The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-05

EAA42e1DEN1 WOOD1OA WILSON,
 peace has beens We have found one
 another again as brothers and com rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen arous friends rather, our battles long past. the quarrel forgotten. except that we shah not forget tl1e splendid valOr, the manly devotion, of the men then arrayed against one another, now Erzsping hands and smiling into each others eyes How complete the union has become and how dear to all of US, ; how unquest1oned, how benign and majestic. as state after state has been added to this our great family of free mens How handsome the vfgor, the maturity, the might, of the great na- ton we love with undivided hearts how full of large and confident prom 1se that life win be wrought out that will crown its strength with gracious justice and with a happy welfare that wiH touch all alike with deep content msut. We are debtors to those fifty 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 that the people might live But their task is done Their day is turned Into evening They look to us to per feet what they established Their work is handed on to us to be done In another way, but not in another spirit Our day Is not over. It Is upon us in full tide.
 Have anafrs paused7 Does the na- Hon stand still? Is what the fifty years have wrought since those days of bat ue finished. rounded out and complet- eds Here is a great people, great with every force that has ever beaten in the dfeblood of mankind And it is secure There Is no one within it's borders. there Is no power among the nations of the earth, to make 1t afraid. But has 1t yet squared itself with its own great standards set up at its birth, when it made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of man. kind to take notice that a government had now at last been established which was to serve men, not masters? It is secure In everything except the satisfaction that its life is right ad- 5usted to the uttermost to the stand ards 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 AI-S OA war; DSCduSC udIQGE 70 Se8 clearly, requiring more vision, more calm balance of judgment, a more cam G7d 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 unnp hurled against column, battery believing to battery! valor? Yes! Greater no man shall see in war. and self sacrifice and loss to the uttermost, The high reckiessness of exalted de xotion which does not count the cost. We ere made by these tragic, epic things to know what it costs to make a natiorf-the blood and sacrifice of muititudeR of unknown men lifted to a great stature in the view of all genera tions bT knowing no limit to their | manly willingness to serve. In armies 1 Ehus marshaled from the ranks of free men you will see, as it were, a nation | enbstfled. the leaders and the led, | and may know. if you will, how little | except In form its action differs in days of peace from it's action in days | 1f @ars
 May we break camp now and be at | ease7 Are the forces that fight for the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone Do their homes, forgetfuI of the com mon causes Are our forces disorganiz- la .siEhgufuconstifz fzfed 1ezdeEs and the |