harbor resentment against States whose independent exist-
ence will remind them of their own "deserved humiliation."
Our experience in Cuba indicates what we may expect of
them. After three years of existence as an independent
republic, Cuba indulged in a revolution. "Mr. Roosevelt
sent me down there to stop it and launch the Republic once
more. Well, I could not stop it except by sending for the
army and navy of the United States. That step had a
wholesome, conciliatory, quieting effect. We were not
called upon to fight. We took over the island and held it
for two years. We passed a lot of good statutes, among
them an election law, held a fair election under it and then
turned over the government to those elected. We had
launched her once more. If she ever requires it we will
do the same thing over again and launch her again, and then
again, until she gets strong enough -- I hope she is now -
to stand alone."

This unpretentious and good-natured recital of the accom-
plishment of a task which for another might have proved
difficult indeed -- and lengthy, if not bloody -- shows,
more: clearly than any abstract dissertation possibly could,
exactly the patience and fatherly concern which Mr. Taft
feels will be required of us in starting the new nations of
Europe safely on their way.

Our own sacrifices and the more awful sacrifices of our
allies, who were fighting our battle long before we awoke
to the fact, were made in order to suppress militarism, to
safeguard democracy and to make peace more lasting.

t was the United States, acting through its President,
that pointed the way to a league of nations. The hope of
it gave new courage to the armies of our allies and to the
people that suffered toil and hardship at home; it helped

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