WOUNDED GOING TO THE AMBULANCE 



The work of the American Red Cross "everywhere in France" has served to seal the 

 bond of fraternity between the two nations more closely than any other agency since the 

 beginning of the war. From this time forth the red badge of courage and compassion will 

 be worn by those who must minister to our own wounded as well as to our brother allies 

 in arms. 



over the ruins of other civilizations and 

 other peoples and other nations. 



THE MINDS OF A PEOPLE POISONED 



So deftly has that conspiracy been car- 

 ried on that the minds of a great people — 

 a people that have demonstrated their 

 greatness in many fields — even in that 

 fifty years, have been poisoned into the 

 conviction that it is their highest duty to 

 subordinate every consideration of hu- 

 manity to the exaltation and the develop- 

 ment of military force, so that by that 

 force they can take from the rest of the 

 world what is needed to accomplish their 

 destiny, at whatever cost of honor or 

 principle. 



I yield to no man in my admiration for 

 most of the qualities or all of the qualities 

 of the German people except this obses- 

 sion that they have been given through 

 the instilling of that poison in the last 

 fifty years. 



Where do you see the working out of 

 the divine plan? That was a cancer in 



the world. It had grown to be so for- 

 midable that it needed a capital operation 

 to excise it and restore the world again 

 to the station in the development of 

 Christian civilization which, but for that, 

 we would not have reached. 



So we have seen it in the destruction 

 of the greatest autocracy, perhaps — at 

 least apparently the greatest autocracy — 

 Russia, whose alliance with the Entente 

 Allies gave for the time the lie or appar- 

 ently gave the lie to the proposal that 

 they were fighting the cause of freedom, 

 fighting the cause of freedom against ab- 

 solutism. 



That toppled over, and now we have 

 arrayed on the one side the democracies 

 of the world against the military autocra- 

 cies on the other, and the issue has been 

 clearly drawn so that it may be seen by 

 the wayfaring man, though a fool. 



Accompanying this devotion to military 

 efficiency, as a God, has come that blind- 

 ness which is in the end to destroy the 

 Hohenzollern philosophy of government. 



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