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JOHN ALEXANDER LOCKWOOD: Colonel U. S. A. (Retired). As- signed active duty, Fort Leavenworth, Field Officer, Plattsburg Training Camp; Commanding Officer Hahnemann Medical College, Students' Army Training Corps; Relieved from active duty Novem- ber 15, 1918.
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SAMUEL McGOWAN: Rear Admiral, Pay Corps, U. S. Navy; The Paymaster General, U. S. Navy and Chief of Bureau of Sup- plies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility.
FREDERICK WILLIAM MATTESON : Captain, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army, May 2, 1917 ; Major, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army, August 26, 1918. Assistant Depot Quartermaster, Boston, Mass. ; Newport News, Va .; Assistant to Depot Quartermaster, Port of Embarkation, and Assistant to Quartermaster in Charge of con- struction at Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Va .; Assistant Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C .; in charge of Transport and Storage Division, Office of Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C .; Zone Executive Officer, Zone Supply Office, Washington, D. C. Recommended for Distinguished Service Medal for exception- ally meritorious and distinguished services.
JOHN TWIGGS MYERS: Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps, April 7, 1917; Brigadier-General, July 1, 1918. Fleet Marine Officer, Atlantic Fleet; Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C .; Commanded Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C., and Quantico, Va .; Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Recom- mended for the Navy Cross for distinguished service as Fleet Marine Officer, Atlantic Fleet.
WILLIAM OTWAY OWEN: Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. Army ( Retired ) . To active duty May 31, 1916. Surgeon General's Office, War Department; Curator, Army Medical Museum. Re- lieved from active duty January 7, 1919.
ARMISTEAD PETER, III : Enlisted December 14, 1917, U. S. Navy ; Commissioned Ensign August 29, 1918. Government Radio Station, Navy Department, Washington, D. C .; Radio Receiving Station, Navy Department, Washington, D. C .; Radio for Air Craft Division ; Bureau Steam Engineering; Relieved from active service, December 19, 1918.
DAVID DIXON PORTER: Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps; Colonel, July 1, 1918. Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, Head- quarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. Recommended for Navy Cross for distinguished services in the line of his profession.
LESTER AMOS PRATT: Enlisted November 10, 1917, in United States Army; Commissioned Second Lieutenant September 18, 1918; First Lieutenant October 21, 1919. El Paso, Texas, in Quartermaster Corps; Motor Transport Corps, Unit No. 305, Camp Jessup, Atlanta, Ga .; Office of Chief of Motor Transport Corps, Washington, D. C. Honorably discharged July 19, 1919.
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BUTLER DELAPLAINE PRICE : (Deceased ) ; Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Retired. Medal of Honor Board, War Department, Washington, D. C.
RUSSELL BENJAMIN PUTNAM: Major, Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps. Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C .; in Charge Office of Assistant Paymaster, Marine Corps, Atlanta, Ga .; First Provisional Brigade, U. S. Marines, Port- au-Prince, Haiti. Recommended for the Navy Cross for distin- guished services in connection with the establishment and administra- tion of the office of the Assistant Paymaster, Marine Corps, Atlanta, Ga.
IRVING WALLACE RAND: Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. Army; Colonel, May 15, 1917. Surgeon China Expedition ; Commanded Base Hospital, Camp Travis, Texas; Detached duty at Washington, D. C., Markeltown, Pa.
GEORGE RICHARDS: Brigadier-General, The Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps. Served as The Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps, Head- quarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. Awarded the Distin- guished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service in the organization and administration of his department.
EDWARD FISK RIGGS: Major, District of Columbia National Guard (Retired). Assisted with other National Guard Officers in instructing recruits and drafted men for the regular service at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D. C.
HORACE DODGE ROUZER: Lieutenant Commander (Civil Engi- neer ), U. S. Navy. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
BENJAMIN REEVES RUSSELL: Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps, (Re- tired). To active duty July 1, 1917; member of Courts-Martial Boards, Washington, D. C., and Quantico, Virginia. Relieved from active duty August 8, 1919.
