The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-05

PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
ONGETTYSBURGFIFID

Gettysburg. Pa. July 4.-President
Woodrow Wilson. addressing the blue
and gray veterans here to-day, spoke
as follows:
Friends and Fellow citizcns.-1
need not tell you what tho battle of
Gettysburg meant. These gallant men
In Blue and Gray sit all about us
here. Many of them met hero upon
this ground In grim and deadly strug-
gle Upon these famous fields and
hillsides their comrades died about
them. In their presence it were an
impertinencc to discourse upon how
the battle went, how 1t ended. what
1t signifed! But fifty years have gone
by since then. and i crave tho priv
ilege OF speaking to you for a few
minutes OF what those fifty years have
meant
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and vigor, and
the maturity and might of great ma
ton. How wholesome and healing the
peace has been. We have found ono
another again rs brothers and com
rades in arms. enemies no longer. gem
crous friends rather. our battles long
past, tho quarrel forgotten--except
that we shall not forget the splendid
Valor, the manly devotion of the men
then arrayed against one another, now
grasping hands and smiling into each
others eyes. How complete the union
now unqucstioned. how benign and ma
Jestic, as state after State has been
ADDED TO this our great family of free
men! How handsome the viGor, the
maturity. the might of the great ma
ton we love with undivided hearts:
now full of large and confident prom
Use that n life will be wrought out thar
will crown its strength with gracious
justice and with n happy welfare that
VIII touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those fifty
crowded years; they have made US
heirs to mighty heritage.
Work Not Completed.
But do we deem the nation com
piete and finished? These venerable
men crowding here to this famous field
nave set us a great example of devo-
ton and utter sacrifice. They were
wiling to die that the people might
live. But their task is done Their
DAY Is turned into evening. They look
70 us TO perfect what they established.
Their work is handed on to us to be
done in another way. but not in an
other spirit Our day is not over: it
is upon us in full tide
Have affairs paused? Does the ma
ton stand still? Is what the nifty
years have wrought since those DAYS
Of battle finished. rounded out. and
completed? Here is great people.
great with every force that has ever
beaten in the Likelihood of mankind.
And II is secure. There is no one with
In its borders there is no power among
the nations OF the earth. to make II
afraid. But has IT yet squared itself
with It's own great standards set I'D
at It's birth. when II made that first
noble. naive appeal to the moral tudg-
ment OF mankind to take notice that
n government had now at last been
established which was to serve men.
not masters? 1t Is secure in everything
except the satisfaction that its life is
right. adjusted TO the uttermost To the
standards of righteousness and human
ity The days of sacrifice and cleans
ing are not closed. We have harder
things to do than were done in the
heroic days of war, because harder 10
see clearly. requiring more vision. more
calm balance of Judgment, IA more can
did 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. col
umn hurled against column, battery
believing to battery! Nalor? Yes.
Greater no man shall see in war: and
self sacrifice. and loss to the utter