Connecticut western news., 1913-07-10
THURSDAY. JULY 10. 1913
WILSON GETTYSBURG.

The speech, of President Wilson at Gettysburg can not be expected N to take mnk with the immortal address of Lin eoln on the same field-no orator can ever hope to overcome the handicap of that classic, immortalized by the sur roundings, the events, and the times in which it was uttered. But the address of President Wilson is far and away above the average of Gettysburg ad- dresses. and will have place in the literature of this generation. We quote few extracts:
 We are debtors to those 50 crowded years they have made us heirs to a mighty heritage
 But do we deem the nation complete and finished? These venerable men crowding here to this famous field have set us great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die chat the people might live. But their task is done. Their day is turned into evening. They look to us to perfect what they established. Their work is handed on to us, to be done i'll another way but not in another spirit. Our day Js not over 1t IS upon us in full tide.
 Have affairs paused? Does the nation stand still? Is what the 50 years have wrought since those days of battle finished, rounded out and completed? {? kere is a great people, great with every Boree that has ever beaten in the life blood of mankind. And it is secure. There is no one within it's borders, there S no power among the nations of the earth. to make it afraid. But has it yet squared itself with it's own great stand ards set up at it's birth. when it made shat first noble, native appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that government had now at last been established which was to serve men, not masters? It is secure in every thing except the satisfaction that It's life is right, adjusted to the uttermost to the-standards of righteousness and hu- maniJy. The days of sacrifice and cleansing are not closed. We have harder things to do than were done in the heroic days of war because harder to- see clearly, requiring more vision, more calm balance of judgment, more candid searching of the very springs of right.
 Look around you upon the field of Gettysburg Picture the array, the fierce heats and agony of battle, column hurled against column. battery below ing to battery! Valour? Yes Greater no man shall see in war and self-sacri- flee, and loss to the uttermost; the high recklessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost We are made by these tragic, epic things to know what 1t costs to make a nation the blood and sacrifice of multitudes of unknown men lifted to great stature in the vie W of all generations by knowing no limit to their manly willingness to serve. In armies thus marshaled from the ranks of free men you will see. as it were, a nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how httle except in form it's action differs in days of peace from it's action in days o1 war.
 How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved? I would not have you live even today wholly il the past, but would wish to stand with you in the light that streams upon us now out of that great day gone by Here is the nation God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with it who stands ready to act again and al ways in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day e& our country's life has but broadenet