JOHN PRENTISS SANGER : Major General, U. S. Army (Retired). To active duty April 7, 1917; Medal of Honor Board; Relieved to retired list June 6, 1917.
GUY TYRRELL SCOTT: Captain, U. S. Army, (Retired) April 7, 1917; to active duty August 12, 1917; Major, October 10, 1918. Commanded Coast Defenses of New Bedford, Mass., and Fort Rod- man; Relieved from active duty December 14, 1918.
RICHARD DOUGLAS SIMMS: (Deceased) ; Brigadier-General Com- manding District of Columbia National Guard. No active Federal Service; Commanding District of Columbia National Guard.
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GEORGE ROBBINS SIMPSON: Major, U. S. Army. Eighth Infantry Company, Fifth Provisional Training Regiment, Officers Training Camp, Fort Myer, Va., 1917.
FRANKLIN TOPPING STEELE: Captain, National Naval Volunteers, Marine Corps Branch, April 6, 1917; Commissioned Second Lieu- tenant, U. S. Marine Corps, August 6, 1917; First Lieutenant, August 8, 1917; Captain, July 1, 1918. Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa .; Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va .; Marine Corps Rifle Range, Winthrop, Md .; Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.
PIERRE CHRISTIE STEVENS: (Deceased) ; Major, U. S. Army, (Retired). To active duty November 20, 1917; Acting Quarter- master, Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D. C .; relieved from active dtuy March 5, 1919.
JOHN TRUESDALE STEWART: Major, (Engineers), U. S. Army, April 18, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, October 18, 1918. Fort Snelling, Minn., Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Office of Chief of Engineers, Equipment Section, War Department, Washington, D. C. Honor- ably discharged, October 13, 1919.
LLOYD WEBB TAYLOR: Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Aero- nautics, Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas; Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida; to inactive duty as Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Hon- orably discharged September 23, 1919; Officers Reserve Corps Octo- ber 29, 1919.
GEORGE CYRUS THORPE: Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps; Colonel, July 1, 1918. Staff Naval War College, Chief of Staff Second Brigade U. S. Marines; Commanding Third Regiment of Marines and Eastern District, Dominican Republic; received sur- render of Vicentico Evangelista Revolutionists in 1917 ; in field against Natera Insurgents; rendered valuable services in establishing peace and order in that country.
CHARLES TROWBRIDGE TITTMANN: First Lieutenant, U. S. Army, October 9, 1918; Captain, April, 1919; Major, September, 1919. Camp Upton, N. Y .; Judge Advocate General's Department, Camp Humphreys, Va .; Office Judge Advocate General, Washing- ton, D. C., as member of Special Clemency Board. Honorably dis- charged July 30, 1920.
JOHN VAN RENSSELAER: Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Army. Rockefeller Institute, New York, N. Y .; General Hospital No. 3, Colonia, N. J. Honorably discharged May 15, 1919.
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE WATSON : Captain U. S. Marine Corps ; Major, May 22, 1917. U. S. S. Oklahoma; Division Marine
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Officer, Sixth Division, Atlantic Fleet; Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. Commended by the Major General Commandant for excellent and efficient services rendered during demobilization of the Fourth and Fifth Brigades of Marines.
FRANCIS BRADFORD WHEATON: Major, Quartermaster Reserve Corps, U. S. Army, June 6, 1917 ; Lieutenant Colonel, Quartermas- ter Corps, March 19, 1918. Office of Officer in Charge of Canton- ment Construction, Washington, D. C .; Temporary duty throughout the United States and at Honolulu, T. H. Commissioned regular service, Major, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army.
GEORGE YANDES WHEELER : Captain, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, February 9, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance and with Administration Division, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, Wash- ington, D. C .; Department Ordnance and Armament Officer, Panama Canal Department, Canal Zone. Honorably discharged April 8, 1919.
