peoples.
 tragedy because it is a hope which be realized perfection and yet I have felt besides it's tragedy its compusion-its compu1sion upon every living man to exercise every influence that he the utmost that s little pos oan1o noL afte[ this sn nf bioo6 sTea+ oo to their sef-possession and how regulate the affairs of the world will sink period of struggle in which there will be no hope and therefore, mercy There mercy where if you yourself expect to perish? Why should you be pitiful you can get no pity? Why should you be just if, upon every hand, you are put upon?
 Critics Ignore ore. Soldiers spirit --..,-- of this covenant have not observed They only have not observed the temper of the world, but they have not even observed the temper of those splen- did boys in khaki that they sent across the have had the proud consciousness of the reflected glory of those boys, because the Constitution me their Commander-in-ch and they have taught me some lessons. When We went into the war, we went into it the basis of declarations which it my privilege to utter, because I believed them to be an interpretation of the purpose and thought of the people of the United States. those boys went over there with the feeling that they were sacreaiy bound to the realization or those Ideals; that they not only going there to beat resentment in their hearts against particular out law nation but that they crossing those three
  that the United States when it became necessary, would go anywhere where the rights of mankind threatened. They would the trenches. They would not be restrained by the pru- dence of experienced continental commanders. They thought they had a lar thing, and they to do it and do it at once. And just that rush of spirit well of body contact with lines of the enemy. they began break, they contin- to break until the end. They continued to break feIlow-citizens not merely because of the Dhysi- irresistible spiritual force of the armies of the nIted States It that they felt. It that that awed them. It that that made them feel, if these youngsters ever got foothod, they could never disIodged, and that therefore every foot of ground that they won was permanently for the liberty of mankind
 And do you suppose that having felt that cru sading spirit of these youngsters, who went there not to glorify America but to serve their fellow men. I am going to permit myself for to slacken in my effort to be worthy of them and or their cause? What l said at the opening l said with a deeper meaning than perhaps caught; back until over over there, and 1t must not be over until the na- tons of the world are assured of the permanency of peace.
 Gentlemen on this side of the water would be very much profited by getting into communication ter We sometimes think my fellow citizens that the experienced statesmen European nations are an unusually hard headed set of men, by which generally mean, although we do not admit it, that they bit cynical, that they say '@Ths that it is not an ideal world; that they do be- lieve that things be settled upon Well, I into intimate them tbat Tya now. 7bev toa 1,a bz5 5y @ 4f +tt t1ot once their temper, by the awful significance of recent and the awful importance of what is to ensue and there is not one of them win whom have contact who does not feel that he cannot in conscience return his people from Paris unless he has done his To something than attach his name to treaty of peace. Everey man in that Conference knows that treaty of peace in itself will be imperative as Mir. Taft has said, without this support energy of great organization such is supplied by the League of Nations.
 And men who when I first went over there were skeptcal of the possibility of forming League would be invaluable instrumentaltty through which to secure the operation of the various parts or the treaty; and when that treaty comes back, gentlemen this side will find covenant not only in it. but many threads of the treaty tied to the covenant that you cannot dissect the covenant from the treaty without destroying the whole vital without the League of Nations. Il s going to bring back a cadaver with him.
 Puzzled by Some Criticisms
 must say that I been puzzled by some of the criticisms-not by the criticisms themselves; can understand them perfectly, when there no Iouhatoh for them; but by the fact of the crit- cisn. I cannot imagine how these gentlemen can I cannot imagine how they can live not be in contact with the events times. I part and set doctrine of careful seIfishness thought out to the last details. I have heard O structiye suggestion have nothing except will it not be dangerous to us to help the wOrld?" It would be fatal to not help
 From being what will venture to call the most would of a sudden become the most con temptible- So did not need to be told, as have been told that the people of the United States would knew they would. What sweet revenge it upon world. They laughed at once, they thought did not mean our professions of principle. They thought so until April of 1917. hardly credi- ble to them that we would do than send a men and through the forms o helping; and when they saw multitudes hasening across the sea, and saw what those multtudes to when they got to the other side, they stood at and said: The thing is real nation friend of mankind as 1t said 1t was" The enthus- asrl the hope, the trust the confidence in the fu ture bred by that change view is indescribable. Take an individual American and you may often find him selfish and confined Q special inter ests but take the American he willing to die for idea. The sweet revenge, there fore, is this, that believed in righteousness, now we are ready to make supreme sacrifice sac. ir,n