Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-05

would do more than send a few
men over and go through the forms
of helping. and when they saw null
titudes fastening across the sea, and
saw what those multitudes were
eager to do when they got to the
other side, they stood amazed and
said, The thing is real, this nation
is the friend of mankind as it said ii
was The enthusiasm, the hope, the
trust, the confidence in the future
bred BY that change of view is in
describable.
take an individual American and
you may often find him selfish, and
confined to his special interests, but
take the American in the mass and
he is willing to die for an idea. The
sweet revenge. therefore. is this, that
we believed in righteousness, and
ROW we are ready to make the SUI
preme sacrifice for it, the supreme
sacrifice of throwing in our fortunes
with the fortunes with men every
where.
"Mr. TAFT was speaking of Wash
ington's utterance about entangling
alliances and if he will permit me to
say so, he put the exactly right in
depreciation upon what Washington
said, the Interpretation that is, in
evitable if you read what he said, as
most of these gentlemen do not and
the thing that he longed for was
just what we are now about ready
to supply; an arrangement which
will disentangle all the alliances in
the world.
Alliances Abolished.
Nothing entangles, nothing en-
meshes a man except selfish COM
bination with somebody else.
Nothing entangles nation, ham
pers it, binds it, except to enter into
a combination with some other ma
ton against the other nations of the
world. And this great disentangle-
ment of all alliances is now to be
accomplished by this covenant, be-
cause one of the covenants is that
no nation shall enter into any rela-
tionship with another nation incon-
sistent with the covenants of the
league of nations.
Nations promise not to have ALI
ances. Nations promise not to
make combinations against each
other. Each agrees there shall be
but one combination and that is the
combination Of all against the
wrongdoer. And so / am going
back to my task on the other side
with renewed vigor. Il had not for
gotten what the spirit of the Ameri-
can people is, but l have been inn
mensely refreshed by coming in con-
tact with it again. l did not know
how good home felt until got
there.
"The only place a man can feel at
home is where nothing has to be
explained to him. Nothing has to
be explained to me in America, least
of all the sentiment of the Ameri-
can people.
81 mean about great fundamental
things like this. There are many
differences of judgment as to pol
icy-and perfectly legitimate, some
times, profound differences of judg-
ment, but those are not differences
of sentiment, those are not differ
ences of purposes, those are not
of ideals. And the adj
vantage of not having to have any
thing explained to you is that you
recognize strong explanation when
you hear it.
Unmoved by Criticism.
an a certain rather abandoned
part of the frontier at one time, it
was said, they found man who told
the truth; he was not found telling
it, but he could tell it when he heard
it, and l think / am in that situa-
ton with regard to some of the
criticisms l have heard. They do
not make any impression on me
because l know there is no medium
that will transmit them, that the