New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-02-28
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piece of territory where ii is thought
nobody else Will be welcome. they ask
for American soldiers. And where
other soldiers would be looked upon
with suspicion and perhaps met with
resistance. the American soldiers are
welcomed with acclaim.
Il have had SO many grounds Tor
that | am very thankful that they
are not grounds for personal pride. but
for national pride. IL they were
grounds for personal pride I'd be the
most stuckup man in the world. And
it has been an infinite pleasure to mt
to see those gallant soldiers of ours.
OF whom the constitution of the United
states made me the proud commander.
You may be proud of the Twenty
six division. but ! commanded the
Twenty-sixth division daughter and
applause), and see what they did un-
der my direction! And everybody
praises the American soldier with the
feeling that in praising him he il sub
tracing from the credit Of no one else.
Il have been searching for the fun
damental fact that converted Europe
to believe in us. Before this war Eu-
rope did not believe in us as she does
now, She did not believe in US
throughout the first three years of the
war. She seems really to have be-
lieved that W. were holding off be-
cause We thought we could make more
by staying out than by going in. And
all OF a sudden, in a short eighteen
months, the whole verdict is reversed.
There can b. but one explanation for
it. They saw what we did-that with
out making a single claim We put all
our men and all our means at the dis
p"sal of those who were fighting for
their homes. in the first instance, but
for a cause, the cause of human rig hts
and Justice, and that we went in, not
to support their national claims, but to
support the great cause which they
held in common.
And when they saw that America
not only held ideals. but acted ideals,
they were converted to America and
became firm partisans of those ideals.
Il met a group Of scholars when |
was in Paris. Som gentlemen from
one of the Greek universities who had
com" To see me, and in whose pres
enc. or rather in the p~resrnr" "f'
very young indeed. And | told them
that | had had one of the delightful
that sometimes come Ia II
man. All my life have heard men
speak with "A sort of condescension of
id"nItsts and particularly of those sep
arate incloist"rcd persons whom they
Ch"s" t. tenn academic, who were in
IA" habit "f utt"rins ideals in the free
atmuSph"r" when they clash with no.
body in particular.
"And | have said ! have this sweet
r'v"n@". Speaking with perfect frank
ness in III" nam" Of tn" United states,
hay" uttered as tn" objects Of this
great war, ideals and nothing but
IDEALS. and the war has been won by
that Inspiration. M"n were fighting
with tens" muscle and lowered head.
until they cam" to realize those things.
feeling they w"r" fighting for their
lives and their country, and when
thcs" accounts Of what it was all about
reached them from America they lift
ed their reads they raised their eyes
I" heaven; then they saw men in
khaki coming across the sea in the
spirit Of crusaders and they found that
hanger not only. but reckless because
they seemed to So" something that
mad" danger worth while. Men have
testified I" m" in Europ" that men
were possessed bV something thew
could only call religious fervor. They
were not like any of the other soldiers.
They had IA vision. they had a drram,
and they w"r" flShting in tn" dream
and fiGhtinE in tn" dream they turned
tn" Whoi" It'd" Of battle and it never
camc back.
And now do you realize this confi-
d"nce W" have established throughout
the world imposes "A burden upon u.s.
If you choose to call it a burden. 1t
is one of th0s" burdens which any ma
tion ought to be proud to carry. Any
man who r~csists the present tides that
rum in tn" world will find himself
thrown upon a sh"r" SO high and bar
rem that it Will seem as if he had been
separated from his human kind for
ever.
lhNll' nun " ttSl lIf sent l1ntntS
of the nation. We set this nation up
to make men free and We did not CON
fin" our conception and purpose to
America:
f"renc" we hav" established calls for
something. Tn" Europe | left was full
Of hope. Tn" Europe Of the third year
Of the war was sinking to a stubborn
tn" war would eventually be a resump-
ton of the old order. They never
dreamed it would be a Europe of set
tied peace.
Now all the peoples of Europe are
buoyed up in the hope that all the ma
tions Of the world shall unite their
moral and physical forces that right
shall prevail. If America should fail
the world of its hope. the nations will
be set up as hostile camps again, and
tn" men at the peace conference will
go hom" with their heads upon their
breasts because they will have failed.
nothing but a modern scrap of paper"
Men. h" declared, who would have
America fail the world in its hopes saw
only beyond the nearest horizon.
They do not know the sentiment Of
America" he said.
Speaking of hopes of the people Of
Europe for IA lasting peace which he
said Were pinned to the United States
as the friend of mankind" the Pres
id"nt said h" had no more doubt Of
verdict Of America in this matter |
than ! have "f the doubt of the blood
that is in me"
THE nations of the world have SET
their heads now t" do a great thing
and they are not going to stop short
of their purpose" he said.
Il do not speak of the governments,
of the peoples VINO will see that II
their present governments do not do
their viii some others Will. And tho
secret is out and the present govern
ment knows it.
Il have come back for an att.mpt to
transact business for a little while in
\ m"rtca. but | say in all sohcrness
hat ] have been trying to speak your
thoughts. Probing deep in my heart
and trying to Sc" the things that are
right rather than the things that are
'Npedi"nt, | am finding the heart of
ifnerica.
81 find that in loving America | have
Joined tn" majority Of my fellow men
throughout the world