The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-02
Jofre Salutes and Places Palm as
Frances Tribute to Great
Soldier.
BALFOUR PAYS TRIBUTE
Great British Statesman Places
Wreath of Lilies and Oak
Leaves on Grave.

| NiootC FeIHon, va, April 29.-Ihe
iiags OF Great Britain, France and the
United States floated proudly together
today over the tomb of George Wash
lngton. Beneath them spokesman of
the three\great democracies paid hon.
age to Americas soldier and states
man, and pledged themselves each to
the other in the name of the dead, to
prosecute the present mihty struggle
against autocracy on the lines he him
self had followed in bringing America
into being.
Nature was in her most bounteous
garb. The evergreen, eternal senti-
nels before the tomb, stood out boldly
IN the new life just blooming. The
only sign of human change since
Washington was laid to rest so long
ago was the flags of three allies over
the arched entrance to the tomb it.
self.
In groups of twos and threes an
eminent gathering, including the
members of the French and British
war commissions, the Presidents
Cabinet and members of Congress had
strolled up through the sloping
grounds of the river bank until per-
haps half a hundred people stood
with barred heads in a scmi-circle be-
fore the tomb.
Without formality, Secretary Dan
iels motioned to M. Vivana, minister
of justice and former premier of
France, who advanced slowly into the
center. Before the tomb of Washing
ton, whose efforts towards liberty his
own ancestors had gloriously aided,
NJ. Viviani, delivered an address in
which the whole force of his emotional
power, deepened by the sibnificance
and sombreness of the occasion.
fought for expression.
The spectators, though most of
them could not understand French,
caught the suppressed feeling and fire
of the orator, and followed his words
spellbound as they quickened under
the thrill of his imagination.
And as he finished, the silence be-
came supreme with the general reali-
zation that no applause could express
the emotions aroused. M. Viviani said:
Text of Viviani's Speech.
I'VE could not remain longer in
Washington without accomplishing
this pious pilgrimage. In this spot
lies all that is mortal Of great hero.
Close by this is the modest abode
where Washington rested after the
tremendous labor of achieving for a
nation its emancipation. In this spot
meet the admiration Of the whole
world and the vencration of the
American people. In this spot rise
before us the glorious memories left
by the soldiers of France led by Ro-
chambeau and La Fayette; a descend
and of the latter, my friend NJ. de
Chambrun, accompanies us. And |
estee NIT supreme honor as we'll as
q satisfaction for my conscience to be
entitled to render this homage to our
ancestors in the presence Of my col
league and friend, Mr.. Balfour, who
SO nobly represents his great nation.
BY thus coming to lay here the re-
spcctful tribute of every English mind
he shows, in this historic moment of |
which France has willed,
what nations that live for liberty can
do.
Wilson, Worthy Heir.
when we contemplated in the dis
tant past the luminous presence of :
in nearer times the ma
jestic figure of Abraham Lincoln,
when we respectfully salute President
Wilson, the worthy heir of these great
memories, we at one glance, measure
the vast career of the American peo-
pie proclaimed and won for the nation
the right to govern itself, it is be-
cause it proclaimed and won the
of all men, that the free
American people at the hour marked
oy Fate has been enabled with COM
force to carry it's action be-
yond the seas. 1t is because it was
resolved to extend it's action still fur
her that Congress was enabled to OBJ
tain within the space of q few days
The vote of conscription and to pro-
claim the necessity for a national
army in the full splendor of civil
peace.
"In the name Of France I salute the
young army whichh will share in our
common glory.