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‘RAILROADS CAN NOT BE RETURNED UNDER OLD CONDITIONS’
WILSON UHGEs GONGAESS
10 STUDY THE QUESTION
took place before, acroas 3,000 miles
of sea, followed by adequate equip
ment and supplies, and carried
safely through extraordinary dan
gers of attack—dangers which were
alike strange and infinitely difficult
to guard against. In all this move
ment only 768 men were lost by
enemy attack--630 of whom were on
a single English transport which
was sunk near the Orkney Islands
1 need not tell you what lay back
of this great movement of men and
materials. It s not Invidious to say
that back of it lay a supporting or
gantzation of the Industries of the
country and of all its productive ac
tivities more complete, more thor
ough in method and effective in re
sult, more spirited and unanimous
in purpose and effort than any other
great belligerent had been able to
effect. We profited greatly by the
experience of the nations which had
already been engaged for nearly
three years in the exigent and ex
acting business, their every resource
and every executive proficiency
taxed to the utmost. We were thelr
pupils. But we learned qfiickly and
acted with a promptness and a
readiness of co-operation that jus
tity our great pride that we were
able to serve the world with un
paralleled energy and quick accom
plishment.
Praises flghfin& Men.
But it is not the physical scale
and executive efficlency of prepara
tion, supply, aocomplizshment and
dispatch that I would dwell upon,
but the mettle and quality of the
officers and men we sent over and
of the saiflors who kept the seas,
and the spirit of the nation that
stood behind them. No soldiers or
sallors ever proved themselves more
quickly ready for the test of the
battle or acquitted themselves with
more splendid courage and achleve
ment when put to the test. Those
who played some part in directing
the great processes by which the
war was pushed Irresistibly for
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ward to the final triumph may now
forget all that and delight ur
thoughts with the story of wflat
our men qaid.
Thelr officers understood the
grim and exacting task they had
undertaken and performed it with
an audacity, eMiciency and unhesi
tating courage that touch the story
of convoy and battle with imperish
able distinction at every turn,
whether the enterprises were great
or small—from thelr great chlefs,
Pershing and Sims, down to the
youngest lieutenants; and thelr men
were worthy of them—such men- as
hardiy need to be commanded and
who go to their terrible adventure
blithely and with the quick intelli
gence of those who know just what
it is thay would accomplish. I am
proud to be the fellow countryman
of men of such stuff and valour.
Those of us who stayed at home did
our duty; the war could not have
been won or the gallant 'men who
fought it given thelr opportunity to
win It otherwise; but for many a
long day we shall think ourselves
accursed because we were not there
and hold our manhoods cheap while
anyone speaks who fought with
those at St. Mihiel or Chateau
Thierry.
Turned Tide of Battle.
The memory of those days of tri
umphant battle will go with these
fortunate men to thelr graves;
and each will have his favorite
memory. "“Old men forget; yet all
shall be forgot, but he’ll remember
with advantages what feats he:did
that day.”
What we all thank God for with
deepest gratitude is that our men
went in force to the line of battle
just at the critical moment, when
the whole fate of the world seemed
to hang in the balance, and threw
their fresh strength into the Yanks
of freedom In time to turn the
whole tide and sweep of the fateful
struggle—turn it, once for all, so
that henceforth it was back, back,
back for theilr enemies, always
back, never again forward!
After that It was only a scant
four months before the command
ers of the Central Empires knew
themselves beaten; and now their
very empires are in liguidation!
And throughout it all how fine
the spirit of the nation was, what
unity of purpose, what untiring
zeal! What elevation of purpose
ran through all its splendid dis
play of strength, its untiring aec
complishment. 1 have sald that
those of us who stayed at home to
do the work of organization and
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supply will always wish we had
been with the men whom we sus
tained by our labor; but we can
never be ashamed.
It has been an inspiring thing to
be here in the midst of fine men
who had turned aside from every
private interest of their own and
devoted the whole of their trained
capacity to the tasks that supplied
the sinews of the whole great un-
Wertaking! The patriotism, the un
selfishness, the thoroughgoing de
votion and distinguished capacity
that marked their toilsome labors,
day after day, month after month,
have made them fit mates and
comrades of the men in the
trenches and on the sea. And not
the men here In Washington only.
