The daily banner., 1919-07-09

anything except friendly protecrr0F
and assistance. Do you wonder that
it made our hearts swell with pride to
realize these things?
"But while these things in some de-
gree softened my homesickness, they
made me all the more eager to get
home, where the rest of the folks live,
to get home where the great dynamo
of national energy was situated, to get
home where the great purpose OF ma
tional action were formed, and to be
allowed to take part in the councils
and in the action which were to be
taken by this great nation, which from
first TO last has followed the vision of
the men who set it up and created 1t.
'eWe have had our eyes very close
upon our tasks at times, but whenever
we lifted them, were accustomed to
lift them to a distant horizon. We were
aware that all the peoples Of the earth
had turned their faces toward us as
those who were friends of freedom and
of right. and whenever we thought of
national policy and Of its relation upon
the affairs of the world, we knew we
were under bonds to do the large thing
and the right thing.
st is a privilege, therefore, beyond
all computation for a man, whether in
great capacity or a small, to take
part in the counsels and in the resolu-
tions of people like this. am afraid
some people, some persons, do not nm
derstand the vision. They do not see
it. They have looked too much upon
the ground They have thought too
much of their neighbors.
Sure America Will Help.
ST have never had moments doubt
as TO where the heart and purpose of
this people lay. When any one on the
other side of the water has raised the
question, viii America come in and
help?' 1 have said, of course, Ameri,
ca will come in and help She cannot
do anything else She will not disap-
point any high hope that has been
formed of her. Least of all will she
in this day of newborn liberty all
over the world fail to extend her hand
to the support and assistance of those
who have been made free.
'I wonder if at this distance you
can have got any conception of the
tragic intensity of the feeling of those
peoples in Europe who have just had
yokes- thrown off of them. Have you
reckoned up in your mind how many
unwillingly under the yoke of the Aus
tro-Hungarian empire, under the yoke
of Turkey, under the yoke of Ger
many?
"These yokes have been thrown off.
These peoples breathe the air and look
around to see a new day dawn about
them and whenever they think of what
is going to fill that day with action,
they think of US. They think first of
the friends who through the long years
have spoken for them, who were privi-
legged to declare that they came into
the war to release them, who said that
hey would not make peace upon any
other terms than their liberty, and
they have known thaat Americas pres
ence in the war and in the conference
was the guarantee of the result.
''The governor has spoken of a great
task ended Yes, the formulation of
the peace is ended, but it creates only
a new task just begun. 1 believe thai
if you will study the peace you will
see that it is just peace and peace
which, if it can be preserved, will save
the world from unnecessary bloodshed.
And now the great task is to preserve
it. I have come back with my heart
full of enthusiasm for throwing every
thing that can, by way of influence
or action, in with you to see that the
peace is preserved; that when the
long reckoning comes men may look
back upon this generation of Americs
and say. They were true to the vision
which they saw at their BIRTH