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Excerpt from Sacrifice the Price of Victory to Our Allies, to Our Fighting Men, to the Folks at Home: Address Delivered by Captain Frank Edwards, Royal Fusiliers, at the Convention of the Minnesota Bankers Association, Minneapolis, June 28, 1918
I am very sincerely grateful to you for your very cordial welcome this morning. I accept it entirely in the Spirit in which you offer it. It is intended in no personal sense, I know; but you offer it to me to-day because, in some unworthy way, I repre sent your Allies and the men now fighting the line, not only the fighting men of the line but the men who have been maimed, mutilated, wounded - aye, and in a still more unworthy sense, I represent, gentlemen, the unreturning dead, the men who are sleep ing and waiting on many battlefields, waiting to-day for the hour when you with others shall splendidly finish the work they so gloriously began. May I remind you at the outset that, however great your glories as a nation in the past, however great your privations and sacrifices in the day that lies before you, nevertheless, your suffer ings, your privations, and your sacrifices hitherto are trivial and insignificant when compared with the sorrow and the suffering - aye, the heart agony, of Belgium and of France and of England also, the Allies who for four long years have stood shoulder to shoulder with you in this great conflict for freedom and liberty the wide world over.
My message to you, gentlemen, this morning is a very simple one; in many respects it is a'very serious one. We are all dreaming of victory, praying for victory, toiling for victory, but, men and women of America, there is only one road to victory, and that is the road through struggle and through sacrifice. The road to victory lies through solid achievement and stern sacrifice, and there is no other way.
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