Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-06

tions left out, of any consequence, are
Germany and Turkey, and we are Just
now looking for the pieces of Turkey.
She is so thoroughly disintcgratel that
the process of assembling the parts is
becoming increasingly difficult anu the
chief controversy now is who shall at
tempt that very difficult anu perlious
job.
"Is it not great vision, my fellow
eitizens, this of the thoughtful world
} combined for peace and this OF all the
great peoples of the world associated to
see that justice is done, that the strong,
who intend wrong, are restrained, and
that the weak, who cannot defend them
selves are made secure. We nave a
Iprohlem ahead of US that ought to inter
est us in this connection. We have
promised the people of the Philippine
islands that we will set them free. 1t
has been one of our plerplexities how
wo should make them safe after we set
them free. Under this arrangement they
win be safe from the outset. They will
become members of the league of ma
tions, and every great nation in the
world will be obliged to respect ana
preserve, against external aggSessrvA
from any quarter, the territorial integ-
rity and political independence of the
Philippines. 1t simplified one OF the
most perplexing problems that mas faced
the American republic.
| Gspuf II doaa not ciunlify nur urah-
lens, merely, gentlemen. 1t illustrates
the triumph of the American spirit. L
do not want to attempt any flight of
fancy, but l can fancy those men of the
firmst generation of Washington, Ham,
tilton, Jefferson and the Adamscs-I can
fancy their looking OH with sort of
enraptured amazement that the Ameri-
can spirit should have made conquest Of
the world.
wish you could have seen the faces
of some of the people that TALKED to us
over there about the arrival of tho
American troops. At first they did not
know that we were going TO be able
! TO send SO many, but they caught some
thing from the first groups that changed
the whole aspect of the war. One OF the
most influential ladies in Paris, the wife
of 6 member of the cabinet, told us that
On the Fourth of July, last year. she
and others had attended the ceremonies
with very sad hearts and merely ont of
courtesy to the United tates, because
they did not believe the aid of the Uni
| ted States was going to be effective. But
| she said, after We had been there and
had seen the faces of those when in kha-
XII ard seen the spirit of their swing
and attitude and seen the vision that
was in their eyes, we came away know
ing that victory was in sight.
! "What Europe saw in our boys was
t merely men under arms, indoinitable
men under arms, but men with en idea,
in their eyes. Men who had come long
way from home to defend other peoples
homes who had forgotten the conven-
fence of everything that personally af-
| fected them, and that turned them away
from the longing love of the people who
are dear to them, who came across the
broad sea to rescue the nations OF the
world from an intolerable oppression.
! ~ tell you, my fellow citizens, the
war was won by the American spirit.
Orders were found-wcre picked up on
+ the battlefields, German orders, direct
ing the commanders not to let the Amer
leans get hold of a particular position
because you never could get them out
again, and you know that one Of our
lof our American wits said that il took
toaly half as long to train an American
army as any other because you only had
| to- train themto 60 one way, and il Is
,true that they never though of going
any other way. And, when they were
restrained because they were told 1t was
premature or dangerous, they were i'm
| patient They say, 'We didn't come
over here to wait; we came over here to
fight And their very audaeity, their
very indifference to danger, changed
the morale Of the battlefield. Thev
wouldn t fight prudently. They were
going to get there, and America, in this
treaty, has realized, my fellow country
men, what those gallant boys we are so
proud of, fought for. The men who
make this impossible Or difficult viii
have lifelong reckoning with the fight
ing forces of the United tates. I have
consorted with those boys. have been
proud to call myself their commander in
chief. I didn t run the business. Thew
didn t need anybody to run it. An
had to do with to turn them loose.
And now for final word, ny fel-
low citizen. If anything that l nav.
said has left the impression on your
mind that have the least doubt of the
result, please dismiss the impression.
And if you think have come out on
this errand to fight anybody, please dis
miss that from your mind. I have not
eometo fight or antagonize any individ
nal or body of individuals. I have. let
me say without the slightest affeetation
the greatest respect for the senate of
the United tates, but, my fellow eiizens.
L have come out to fight for a cause.
That cause is greater than the senate;
1t is greater than the government. &c
is as great as the cause of mankind, and
intend, in office out, to fight that
battle as long as live. Nv ancestors
were troublesome cotchmen and among
them were some of that famous sroun
that wre known as the Coyenanters-
Very well, here is the covenant of the
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