Show NO HO LIMIT SET ON EFFORT 0 OF F A SAYS WILSON IN PLEA F RED L ass JUU As many soldiers will go overseas as ships can be found to carry them in opening red cross drive in speech at new york president wilson declares that german peace terms are insincere new york Bran branding dim all german peace proposals as insincere president wilson in an address here saturday night opening the red bed cross drive called upon america to make war to the utmost limit of her resources and manpower and declared that no limit would ile be placed upon the number of men to be sent overseas the presidents speech in full follows mr chairman and fellow countrymen me T r should be very sorry to think that mr davison in any degree curtailed his hig exceedingly interesting speech for fear that he was postponing mine because I 1 am sure you listened with the same intent and intimate interest with which I 1 listened to the extraordinarily tra vivid account he gave of the things which lie he had realized because he had come in contact with them on the other side of the water lists two duties we compass them with our imagination he compassed them in his personal experience and I 1 am not liere here tonight to review for you the work of the red bed cross I 1 am not competent to do so because I 1 have not had the time or the opportunity to follow in its detail I 1 have come here simply to say a few words to you as to what it all seems to meto 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 it greatly and worthily showing the real quality of our power not only but the real quality of our purpose and ourselves of course the first duty the duty that wo ive must keep in the foreground of our thought until it is accomplished is to win the N war ar I 1 have heard gentlemen recently say that we must get men re ready ad Y why limit it to puts no limit 1 I have asked the congress congre sg of the united states staten to name no limit because the congress intends I 1 am sure as we all intend that every ship that can carry men or supplies shall go laden upon every boyage with every man and every supply slie she can carry and ve e 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 tor for what they are an opportunity to have a free hand particularly in the east cast to carry out the purposes of conquest and exploitation stand by russia every proposal with regard to accommodation in the west involves a reservation with regard to the aas east L now kow so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 intend to stand by russia as well as france tile the helpless and friendless are tile the very ones that need friends and succor and if any man in germany thinks we are arc 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 all unselfish war I 1 could not be proud to light fight for a selfish purpose but I 1 can be proud to fight for mankind if they wish peace let them come forward through accredited representatives and lay their terms on the table we have laid ours and they know what they are but behind all this grim purpose roy my friends lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force which will bo be demonstrated to the utmost but the opportunity to demonstrate character and its the opportunity that we leavo most completely in the work of the red bed cross not that our men do not represent our character for they do and it is a character which those who see and realize re alise appreciate and admire but their duty Is the duty of 0 force the duty of tile the red bed 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 its and for the world in my own mind I 1 am convinced that not a hundred years of peace could have knitted this nation together as this single year of war has knitted it together and better even than that if possible it Is knitting the world together loot look at the picture in the center of f the 3 scene four nations engaged against the world and at every point of vantage showing that they are seeking selfish aggrandizement and 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 bartold told mo MC on an the secretary of war bic incident t the other day inter interesting estling member emer italy a s said d when ile he wits was in at wP was a plain government me of the italian govern italy ilmi why ing to him the many rl reasons ar sons ile he felt near to tile the united states interesting if want to try an sald said you any ani ol 01 one I 1 a to experiment go up in 1 and ask t trains ains of these broo troop p in have been glish how ma many n y of them ile 0 ris america and see gee what he went up to tried the experiment ent of 0 train and said aid how 1101 many troop a and boys have been 1 in Ame america americal you of half ha it if lie he said it seemed to him as I 1 F ran 1 me from san them sprang up 1 york all OV cr cisco me from new love america tile the heart of there was part of america in the italian army people to us by association that had been knitted knew us who had bad lived who cia tion amongst us alio had worked shoulder to shoulder with us and now low friends of america we were re fight lighting log tor for their native italy friendship Is the only came cement nt that will ever hold the world together and this intimate contact of the great red lieu cross with tile peoples who are sut suf faring the terrors and deprivations ot of to be one of the this war is going greatest instrumentalities of friendship that the world ever knew and the center of the heart of it all if we sustain it will be land that we so dearly love my friends a great day of duty has come and duty finds a man mans soul out as no kind of work can ever find it raps profiteers may I 1 say this tile 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 Y au are old enough I 1 am old enough to remember men who made fortunes out of the civil war and jou you know how they were regarded by their fellow citizens that was a war tosane one country this is a war to save the world and alid your relation to the red cross Is 15 one of the relations 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 dutie performed but it is a great deal better to give than to lend or pay and your youg great channel for giving Is the american red cross down in n your hearts you cant 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 incidental commentary that that constitutes upon their attitude giving 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 lucli 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 there is no expectation of favors t to 0 come in tills this kind of giving these things are arc 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 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 adul tation you are not giving at all you are arc giving to your own vanity 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 a branch of a great international organization which is not only recognized by the statutes of each of the civilized governments of the world but it is recognized and accepted instrumentality of mercy and sile succor cor 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 to the root of the matter they have not respected the instrumentality they themselves participated in setting up as the thing thin which no man was to touch because it was the expression of common liu humanity manity we are members by being members of the american red cross of a great fraternity and comradeship rade ship which extends all over tile the world and this cross which these ladles ladies bore today Is an emblem of christianity itself workers praised it fills my imagination ladles ladies and gentlemen to think of the alie women all over this country who are busy tonight and are busy every night and every day doing the work of tile the red coobs busy with a great eagerness to 0 find out the most serviceable thing S to do 10 busy fy ith a 1 forgetfulness forgetful noss of all the old frivolity frivol it if of s or ir social 1 kini relationships ready to cartall cui lall the I duties of the household in order that they may keep to this common work that nil all their hearts are arc engaged lr in and in doing which their hearts be c boroc 0 me acquainted with each other N when lien you think of this you realize liow ilow the people of the united states state are being drawn together into a great family whose heart is being abed u for the ser vice of the soldiers lot only but for the service of civilians where they suffer and me arc lot lost in n I 1 naze maze of distresses and distractions distraction and yo you u have then tills this noble picture of justice and mercy as the alv two servants of liberty for only where men are arc free to do they think the thoughts thought S of comradeship only ahert they are free do they think tile the thoughts 0 of f sympathy only anly where they are arc free are a re they mutually hela ful only where they are free do they the y r realize their dependence upon one another and their in a 11 common interest and common necessity tells story 1 I heard a story told tile the ther day that was ridiculous but it is 1 anvor th repeating because it cont contain the germ of tru th an indian wa wai enlisted in the army lie ile returned rot to the reservation on oil a furlough ya fig was asked what lie alp thought of it he said no much good too much salute not much shoot then he was asked are you going back yes well do you know what you fire are fighting for yes me know fight io i 0 make whole damn world democratic party he be had evi evidently denti misunderstood some innocent sen tence 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 world democratic in the sense of community of interest and of interest of purpose and it 1 you ladles and gentlemen could read some of the touching dispatches which come through official channels for even through those channels there come voices of humanity that are infinitely pathetic it if you could catch some of those voices that speak the utter longing of oppressed and helpless peoples all over the world to hear something like the battle hymn of the republic to hear the sect of tile 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 1 summon you t othe comradeship comrad ship I 1 summon you in this next week to say bow much and how sincerely and how unanimously you sustain the heart ot of the world |