HARRY MARSHALL WHEELER: Captain, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, February 1, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance and with Administration Division, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, Wash- ington, D. C. Honorably discharged, December 12, 1918.
DION WILLIAMS: Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. General Board of Navy, Navy Department, Washington, D. C .; Commanded 10th Regiment, U. S. Marines at Quantico, Va .; Commanding Fourth Regiment of Marines, Santo Domingo, D. R .; and District Com- mander of the Northern District of Santo Domingo.
LEONARD WOOD : Major General, U. S. Army. Command- ed Camp Funston, Kansas; Commanded Eastern Department; with British Mission to the United States; Commanded Southeastern Department; Detached service inspecting camp sites ; Commanded Eighty-ninth Division; Observer with British and French Armies in France, (wounded there) ; Commanded Western Department ; Commanded Tenth Division; Commanded Central De- partment, Chicago, Ill. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for especially meritorious and conspicuous service as Department, Division and Camp Commander during the war; Decorated by Italy, as an Officer of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus.
WALTER FITZHUGH WORTHINGTON: Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy. Naval Inspector of Engineering Material, New York, N. Y., and New Jersey Districts ; Relieved from all active duty March 8, 1919.
ANTHONY CALLIS ADDISON : Bureau of Fisheries.
JAMES HENRY ALBURTIS : Copy Editor, Government Printing Office.
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JOHN CULVER BARCALOW: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
RICHARD VERMILLION BARRY: Navy Department.
MARCUS BENJAMIN: Volunteer Aid, Bureau of Naval Intel- ligence, Navy Department, Washington, D. C .; Member Home De- fense League; also consulted during the war as an expert on various technical and scientific matters. Decorated by the French Govern- ment with the Palmes academique with the rank of Officier de l'In- struction publique.
ROBERT SIDNEY BELKNAP: Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
ADOLPHUS BOGARDUS BENNETT, JR .: Medical Advisory Board, Number Four, District of Columbia; Navigation Inspector under Department of Commerce.
NELSON DUVALL BRECHT: Red Cross Work.
BARRY BULKLEY: Local director of the Serbian Relief Committee ; Speaker for the Liberty Loan Drives and Red Cross.
FRANCIS MASON BURROWS: Department of Commerce.
HENRY BUCHANAN BYRD, SR .: Liberty Loan Drives.
EDWARD KERNAN CAMPBELL: Chief Justice, U. S. Court of Claims.
WILLIAM RIDGELY CHAPLINE, JR .: U. S. Forestry Service.
JOHN WHITSITT CHILDRESS : United States Government Print- ing Office.
ROBERT SMITH CHILTON : United States Consul, Coburg, Canada.
FRANCIS WARFIELD HERRICK CLAY: (Deceased), Assistant Com- missioner of Patents.
IRA BROADWELL CONKLING: (Deceased), Clerk, Interstate Com- merce Commission.
SAMUEL TREADWAY CONKLING: Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
JOHN HOLMES CONVERSE: Office of the Auditor for the War Department.
WILLIAM VAN ZANDT Cox: Commissioned by the President of the United States, a member of Local Draft Board for Division No. 10, District of Columbia.
CHARLES FRANCIS DIGGS: Member of Legal Advisory Board, Washington, D. C .; Liberty Loan Drives.
EDWARD W. DONN, JR .: Designed U. S. Powder Factory and Naval Proving Grounds, Indian Head, Maryland; Red Cross Drives.
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IRVING HALL DUNLAP: U. S. Fisheries Commission ; Red Cross and Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
HARRY LYMAN DUNWOODY : Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
MILTON COURTWRIGHT ELLIOTT: Counsel for Federal Reserve Board; Counsel for War Finance Corporation.
FREDERICK WORDEN MONTROSE GRAHAM : Liberty Loan Sub- scriptions.
