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Show I THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH men were worthy of them such men as hardly need to be commanded, and Co to their terrible adventure blithely thoM nho know Just what It bt they would accomplish. I am proud to he ir CWsrw oounlryimc men nf aiirn tuff and valor. Those of us who stayed at horn did our duty; the war run Id not have teen won or the gallant men who fought It given their opportunity oppor-tunity to win It otherwise; but .for many a lone day we shall think ourselves our-selves "accura'd we were not there, and hold our manhoods cheap white any sneak that fought" with those at St. Mlhlel or Thierry. The memory of those clsvs of triumphant battle will so with these fortunate men to their graves, and each will have his favorite memory. "Old men forget; yet all shall Im forgot, but he'll remember; with advantages what feats he did j that day." isle Knalish transport which was aunk nvar the Orkney islands. I UNITED NATION. I 1 need not tell you what lay bark of this great movement of men and turn lei .1 iv.t fcnvlwloua. tsv-ata I that buck of It lay a siiport)ng or-1 or-1 au nidation fif the Industries of the country and nil Ms productive activities, activi-ties, tr.ore romplete. more thorough In mm hod and effective In results, more spirited snd unanimous in purpose and effort, thHn any other great belllger-I belllger-I ent had ever been able to effect. We profited greatly by the experience of the nations which hud already been engaged for nearly three years in the exiKent and exact tng business, their every resource and every executive proficiency pro-ficiency tuxed to the utmost. Wi were the pupils. Hut we lesrtied quickly, and acted with a promptness and a ten dine f rnoneratlon that lust If V WASHINGTON. Iec. 2. Th president suid: tiynllrman of tlia 1'nngrrsa. The year that has elapaed I since t lest stood before you to fulfill ' thy constitution! fluy to K'v te congress from time to time information on the state of the Tnlon has been crowded with great events, grenl processes and great result thMt I cannot can-not hope to give you an adeouate picture pic-ture of Its transactions or of the far reaching changes which hae been wrought in the life of our nation and of the world. You have yourselves I witnessed these things, as I have. It is too soon to assess them;, snd we I who stand In the mldnt of them and I are part of "them are less qualified than men of another generation will he I to say what they mean or even what they have been. But some great outstanding out-standing facts are unmistakable and 1 constitute in a sense part of the public pub-lic business with which It is our duty 1 to deal. To state them is to. set the i stance for the legislative and eicnittve lection which must grow out of them I fand which we have et to shupe and' I determine. J REVIEWS TROOP SHIPMENT. ! I A year ago we had sent 145.918 men j overseas, til nee then we have sent 1.- j 1 it). 5 1 3, an aerai;e of 12,U4'2 each ? month, the numlwr, in fact, rising in I May UM to Jij.'J.l, In June to L'7s.76t. in July to 37.tt-, and continuing to , reach similar figures In August and ! September - in August 2n9.f7U and In j Heptemter 257.43. No such movement of troops ever tfok place before, acros.s I SOfMi miles of sea. followed by adequate ! equipment and supplies, and carried ! safely through extraordinary dangers ' of sitack -dangers which were alike j strange and infinitely difficult to 1 guard againM. In all this movement j only 7.M men were lost by enemy at-j t.tckn. 630 of whom were upon a sin- ! OUR MEN TURNED TIDE. What we all thank Uod for with deepest gratitude Is that our men went In force nto the hne of battle Just at the critical moment when the whole fate of the world seemed to hang In the balance and threw their fresh strength into the ranks of freedom In time to turn the whole tide and sweep of the fateful struggle turn It once for all. so that thenceforth It was back, bark, back for their enemies, always back, never again forward. After that it was only a scant four months before the commanders of the central empires knew themselves best-en, best-en, and now their very empires are in liquidation. NOBILITY OF PURPOSE. And throughout It all how fine the spirit of the nation was! What unity of purpose, what untiring seal, what elevation of purpose ran through all Its splendid display of strength. Its untiring accomplishment! I have said that those of us who stayed at home to do the work of orgs nixa Ion and supply wilt always wish that we had been with the men whom we sustained bv itr Inbor. but we ran never be M'ontinued on pave t t o.ir great pride that we were able to serve the world with unparalleled energy en-ergy and quick accomplishments. PRAISE FOR HEROES. Hut It Is not the physical scale and executive efficiency of preparation, supply, equipment and dispatch that I would dwell upon, but the piettle and quality of the officers and men we sent over and of the sailors who kept the seas and the spirit of the. nation that stood behind them. No soldiers or sailors ever proved themselves more quickly rettdy for the test of battle or acquitted themselves with more splendid splen-did courace and achievement when put lo the test. Those of us who plaved some part In directing the great processes by which the war was j pushed irresistibly forward to the final I triumph may now forget all that and delight our thoughts with the story of what our men did. Their officers understood un-derstood the gi im and exacting task t hey had undertaken and performed with audacity, eff -ciency snd unhesitating unhesi-tating courage I hat touch the story of com oy and ball Is w ;th Imperiahable distinction at evety turn, whether the enierpriKe mere great or small from their rhlcfs. - Pershing ami Hlms. down to the youngest licotensnt; snd their WILSON SEES DUTY IN EUROPEAN JOURNEY President - Give Congre j His Views on Many Subjects f Continued from page 1.) ( part In making good what they (America's soldiers) offered their life's blood to obtain. j RECONSTRUCTION. No definite program of reconstruction reconstruc-tion can be outlined now, Mr. Wilson . said. He expressed the hope that congress would not object to conferring con-ferring upon the wsr trsde board or some other agency the right of fixing j export priorities to assure shipment : or rood to starving people a d roan. ) FUTURE TAXATION. ! As to taxation, the president In-j In-j dorsed the plan for levying six 'billion 'dollars In 1 1 9 and for notifying the public In advance that the 1920 levy I will be $4,000,000,000. ! The president concluded after speak -1 Ins; forty-two minutes and left the , chamber amidst applaue limited to the Democratic side. Interruptions of ' the address for questions, which had Lnn Ihsealewsil by some He puhl n s n ' ' memtera of the house, did not ma-J ma-J terialhse. |