The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-05
Visions
TRIBUTE To
The HEROES
President Made Wonderful
Address Yesterday
Was Last Formal Mark Of the
Big Celebration
President Says CountrYs Enc
mics Still Exist

Gettysburg. July The regular
army paid tribute to the thousands
who sleep under the hills of Gettys
burg. Somewhere down in the heart
of the tented city q bugle rang out a
call that wandered over the field where
Lee and Meade made history. and the
big flag before the Headquarters Of
General Liggett came slowly to half
mast. In front of the tent, shoulders
squared, figure trim in summer uni
form of white, faced toward the flag.
the general clicked his heels together
and stood at attention; somewhere the
guns OF the Third infantry burst into
a salute. Every officer over the length
and breadth of the wide field, every
enlisted man turned away from his
duties of the moment and faced the
flag, saluting.
9 Old veterans who did not realize.
perhaps just what was going on stood
silent under the spell Of universal feel
ing that seemed to sweep the field.
Even the clatter OF pots and pans In
the mess tents was hushed.
For five minutes the camp was quiet
Then the bugle spoke again. The flag
leaped up the staff to the very PIN
nacle and the noises that 10000 men
can make resumed sway. 1t was the
regular army's tribute to the dead and
to the flag of a reunited nation.
The five minutes OF silence was
probably the last formal mark OF the
semi-centennia1 celebration.
Wilson's Address.
President Wilson's address to the
veterans yesterday was a remarkable
effort The president said:
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. II,
their presence 1t were an impertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went
how 1t ended, what it signified! Il But
fifty years have gone by since then
and crave the privilege Of speaking
to you for a few minutes OF what those
fifty years have meant. t5 4.
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and vigor, and
the maturity and might of great ma
tion. How wholesome and healing the
peace has been We have found one
another again as brothers and COM
rades In arms. enemies no longer cen
erous friends rather, our battles long
past. the quarrel forgotfen--exceIff 1ysr E
that we shall not forget the splendid
vaiour, the manly devotion Of the men
then arrayed against one another, now
graEping hands and smiling into each
others eyes. How complete the union
has become and how dear to all Of ,Is3
how nqnestioned how benign ana
majestic, 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
tion we love with undivided hearts.
how full OF large and conf dent prom
ise that q life will be wrought out that
Will crown its strength with gracious
Justice and with happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those Atty
crowded years they have made us.
heirs to a. mighty heritage
@ But do we deem the nation complete
crowding here to this famous Held
have set us a. great example OF tlsYo-s
tion and utter sacrifice They are viii
ing TO die that the people might i've.
But their task Is done Their S5ay q is
turned into evening. They look to ms
to perfect what they established. Their:
work is handed on to lis, to be done ir1
another way but not In another spirit.
cur day is not over; 1t lis upon us iii.
full tide.
Have affairs paused Does the ma.
ton stand still !? rs what the fifty yearg
have wrought since those days OF, bat -#
tie finished, rounded out, and coTnplef-
ed n Here is a great people, great vyffl XII
every force It hat has ever beaten iii the
siifeblood Of mankind. And 1T Isl AZ -
cure There is no one within Ills boz
saers. there Is no power among the na Z
tions of the cart AZ, to make sit afraid.
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