. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . J .^> ^w^ ;\. ALSOPUP-TENTS 224 THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION It is not the custom of Americans to adopt a hymn of hate and becomedepraved in the chanting of it. But to refrain from truth, the proclaiming ofwhich would help to enhance righteous indignation, already kindled, w^ouldbe an act of omission difficult to pardon. There -were many men of our gov-ernment working to bring to the eye of the public the truth about conditionsas they were known to exist. Prominent among these was Secretary of StateRobert Lansi
. The history and achievements of the Fort Scheridan officers' training camps . J .^> ^w^ ;\. ALSOPUP-TENTS 224 THE FORT SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION It is not the custom of Americans to adopt a hymn of hate and becomedepraved in the chanting of it. But to refrain from truth, the proclaiming ofwhich would help to enhance righteous indignation, already kindled, w^ouldbe an act of omission difficult to pardon. There -were many men of our gov-ernment working to bring to the eye of the public the truth about conditionsas they were known to exist. Prominent among these was Secretary of StateRobert Lansing. In a speech to the student officers at Madison Barrackshe said: The evil character of the German government is laid bare beforethe world. We know that that government is inspired with ambitionsw^hich menace human liberty, and that to gains its end does not hesitateto break faith or to perpetrate interminable acts of humanity. It needed but the words reported to have been uttered by the Ger-man chancellor to complete the picture of the character of his govern-ment when he announced that t
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