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said, "Don't think, just work! Follow me and rely upon the army!" And 

 the day came when she launched her great drive for world domination, 

 and as the world heard the thunder of her troops and guns, and heard 

 her "Deutschland Uber AUes," there came a great tremble in your heart 

 and mine. But a great day did come when at Cantigne, at Chateau 

 Thierry, in the Argonne, at Belleau Wood, the day when the allies had 

 reached their last possible, utmost effort, when the very future of civi- 

 lization hung in the balance, there did come the day when Foch threw 

 into the brazen face of the enemy the irresistible might of the free sons 

 of this great republic of ours. (Applause.) History will be written for 

 a thousand years on that great struggle — and shall we say that we won 

 the war? No! How I dislike to hear anyone say that "We won the 

 war." The war was won by every woman that knit or worked in the 

 Red Cross booth; the war was won by every nurse that stood beside the 

 aching, mutilated bodies of men that suffered; the war was won by every 

 man that worked in a factory or farm loyally doing his great service as 

 in time of peace; the war was won by every voice, by every muscle, by 

 every effort of all of the great free peoples who struggled to bi-ing about 

 that great crowning victory. (Applause.) But history will say this, that 

 at the time when the struggle lay in the balance we did tip the scales 

 and throw the might of this great nation on the side of what you and I 

 firmly believe to be the cause of justice, and to hold in its grasp the hope 

 of all the world. And then after that what came? There came the 

 armistice, and there came the treaty; there came the debt of the five 

 greatest nations, increased from twenty-one billions to two hundred and 

 twenty billions; there came the sight of ten million men dead or maimed 

 upon the bloody fields of the old world; there came the sight of the dis- 

 ruption of labor when there emerged upon the plains of the world that 

 sinister and bloody figure of irresponsible savagery, there appeared bol- 

 shevism; there appeared moie than that, there appeared mountains upon 

 mountains of paper money, valueless now, measured by the standard of 

 gold of all the world. Ah, there were days, you know, when we thought 

 that America was making a lot of money — those early days and years 

 of the war. We were, oh, so busy, piling up gold on this side of the At- 

 lantic! How was it coming into our coffers? It was coming there by 

 loans to the allies; it was coming there by the selling of securities that 

 the allies held — American securities; it was coming there in ways that 

 we didn't understand. We, like most of the world, didn't know that the 

 day would come when there would be retribution for our apparent pros- 

 perity; but the day came when we learned the great fact — and if we 

 haven't learned that it is a hideous thought in the sight of the world; 

 there came a day when we learned the fact that the America of today 

 is linked inevitably, in these great commercial times, times of conflicting 

 interest, with all of the world, and that we cannot prosper here at home 

 alone and have a disorganized and disheveled and ruined world on the 

 other side of the sea. That is the fact that has come home to us, and 

 doesn't it come home when you think here now how probably not a pound 

 of food products from this country, two and one-half billion pounds of 

 pork products last year, eight hundred and six million pounds of dairy 

 products, and none of it can be sold upon the other side? Ah, let's learn 



