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Show EX-PRESIDENT TAFT FOR UliTO FINISH Declares We Must Be There at the End, No Matter How Long It Takes. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Nov. IS. "The Russian and Italian situation Is fraught with serious seri-ous danger. No one can prophesy now how long the war will last. The only thing we can do is to make up our minds no matter how long the war continues, that we will be there at the end." This is what ex-President Taft said this afternoon at the rally to raiSe funds Mr Y. M. C. A. work among the soldiers. More than $1 5,000 was subscribed at the meeting at the Belasco theater, where he spoke. In all, Washington has raised ?12u,000 of a total quota of $150,000. Cheers and fervent applause met the genial ex-president all through his speech, and particularly when he said, with deep feeling: "We are neither Republicans nor Democrats Demo-crats now. We are Americans and we are firmly behind the president." He continued: "By his desire to. avoid conflict and his great patience. Mr. Wilson pyoved conclusively con-clusively that he was forced into war because be-cause honor and duty required it. There whs nothinc else for us to do. The sug gestion that we should not have gone to war ignores our honor, our prestige, our usefulness and the spirit shown in the re vol ut ionary and in the civil war." Punctured by the infectious Taft ' huckle, the former occupant of the White house termed the recalled Count von Bernstorff "tha t dist ingnlshed entirely ethical statesman." He compared Von Bernstorffs T.usitanla warning to a notk sent by one man to another that he would be shot on sight. "Senator La. Follette said we went to war upon a technicality,'' said Mr. Taft. "Senator La Follette well, it does no good to call names. That does not help ; the argument." I |