CLARENCE HENNING GREEN: Treasury Department.
FRANK KEY GREEN: Marshal, U. S. Supreme Court.
THOMAS EDWARD GREEN: American Red Cross; Special Speaker for War Department ; Membership Campaign, American Red Cross, Speaker's Bureau; Speaker's Bureau, Treasury Department; Chair- man in charge of Victory Liberty Loan.
FRANK EDWARD GUERNSEY : Chairman, Public Safety Com- mittee.
ROBERT NEWTON HARPER: Member Finance Committee, Ameri- can Red Cross; Assisted in Liberty Loan and United War Work Drives.
JAMES MALCOLM HENRY: Registrar during period of drafting; clerk to Local Examination Board No. 2.
SAMUEL HERRICK: Volunteer Speaker, Liberty Loan, Red Cross, United War Work, and other campaigns; Four Minute Man under Committee on Public Information ; Chairman Committee on Speakers of Armenian Relief Campaign; Acting Chairman Committee on Speakers, War Savings Campaign; Member Legal Advisory Board, Selective Draft, District of Columbia.
ALFRED BYRNE HORNER: Legal Advisory Board, Warrenton, Va.
BENJAMIN GRUBB HUMPHREYS : Member of Congress, Missis- sippi.
GAILLARD HUNT: Department of State ..
CLAIR AUBREY HUNT: Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
RICHARD WASHBURN HYNSON: Liberty Loan and Red Cross Drives.
RALPH JENKINS: President District of Columbia Society, Ameri- can Red Cross.
ARTHUR KEITH: U. S. Geological Survey.
CHARLES FORD LANGWORTHY: Department of Agriculture.
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CHARLES WILLIAM LAPORTE: State Senator, Illinois.
RALPH WILLIAM LEE: Local Draft Board No. 9; Liberty Loan Drives; Finance Committee District Branch, American Red Cross.
ALFRED ELI LEWIS: War Department.
CHARLES PORTERFIELD LIGHT: Red Cross, Y. M. C. A .; Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
RANDOLPH HARRISON MCKIM: (Deceased), American Red Cross ; Navy League.
FRANK BOSTWICK MARTIN: Army Medical Museum.
BENJAMIN DEMIER MILLER: Member Board of Contract Re- view, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army.
HOWELL MORGAN: United States Indian Service.
STEUART BROWN MUNCASTER : Member Medical Advisory Board ; Volunteer Medical Service Corps.
CHARLES FITZ RANDOLPH OGILBY: Liberty Loan Subscriptions ; Legal Advisory Boards; Special Work for Judge Advocate General's Office in passing upon Questionnaires during early part of Selective Draft operations.
BRAINARD W PARKER: Assisted in Draft, as member of Legal Board.
ALBION KEITH PARRIS, SR .: Home Defense League; Public Ser- vice Reserve ; Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
JOHN VANPELT QUACKENBUSH: Home Defense Guards, Lacka- wanna County, Scranton, Pa., from organization until demobilization.
CARY ROCHESTER SAGE: U. S. Army Medical Museum.
WILLIAM HENRY SAUNDERS: Liberty Loan Drives; Volunteer Four Minute Speaker.
CEPHAS HEMPSTONE SINCLAIR: (Deceased ), United States Coast Survey.
ROBERT PRESTON SHEALY: Legal Advisory Board, Montgomery County, Maryland; War Savings Stamps Team; Organized System of Voluntary Food Administration.
HENRY HARRISON SHEETS: Founder National Association for Universal Military Training, of which he is directing Secretary and Treasurer.
CLINTON GOLD SMITH: United States Forestry Service.
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HUGH MACLELLAN SOUTHGATE: Assisted under Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department and Emergency Fleet Corporation, in designing and purchase of propelling machinery for Naval War Vessels and the Emergency Merchant Fleet.
MARTIN ROBINSON SPEELMAN: Government Printing Office.
