The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-18
TIE WoRTD FEDERAT4ON.

America IS the greatest nation in the world it rep
resents forty EIGHT republics whose laws Of govern
ment are based upon the principles of liberty. But
America cannot live to herself alone. America found
that out when she entered the
The American public is too apt to look upon
America as the savior of the woodland so it was.
through the grace of God. But it could not have
saved the world had it not been for the strong arm
Of the Almighty. which gave to us the victory in
spite of ourselves.
America saved the world, but Great Britain saved
the channel ports of England Let US never forget
that fact If those ports had been taken. civilization
would have been lost and the Hun would have ruled
the earth.
America saved the world, but not until the very
stones Of France cried the message that brave
Iand.-They Shall Not Pass; not until there was
mourning in every home in that country of high
courage and brave deedsE America saved the world.
but not until the Alps had been dyed red with the
blood of italian heroes.
Let not be too vain-glorious Through the
grace of Cod we saved the world to freedom but the
tieot we owe TO England and to France and to Italy
is tremendous. They fought and bled before we en-
tered the war. That unprepared to enter
any sooner does not alter that fact.
The allies will owe us no more than we owe
them, when the reckoning is made. And we cannot
sit apart in self-righteousness, and hug to
souls our great egotism.
There is no man woman in the United States
today who is not proud of the record of the Ameri
can soldier; there is no woman in the United
States who is not proud of the United States army
and nayy-we are not counting that puny band Of
Investigators in the United States senate-there is
no man or woman in the United States worthy of the
name that does not realize the great debt the world
owes the American soldier, the debt that this
ton owes to him.
But the American soldier himself is the first to
pay his tribute to the soldiers of the allies who
fought through those hard first years of the war
The who was at the front takes off his hat to
the British Tommy and the French Poilou.
But the American soldier and the American diplo-
mat and the American business have all como
to realize that they longer live in a little
chared circle; the Federation the World taken
US in, whether wanted it to or not We may not
belong to the League of Nations; in blindness.
we have refused to sign the peace treaty; but
cannot refuse to be in the Federation of the
World,-it has taken US in. and no longer
isolated country living a narrow. provincial life
We are not a province. We nation. We
the greatest nation on earth. How then can we
hope to shut ourselves off from other nations of the
earth? Washington warned us to avoid "entangling
alliance. and so, because of that advice of the
enemies of progress and humane government would
have US shut ourselves in the confines of our own
country and refuse to have anything to do with the
rest OF the world.
forgotten the story Of Lots wife. This is not time
FOR looking backward at musty precedents of the
past it is time to go forward to be a part Of the
councils of the nations OF the earth
How can we refuse to be part of world counsel,
when have given our for the salvation Of that
world2 Are we so isolated? When we put our mil
lions OF and arms across the sea, we built
bridge that all the hot shot of the United States
Senate can never break down
We are a part of the world we are entangled
with the world. whether we will or no; a nation
which represents forty-eight republics can never
hope to isolate itself the rest of the world
we part Of it. and the biggest and most i'm
portant part of it. and the sooner we take our right
ful place with the other world rulers, and have
part in their counses the better for and for hui
manity.