The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-02-28
PRESIDENT CHALLENGES CRITICS
TO TEST AMERICAN SENTIMENT


have come into different temper,
they cannot forget these things. and
SO thes do not resort TO one another
for n jispassionate view Of the mat
tiers In controversy They resort 20
that nation which has won the envi.
able distinction of being recorded as
the friend of mankird.
Whenever IL was desired 10 send a
small force of soldiers to occupy
piece of territory where it Is thoug,..
nobody else will be welcome. they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion and perhaps meet WIFI
resistance, the American soldier is
welcomed with acclaim. l have so
many grounds for pride on the other
side of the water hat am very thank
full that they are not grounds for per
sonal pride.
And 1t has been an infinite pleasure
to me TO see those gallant soldiers or
ours, of whom the constitution of the
United States made me the proud COM
mander. You may be proud of the
lTwenty-sixth DIVISION but l command
the Twenty-sixth division. and see
what they did under my direction And
everybody praises the American sol
dier with the feeling that In praising
him he is subtracting from the credit
of no one eles.
= America Acted Her Ideals.
have been searching for the fun
damental fact that converted Europe
to believe in us. Before the war Eu-
| rope did not believe in us as she does
. | n a II.
! throughout the first three years of the
war. She seems really to have be-
! leved that we were holding off be-
t cause we thought we could make more
t by staying out than by going in. And
t all of a sudden, in n short eighteen
/ months, the whole verdict is reversec
There can be but one explanation for
$ it. They saw what we did--that with
: out making single claim, we put ali
: our men and all our means at the dis
s posal of those who were fighting foi
r their homes, in the first instance, bu,
4 for Il cause, the cause of human rights
and justice, and that we went in, no
n to support their national claims, bu
t to support the great cause which the,
It held in common.
l. And when they saw that Americ;
o not only held ideals, but acted ideals
n they were converted to America an,
Is became firm partsans of those ideals
q Fighting for Lives and Country.
- Men were fighting with tense muscl
:, and lowered head until they came I
~ realize those things, feeling they wer
fighting for their lives and their cour
- :. try, and when these accents Of what
= was all about reached them frOr
&c America they lifted their heads, the
20 :. raised their eyes to heaven, when the
=. saw men in khaki coming across til
~ sea In the spirit Of crusaders, and the
found that these were strange mel
;, reckless of danger not only, but rec,
less because they seemed to see som,
a. thing that made that danger wort
while.
~ Men have testified to me In Euror
=. that our men were possessed by som
- thing that they could only call rel
20 gious ferver. They were not like ar
VI of the other soldiers. They had
- vision, they had dream, and the
on were lighting In the dream, and, figl
:" ing in the dream, they turned Il
whole tide of battle and it never can
bach.
IN And now do you realize that tn
as confidence we have establisht
ey throughout the world imposes bu
le; den upon us-if you choose to call
cir a burden? 1t is one of those burdel
20 which any nation ought to be prof
'se to carry. Any man who resists Il
'er present tides that run in the wOr
no will find himself thrown upon a sho
err so high and barren that 1t will seem
Die If he had been separated from his h
man kind forever.
~ Europe Continent Of Hope.
20 The Europe that left the other d;
-. was full Of something that 1t had new
m felt fill its heart so full before.
.cr was full Of hope. The Europe of I
, !, second year of the war; the Europe
IN the third year Of the war was sinlSil
an to a sort of ST bborn desperation. TIL
on. did not see any great thing to
~ nf achieved even when the war should
no won. They hoped there would be sol
III salvage; they hoped that they cou
inv clear their territories of invading {
ha mics; they hoped they could set
their homes and start their industrl
tho afresh. But they thought 1t wor
ths simply be the resumption of the {
!, life that Europe had led--led in fe
,,s. led I'm anxiety, led in constant sus
20, cous watchfulness. They ne,
act dreamed that it would be a Europe
act settled peace and Of justified hope.
,ac. And now these ideals have wrong
nv this new magic, that all the peoples
,ci Europe are buoyed up and confident
the spirit Of hope, because they
lleve that we are at the eve of a n
age In the world, when nations v
ite understand one another, when natit
Yea will support one another in every j
II cause when nations will unite ev'
'as- moral and every physical strength
ave see that the right shall prevail.
nen We Must Not Fail the World.
III, laI. II America were at this juncture
fail the world, what would come of
! do not mean any disrespect to {
'"' other great people when say I
e.u America is the hope of the world 1
a"s II she does not Justify that hope
go results are unthinkable. Men will
va" W. thrown back upon the bitterness
&c. disappointment not only, but the
$50 terness of despair. All nations will
set up as hostile camps again;
Nc men at the peace conference will
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