Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1915-10-08

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expenditures within our revenues"
President Wilson's Address To The
q A. r. Veterans.
President Wilson addressed the G. A. X.
veterans in annual reunion at Washing
ton city last week He babe the veterans
cordial welcome, saying they were al
ways welcome to Washington, He said
that no one could stand in their presence
without having moving thoughts He told
the audience that great things had hap
pened since the veterans in that camp were
engaged in battle. When he declared that
the civil war healed the nation the audi
ence applauded. He said instead of dis
union there is permanent union. The
Presidents address in part follows
1T is singular thing that men of
single generation should have witnessed
what you have in the crowded so years
which you celebrate tonight. You took
part when you were young men in strua-
gle the meaning Of which. dare say, you
thought would not be revealed during your
lifetime and yet more has happened in
the making of this nation in your lifetime
than has ever happened in the making Of
any other nation in the lifetime of dozen
generations.
THE nation in which you now live is
not the nation for whose union you fought.
You have seen many things which have
made this nation one of the representa-
tive nations of the world with regard to
the modern spirit Of that world, and you
have the satisfaction which. dare say
few soldiers have ever had, Of looking back
upon war absolutely unique in this. that
instead Of destroying ii healed, that in
stead Of making permanent division 1t
made permanent union,
This nation was from the beginning a
spiritual enterprise, and you have seen the
spirits Of the two once divided sections of
this country absolutely united. A war
which seems as If 1t had the seed of every
kind Of bitterness In II has seen a single
generation put bitterness absolutely out Of
its heart and you feel, as am sure the
men who fought against you feel, that you
were comrades even then, though you did
not know 1t, and that now you know that
you are comrades in a common love for a
country which you are equally eager to
serve.
This is a miracle Of the spirit so far as
national history is concerned. This is one
of the very few wars in which. in one sense,
everybody engaged may take pride. Some
wars are to be regretted; some wars mar
the annals Of history but some wars con-
trasted with those make those annals dis
tinguished, show that the spirit Of man
sometimes springs to great enterprises that
are even greater than his own mind had
conceived
you set the nation free for that great
career Of development. of unhampered
development, which the world has wit
messed since the civil war. But for my
own part ! would not be proud Of the
extraordinary physical development Of this
country. Of its extraordinary development
in material wealth and financial power
did not believe that the people Of the
United States wished all Of this power de-
voted to ideal ends. There have been other
nations as rich as we there have been
other nations as powerful there have
been other nations as spirited but hope
we shall never forget that we created this
nation not to serve ourselves. but TO serve
mankind
Il hope | may say without even an i'm
plication Of criticism upon any other great
people in the world that IL has always
seemed to me that the people Of the United
States wished 10 be regarded as devoted
to the promotion Of particular principles
of human right. The United States were
founded not to provide free homes. but to
assert human rights.
This flag meant great enterprise of
the human spirit. Nobody no large bodies
of men, in the time that flag was first set
up. believed with very firm belief in
the efficacy Of democracy. DO you real
ize that only so long ago as the time Of
the American Revolution democracy was
regarded as an experiment in the world
and we were regarded as rash expert
mentersY But we not only believed in it,
we showed our belief was well founded
and that nation as powerful as any in
the world could be erected upon the will
of the people that, indeed. there was a
power in such nation that dwelt In no
other nation unless also In that other
nation the spirit Of the people prevailed.
I'VE now know and the world knows that
the thing that we then undertook. rash as
1t seemed. has been practicable. and that
we have set up in the world n govern
ment maintained and promoted by the
general conscience and the general con-
viction.
so stand here not to welcome you to
the nations capital as II were your host.
but merely TO welcome you to your own
capital, because ! am. and am proud to
be, your servant. hope ! shall catch. as
hope we shall all catch, from the spirit
OF this occasion a new conservation TO the
high duties OF American citizenship"
Charles F. Sherman. COMMUNICATIVE chief
Of the Sons Of Veterans. one Of the speak
ers who followed the President. declared
that the sons Of the men who fought for
their country in the civil war are ready
now to do their duty in the same way II
called upon by the President.
Bread Tickets At Reisinger's.