He told me that he was going over again in the morning, and when he left, he said

and I shall never forget his words, "We have a big job to do, but we are going to finish it and finish it forever, and," he added, "if I can help finish it, I won't mind one of those wooden crosses for a monument, like those other fellows have."

He went over in the morning. He didn't come back. He has a wooden cross for a monument. And those of us who are here to tell the story, no matter what our future acts may be, shall never have a monument quite so high or quite so glorious as his. "He lives in fare, that died in virtue's cause."

It was no sordid aim that took that man over the top. With the fields and roads plowed by shell fire, with the trees shattered and splintered and torn, with buildings razed to the ground, it was no sordid. aim that turned the tide at Chateau Thierry. It was no sordid aim that wiped out that gas-soaked, shell-shocked salient at St. Mihiel. It was no sordid

aim that took the Americans through the fiery, burning hell in the Argonne Forest. Was this a war for democracy? Was it a war to end war? Was it a war for a new era, a new order, a new international order, which should ensure the enforcement of right and justice between nations?

These are questions to which the soldier desires an answer. There are a few who say it is all bunk and, unfortunately for us, some of these few are now sitting in the United States Senate. But the fact is that the soldier believed it was not bunk, and, so believing, he marched willingly to fight and often but not less willingly to death.

I testify that the American soldier gave his life not merely to win a war but to win a cause. That cause involves benefits and it involves responsibilities. Are we going to assume those responsibilities or are we going to dodge them?

When John Hay sent an international expedition into China, he was not trying to dodge the responsibility of the United States. When that great student of John

Hay's, and that great American, Theodore Roosevelt, sent Mr. Henry White, one of our representatives now in Paris, to the Algeciras Convention, he was not trying to dodge the responsibility of the United States. On that occasion the Kaiser sent three telegrams to Mr. Roosevelt attempting to bring about a change in his attitude, but Roosevelt stood his ground, with the result that French claims were established in Morocco and the Kaiser had to back down. Finally, my friends, though Senators may dodge, when the mothers and fathers of America sent us across the water, they were not trying to dodge the responsibility of the United States.

We can now establish "a reign of law based on the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind," or we can return to secret treaties and competitive armaments. The choice is yours. The new order, under the leadership of President Wilson and Mr. Taft, with all that it means to mankind: the old order, with the verdict of

history that these dead have died in vain; the old order, a sorry harvest to reap from the blood of seventy thousand American crusaders that has soaked the fields of France.

SPEECH DELIVERED BY

CAPTAIN THOMAS G. CHAMBERLAIN

Before the Mountain Congress for a League of Nations, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 22, 1919.

MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES and GentleMEN: The last year I spent on the front in France I was concerned with one problem and one problem alone, that, the winning of the war. But I have had an insight into the thought and purpose of the man who has borne the brunt of the fighting and to-day I wish to tell you of that thought and that purpose, and something of the circumstances under which they were determined.

The man who tells you that the soldier does not think, does not know him. Of course, there is no time in the army for

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