Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-25

the whole tide OF battle and II never
came back.
One of our American humorists,
meeting the criticism that American
soldiers were not trained long
enough, said: at takes only half as
long to train an American soldier
as any other, because YOU only have
to train him to so one way!" And
he did only go one way, and he
came back until he could do It
when he pleased.
And now do sou realize that this
confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes a
burden upon us-if you choose to
call 1t n burden? It is one of those
burdens which any nation ought TO
be proud to carry.
Ready For Fight
ANY nan who resists the present
tides that run In the world will And
himself thrown upon a shore so
high and barren that It will seem
as IL he had been separated from
his human kind forever.
The Europe that I left the other
day was full of something that II
had never felt fill its heart so full
before. 1t was full Of hope. The
Europe OF the second year OF the
war, the Europe Of the third year OF
the war. was sinking to a sort of
stubborn desperation. They did not
see any great thing to be achieved,
even when the war should be won.
They hoped there would be some
salvage; they hoped that they could
clear their territories of invading
armies; they hoped they could set
UP their homes and start their indus
tries afresh. But they thought It
would simply be the resumption Of
the old life that Europe had led
led in fear. led In anxiety. led in
constant suspicious watchfulness.
They neve dreamed that it would
be a Europe OF settled peace and Of
justified hope.
And now these ideals have
wrought this new magic, that all the
peoples of Europe are buoyed UP
and confident in the spirit Of hope,
because they believe that we are at
the eve Of a new age in the world.
when nations will understand one
another, when nations will support
n another in every just cause,
when nations will unite every moral
and every physical strength TO see
that the right shall prevail.
Dire Results II Peace Fails
II America were at this juncture
to fail the world, what would come
Of it? do not any disrespect
to any other great people when I
say that America Is the hope of the
world; and IL she does not justify
that hope, the results are unthirk.
able. Men will be thrown back upon
the bitterness of disappointment not
only, but the bitterness Of despair.
All nations will be set UP as hostile
camps again; the men at the Peace
Conference will 60 home with tlheif
heads upon their breasts, knowing
that they have failed-for they We're
hidden not to come home from there
until they did something more than
sign a treaty OF peace.
Suppose we sign the treaty of
peace and that it is the most salts
factory treaty Of peace that the CON
fusing elements Of the modern world
will afford, and go home and think
about u labors, we will know that
we have left written upon the his
toric table at Versailles, upon which
Vergennes and Benjamin Franklin
wrote their names. nothing but a
modern scrap Of paper; no nations
united to defend it. no great forces
combined TO make it good, no assur-
ance given to the downtrodden and
fearful people of the world that they
shall be safe.
Any man who thinks that Amer
lea will take part in giving the world
n such rebuff and disappointment
as that does not know America.
l invite him to test tho senti.
ments Of the nation. we set this up
to men and we did not confne u
conception and purpose to America
and we will make men free.
II we did not do that, the fame Of
America would be gone and all her