HENRY BENNING SPENCER: U. S. Railroad Administration.
JOHN KENNEDY STOUT: Federal Trade Commission.
REEVES TRENCHARD STRICKLAND: Bureau of Aeronautics, War Department; Liberty Loan Drives; Legal Advisory Board, District of Columbia.
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR: U. S. Railroad Administration.
FRANK ERASTUS WEBNER: American Protective League, 1917; Special Assistant, Finance Division, Aircraft Production, 1918; Technical Advisory Assistant to Navy Compensation Board, charged with supervision of cost plus profit contracts for increase of the Navy, 1919-1920.
CHARLES VAN CISE WHEELER: Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and Liberty Loan Subscriptions.
ROBERT WICKLIFFE WOOLLEY: Interstate Commerce Commis- sion ; Director of Publicity, First Liberty Loan.
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God give us men. A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands. God give us men .- J. G. HOLLAND.
GAILLARD HUNT PAST PRESIDENT (1915-1916)
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PROCEEDINGS AT A STATED MEETING
Of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, at the Army and Navy Club, April 30, 1919, commemorating George Washington's inauguration as First President of the United States.
GENERAL RICHARDS: Mr. President, and Members of the Army and Navy Club; permit me to present to you, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
GENERAL MCINTYRE: Gentlemen of the Sons of the Revolution, and Members of the Army and Navy Club; we have come together this evening at the suggestion of the Sons of the Revolution who desire to honor the Army and Navy Club. I take great pleasure in intro- ducing Mr. Gaillard Hunt, who will speak for the Sons of the Revo- lution.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE NATIONALIST. MR. HUNT:
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Army and Navy Club :
We are about to present to you a portrait of General Washington, a copy of Gilbert Stuart's portrait, painted when Washington was President of the United States. This is an appropriate day on which to hang it on your walls, for it is the anniversary of his inauguration as our first President. Therefore, we are thinking of him tonight especially as President of the United States.
It is not too much to say that it was he who made that office as it exists today, for it was he who gave it the responsibility and strength which have caused it to be a centering point for the thought of the nation. Let us see what Washington could have made of the office, if he had chosen to avoid responsibility.
Under the provision of the Constitution which authorized him to request the opinions of the heads of the Departments, he could have published those opinions and followed them, thus putting upon the heads of the Departments the chief responsibility for executive affairs. Under the provision requiring the advice and consent of the Senate to appointments to office, he could have put upon the Senate the chief responsibility for the selection of officers of the United States. Under the provision requiring the Senate's participation in treaty-making, he could have made it the chief force in the management of our foreign relations. Instead of this, he made the heads of Departments his personal Cabinet, asking their advice and following it only when he chose to do so, and took upon himself full responsibility for all execu- tive acts. He consulted the Senate only in confirming his appoint- ments to office, making the selections himself, independently. He
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consulted the Senate in foreign affairs only after he had determined what action he desired to take. He might have made his reports to Congress perfunctory enumerations of the conduct of executive busi- ness; instead of this, he presented to the Congress programmes for legislation. Thus he started the Government with one responsible, powerful executive head, upon whom public approbation and public criticism might concentrate.
We are so constituted that our vital ideas must take a living form, We cannot embrace an abstraction ; we must expend ourselves upon a man. Our patriotism, our nationality, must be personified. George Washington gave us what our nature craved-not a mere presiding officer over the Government, but a visible, personal head to our coun- try, a real President of the United States. We were furnished at the beginning of our national existence with a binding force for all classes of citizens and all sections in a vast and varied empire.
I doubt whether all the members of such an exceptionally well-in- formed audience as this could, without stopping to think, name all the members of the President's Cabinet; not many of us could name more than a dozen Senators; few of us could give the names of all the mem- bers of the Supreme Court; but every member of any audience, every man on the street, every child in a school, everybody who is old enough to know anything knows who is the President of the United States. The man who holds that office is the one man for whom every voter who votes for national affairs has voted. The knowledge of him, of his views, of what he stands for is the one knowledge common to everybody in the United States, high or low, rich or poor, mechanic or professor, resident of Maine or resident of Nevada.
