Show NO LIMIT L SET ON EFFORT OF AMERICANS sills SAYS WILSON IN III PLEA FOP FOB BEO boss As many soldiers will go overseas as ships can be round found to tarry carry them in opening Open IndRed red cross drive in speech spee h at new york president wilson declares that german peace terms are insincere new york branding all german peace proposals as insincere president wilson in an address here saturday night i opening the red bed cross drive call called ed upon america to make war to tile the utmost limit of her resources and manpower and declared that no limit would be placed upon the number of men to be sent overseas the presidents speech in full follows air chairman and fellow countrymen 1 I should be very sorry to think that mr davison in any degree curtailed his exceedingly interesting speech for fear that he was postponing mine because I 1 am sure you listened with the same intimate interest with which I 1 listened to the extraordinarily tra vivid account he gave of the things which he had bad realized because he be had come in contact with them on the other side of the water LISTS 1 wo duties we compass them with our imagination he compassed them in his personal experience and I 1 am not here tonight to review for you the work of tile the red cross I 1 nm am not competent to do so because I 1 have not had the time or the opportunity to follow in its fits detail I 1 have come here simply to vay say a few words to you as to what it all ill seems to me to mean and it means a great deal 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 via it greatly and worthily showing tile the real quality of our power not only but the real quality of our our purpose and ourselves of course the first duty tile duty that we must keep in the foreground of out our thought until atas it Is accomplished Is to win the ivar war I 1 have leaie heard gentlemen recently say that we must get men ripen ready why limit it to puts no limit 1 I have asked the congress of united states to name no limit because the congress intends I 1 am sure as we all intend that every ship that carf can carry men or supplies shall go laden upon every boyage with every man and every avery supply she can carry and we are not to be diverted from the grim purpose of winning the war by any insincere approaches upon the subject of peace I 1 can say with a clear conscience that I 1 have tested those intimations and have found them insincere I 1 now recognize them for what they are an an opportunity to have a free hand particularly in the east to carry out the purposes of conquest and exploitation stand by russia every proposal with regard to accommodation in the west indol involves V es a reservation with regard to the east now so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 intend to stand by russia as well as france the helpless and friendless are the very ones that need friends and succor and it if tiny any man in germany thinks we are going to sacrifice anybody for our own sake I 1 tell them now they are mistaken for the glory of this war my fellow citizens so far as we are concerned is that it Is perhaps for the first time in history an unselfish war I 1 could not be proud to fight for a selfish purpose but I 1 can be proud to fight for mankind if they wish peace peace let them come forward through accredited representatives and lay their terms on the table we ve have laid ours and they know what they are but behind all this grim purpose my friends lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force which will be demonstrated to the utmost but the opportunity to demonstrate character and its the opportunity that we we have most completely in the work of tile the red cross not that mat our men do not represent our character for they do and it Is a character which those who seb see and realize appreciate and admire but their duty is the duty of force the duty of the red cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship world to be better have you formed a picture in your imagination of what this war Is doing for us and for the world in my own mind hillid I 1 nm am convinced that not nota a hundred years of peace dould could have knitted this nation together as this single year of war has knitted it togeal I 1 er and better even than that if possible it Is knitting the world together look aioo at the picture in the center of the scene four nations engaged against the world and at every point of vantage showing that they are seeking selfish aggrandizement and il against them twenty three governments representing the greater part of the population of the world drawn together into a new sense of community interest a new sense of community purpose the secretary of war told me an Interest interesting inZ incident the oth other erday day ile he said when he was in italy a member r of the italian government was waa explaining to him the many reasons why italy felt near to the united states ho he said if you want to try an interesting experiment go up to any one of these troop trains and ask in english how low many of efthem them have been in america and see what happens lie he tried the experiment he w went bip to a troop train and said how many of you boys have been ln America and he said it seemed to him as it if half of them sprang up me from san francisco me from new york all over love america there was part of the heart of america in the italian army people that had been knitted to ui us byr by association cia tion who knew us who had lived amongst us who had worked shoulder to shoulder with us and now friends were fighting for their native italy friendship Is the only cement that will ever hold the world together and this intimate contact bathe of the great red ked cross with the peoples who are suffering the terrors and deprivations of this war Is going to be one of the greatest instrumentalities of friendship p that tile the world ever knew and the center of the heart of it all it if we sustain it