Elihu Root, Nobel peace prize laureate, addresses 12,000 cheering men and women who crowd into the old Madison Square Garden for a pro-war rally.
March 22, 1917 — Every American, every true American heart should respond with joy, amid its sorrow, to the feeling that if we enter this war, … we shall be fighting over again the battle of the American democracy. The democracy of England, the democracy of France, and now, God be praised, the great democracy of Russia.
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