This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...should interrupt negotiations and disappoint our hopes of peace. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT AND A WAR OF SERVICE 18. Extract from an Address of President Wilson. May 11, 1914 1 (From the official printed text; for the entire address see Congressional Record, LI, 8426) We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we can ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...should interrupt negotiations and disappoint our hopes of peace. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT AND A WAR OF SERVICE 18. Extract from an Address of President Wilson. May 11, 1914 1 (From the official printed text; for the entire address see Congressional Record, LI, 8426) We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we can find out the way. We do not want to fight the Mexicans. We want to serve the Mexicans, if we can, because we know how we would like to be free and how we would like to be served if there were friends standing by in such case ready to serve us. A war of aggression is not a war in which it is a proud thing to die, but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud thing to die. Notice how. truly these men were of our blood. I mean of our American blood, which is not drawn from any one country, which is not drawn from any one stock, which is not drawn from any one language of the modern world; but free men everywhere have sent their sons and their brothers and their daughters to this country in order to make that great compounded Nation which consists of all the sturdy elements and of all the best elements of the whole globe. I listened again to this list of the dead with a profound interest because of the mixture of the names, for the names bear the marks of the several national stocks from which these men came. But they are not Irishmen or Germans or Frenchmen or Hebrews or Italians any more. They were not when they went to Vera Cruz; they were Americans, every one of them, and with no difference in their American 1 At the memorial services at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the men killed at Vera Cruz. ism because of the stock from which they came. They were in a peculiar sense of our blood, and they proved it by showing that they were of our spi...
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