The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-12-05
WORLD MUST BE FREE
or WAR'S RAV4CES
Declared Judge Thomas P. Riley Of
Maiden, Mass, at Elks' Memo
rial Service in Barre.

Every nation in the world mus
play its part toward the realization o.
world peace and Americas share is ths
largest said Judge Thomas r. Riley
Of Maiden. Mass, at the Magnet thea
| TIRE yesterday afternoon, at the Memo
rial services Of Montpelier lodge o.
Elks, in the course Of one OF the most
stirring addresses ever heard in Barre
or vicinity. The Judge was the speaker
Of the day and for one whole hour held
spell bound the 700 Elks and their rel.
atiyes and friends who were present.
Americanism and the crying need for
eternal, universal, unbrcakable peace
eleyeriv interviewer, was the theme Of
the address, Judge Rilay's reputation
as speaker was already we'll known
in this section but even the most san
guine admitted that yesterdays speech
was rare treat Of oratory and COM
nonsense.
The address was opened by the Judge
with an explanation of his reasons for
choosing his subject. He felt, he said,
that the speaker of the day at Elks'
memorial services had the privilege Of
speaking on one Of two general sub
iects, the significance Of TIE day, eulog
izing the departed brothers, or TO point
out some great lesson Of the day. He
chose the latter, he said, and he be-
lieved the greatest lesson Of the day
was the search for a means of xper,na
nently ending war and the establish
ment of the peoples of the world in
one great brotherhood. OF this goal, he
said Americanism is typical
Commencing with the struggles Of
the earliest colonists the judge brought
his listeners down through every crisis
in the history OF the Unised States
pointing out how plainly each showed
that Americanism is the inevitable So
luton Of the mightiest problem that
ever faced mankind, peace forever. The
bitter struggles OF the Huguenots in
the Calvinists in Maryland,
the Quakers in Pennsylvania, the
Knickerbockers in New York and the
Puritans in Massachusetts,. with the
elements and the native American saw
age were pictured. The indomitable
spirit of Americanism which brought |
on and won the revolution, despite the
terrible handicaps and obstacles which |
confronted the colonists, he pointed |
out. The fight of the new republic for
continued conflict with Mexico in ls46, |
he internal struggle in the sixties to
preserve our national integrity, the
slashing stroke by America at rule by |
tyranny in 1898 and last of all the |
'limax, America shattering the recent /
attempt at world power,
we're painted indelibly upon the minds
II the bearers in vivid word pictures
But it was in his description of the
advent into the speedy conclusion of
he World war BY the United States
hat the judge was at his best. He told /
brilliantly of 1917; the British leaders
their troops to make one
more heroic stand, Italy completely de.
noralized and fleeing from the invader.
nd France. the beautiful and super
Iuman, bleeding and gasping, making
dying fight on bended knee, and the
all that came across the sea to Amer
ca. The unanimous response and event
ally the first action of American SOL
iers at Cantigny he told of. and from
here he traced the march Of America
0 the supreme event Of the war, the
Irgonne. where America taught the
iorld that the Hun was beatable. !
hen. how the Americans refused TO ,
apitulate to the Huns cry Of Kane
"A" and responded by sending him !
ceiling and staggering back into his !
wn land
In telling Of the war the Judge told !,
athetieally Of the prcdicament the !
cteran now finds himself The glory 4
nd iaurcls are now gone. he said. and {
any Of the men who lifted from the
ord the grinding heel Of Prussianisin
Re selling pencils on the street. beg
ing money and fruitlcssly searching =