They have but directed the vast
achievement,
Tribute to Women,
Throughout linnumerable facto
ries, on innumerable farms, in the
depths of coal mines and iron mines
and coupper mines, wherever the
stuffs of industry were to be ob
tained and prepared, in the ship
yards, on the rallways, at the docks,
on the sea, in every labor that was
needed to sustaln the battle lines,
men have vied with each other to
do their part, and do it well. They
ecan look any man-at-arms In the
face and say: “We also strove to
win and gavy the best that was in
us to make our fleets and armies
sure of their triumph!"”
And what shall we say of the
women—of their Instant intelli
gence, quickening every task that
they touched; their capacity for or
ganization and eo-operation, which
gave their action discipline and
enhanced the effectiveness of
everything they attempted; thelr
aptitude at tasks to which they
had never before set their hands;
their utter self-sacrifice alike In
what they did and in what they
gave. Their contribution to the
great result is beyond appraisal.
They have added a new luster to
the annals of American woman
hood, The least tribute we can pay
them is to make them the equals of
men In political tribute as they
have proved themselves their
equals in every fleld of practical
~work they have entered, whether
{:; themselves or for their coun-
These great days of completed
achievement would be sadly
marred were we to omit this act
of Jjustice. Besides the limmense
practical services they have ren
dered, the women of the country
have heen the moving spirits In the
systematic economies by which our
people have voluntarily assisted to
supply the suffering peoples of the
world and the armies upon every
front with food and everything else
we had that might serve the com
mon cause. The details of such a
story can never be fully written,
but we carry them in our hearts
and thank God that we can say
we are the kinsmen of such,
And now we are sure of the
great triumphs for which every
sacrifice was made.
Turn to Peace Tasks,
It has come, come in its com
pleteness, and with the pride and in
spiration of these days of achleve
ment quick within us we turn to
the tasks of peace again—-a peace
secure against the violence of irre
sponsble monarchs and ambitious
military coteries, and made ready
for & new order, for new founda
tions of justice and fair dealing.
We are about to give order and
organization to this peace not only
for ourselves, but for the other peo
ples of the world as well so far as
they will suffer us to serve them. It
is Inun'nntlonal Justice that we
seek, not domestic safety merely.
Our thoughts have dwelt of late
upon Kurope, upon Asia, upon the
Near and the Far Kast, very little
upon the acts of peace and accom
modation that wait to be performed
at our doors.
While we are adjusting our rela
tions with the rest of the world is
it not of capital importance that we
ghould clear away all grounds of
misunderstanding with our imme
diate neighbors and give proof of
the friendship we really feel? I
hope the members of the Senate
will permit me to speak once more
of the unratified treaty of friend
ship and adjustment with the Re
publie of Columbia. I very earnest
ly urge upon them an early and
favorable action upon that vital
matter. [ believe they will feel,
with me, that the stage of affairs
fs now set for such action as will
be not only justr but generous and
in the spirit of the new age upon
which we have so happlly entered,
Our Problem Easiest,
So far as our domestic affairs
are concerned, the problem of our
return to peace is a problem of
economic and Industrial readjust
ment. That problem is less seri
ous for us than it may turn out to
be for the nations which have suf
fered the disarrangements and the
Josses of war longer than we. Our
people, moreover, do not wait to be
conched and led. They know thelr
own business, are quick and re
sourceful at every readjustment,
definite in purpose, and seif-rellant
in action.
Any leading strings we might
peak to put them in would speedily
become hopelessly tangled, because
they would pay no attention to
them and go their own way. Al
that we can do as their legislative
and execcutive servants is to me
diate the process of change here,
there and elsewhere as we may, 1
have heard much counsel as to the
plans that should be formed and
personally conducted to a happy
consummation, but from no quar
ter have | seen any general scheme
of “reconstruction” emerge which
1 thouwrht it 'kely we counld force
our spirited business men and self.
relifant laborers to accept with due
plfaney and obedience,
While the war lasted we set up
many agencles bv which to direct
the Industries of the country in the
services {t was necessary for them
to render hy which to make sure of
an abundant supply of the mate.
rials needed. by which to check
undertakings that could for the
time be dispensed with and stimu
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late those that were most service
able in war, by which to gain for
the purchasing departments of the
Government certain control over
the prices of essential articles and
materials, by which to restrain
trade with alien enemies, make the
most of the avallable shipping, and
systematize financial transactions
both public and private so there
would be no unnecessary conflict or
confusion—by which, in short, to
put every material energy of the
country In harness to draw the
common load and make of us one
team in the accomplishment of a
great task.
Took Off the Harness.
