The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-02-28

nothing but modern scrap OF paper.
no nations united TO defend IL. no great
forces combined to make II good, no
assurance given TO the down-frodden
and fearful people of the world that
they shall be safe. Any man Who
thinks that America will take part I'm
giving the world any such rebuff and
disappointment as that does not know
America.
Invited to Test Sentiment.
| i invite him TO test the sentiments
of the nation. We set this up to make
men free and we did not confine our
conception and purpose TO America.
and now we will make men free n
we did not do that the fame of Ameri-
ca would be gone and all her powers
would be dissipated. She then would
have To keep her power for those mar
row. selfish. provincial purposes which
seem so dear to some minds that have
no sweep beyond the nearest horizon.
! should welcome no sweeter challenge
than that. j have fighting blood IN
me and IL Is sometimes delight to let
IL have scope. but II IL is challenge
on this occasion il will be an indul-
gence. Think of the picture; think
OF the utter blackness that would fall
on the world! America has failedt
America made little essay ut gener-
osity and then withdrew! America
said: I'VE are your friends" but II
was only for today, not for tomorrow.
America said: Here is our power TO
! vindicate right" and then the next day
said: Let right take care of itself and
we will take care of ourselves" Amer
lea said. "We set up Il light to lead
men along the paths of liberty, but
! we have lowered IL. 1t is intended
only to light, our own path" We set
up a great ideal Of liberty and then
we said: Liberty Is thing that you
must win for yourself. Do not call
2 upon U.S. and think of the world that
we would leave!
New Nations Must Be Shielded.
a Do you realize how many new ma
. tons are going to be set up in the
!. presence of old and powerful nations
n in Europe and left there, if left by us,
without disinterested friend? Do
n you believe in the Polish cause as
!, do? Are you going to set up Poland.
r immature. inexperienced, as yet unor-
!. ganlzed, and leave her with circle
!, Of armies around her? DO you believe
!. in the aspirations of the Czecho-Sio-
- walks and the .Jugo-Slavs as do? Do
|, you know how many powers would be
S quick to pounce upon them II there
II were not the guarantees of the world
II behind their liberty?
" The arrangements Of the present
peace cannot stand generation unless
"a they are guaranteed by the united
s. forces of the civilized world And II
do ~ ~, am, ~,
$. see the picture? Yonr hearts have In
structed you where the burden of this
- war fell. 1t did not fall upon the ma
- tional treasures; 1t did not fall upon
w. the Instruments of administration; II
=, ;, did not fall upon the resources Of the
=. nations. 1t fell upon the victims
:. homes everywhere, where women were
az, toiling in hope that their men would
av come back.
he Has No Doubt Of Verdict.
CIV When / think of the homes upOT
N, which dull despair would settle were
* this great hope disappointed, shOuld
le- wish for my part never to have had
tn America play any part whatever II
this attempt to emancipate the world
be But talk as If there were any ques
le- ton. / have no more doubt Of tht
III. verdict OF America in this matter thar
nv have doubt of the blood that Is II
n me.
ey And So my fellow citizens, / have
h. come back to report progress, and
he do not believe that the progress Is go
ne ing to stop short of the goal. Th'
nations Of the world have set the;
his heads now to do great thing, ant
ed they are not going to slacken their pur
ur- pose. And when speak OF the nations
If Of the world / do not speak of tn
ms governments of the world. speak 0
M the peoples who constitute the nation
he of the world. They are in the saddl
rid and they are going to see to 1t that !
IRE their present governments do not d
ms their will, some other government
hu shall And the secret is out and tn
present governments know 1t.
Harmony Out 70 Common knowledge
law There Is great deal of harmony I
,er be got out of common knowledge
II There is great deal of sympathy I
HE be got out Of living in the same atmO'
of phere and, except for the differences @
inc languages, which puzzled my America
,ey ear very sadly, l could have believe
he l was at home in France or in Italy q
no in England when / was OH the street
me when / was in the presence Of tn
Md crowds. when / was In great hail
ar where men were gathered together I
nm respective of class. | did not fe,
les quite as much at home there as d
uld here, but l felt that how, at any rat
old after this storm of war had cleared I'll
ar. air, men were seeing eye to eye ever
sp,- where and that these were the kind I
yer folks who would understand what II
of kind of folks at home would unde
stand and that they were thinking Il
ght same things.
OF Trying to Interpret America.
t in 1t is n great comfort, for one thin
be- to realize that you all understand Il
new language l am speaking. A friend
will mine said that to talk through an !
ons terpreter was like witnessing the col
jusr pound fracture Of an idea But Il
cry beauty of 1t Is that, whatever the II
10 pediments, the channel Of commune
ton, the idea Is the same; that 1t &c
registered and it gets registered
, to responsive hearts and receptive pt
it? poses.
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