will be land that we so dearly love my aly friends a great day of duty has haa come and duty finds a mans soul as no ho kind of work can ever eyer find it raps profiteers may alay I 1 say this the duty that faces usall us all now Is to serve donean one another and no man can afford to make a fortune out orthis of this war there are men amongst us who have forgotten that if they ever saw it some of you are old enough I 1 am old enough to remember men who made fortunes out of the civil war and you know how they were regarded by their fellow fellon citizens that was a war to save one country this pits Is a war to save the world and your relation to the red ked cross Is 15 one of the je relations lations which will relieve you of the stigma you cant give anything to the government of the united states it wont accept it there Is a law of congress against accepting even services without pay the only thing that the government will accept Is a loan and duties performed but it Is a great deal betters better to give than to lend or pay and your great channel for giving Is the american red cross cros downan down in houi your hearts you cant caff take very much satisfaction in the last analysis in lending money to the government of the united states because the Interest which you draw will burn your pockets it Is a commercial transaction and some men have even dared to cavil at the rate of interest not knowing the alie incidental commentary that that constitutes upon their attitude giving diving a pleasure but 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 of gratitude as the lively expectation pec tation of favors to come well vell 1 there Is no expectation of favors I 1 i to 0 come in this kind of giving these things are bestowed in order that the world may be a fitter place to live in that men may be succored that homes may be restored that suffering may be relieved that the face of the earth may have the blight of destruction taken away from it and that wherever force goes gaev there shall go mercy and helpfulness until it hurts and when you give give absolutely all that you can spare and dont consider yourself liberal in the giving if you give with self adult adul atlon tation you are not giving at all you are giving to your own vanity vicinity but if you give until it hurts then your heart blood goes into it and think what we have here we call it the american red cross but it Is merely EL a branch of a great international organization which Is not only recognized by the statutes of each of he civilized governments of the world but it Is recognized and accepted instrumentality of m mercy lercy and succor and one of the deepest stains that rests upon the reputation of the german army Is that they have not respected the red cross that goes goes to the 06 root of the matter they have not respected the instrumentality they themselves participated in setting up as the thing which no man was to touch because it was the expression of c common humanity we are members by being members of the american red bed cross of I 1 a great frat fraternity erdity and comradeship rade ship which extends all over ever the world and this cross which these ladies bore to today dayIs is an emblem of christianity itself workers praised it fills my imagination ladies and gentlemen to think of the women all over tills this country who are busy tonight and are busy every night and every day doing the work of the red cross busy with a great eagerness to bifia find out the most serviceable thing to do busy busi with a forgetfulness of i all them the old frivol ats s of fida social relationships ready to curtail the duties of tho the household in order that the they v may keep to this common work that all their hearts aro are engaged in and la ladling doing which their hearts become or acquainted with each other when n you t think hink of 61 this joa you realize I 1 how the people of the united states are afe being drawn together into it a great ully family whose heart Is being used for r the service of the soldiers not n at only baly but for the 1116 service of civilians civilian where they suffer stiffer and ime are lost in ti maze of distresses and distractions anayo and you ll 11 have then tills this noble picture of ot justice and mercy as tile the two servants of liberty for only where men are free do they think the tha thoughts of comradeship only where they alq free do they think the thoughts t boug ta of sympathy only where they are free are they mutually helpful only ohly where they are free do they realize their dependence i upon one another and their comrade comradeship shill in il a common interest and common necessity tells story 1 I heard a story told fold the other day that was 1 ridiculous but it Is worth repeating because jt contains the germ of truth A an indian was enlisted in the army he cretu returned arved to the reservation on a furlough BJ ba was asked what lie he thought of it 14 ile he said no much good too much in ch not much shoot then lie he was asked are you going back yes well do you know what you are fighting for yes me know to to make whole damn world democratic party s hohag he had evidently uis understood some innocent sentence of my own but after all although there Is no party purpose la in 14 it he got it right as ag far as aa the word party to make the whole world democratic la in the sense of community of interest and of interest of purpose a and n d if you ladles ladies and gentlemen could coul read some of the touching idis dispatches patches which come through official channels for even through those 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 ovier over the world to shear bear i 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 ti the le brains and power they have to this great enterprise of liberty I 1 summon stidmon you t othe I 1 summon you in th Js next week to say how nuch much und and how sincerely and how unanimously you sustain the heart of the world |