The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-31

Realize the Full Fruition of Her
Great Purpose Cheered by the
Blue and Gray.
WASHINGTON, May 3l.-''We did
not set this government up in order
that we might have separate and sci
fish liberty, for we are now ready to
come to your assistance and fight out
upon the field Of the world the cause
of human liberty was the message
which President Wilson delivered ves-
tcrday to the allies of America in tho
war against Pmssian autocracv in his
Memorial day address ut Asliagton.
The President delivered his speech
before q huge throng in the amphi-
theatre behind the historic Lee man
sion. lie spoke briefly, but he was in
! tcrruptcd frequently by applause. Vet
Grams of both the federal and the Con
! federate armies heard him, and MIN
Cling with the old warriors were the
/ dgab-clad soldiers who soon VIII carry
10 the other side Of the Atlantic the
spirit Of America as expomded nv
, President Wilson.
- America will once more have an
opportunity to show TO the world that
she was born to serve mankind. = SAID
the President
! As he spoke he looked upon thn thin
/ lines of veterans who listened iltontlv,
! leaning forward with their ears euppcd
! that they might lose nothing If the adj
dress. Ire old men eheered wildly and
began imprc7'ing upon the youthful
soldiers the duty that lay before them
in fighting America F, fight as they had
ldene in 81.
The President showed plainly his ella
tion over the spirit of the veterans.
And lac was not less impressed by the
ferycnt applause OF the Youngsters in
uniform. At times he spoke almost en-
tircly TO the Youths.
The program, said the President
ii "has conferred AN unmeritcd ligaity
upon the remarks | am going To make
10y calling them to address, because
am not here to deliver an address;
am here merely to show in my olicia
capacity the sympathy of this great
Government with the object Of this oc
casion, and also to speak just a wor.
OF the sentiment that is in my own
heart.
d" ANY Memorial day Of this sort is
, Of course, day touched with sorrowfu
memory, and vet | for one do not s.,
how We can have amy thought OF pit,
for the men whose memory we homo
l IL - Ia, | .l,4.,,
. rather, because theirs IS Il great won
for liberty accomplished and we are i.
the midst OF work unfinished, testin,
our strength whore their strength nj
ready has been testc I. There is touel
of sorrow. but there is q touch o
reinsurance also in day like this, ~
cause we know how the men o. Amer
lea have responded to the call of tn
cause of liberty, and it fills our mind
with a perfect assurance that the r
! Spouse Will come again in equal measure
:, with equal majesty, and with 4 cSui
which will hold the atten cn Of a
mankind.
i When YOU reflect uloa It, the
mca who died to preserve the Unior
died to preserve the instrument whie
we are now using to serve the world
Il free nation espousing the cause of HI
man liberty. In on sense the 9rca
struggle into which we have now a
: tered is an American struggle, becaus
| it j. in the sense Of American homo
land American rights, but ii is some
> thing even greater than that it is
world struggle II is 4 struggle of me
who love liberty everywhere, and i
this cause America will show hcrs2l
. greater than ever because she will is
r to . greater thing. We have said i
the beginning that w planned thi
lgreat government that men who Wis
freedom might have a place of refug
and Place whore their hope could b