The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-07-08

Gettysburg, July 4.-The trail
bearing President Wilson arrived a
the station in the town OF Gettysburg
at HOP o'clock The president wal
escorted to an automobile and nc
COMMANDED by Governor Tener, passed
through the town to the Emmitsbure
road and then proceeded over that
tboroughfare to the camp.
The president spoke to crowd est
mated at ten thousand. Thousands OF
veterans were in their uniforms OF
gray or blue, but many in the crowd
were Pennsylvanlans from Gettys-
burg and nearby towns. The presi-
dents speech was short and he was
frequently interrupted by cheers.
President Wilson left by special
train shortly before noon for the
north.
President Wilson addressed the vet
Grams as follows:
Friends and Fellow Citizens:
Il need not tell you what the battle
OF Gettysburg 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 strug-
gle. Upon these famous fields and
hillside their comrades died about
them. In their presence It were an
impertinence to discourse upon how
the battle went, how 1t ended, what
It signified but so years nave gone
by since then, and l crave the privi-
lege of speaking to you for few
minutes of what those 80 years
meant.
What Years Have Meant.
What have they meant? They nave
meant peace and union and vigor
and the maturity and might of a
great nation. How wholesome and
healing the peace has been! We have
found one another again brothers
and comrades in arms, enemies no
longer, generous friends rather, our
battles long past, the quarrel forgot
ten-except that we snail not forget
the splendid valor, the manly devotion
of the men then arayed 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 unques-
toned, how benign and majestic, as
state after state has been added to
this our great family OF free men!
How handsome the vigor the matur-
ity, the might of the great nation we
love with undivided hearts; how full
OF large and confident promise that
life will be wrought out that will
crown its strength with gracious JUS
tice and with happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep content
ment! We are debtors to those so
crowded years; they have made us
heirs to a mighty heritage.
Work for the Nation.
But do we deem the nation COM
plete 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 perfect 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; 1t is upon us in full tide
Have affairs paused? Does the nat
ion stand still? Is what the so years
have wrought since those days OF bat
tie finished, rounded out, and com
plete? Here is a great people great
with every force that has ever beaten
in the life blood Of mankind And 1t i,
secure. There is no one within III
borders, there Is no power among tn,
nations of the earth TO make IT afraid
l1hN hub ~ bihulN lNotll WIN Ito pNl
great standards set up at its birth
when It made that first noble, naiv,
appeal to the moral judgment of man
kind to take notice that government
had now at last been establishes
which was to serve men not masters
II Is secure in everything except Ia
satisfaction that its life is right, al
justed to the uttermost to the stanC
ards OF righteousness and humanity
The days Of sacrifice and cleansin
ar not closed. We have harder thing
10 do than were done in the hero
days of war, because harder to st
clearly, requiring more vision, mol
ca m balance of judgment, h more ca
did searching of the very springs
right.
VElor OF Veterans
Look around you upon the field
Gettysburg! Picture the array, d