The Washington times., 1913-07-04
PRESIDENT ST|RS
AGED WARRIORS
Lauds Blue and Gray as True
Americans in Address at
Gettysburg.
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know, If You will, how little except in
form Its action differs in days of peace
from its action 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 forgettul Ct the common
causeI Are our forces disorganized.
might of men consciously united be-
cause we contend, not with armies. but
with principalities and powers and
vnet. %iekedness in in high places? Are we
mean sympathy, Our peace content
ment our vigor right action, our ma
turfty self-comprehension and a clear
confidence in choosing what we shall
do? War fitted US for action, and ac-
ton never ceases.
Strive For Freedom.
Il have been chosen the leader of
the Nation. cannot justify the choice
by any qualities of my own, but so
IL has come about, and here I stand.
Whom do I command? The ghostly
hosts who fought upon these battle
nelds long ago and are gone? These
gallant gentlemen stricken in years
whose fghting days are over, their
glory won? What are the orders for
them. and who rallies them? have in
my mind another host, whom these
set free of civil strife in order that
they might work out in days of peace
and settled order the life of a great
nation. That host is the people them
selves, the great and the small, with
out 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 or
ders of the day are the laws upon our
statute books. What We strive for
Is their freedom, their right to lif.
themselves from day TO day and behold
the things they have hoped for, and
30 make way for stil better days for
those whom they love who are to come
children crcwding In. The quartermas-
ter's stores are in the mines and for
ests and fields, in the shops and fac
tories. Every day something must be
and II must be done by plan and with
an eye to some great destiny.
Learn By Great Lesson.
How shall we hold such thoughts in
our bearts and not be moved? I 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.
1lSTc 10 tue HdllOu OOu has Dul1ocu Dt
our honds. 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 interest Of righteous peace, of that
prosperity which lies in peoples hearts
n~,A n,,fr oil oDl nf
men. Come. let US be comrades and
soldiers yet to serve our FELLOW men
in quiet counsel where the blare of
trumpets is neither heard nor needed
and where the things are done which
make blessed the nations of the world
In peace and righteousness and love.
The applause given the, President at
the conclusion OF his remarks was tre-
mendous. Veterans the youngest no
less than sixty-five years old, showed
that their lungs were as good as ever
For miles the applause echoed and re-
echoed, from one end Of the battle
ground to the other.
The President remained in Gettysburg
less than an hour. He reached the rail-
road station over the Western Maryland
at about IL o'clock. where the Presiden-
tial salute of twenty-one guns was fired
by battery OF field artillery from Fort
Myer. Governor Tener of Pennsylvania
and members of his stan and members
of the Gettysburg commission met him
At the station.
The Presidential party entered auto
mobiles which awaited them, and was
whised to the big tent or the battle
field where the exercises were held. Out
on the historic battleswept Emmits-
burg road the President and his party
went covering in five minutes in the
swift motor car the path which re-
quired Lincoln more than an hour to
drive in an old carriage.
The party drew up 10 the tent the
President alighted. All Gettysburg. to-
o fthe day. as well as the many thou
sands Of veterans in camp. turned out
TO greet him.
Throng of Old Men.
Before Mr. Wilson were the hosts of
weary old men. the remnants Of those
youths who. half century ago today,
were the victors and the vanquished in
one Of the most daring. as well as blood
Test, battles Of centuries.
Governor Tener made a brief intro
ductory address, and President Wilson
took the platform:
Minutes before the storm of applause
following the address had died down,
the President had left the tent, ac-
companied by the army officers. The
State constab bulary made a lane through
the throng Of people, through which
the Presidential party passed. He was
hurried almost directly to the station,
where he boarded his car for Cornish,
n. H, where he will join his family.
The salute to the Union. booming of
forty-eight guns, one for each State.
marked the Presidential departure.
On his way from Washington to
Gettysburg this morning the President
held his special train at Millers Sta
don, Md, that an anxious, motherly
looking farmers wife might see him.
Held Train for Woman.
The President heard the woman in
quirirg of the conductor how she could
see the President. Thrusting his head
out of the open window the President
smiled kindly at her and put out his
hand. The woman, blushing In delight,
shook II as the train moved out Of me
station.
At Hanover, Pa. a great crowd
thronged the depot and cheered the
President. He was sleeping when the
train entered the station. but arose
and hurried TO the train platform.
where he leaned over and shook hands
with crowd of railway WOrkmen who