Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — FOE CAN NEVER WIN [ARTICLE]

FOE CAN NEVER WIN

DANIELS SPEAKS TO GRADUATING CLASS AT ANNAPOLIS. * Tells Officers That Americans Fight With Pity and Hate in Their Hearts. Annapolis, Md„ June 7.— “ Germany can never win the war. She could never win it even if her armies marched down the streets of Paris and of Loudon, for America has called into life those forces tint! not all of the cannon In the world can kill—those elements of justice, of right and of liberty that uo conqueror can long hold prisoner.” This was the message delivered by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to the 199 njembers of the Annapolis Naval academy class of 1919, graduating a year ahead of schedule because of the war. The secretary recalled the traditions of the American navy, which he called upon the graduates to perpetuate; the deeds of its heroes, which be urged them to emulate; reviewed the aims of America in the war and read a message addressed to the garduates from Vice Admiral Sims. “We have come into*'this war with; no thought of material gain,” said Secretary Daniels, “with no hope of measurable reward, with no desire for power and with tin lust of battle. We have come in with pity and with hate in our hearts —pity for those men whom an international outlaw had ravished and destroyed, and hate for the despicable things he has done under the specious plea of military right, He has made war upon the aged and infirm; war upon the women and children; war upon neutrals; war upon the Red Cross- —and then calls it the act of military necessity.” ,