The Washington herald., 1913-04-27

the first who will come around asking
for help when they want employment or
assistance of any kind, and whose rela-
tives are most persistent in their petit
tons for military funeral.
1t is the duty of commanders of camps
of the U. S. w. V. to aid sick and dis
tressed comrades and their families, and
how can you expect an organization,
| with which you have no connection, and
for which you have done nothing, to
come to your assistance in time of need ?
President Wilson's Views.
If further evidence was wanted to in
dictate to the most skeptical mind the
necessity of those officers and enlisted
men. regulars and volunteers, who par
ticipated in the war with Spain, the
Philippine insurrection, and the Chinese
rebellion Of 1900 to form a national or
ganization, patterned after those patri-
otto bodies that are now fast answering
the last muster-the Grand Army of the
Republic and the Confederate Veterans
1t is with great pleasure that 1 here
quote the address Of Hon. Woodrow
Wilson, while Governor of New Jersey,
in extending to the United Spanish War
Veterans a welcome to Atlantic City,
n. j., during the Ninth National En-
campment, September to 10, 1912, and
from which he has recently said that
he has not seen any reason why he
would not again make the same, or
equally as strong. an address were he
again given the honor to welcome the
veterans to any city:
Mr.. Mayor, Mr.. Commander-in-chief,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
1T is my privilege to be here tonight
to extend the greetings of the State to
this body of Spanish War Veterans, who
have gathered for the interesting meet
ing at which they are engaged in weld
ing again those links of comradeship
which bound them together while their
country was at war. One cannot greet
this particular body without thinking
that it is a privilege to one State to well
come body Of men whose past history
has 1.-The significance that attaches to the
Spanish-American war, because not I'M
til the Spanish-American war did Sec
tional feeling disappear in America, and
to welcome the veterans Of that war is
to experience the satisfaction of think |
ing that the pulse Of the nation for the |
beats in New Jersey, because
believe that future historians will more |
and more look upon the Spanish war as
one Of the most important turning points |
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ton. Cloud applause)
America has only slowly found her /
way toward that unity which would nat
urally have characterized her had she
not spread her population over a great |
continent and experienced the variety Of
life which came with the variety of con-
ditions on that great continent, but not
until that were we bouAd together in a
common impulse of service or with feel
ing that the nation waA completed and
that now at last we fell as a single
people,
Il am an advocate Of peace. and yet I
must say that there are some splendid
things that come to a nation by the
discipline of war. An interesting friend
II mine, who is a very ardent and a :
very efficient .friend Of peace, wrote a
very interesting essay few years ago, |,
untitled Christmas: It's Unfinished Bust
less" and the theme Of the essay was
his: That peace would supplant war just
70 soon as peace became as handsome
IS war. He called attention to the sig
lificant circumstane that you never go Is
INTO household and zee Q yardstick or |,
spade or any symbol or implement Of :
eace hung up over the mantelpiece to II
the service OF some son Of I,
he household, but that very often you
ee hanging there sword or a musket, IL
nd the reason Is that the sword and I
he musket were ueod for somebody ]
lse and not for the man who welded Il
hem.
There are many selfish purposes ]
erved by war. There are many ugly ]