Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-11

.oooooooo~o~~ o~~~e~->~~~( (->~-~~>>>~ was attempted and done in Paris. You have been daily cogniZant of what was going on there, of the problems with which the peace conference had to deal and of the difficulty of. laying down straight lines of settlement anywhere on a field on which the old lines of international relationship and pattern and were for the most part cut the new alike, followed so intricate and so deep by historical circumstances which dominates action where it would have been best to ignore or reverse them. The cross currents of politics and of interest must have been evi- dent to you It would be presuming in me to attempt to explain the ques tion which arose, or the many diverse elements that entered into them. I shall attempt something less ambi- tious than that, and something more clearly suggested by my duty to rep resent to the congress the part it seemed encessary for my colleagues and me to play as representatives of the Government of the United States. U. g. Seeks Only Restoration or Right.
 'That part was dictated by the rule America had played in the war and by the expectations that had been created in the minds of the peoples with whom we had associated our selves in that great struggle.
 "The United States entered the war upon a different footing from every other nation except our associates on this side of the sea. We entered it, not because our material interests were directly threatened or because any special treaty obligations to which we were parties had been violated, but because we saw the supremacy, and even the validity of right everywhere put in jeopardy and free government 1 likely to be everywhere imperiled by the intolerable' aggression of power which respected neither right nor obli- gation and whose very system of gov ernment flouted the rights of the cit izen as against the autocratic author ity of his governors. And in the the settlements of the peace, we have sought no special reparation for our selves, but only the restoration of the right and the assurance of liberty ev- erywhere that the effects of the set clement were to be felt. We entered the war as the disinterested chamions of right and w einterested ourselves in the terms of the peace in no other capacity.
 "The hopes of the nations alliec against the central powers were at { very low ehb whom our soldiers began to pour across the sea. There wa! everywhere amongst them, except il their stoutest spirits. a somber fore boding of disaster. The war ended il November, eight months ago, but yol only have to recall what was feared in midsummer last, four short months before the armistice, to realize wha it was that our timely aid accom- plished alike for their morale and the physcal safety.
 "The first never-to-be- forgotten ac tion at Chateau-T -Thierry had alread, taken place. Our redoubtable soldier and marines had already closed tn gap the enemy had succeeded in open ing for their advance upon Paris, hal already turned the tide of battle bacl towards the frontiers of France an begun the rout that was to save Eur ope and the world. The German were to be always forced back, back but never to thrust successfully for ward aeain, and yet there was no con fident hope.
 Americans Inspire
 Anxious men and women, leadin spirits of France, attended the cele bration of the Fourth of July last yea in Paris, out of generous courtesy with no heart for the festivity, littl zest for hope. But they came wit something new at their hearts. The
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