The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-06-04
PRESIDENT DECLARES SOLDIERS
OF CIVIL CONFLICT HAVE
ENDED SECTIONAL
BITTERNESS.
CLARK SOLDIERS FRIEND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE IN ARLINGTON
ADDRESS LAUDs SPIRIT OF
SACRIFICE IN BATTLE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington.-Presid Wilson and
Speaker Clark delivered addresses at
the Memorial Day services under the
auspices of the G. A. r. in Arlington
National Cemetery.
The President had not expected to
participate. but he believed false
construction had been placed upon his
declination and decided to attend and
speak.
Before the Presidents decision had
been communicated to those in charge
they had invited Speaker Clark to
make the address of the day, and he
had come from Atlantic City for this
purpose.
President Wilson was applauded as
he entered the vine-clad amphitheatre
In which the exercises were held, and
again when Dr. ]. X. Gleason. the COM
mander OF the Department of the Po-
tomac, G. A. R., presented him to the
great audience, made up chiefly of
members of patriotic societies.
so soon as the tasks of society are
performed in the same spirit Of self
sacrifice and devotion as are the tasks
of the soldier, peace societies will not
be necessary" said the President.
1.-THE corporation of captains from
Nimrod to General Wood, occupy more
space in the annals of mankind than
do all the statesmen, philosophers,
poets, preachers, writer's and artisans
that ever lived" argued Speaker
Clark.
In his introduction of Speaker
Clark, DR.. Gleason spoke OF the Mis-
souri, leader as the man who has al
ways been a friend of the soldier. who
is always fair and fights in the open"
Clark's reception was tumultuous.
President Wilson said in part:
II have not come here today with
a prepared address. The committee in
charge of the exercises of the day has
graciously excused me on the grounds
of public obligations from preparing
an address, but will not deny myself
the privilege of joining with you in
an expression of gratitude and ad-
miration for the men who perished for
the sake OF the Union.
They do not need our praise. They
do not need that our admiration should
sustain them There is no Immortality
that is safer than theirs. We come not
for their sakes, but for our own. in
order that we may drink at the same
springs of inspiration from which they
themselves drank.
"A peculiar privilege came to the
men who fought for the Union. There
is no other civil war in history, the
stings of which were removed before
tho men who did the fighting passed
from the stage Of life.
$50 we owe those men something
more than a legal re-establishment Of
the Union. We owe them the spiritual
re-establishment Of the Union, for
they not only reunited states, but they
reunited the spirits Of men. That is
their unique achievement.
whenever a man who is still trying
to devote himself to the service OF the
nation, comes into presence like this.
OF into place like this, his spirit must
be peculiarly moved. A mandate is
laid upon him which seems to speak
from the very graves themselves.
Those who serve this nation.
whether in peace or in war, should
serve the nation without thought of
themselves
Senator Smoot also made an address
in which he referred briefly to the
Mexican situation.