Photograph by Paul Thompson 



BARRELS OF PORCELAIN AT THE DOORS OE A FRENCH FACTORY READY FOR SHIPMENT 



TO THE UNITED STATES : LIMOGES, FRANCE 



Those industrial institutions whose skilled workmen were required neither for the 

 trenches nor for the munition factories France has endeavored to operate without interrup- 

 tion. The ceramic establishments which were not requisitioned for the manufacture of 

 crucibles needed in producing high explosives have continued to make beautiful porcelain, 

 thus contributing their bit toward the financial welfare of the nation. 



you also heard the cry of humanity and 

 invoked against autocracy the right of 

 democracies. 



And I can only wonder as I speak 

 what, if they still have any power to 

 think, are the thoughts of the autocrats 

 who three years ago against us, three 

 months ago against you, unchained this 

 conflict. 



Ah ! doubtless they said among them- 

 selves that a democracy is an ideal gov- 

 ernment ; that it showers reforms on man- 

 kind ; that it can in the domain of labor 

 quicken all economic activities. And yet 

 now Ave see the French Republic fighting 

 in defense of its territory and the liberty 

 of nations and opposing to the avalanche 

 let loose by Prussian militarism the union 

 of all its children, who are still capable 

 of striking many a weighty blow. 



And now we see England, far removed 

 like you from conscription, who has also, 

 by virtue of a discipline all accept, raised 

 from her soil millions of fiehtine men. 



And we see other nations accomplishing 

 the same act ; and that liberty not only 

 inflames all hearts, but coordinates and 

 brings into being all needed efforts. 



And now we see all America rise and 

 sharpen her weapons in the midst of 

 peace for the common struggle. 



ORGANIZING THE FEDERATION OF THE 

 WORLD 



Together we will carry on that strug- 

 gle, and when by force we have at last 

 imposed military victory our labors will 

 not be concluded. Our task will be — I 

 quote the noble words of President Wil- 

 son — to organize the society of nations. 



I well know that our enemies, who have 

 never seen before them anything but ho- 

 rizons of carnage, will never cease to jeer 

 at so noble a design. Such has always 

 been the fate of great ideas at their birth ; 

 and if thinkers and men of action had 

 allowed themselves to be discouraged by 

 skeptics, mankind would still be in its 



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