Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-05

IL rsaI;7 this nation 10 the friend Of
mankind as It said It was The n
lthusiasm, the hops, the trust. the con-
fdenee In the future bred BY that
change Of view II indescribable.
Take an Individual American and
confined to his special interests. but
take the American in the mass and
no Ii willing to die for an idea. The
sweet revenge. therefore, 10 this, that
We believed in Righteousness. and now
vi are ready to make the supreme
sacrihce for II. the supreme sacrifice
Of throwing in our fortunes with the
Taft was speaking Of Washington's
~utterance about entangltng alliances.
and il he will permit me to say SO, he
put the exactly right Interpretation
upon what Washington said, the in
terpretation that il inevitable II. you
read what he said. as most Of these
i ksn.isn for was aa n Jus. e WHAT tn We ' are no =
which Will disentangle ali the ain
ances in the world.
To Diseatangle Alliances
Nothing entangles. nothing n
mesnes q man except q seliah COM
bination with somebody else. Nothing
sntangle. 2 nation. hampers it, binds
~. INV SVAbt0AAAAStS$S
with some othere nation against the
other nations OF the world. And this
great dtsentanglement OF all alliances
" now to- be accomplished by this
covenant, because n of the coven-
ants is that no nation shall enter into
any relationship with another nation
inconsistent with the covenants Of the
league Of nations.
Nations promise no to have ALL
ances. Nations promise not to make
combinations against each other; ma
tons agree that there shall be but
one combination and that is the COM
bination Of all against the wrong
doer. And so I am going back to my
task op the other side with renewed
vigor. l had not forgotten what the
spirit Of the American people is, but
II have been immensely refreshed by
coming in contact with it again. I
did not know how good home felt
until I got there.
The only place a man a feel at
home IS where nothing has to be ex-
Iplained to him. Nothing has to be
explained to me in America, least Of
all the sentiment of the American
people. l mean about great funda-
mental things like this. There are
many differences Of judgment rs to
policy-and perfectly legitimate.
Sometimes profound differences Of
JuN6I0Sut, OUT IUOSS are mol 0IIIer.
ences Of sentiment. those are not dif-
ference Of purposes. those are not
differences Of ideals. And the ad-
vantage not having to have anything
explained to you is that you recog-
ntze a wrong explanation when you
hear it.
I'm a certain rather abandoned part
of the frontier at one time, it was
said they found a man who told the
truth; helwas not found telling it, but
he could tell 1t when he heard it. and
I think I am in that situation with
regard to some of the criticisms I
have heard. They do not Elake any
impression on me, because I know
there is no medium that will transmit
them. that the sentiment Of the coun-
try is proof against such narrowness
and such selfishness as that. I COM
mend these gentlemen to communion
with their fellow citizens.
What are we to say. then, as to
the future? think, my fellow citi-
Gems, that we can look forward to IL
with great confidence. / have heard
cheering news since ! came to this
side Of the water about the progress