Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-07-10
VETERANS HEAR I
The PRESIDENT
Mr.. Wilson Delivers Address at
Gettysburg Celebration.
DRAWS LESSON FROM BATTLE
Declares Great Army Of the People
Must Fight Peacefully to
Perfect the Nation
All Love.

oSbNg 5UNA A2.g TANabAOhoA
Jay in the semicentennial celebration
OF the Battle OF Gettysburg was made
especially notable by an address de-
hvered by President Woodrow Wilson.
In his audience were many thousands
of the veterans who fought In the
great battle, as well as great throng
OF other visitors.
The presidents address followe:
Friends and Fellow Citizens: need
not tell you what the battle Of Gettys-
burg meant These gallant men In
blue and gray sit all about US here.
Many OF them met here upon this
ground In grim and deadly struggle.
Upon these famous fields and hillsides
their comrades died about them. In
their presence II were an lmpertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went,
how It ended. what II signi1edl But
80 years have gone by since then and
crave the privilege OF speaking to
you for few minutes of what those
80 years have meant. ..a.
What have they me- |Gx
meant peace and union 1se
the maturity and might Of q great ms
ton. How wholesome and healing thel
peace has beenl We have found ona,
another again as brothers and COMFY
rades In arms, enemies no longer, gen.
erous friends rather. our battles long
past. the 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
has become and how dear TO all of us,
how unquestioned. how benign and
majestic. AZ state after state has been
added to this great family OF free
men! How handsome the vigor, the
maturity. the might OF the great ma
ton we love with undivided hearts;
how full of large and confident prom.
ise that life will be wrought out
that will crown Its strength with gra-
cious justice and q happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those so
crowded years; they have made US
noAfs W miButy neHLA&e.
Nation Not FInIshsd.
But do we deem the nation com
pists and nnishedf These venerable
men crowding here TO this famous
nsld have set ua great example Of
devotion and utter sacrifice. They
were willing to die that the people
might live. But their task 10 done
Their day 10 turned into evening. They
look to VI to perfect what they estab-
lished. Their work Ia handed on to
Us. TO be done In another way but not
In another spirit. Our day La not over;
II Is upon US In full tide.
Have affairs pausedf Does the
nation stand still! Is II what the 80
years have wrought since those days
of battle finished. rounded out, ana
completsdf Here Is great people.
great with every force that has ever
beaten In the life blood of mankind.
And It is secure. There IL no one
within Its borders. there Ia no.
power among the nations OF the earth,
to make II afraid. But has II yet
squared itself with it's own great
standards set up at Its birth. when It
made that first noble. naive 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? II is
secure in everything except the salts
faction that its life is right, adjusted
TO the uttermost to the standards OF
righteousness and humanity. 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