The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-28
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nobody else will be welcome. they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
| resistance, the American soldiers are
welcomed with acclaim.
have ~. had a,ss, 70 ;s fer
that ! am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride. but
srounas for pelson.i na pride n s, "a be as tie
most stuckup man in the world. 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 commander.
You may be proud OF the twenty
Twenty sixth division daughter and
applause). and see what they did un-
der my direction. And everybody
feeling that in praisinK 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 as she does
now. She did not believe in W.
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
all OF sudden, in short eighteen
months. the whole verdict is reversed.
| it. They saw what we did-that with
out making n single claim We put all
our men and all our means at the dis
posal of those who were fighting for
their homes. in the first instance, but
for 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.
not only held ideals. but acted ideals.
they were converted to America and
became firm partissns Of those ideals:
I met group .f scholars when I
was IN Paris Some gentlemen from
one of the Greek universities who had
come to see me. and in whose pres.
very young indeed. And I told them
that had ,,h had os,,n one Of the delishtfu
man. All my life have heard men
speak with a sort of condescension of
idealists and particularly of those sep
chose 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 I have this sweet
revenge. Speaking with perfect frank
have uttered as the objects Of this
great war ideals and nothing but
and the war has been ,rh,,n BY
with tense muscle and lowered head.
until they came to realize those things.
fsslns .nd they were fThng for nap shsi1
these accounts Of what It was all about
reached them from America they mt
to heaven; then they saw men in
khaki coming across the sea In the
spirit Of crusaders and they found that
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 something they
could only call religious fervor They
were not like any Of the other soldiers.
and they were fighting In the dream
| and fighting in the dream they turned
the whole tide OF battle and 1t never
came back.
And now % you. realize this conf
dence we have established throughout
| the world imposes a burden upon us?
II you choose to call II burden. It
| is one Of those burdens which any ma
tion ought TO be proud to carry Amy
run in the world viii find himself
| thrown upon a shore so high and bar
separated from his human kind for
ever.
II invite. him to test the sentiments
to make men free and we did not con-
| fine our conception and purpose to
America.
ference we have established calls for
| something. The Europe | left was full
of hope. The Europe of tn" third year
| of the war was sinking T. stubborn
desperation. They thought l.. end Of
| the war would eventually be a resump-
ton of the old order; They never
dreamed II would be q Europe of set
| Now all the peoples of Europe are
tions 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 will
| be set up as hostile camps again. and
| the men at the peace conference will
go home with their heads upon their
| ~ n-tr hnn r-shl fal l1r.A
We would leave on the peace table
| nothing but a modern scrap of paper"
Men. he declared. who would have
America fail the world in Its hopes saw
only beyond the nearest horizon.
They do not know the sentiment Of
Agee1sn geesRjnf he g, '1ia hopes o, the peop,.
Europe for a lasting peace which he
said were pinned to the United States
dent ID ate said te he had % no moi more doubt Of
than have q the doubt of the blood
THE nations of the world have set
ana they are not going to stop short
Il do not speak Of the governments.
but of the peoples who wifi see that n
hsir pfe'ena sns 1tbar DO not ,ds
| secret is out and the present govern
ment knows it.
that i have been trying to speak your
and trying to see the things that are
| r1Ght rather than the things that are
expedient. I am finding the heart of
| America.
''I find that in loving America I have
Joined the majority Of my fellow men
throughout the world"
v. s. Tonnage Big.
Washington -Discuasinp the Amer