It is remarkable how little the office of the Presidency has changed. When President Wilson personally delivered his messages to Congress there was much comment upon the act as an innovation, but, in reality, he was doing what George Washington and John Adams had done, what had been the habit for the first twelve years of our Govern- ment's existence. The practice had only been in abeyance, to be revived whenever a President saw fit to revive it. I recall that it was after one of his personal appearances before the Senate-and I believe his last-that General Washington said he "would be damned" if he ever went there again!
Sometimes, Gentlemen, we who are members of the historical pro- fession, feel a little impatient with the oft-repeated statement that everything has changed. As a matter of fact, we know that the world changes very little and changes very gradually. The idea that be- cause of the mighty war which we have fought and won mankind has changed is a very superficial idea. The geography of the world has changed ; boundaries have been changed ; peoples who aspired to nat- ionality have been erected into nations; once powerful nations have been rendered weak ; but the people who live in these countries have not
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changed any more than you and I have changed. An Austrian is still an Austrian; a Turk is still a Turk ; and a German is still a German. You may pile indemnities upon him ; you may diminish his boundaries ; you may load him with a debt which his great-grandchildren cannot pay ; but if you think that by doing these things you have changed his mind you are no better than the men of the dark ages were who thought that by burning people they could make them embrace another religion. Is history a pure science or is it an applied science ? Is it something for us to read and study merely as an exercise to our brains, or is it something that teaches a lesson to be applied to present condi- tions? In other words, are we to apply to the problems of the present the experience of the past or are we to meet those problems with our wishes, our hopes and our dreams? It was Kipling who said of George Washington :
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim.
It was Kipling again who counselled the English-as we can now counsel the Americans-
Stand to your work and be wise-certain of sword and pen
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
The nature of man has not changed. We are, as we always were, "men in a world of men." And as long as there are men and nations of men in the world, those that are ambitious will endeavor to impose their will upon other men and other nations. This is the law of nature, the law of competition, the law of progress; and if recent his- tory teaches us anything it teaches that the nation which is not pre- pared to repel the attempts at domination of other nations is a nation of fools. Apply this to our own case and think of the hundreds of thousands of dead ; think of the hundreds of thousands of the disabled and crippled ; think of the incalculable waste of wealth which has re- duced nations to the point of starvation; and then deny, if you can, that thousands of the dead would now be with us, thousands of the broken men would now be whole, thousands of the starving would now be fed, if we had been ready to meet, when it broke upon the world, the crisis which intelligent men had been predicting for years. I would as soon expect a gang of burglars to listen to a preacher's threats in a city where there are no police, as to expect a nation bent upon plundering other nations to listen to the admonitions of a gov- ernment which is not prepared to enforce its demands.
Oh, but things are different now and we shall never have war any more! Are there, then, no burglar nations left? Are there no am- bitious nations left? How many wars are going on at this moment? A dozen or more, I believe, and all because of the efforts of nations to impose their will upon each other.
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Ah, but we are to have internationalism, and the boundaries of nations are to mean no more to their inhabitants than the boundaries of our States mean to us who are Americans.
I have said that a German is still a German in spite of his defeat, and I say now that an American is still an American in spite of his victory ; and if, as a result of this war, an American is less of an American than he was before he fought, then it will be the most tragic war that ever was lost. Then we will be in the position of the man who gained the whole world and lost his own soul, for the soul of America is the single-hearted patriotism of her people. I do not know what an internationalist is, unless he is a homeless man. He who loves all countries as much as he loves his own country, loves no country ; he is a man without a country. Unbidden, the old, familiar lines of Sir Walter Scott rise in your mind and in mine :
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