Show I 1 1 the hospitable gate j dy by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN 0 of the vigilantes 0 aw millions lons ente entered reI by that hospitable gate which Am abrica rIca left open to tile the strangers from nil lands hinds millions of the lie poor the friendless the war vic mellry nry to ji bjoin america offered prosperity friendship and ponce police they U came anie from the ends of thu the earth ser alatis greeks french russians ital lons inns armenians Armen ians poles a i hundred macs and more inore jostled over the threshold till we ae welcomed them nil all too readily some thought fearing for I 1 mir unguarded gates as olle olie poet called ailed them thein many had hot us its un an other poet accused clent falth faith la in tile the miscalled mi 1111 scum of the earth many of these became citizens and ill ili turn helped to lo order the of tile the great government which hind opened its door to them some remained a aliens but till nil profited by our laws fill and opportunities there cattle came warl the worst war ar which the world has ever known A nar mar of right against wrong and III presently es america mitsn was in it if but first hy by thousands our friends w went n back through kron gli the hospitable table gate Se serbians Serb ians blans greel greeks S itus russians F french re ita italian i how many more returned to the t he countries they lind had never renounced to fight for the fre freedom edoin of small nations against a tyrant foe who threatened lilt aliu very existence of liberty out of our hospitable 11 gate gale they went bent back to the lie ends nd of 6 the q earth carrying to tit alie fighting lands ili heneks he news of what american democracy means they bore li ving N witness of the american am idea to the struggling small nations in the martyred marty red small i nations they are spreading the gospel of american brotherhood find hope in the trenches benches of belgium th in the hideous german prisons where russian polish french italian english prisoners tire are huddled there is secret talk tn lk of what wadi america does for her friends of her strength power arid generosity I 1 it will not be forgotten echoes will ilal he be whispered when theli their poor lips are dumb serbian exiles talk it over in I 1 their night flight armenian refugees refugee live upon the he hope of it the man who once eb blacked eblacker boots in now new york gossips on secretly about it in the mountains of greece tile chicago ex walter waiter whispers it in dissatisfied hungary tb the philadelphia fruit merchant tells of it in the streets of roma the onetime one time rag picker of boston sighs for it in the disorderly streets of moscow they have known khonh they ell ann cnn tell 1 everywhere the news is spreading even in muzzled austria in germany itself sealed to the truth from outside there are aie scared whispered rumors for german gentians and Aust austrian rians went home too to fight eglit ft against their heir late neighbors to fight at last against Al america tile host ss who had welcomed eliem kandl kindly taht was tragic ut at it ii was as not dishonest the dis Ji Is lit in that eliat invisible army of sneaks tin and spies who remained in our midst undeclared to stab ed in the intimacy of a judas friendship ij yes even through germany seeps the nevis new s of democracy that went vent blick back through gli the gate once obee so lib hospitable i to all I 1 those devoted misguided soldiers soldier by the hundred thousand to prussian ambition echo it in their brokenhearted broken hearted diaries those quieted revolutionists wili watching ching the starved children and desperate wom romeu ea in the empty austrian market places will remember ite it the wounded hungarian will whisper it in the re red I 1 cross hospitals nay the haughty prussian officers will meet it lit at lust in the steely eyes of gur our young american heroes li eroes they will recognize it in their defeat for out of the hospitable gate has gone i nother vast horde a dedicated army a consecrated navy they are steaming to tho the very frontiers of autocracy to cracy tyranny and greed with the invincible sword of liberty they will enforce the principles which that hospitable gate has always symbolized as the entrance to a safe haven of democracy so this Is what our hospitable gate has meant both wade it Is an avenue vcr for the distribution of ho he american idea we did not realize that thai in the old days did we we need not have feared I 1 our free fre e hospitality was pa part rt of 0 the heaves heaven ordered plan |