The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-02-25
grounds for personal pride I'd he ths
most Stuck-up man in the world.

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most Stuck-up man in the world.
II have been searching for the fun
damental fact that converted Europe TO
believe in us. Before this war Europe
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 believed that we
were holding off because we thought
we could make more by staying out
than by coming in. And all of Il sud
den, in a short eighteen months. the
whole verdict is reversed.
"There can be but one explanation
for it. They saw what we did hat
without making n single claim we put
all our men and all our means at the
disposal of those who were lighting
for their homes, in the first instance.
but for cause. the cause Of human
right and Justice, and we went in.
not TO support their national claims.
but to support the great cause which
they held in common.
Europe Converted to American Ideals
"And when they saw that America
not only held ideals, but acted ideals.
they were converted 10 America ard
became firm partisans of these ideals.
II met a group of scholars whep |
was in Paris Some gentlemen from
one of the Greek universities. who
had come TO see me and in whose
presence. or rather in the presence of
whose traditions of learning. I felt
very young indeed. 7 told them that
I had had one of the delightful re-
vengeS that sometimes comes To
man. All my life I have heard men
speak with sort of cOndescenS; on
of idealists. and particularly of those
separated, Pncloistered persons whom
they choose to term academic, who
were in the habit of uttering ideals
in the free atmosphere when they
clash with nobody in particular.
Crusaders in Khaki INDICATED Hin.
"And I have said / have had this
sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect
frankness, in the name of the United
States, I have uttered as the objects
of this great war ideals and nothing
but ideals, and the war has been won
by that inspiration.
Men were fighting with tense
muscle and lowered head until they
came to realize those things, feeling
they were fighting for their lives and
their country. and when these accents
of what it was all about reached them
from America they lifted their heads:
they raised their eyes to heaven:
then they saw men in khaki coming
across the sea in the spirit of cru
saders, and they found that these
were strange men. reckless of danger
not only. but reckless because they
seemed to see something that made
this danger worth while.
Yanks Had Religious Fervor.
"Men have testified to me in Europe
that our men were possessed by some
thing that they could only call q re-
ligous fervor They were not like
any of the soldiers They had a Wis
ion: they had a dream, and they were
fighting in the dream, and fighting in
he dream they turned the whole tide
of battle and it never came back
Zone of our American humorists,
meeting the criticism that American
soldiers were not trained long enough,
said: 1t takes only half as long to
train an American soldier as any
other, because you only have to train
him TO go one wayr And he did only
20 enc way, and he never came back
until he could do it when he pleased
"-And now. do you realize that this
confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes bur-
den apon 4s H H H
( a burden? 1t is one of those burdens
which any nation ought to be proud to
carry.