But the moment we knew the
armistice to have been signed we
took the harness off,. Raw mate
rials, upon which the Government
had kept its hand for fear there
should not be enough for the indus
tries that supplied the armies, have
been released and put into the gen
eral market agaln. Great industrial
plants, whose whole output and
machinery had been taken over for
the uses of the Government, have
been set free to return to the uses
to which they were put before the
war. It has not been possible to
remove go readily or so quickly the
control of foodstuffs and of ship
ping, because the world has still to
be fed from our granaries and the
ships still needed to send supplies
to our men oversea and to bring
the men back as fast as the dis
turbed conditions on the other side
of the water permit; but even
there restraints are heing relieved
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as much as possible and more and
more as the weeks go by.
Never before has there been
agencies in exlstence in this coun
try which knew so much of the
fieid of supply, of labor and of
industry as the war {industries
board, the war trade board, the
Labor Department, the food ad
ministration and the fuel adminis
tration have known since their la
bors became thoroughly systema
tized; and they have not been iso
lated agencies; they have been di
rected by men who represented the
permanent departments of the Gov
ernment a 1 so have been the cen
ters of unified and co-operative ac
tion.
Return to Peace Footing.
It has been the policy of the ex
ecutive, therefore, since the armis
tice was assured (which is, In ef
fect, a complete submission of the
enemy), to put the knowledge of
these hodies at the disposal of the
business men of the country and to
offer their intelligent mediation at
every point and in every matter
where it was desired. It is surpris
ing how fast the process of return
10 a peace footing has moved in the
three weeks since the fighting
stopped. It promises to outrun any
inquiry that may be instituted and
any aid that may be offered. It will
not be easy to direct it any better
than it will direct itself. The Amer
fcan business man is of quick in
itiative.
The ordinary and normal proc
esses of private initiative will not,
however, provide immediate em
ployment for all of the men of our
returning armies, Those who are
of trained capacity, those who are
skilled workmen, those who have
acquired familiarity with estab
lished businesses; those who are
ready and willing to go to the
farms, all those whose aptitudes are
known will be sought out by em
gloyerl and will find no difficulty, it
safe to say, in finding places of
employment. But there will be
others who will be at a loss to gain
a liyelihood unless pains are taken
to guide them and put them in the
way of work. There will be a large
floating residium of labor which
should not be left wholly to shift
for itself. It seems to me impor
tant, therefore, that the develop
ment of public works of every sort
should be resumed promptly, in or
der that opportunities should be
created for unskilled labor in par
ticular, and that plans should be
made for such developments of our
unusued lands and our natural re
sources, as we have hitherto lacked
stimulation to undertake.
Reclamation of Land.
I particularly direct your atten
tion to the very practical plans
which the Secretary of the Interior
has developed in his annual report
and before your committees for the
reclamation of arid, swamp and
cut-over lands which might, tl the
States were willing and able to co
operate, redeem some three hun
dred million acres of land for cul
tivation.
There are said to be fifteen or
twenty million acres of land in the
West at present arid, for whose
reclamation water is available, if
properly conserved. There are about
two hundred and thirty million
acres from which the forests have
been cut, but which have never yet
been cleared for the plow and
which lle waste and desolate.
These lie scattered all over the
Union. And there are nearly eighty
million acres of land that lie un
der swamps or ure subject to pe
riodical overflow or are too wet for
anything but grazing which it is
perfectly feasible to drain and pro
tect and redeem.
Congress can at once direct
thousands of the returning soldiers ‘
to the reclamation of the arid lands
which it already has undertaken, if ‘
it will but enlarge the plans and
the appropriations which it has in
trusted to the Department of the
Interior. It is possible in dealing
with our used land to effect a great
rural and agricultural department
which® will afford the best sort of
oppgrtunity to men who want to
help themselves; and the Secretary
of Interior has thought the possi
ble methods out in a way which is
worthy of your most friendly at
tention.
1 have spoken of the control
which must yet for a while, per
haps for a long while, be exercised
over shipping because of the pri
ority of service to which our forces
overseas are entitled and which
ments which are to save recently
liberated peoples from starvation
should also be accorded the ship-
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and many devastated regions frem
permanent ruin.
May I not say a special word
about the needs of Belgium and
Northern France? Shipments of
money paid by way of indemnity
will not serve of themselves to save
them from hopeless disadvantage
for years to come. Something more
must be done than merely finding
the money. If they had money and
raw materials in abundance tomor
row they could not resume thelr
place in the industry of the world
tomorrow—d\o very Important
place they held before the flame of
war swept across them.
‘People Are Scattered.
Many of their factories are rawaf
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