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~— enfolds them. ‘The women and the children ofFrance cover their graves with flowers and waterthem with tears. Destiny seized these lads andled them far from home to die for an ideal. Andyet they live and speak to us here in the Home-land, not of trivial things but of immortal things.Reverence and pity and high resolve—surelythese remain to us. In that heart of hearts wherethe great works of man are wrought, there canbe no forgetting. Oh, God, release the imprison-ed soul of America, touch once more the hiddensprings of the spirit and reveal us to ourselves! Let the true purpose of our party be clearlyunderstood. We stand squarely for the sameideals of peace as those for which the war wasfought. We support without flinching the onlyfeasible plan for peace and justice. We will notsubmit to the repudiation of the Peace Treaty orto any process by which it is whittled down tothe vanishing point. We decline to compromiseour principles or pawn our immortal souls forselfish purposes. We do not turn our backs uponthe history of the last three years. We seek noavenue of retreat. We insist that the forwardcourse is the only righteous course. (Applause) We seek to re-establish the fruits of victory,to reinstate the good faith of our country, and to 42 restore it to its rightful place among the nations _ of the earth. Our cause constitutes a summons to duty. The heart of America stirs again. Theancient faith revives. The immortal part of manspeaks for us. The services of the past, the sac-rifices of the war, the hopes of the future, con-stitute a spiritual force gathering about our ban-ners. We shall release again the checked forcesof civilization and America shall take up oncemore the leadership of the world. (Prolongedapplause, long continued cheering and risingdemonstration) a r ) at aes ’ Oe 4x04. =a... te 7a 7 i hei - ( we % ra~ - g 4 af®5 ‘ heae pe.n for‘ | Pa ) aa hdl ws : RaemS, ’ ‘ ~ ae¢ si vol | é. ‘ . ieowhe y m%a i ‘ r Pry 5 ‘ : ® = ©“t q . ' ~ :Wed ¢ f a‘ ‘ 7 u 4 ‘4 ir fho ‘ i .5 as =‘?- 5i~, ‘ar ‘. FP rrr ¢¢ — 3“Wits -i '.i “i. ' | iii UF
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