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Show LET US BE MODEST. While- the American people have been exulting over the outcome of the war, and while the government at Washington Washing-ton and our soldiers in the field are justly entitled to 'the highest praise, there is some danger that we may go a little bit too far in the matter of making mak-ing claims regarding the part our army took in the decisive battles. From Chateau Cha-teau Thierry on to the end the Americans Ameri-cans did even more than was expected of them, and they are given the greatest possible amount of credit by their British Brit-ish and French commanders. But the allied troops were in the field in greater, numbers than the Americans, and, of course, they did most of the fighting. ' ' There is glory enough for all, ' ' as Rear Admiral Schley remarked after the battle of Santiago. So let us give the allied troops full measure of credit as we go along. The' were not backward back-ward in acclaiming our soldiors, and it is much more to the point for them to praise us than for us to take the greater share of the credit unto ourselves. Upon this point we agree with the Seat,.; tie Post-Intelligencer, which says: "We entered the war as idealists. Let us end it in the sameepirit, without for a moment mo-ment forgetting those million of French, British, Italian, Serbian, Belgian, Bel-gian, Rumanian and even Russian dead, whoso bodies dammed the Hun tide until un-til our boys went 'over there.' Let us be modest in our claims for glory; lot the allies tell what we have done. They, we may be sure, will not forget, nor will they be niggardly with their praise. ' ' |