Show t ithe the hospitable gate j I 1 t t by FARWELL BROWN of the vigilantes millions entered antei eil by that hospitable gate hach america left open to the strangers from all lands millions SIll lious of the poor the friendless the war weary to whom Ai america offered prosperity friendship and peace they came from tl the ends of the earth ser blans greeks french nus Itus italians ians armenians Armen ians poles a hundred races and more jostled over the threshold we melc welcomed omed then them all too readily some thought fearing for our unguarded gates as one poet called them many had not as another poet accused sufficient faith in the miseal mi led scum of the earth many of these became citizens and in turn helped to order the affairs of the great government which had opened its door to them sonic some remained allens aliens but nil all profited by our laws ans and opportunities there came war the worst war mar which the world has ever known A war mar of right against wrong and presently america was in it but first hy by thousands our friends went back thron through gli the hospitable gate serbians Serb Ser ians blans greek russians french italians how many more rc returned turned to lie hie countries they had never renounced to fight for the freedom of small na alons against a tyrant foe who threatened the tl very existence esl stence of liberty out of our hospitable gate they went hack back to the ends of the earth carrying to the desperately fighting lands the news of what american demo democracy democrat crac v menns they aliey boro bore living witness of the american idea to tile ilu small nations in tile the martyred marty red I 1 nations they are spreading the gospel of american brotherhood and hope in the trenches tren dies of Be belgium glum in he file lilleous ild G german aman prisons where russian voll sit french italian english prisoners are huddled there Is secret talk or of what hat america does for her fr friends I 1 ends of her strength power and generosity it will not be forgotten will lie ile whispered when their poor lips are dumb serbian exiles talk it over in their flight armenian refugees it ahe e upon the hope of tt it the man who ubo once blacked boots in new york gossips secretly about it in the mountains of greece the chicago ex em waiter it in dissatisfied hung hungary try tb TIP former philadelphia fruit merchant tells of it in the streets of rome homo the onetime one time rag picker of boston sighs for it in the disorderly streets of moscow they have cave known they can tell everywhere tile the news is spreading even in muzzled austria in germany itself scaled to the truth from outside there are scared whispered rumors for germans and austrians Aust hins rians went home too to light against their late neighbors to fight at last against america the hostess who had welcomed ome tiem kindly that was tragic sut mt it was not dishonest the dishonesty is in that invisible army of sneaks and spies who rem remained in our midst undeclared to stab their ed country in the intimacy of a judas friendship tes even through germany seeps the news of democracy that went back through the gate once so hospitable to all those devoted misguided soldiers sacrificed hy by the hundred thousand to prussian ambition echo it in their brokenhearted broken hearted diaries those quieted revolutionists Nat matching ching the starved starred children and desperate women in tile the empty austrian market places will remember member rp it the wounded hungarians Hung arians will mIll whisper sper it in the red ked cross hospitals nay tile the haughty prussian officers will nicil meet it at lust hist in the th steely eyes of our young american C heroes they will aill recognize it in their defeat for out of the hospitable mite gate has gone another vast horde a dedicated army a 11 consecrated a t ed navy n a 1 3 they are steaming to tile very frontiers front lers of autocracy to cracy tyranny and greed creed with will the invincible sword of liberty libert y they will viii enforce the principles hach alint I 1 ll 11 a t hospitable gate lias has anys al flys alzeo as ali the entrance to a safe haven of democracy so tills is aliat our Hospitable ble gate has meant both ways it is on an avenue for tile the distribution of the american iden idea we did not realize that in the old days lid did we we need not n t have feared I 1 ons our ir tm fr hospitality ans part of the nava ordered clitu I 1 |