The Alaska daily empire., 1913-07-10
Wilson's Gettysburg
 Speech is Masterpiece
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ton stand still? Is what the fifty years have wrought since those days of battle finished, rounded out and completed? There is a great people, great with every force that has ever beaten in the life blood of mankind. And it is secure. There is no one with in it's borders, there is no power among the nations of the earth to make it afraid. But has it yet squared itself with it's own great standards set up at it's birth, when it made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that a government had now at last been established which was to serve men, not masters? 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 balancing of judgment, a more candid searching of the very springs of right
 Look around you on the field of Get tysburg. Picture the array, the fierce heat and agony of battle. Column hurled against column, battery bel lowing to battery! Valor? Yes. Great CT no man shall see in war. and self sacrifice and loss to the uttermost; the high reckIessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragic, epic things to know what it costs to make a na- tiOn-the blood and sacrifice of multi tudes of unknown men lifted to a great stature in the view of all gen. erations by knowing no limit to their manly willingness to serve. In ar mics thus marshaled from the ranks of free men you will see, as it were, nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how little except in form it's action differs in days of peace from it's ac- tion in days of war.
 May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that fight for the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to their homes forgetful of the com mon cause? Are our forces disOrgan- ized, without constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united because we contend, not with armies, but with principalities and powers and wickedness in high places?
 Are we content to lie still? Does our Union mean sympathy, our peace contentment, our yigor right action, our maturity self-cOmprehensiOn and a clear cinfidence in choosing what We shall do? War fitted us for action, and action never ceases.
 I have been chosen the leader of the nation; I cannot justify the choice by any qualities of my own, but so it has come about, and here l stand. Whom do I command? The ghostly hosts who fought upon these battle fields long ago and are gone? These gallant gentlemen stricken in years whose fighting days are over, their glory won? What are the orders for them, and who rallies them?
 I have in mind whom these set free through strife in order that they might work out in days of peace and set tied order the life of a great nation. That host is the people themselves, the great and small without class or difference of kind or race or origin; and undivided in interest, if we have but the vision to guide and direct them and order their lives alright in what we do. Our constitutions are their articles of enlistment. The orders Of the day are the laws upon our statute books. What we strive for is their freedom, their right to lift themselves from day to day and behold the things they have hoped for, and so make way for still better days for those whom they love who are to come af- ter them.
 The recruits are the little children crowding in. The quartermaster's stores are in the mines and forests and fields, in the shops and factories. Every day something must be done to push the campaign forward; and it must be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny.
 How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved? l would not have you live even today wholly in 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 always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day of our country's life has but broadened into morning. Do not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the present on. Lift your eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be conquered in the inter- est of righteous peace, of that pros perity which lies in a peoples hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come, let us be comrades and