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Show NO LIMIT SET ON U. S. ARMY, SAYS THE PRESIDENT Wilson Opens Red Cross Campaign Cam-paign With Speech at New York. OVER 5,000,000 MEN WILL GO TO FRONT, IF NECESSARY Declares America Will Not Be Diverted Divert-ed From Its Purpose of Winning the War by Insincere Approaches on the Subject of Peace Urges All to Contribute Con-tribute Generously Towards $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 Red Cross Fund Condemns Those Who Attempt to Make Profit Out of the War. New York, May 20. President Wilson, Wil-son, opening the $100,000,000 lied Cross drive at a rally in the Metropolitan Metropol-itan opera house Saturday night, declared de-clared for an unlimited army, greater than a.OtiO.OOO, if necessary. In the afternoon lie marched in a parade of 7."). 000 Red Cross workers, and as he walked down Fifth avenue he received the greatest reception ever accorded a president of the United States. At Hie opera house he was repeatedly cheered. "I have heard gentlemen recently say," saiil he, "lhat we must get 5,-000.000 5,-000.000 men ready. Why limit it to f, 000,000? I have asked congress to name no limit, because congress intends, in-tends, I am sure, as we ill intend, that every ship that can carry men or supplies sup-plies shall go laden upon every voyage voy-age with every man and every supply she can carry." The United States, the president declared, de-clared, will not be diverted from its purpose of winning the war by insincere insin-cere approaches on the subject of peace. Dwelling on the duty of Americans to give to the lied Cross, the president declared no man could afford to make money out of the war. The audience was composed of distinguished dis-tinguished men and women, most of whom have been leaders in the work of the Red Cross. Text of President's Speech. The president's speech in full follows fol-lows : "Mr. Chairman and Fellow Countrymen Country-men I should be very sorry to think that Mr. Davison in any degree curtailed cur-tailed his exceedingly interesting speech for fear that he was postponing postpon-ing mine, because I am sure you listened with the same intense and intimate in-timate interest with which I listened to the extraordinarily vivid account he gave of the things which he had realized because he had come in contact con-tact with them on the other side of the waters. "We compass them with our imagination; imagin-ation; he compassed them in Iris personal per-sonal experience. And I am not come here tonight to review for you the work of the Red Cross. "I am not competent to do so because be-cause I have not had the time or the opportunity to follow it in detail. "I have come here simply to say a few words to you as to what it all seems to me to mean, and it means a great deal. Won't Limit Army to 5,000,000. "There are two duties with which we are face to face. The first duty Is to win the war. And the second duty, that goes hand-in-hand with it, is to win it greatly and worthily, showing the real quality of our power pow-er not only but the real quality of our purpose and of ourselves. . "Of course, the first duty, the duty that we must keep in the foreground of our thought until it is accomplished, Is to win the war. "I have heard gentlemen recently say that we must get 5,000,000 men ready. Why limit it to 5,000,000? "I have asked the congress of the United States to name no limit bo-cause bo-cause the congress intends, I am sure, as we all intend, that every ship lhat can carry men or supplies shall go laden upon every voyage with every man and every supply she can carry. Peace Offers Insincere. "And -we are not to be diverted from (he grim purpose of. winning the war by any insincere approaches upon the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested those intimations and have found them insincere. "I now recogniza them for what they are an opportunity to have a free hand, particularly in the Fast, to carry out purposes of conquest and exploitation. "Every proposal with regard to accommodation ac-commodation in the West involves a reservation with regard to the Fast. Now, so far as I am concerned, I intend in-tend to stand by Russia as well as Frace." A voice from the audience interrupted inter-rupted with: "God bless you." "The helpless and the friendless are the very ones (hat need friends and succor, and if any man in Germany thinks we are going to sacrifice nny-body nny-body for our sake, I tell him now they are mistaken. "For the glory of this war, my fellow fel-low citizens, Insofar as we are concerned, con-cerned, is that it is, perhaps for the lirst time In history, an unselfish war. "I could not be proud to light for a selfish purpose, but I can bo proud to light for mankind. "If they wish peace let them come forward through accredited representatives represent-atives iuid lay their terms on the, table. We have laid ours, and they know what they are. "I'.ut behind all this grim purpose, m.v friends, lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force, which will be demonstrated to the utmost, hut the opportunity to demonstrate character, and it is that opportunity that we have most conspicuously in the work of -the lied Cross. "Not that our men in arms do not represent our character, for they do, and It is a character which those who see and realize appreciate and admire; hut their duty is the duty of force. The duty of the Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship. War Uniting the World. "Have you formed a picture in your Imagination of what this war is doing for us and for the. world? "In my own mind I am convinced tiiat not a hundred years of peace could have knitted this nation together togeth-er us this single year of war has knitted knit-ted it together; and better even than that, if possible, It is knitting the world together. "Look at the picture. In the center of the scene, four nations engaged against the world, and nt-every- point of vantage, showing that they are seeking seek-ing sellish aggrandizement; and, against them, twenty-three governments govern-ments representing the greater part of the population of the world, drawn together to-gether into a new sense of community of interest, a new sense of community of purpose, a new sense of unity of life. "The secretary of war told me an interesting Incident the other day. He said when he was in Italy a member of the Italian government was explaining explain-ing to him the many reasons why Italy felt near to the United States. Heart of U. S. in Italy. " 'If you want to try an Interesting experiment go up to any one of these troop trains and ask in English how many of them have been in Amtrica. and see what happens.' 