. Minutes . fter the ex-perience of a decade, realized that his own people were hisbest friends and that peace with them and trust in them was thesafest and wisest policy. Then men came to think upon what the past was andwhat its history meant and what it was worth to them to vindi-cate the patriotism of their motives, the justice of their cause,and the sublime courage which animated them and their asso-ciates in the greatest war the world has ever seen They hadoffered and sacrificed on their countrys altar one thousand mena week for four years. They had yielded and surrendered andused i
. Minutes . fter the ex-perience of a decade, realized that his own people were hisbest friends and that peace with them and trust in them was thesafest and wisest policy. Then men came to think upon what the past was andwhat its history meant and what it was worth to them to vindi-cate the patriotism of their motives, the justice of their cause,and the sublime courage which animated them and their asso-ciates in the greatest war the world has ever seen They hadoffered and sacrificed on their countrys altar one thousand mena week for four years. They had yielded and surrendered andused in their defense hundreds of millions of dollars, or theequivalent of $700,000 each day during this long and ever-lengthening period. But now as tyranny and oppression hadlifted off the face of the earth as a fog disappears before therising sun, with the assurance of political liberty there camea fixed and immovable purpose to present for the considerationof mankind the motves which impelled them in their struggle,. a is a,U o 88 Tweniieth Ratnion, Mobile, Ala., April 26, 27 and28,1910. and to tell the world what magnificent courage had been mani-fested in the battles that had been fought, what splendid en-durance in the marches that had been made, and what patri-otism in the sacrifices which had been suffered for four briefbut terrible years. When these brave people began to read the stories thatbeen prepared for the study of their children, they discoveredthe grossest misrepresentation of their principles and theirpurposes. They found perversion of truth on many pages; andin addition to all the horrors of defeat, they saw themselvesas courageous men, as true women, as liberty-loving Anglo-Saxons, traduced, slandered, villified, misrepresented. In alittle while it was found that success lay only through thepower and efficiency of a thorough organization. Substantialpolitical freedom had been won. The carpet-bagger was athing of the past. The scalawag had slunk into his hiding p
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