Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-04-14
STUARI'SSPEECH
NOTEOF VICTORY
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millions of Mon

After we entered the war, m nm
incredibly short time, in u space of
four months, we had assembled and
nad encamped four millions of men.
ready to fight the battles Of theii
country, and in an Incredibly
time two and n half millions OF them
had been carried across the sons.
across seas infested by submarines
which had hitherto been unconouer-
able, and these two and n hu,,
hons OF our boys were transported
without the loss of man by acct
dent, neither going or coming back.
How they distinguished themselves
on the battlefield you all know. /,
was the American that the German,
found to be after all hit superman.
INT man that he Ind vainly thought
nimself. What was the afterm,u,k OF
that glorious war? Under n vitupern-
ton of criticism and abuse. extrav-
agance. graft and everything east.
That we had charged against thai
administration, with all their decla-
nation against tho corruption OF that
administration and with investigat-
'ons rs thick as bees on every side.
'ot n single indictment was nude of
my appointcc of Woodrow Wilson:
lot n dollar was found sticking to
ne hands of a single one Of the men
NJ wilson had entrusted with the
ugh and noble and patriotic duties
when they performed. But since the
eiection or our present President
hey did indict one Republican. who
~ the way. was enjoying pardon
rom pcnitentiary sentence given
MIN by Republican President.
Completely Lost
The people were so completely lost
in the magnitude of everything about
them; they had become so nccus-
toned to everything; they enjoyed
everything to such n high degree,
and they were in such state OF OK
citemont that they felt NIL things
were possible. The master hand had
directed all those ends. They forgor
the patriotic man who fought for
them on the other side of the ocenn;
they forgot the men who stood at
the helm on his side; they forgot
The men who sacrificed all in ufde,
that we might be free. The fact is Il
treat many of them complained OF
the high price of silk stockings, men
who were working for wages coin
planned bitterly that silk stockings
and silk shirts were too high, TIM,
automobiles should cost less, and IL
great many OF them complained that
Che Injuries. absolute luxuries, should
be bought for less money in ordc.
that they might crafty wishes winch
under no other administration, pe
fore or since, they had ever dreamed
oil. Dissatisfaction, rcstlcssncss, hci-
vousness, Isrnaping for something else
and better, and in thu attempt they
forgot the substance in order ina,
they might jump at II shadow, and II
shadow is what they got.
When the fruits of this grcnt war
were about to be gathered. When
statesmen saw that out of all the
bloodshed there might he gathered
some fruit for the men of today and
of tomorrow and for the hereafter,
and that out of it NIL, in the days
when the people were chastencd by
aflliction and SORROW. when the mem
cries of the dread battlefield were
still in their minds, the memories of
lost ones still fingered with them,
and when every man. woman anu
child was in spirit of sacrifice. II
great thought was presented to the
wcrld. II was the treaty and Gov
cnant, known as the League of Ma
tons, the equivalent of II contract
.plc,lging the nations of the world
against future war. The whole world
was tired of war; they knew the
horrors Of it MS never before, and
every nation stood ready to contlnc,
on their honor that they would com
bine to prevent future wars. That
was the end for which our men
fought and died on the other side Of
tho ocean; and this great man,
standing on Il pinnacle which no 9th.
er American had stood upon III all
the days of our national existence,
The whole world looked to him ana
heard his words gladly. When he
stood rs the leader of thought ana
Influence, completely overshndowing
the statesmen of the world, our
mighty republic WINS looked upon as
the deciding factor in the dedication
of that great boon to the future of
mankind. But after he had crossed
the ocean. and while he labored
there around table, there was< nm
insidious influence Mt home, an fnnu-
cnce not founded upon patriotism.
but upon narrow, miserable, parts
ian feeling and prejudice in the
United States Senate, where con-
spiracy was Matched by Senator
odGc and his colleagues, not partic-
ularly against the peace but against
the peace of all mankind itself Ii
they could hereby dcthronc the then
recognized leader of the world; and
in cold -blooded, malicious, malig-
nent, malevolent and hcelish spirit
they destroyed tho hopes fthc
world for peace, II lasting peace
We we shut out of IL peace, out OF
n covenant which meant more to
this world than all things else; and
rs I think Of the men who arc re-
sponsible for that act-and partic-
ularly Of one. Senator Lodge-as |
think of the responsibility that rests
upon him for deliberately sacriic
ing the greatest boon that had ever
been offered to this world. feel tina,
he has been the author Of calamity
srcnnd only to that Of the Kaiser
in nlunein. the world into four years
of bloody war.