'Tie tried the experiment. He went up to a troop train and he said: 'How many of you boys have been In America?' Amer-ica?' and he said It seemed to him as if half of them sprang up: 'Me from San Francisco; me from New York: till over.' "There was part of the heart of America In the Italian army. People that had been knitted to us by association, associ-ation, who knew us, who had lived amongst us, who had worked shoulder to shoulder with us, and now friends of America, were fighting for their native na-tive Italy. Assails War Profiteers. "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. And this Intimate contact of the Red Cross with the people who are suffering the terrors and deprivations of this war is going to be one of the greatest Instrumentalities Instru-mentalities of friendship that the world ever knew, and the center of the heart of it all. if we sustain it properly, proper-ly, will be this land that we so dearly love. "M.v friends, a great day of duty has come, and duty finds a man's soul as no kind of work can ever find It. "May I say this? The duty that faces us all now is to serve one another, and no man can afford to make a fortune out of this war. "There are men amongst us who have forgotten that, if they ever saw it. Some of you are old enough I am old .enough to remember men who made fortunes out of the Civil war, and you know how they were regarded regard-ed by their fellow citizens. That was a war to save one country this is a war to save the world." Better to Give Than Lend. "And your relation to the Red Cross is one of the relations which will relieve re-lieve you of the stigma. You can't give anything to the government of the United States; it won't accept it. There is a law of congress against accepting ac-cepting even services without pay. "The only thing that the government will accept is a loan, and duties performed; per-formed; but it is a great deal better to give than to lend or to pay and your great channel for giving is the American Ameri-can Red Cross. "Down in your hearts you can't take very much satisfaction, in the last analysis, in lending money to the government gov-ernment of the United States, because the interest which you draw will burn your pockets; it is a commercial transaction, trans-action, and some men have even dared to cavil at the rale of interest, not knowing the incidental commentary that constitutes upon their atlit-ude. "I'.ut when you give, something of your heart, something of your soul, something of yourself goes with the gift, particularly when it is given in such form that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to yourself. You know there Is the old cynical definition defi-nition of gratitude, as 'the lively expectation ex-pectation of favors to come.' Make World Fitter Place to Live. "Well, there is no expectation of favors fa-vors to come in this kind of giving. These things are bestowed in order der that the world may lie a fitter place to live in ; that men may be succored suc-cored ; that homes may be restored; (hat . suffering may be relieved; that: the face of die earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it, and that wherever force goes there shall go mercy and helpfulness. "And when you give, give absolutely all that you can spare, and don't consider con-sider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self-adulation, you are not giving at all, you are giving to your own vanity; but if you give until it hurts, then your heart blood goes inlo it. "And think what we have here. We call It the American Red Cross, but it is merely a branch of a great international interna-tional organization, which is not only recognized by the statutes of each of the civilized governments of the world, but it is recognized by International agreement and treaty as the reconized and accepted instrument of mercy and succor. "And one of the deepest stains that rests upon the reputation of the German Ger-man army is that they have not respected res-pected the lied Cross. Cross Emblem of Christianity. "That goes to the root of the matter. They have not respected the instrumentality instru-mentality they tlumselves participated in setting up as the thing which no man was to touch, because It was the expression of common humanity. "We are members, by being members of the American Red Cross, of a great fraternity and comradeship which extends ex-tends all over the world, and this cross which these ladies bore today Is an emblem of Christianity itself. "It fills my imagination, ladies and gentlemen, to think of the women all over this country who are busy tonight to-night and are busy every night and every day doing the work of the Red Cross; busy with a great eagerness to find out the most serviceable thing to do ; busy with a forgetfulness of all the old frivolities of their social rela tionships, ready to curtail the duties of the household in order that they may contribute to this common work that all their hearts are engaged in, and In doing which their hearts become be-come acquainted with each other. Drawn Into Great Family. "When you think of this you realize real-ize how the people of the United States are being drawn together into a great intimate family, whose heart is being used for the service of the soldiers not only, but the service of civilians where they suffer and are lost in a maze of distress and distractions. "And you have, then, this noble picture pic-ture of justice and mercy as the two servants of liberty. For only where men are free do they think the thoughts of comandership ; only where they are free do they think the thoughts of sympathy ; only where they are free are they mutually helpful; only where they are free do they realize their dependence upon one another, and their comradeship in a common interest and common necessity. neces-sity. "I heard a story told the other day that was ridiculous, but it is worth repeating re-peating because it contains the germ of truth. An Indian was enlisted in the army. He returned to the reservation on a furlough. He was asked what he thought of it. He said : 'No much good; too much salute; not much shoot.' Then he was asked : 'Are you going back?' 'Yes' " 'AVell, do you know what you are fighting for?' 'YTes, me know; fight to make whole damn world Democratic party.' "He had evidently misunderstood some innocent sentence of my own. "But, after all, although there is no party purpose in it, he got it right as far as the word 'party ;' to make the whole word democratic in the sense of community of interest and of purpose, and if you ladies and gentlemen could read some of the touching dispatches which come through official channels, for even through official channels there come voices of humanity that are Infinitely pathetic; if you could catch some of those voices that speak the utter longing of oppressed and helpless peoples all over the world to heaf something like the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' to hear the feet of the great hosts of liberty, going to set them free, to set their minds free, set their, lives free, set their children free, you would know what comes into the heart of those who are trying to contribute all the brains and power they have to this great enterprise of liberty. "I summon you to the comradeship. I summon you to say how much and how sincerely and how unanimously you sustain the heart of the world." President Leads Parade. The president marched . on foot through Fifth avenue earlier in the day at the head of 75,000 soldiers of mercy. Then, standing in the reviewing stand, ho gravely saluted the colors as the women of the lied Cross filed past. |