Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-31
President Wilson
 ExtoIs Patriotism
AT MEMORIAL EXERCISES IN
 ARLINGTON CEMETERY
REFERS TO PRESENT WAR
With SorrowfuI Memory for the Heroes of the Civil War, He Envies Them, and Has an Abiding Confidence That America Will Triumph in World War Because of the Worthy Cause.

Washington, May 30. = President Wilson, speaking today at Memorial exercises in Arlington cemetery, de- clared the time had come for action by this nation and that he had no fear of the part America would play in the great world war.
 Tn the providence of God" he de- clared, America once more has an op- pOrtunity 10 show the world that she was born to serve mankind
 The president declared that while no such day as this could be without sor- row, he looked rather with envy on those who served their country in the Civil war because their work for Hb- erty is accomplished.
 Words of Sentiment
 "The program has conferred an un- merited dignity upon the remarks ] am going to make by calling them an address, because I am not here to de- liver an address, said the president. T am here merely to show in my off, cial capacity the sympathy of this great government with the object of this occasion, and a so to speak just a word of the sentiment that is in my own heart.
 ''Any Memorial day of this sort is, of course, a day touched with sorrow fuI memory, and yet I for one do not see how we can have any thought of pity for the men whose memory we honor today. I do not pity them. 1 envy them, rather, because theirs is a great work for liberty accomplished, and we are in the midst of a work unfinished, testing our strength where that strength already has been tested. There is a touch of sorrow, but there is a touch of reasSurance also in day like this. because we know how the men of America have responded to the call of the cause of liberty, and it fills our mind with a perfect assurance that that response will come again in equal measures, with equal majesty and with a result which will ho-d the attention of ali mankind.
 Men Who Preserved the Union.
 When you reflect upon it, these men who died to preserve the union died to preserve the instrument which we are now using to serve the world-a free nation espousing the cause of human liberty. In one sense the great strug- gle into which we have now entered is an American struggle, because it is in the sense of American honor and American rights, but it is something even more than that: it is world struggle. It is a struggle of men who love liberty everywhere, and in this cause America will show herself greater than ever because she will rise to a greater thing. We have said in the beginning that we banned this great government that men who wish freedom might have a place of refuge
 
 realized, and now, having established such government, having preserved such a government, having vindicated the power of such a government we are saying to all mankind We did not set this government up in order that we might have a selfish and separate liberty. for we are now ready to come to your assistance and fight out upon the fields of the world the cause of human liberty In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose.
 Much to Be Done.
 No man can be glad that sucfl things have happened as we have wit messed in these last fateful years but perhaps it may be permitted to us to be g.ad that we have an opportunity to show the principles that we profess to be living. principles that live in our hearts. and to have a chance by the pouring out of our blood and trea asure to vindicate the things which we have professed. For, my friends, the real fruition of life is to do the things we have said we wished to do There are times when work seems empty and only action seems great. Such a time has come. and in the providence of God America will once more have an op- pertunity to show to the world that she was born to serve mankind"