New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-12
THEY DIED FOR MANKIND-WILSON IN TRIBUTE.


follows:
NJ s.,,,v know that the feelings which characterize all
who stand about me and this hour feelings
which suitably expressed in terms CT attempted oory or eo
oence They are things ordinary speech For
mart have singular of feelings The feeling that
most is one Of profound grief lads should have had
their death And mixed with that grief profound pride
that they they did, and may say out OF
nv heart touch envy of those who permitted SO quietly
nobly. to do their duty
Have Won thought Here the roster OF the navy the
let the men o6 Marines and suddenly there
swim nineteen stars who have suddenly gone INTO
che armament Of memory shall always their shine
NOT because they admire Them but because they
served asking questions and IN the performance OF
duty which laid well as upon them
Duv not thing gentlemen Men are performing
- the ordinary walks around all the time and they
ar. making great perform What like these
ncuar distinction merely hat they did their duty but that
the;r duty had nothing with them with their personal
md ecar interests They give their lives for themselves
thew gave their because called upon them as nation
70 perform unexpected duty That the way which men grow
DISTINGUISHED and that only wayby serving somebody else
than what thing could you serve than
nation such love and are proud OF?
Are lads? Are sorry tor the they
will be quicken pulses to think of the
list of them? hope God of join the list but you
do you will join an immortal company
WILL MOURN THEM WITH PRIDE.
So while you are profoundly while there
Of our hearts very deep sympathy for the friends
and eaives of these lads who
them though with pride know why did
from this occasion with heads lifted and
on the with absolute confidence OF how 1t Will
try but immediate future
We gone Mexico mankind we can find
out way do to fight the Mexcans we want 10
serve the because know how would like
to be free and like be served there friends
standing by ready TO serve u.s.
war of aggression in which it is proud hng TO
die but war thing in which it is proud thing TO
bood-men OF our American
blood from country which not drawn
from which drawn from any one language OF
the modern world everywhere have sent their sons
their brothers and their daughters to this country m 0
make great compounded nation which consists OF all the STURDY
elements and of all the of the whole globe
listened again to this with profound interest at the mkt
m of the names the marks of the several ma
tonal from which these men came But 'hy arc no. ]
not when they Vera Cruz they were Americans every one
Of them and we rejoice s by ese in peculiar sense Of
blood and they proved by showing that they were OF [
t esm ne 2om they thought and the things that
American which they served was nag winch
all the blood of mankind S united make free nation
WAR A SYMBOL OF DUTY.
War gentlemen only sort of draatc ma sort
Of dramatic symbol Of thousand 0 n as are some things
lust under fire. fancy that 1t is Ju as
shooting at you When they you they only take your
natural life when they sneT at you ey n T0ue eagy their
principles enough go their duty with regard to their fellow
men no whether there Kisses or chesen VINO can 90
what Rudyard Kipling in one of his poems wrote:
triumph and disaster and treat those two mp0s'0rs
just the same"
Morlv speaking disaster and triumph imposors Inc
the verdict of his of the conscences of mankind So
when feel as if also and we ALL were e ems men
TO serve the country what what though we may
waste our the duous endeavo We are expected 10 put m
energy of every power that have into the service OF our
feowmen sparng ourselves not ondescendng 10 tnh OF
what going ourselves but ready need be- to go to
the utter length of complete sef-sacrifce So A.,
have one s from US know that the clearer the future
These boys shown the way and 1t easier to walk on II
here soenny and grief pride hearts and