The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-06-07

iJCINiCG OIL HAd| OOlll. 1IeSIQeIlC w lISOn SAID.
In his Memorial address at Arlington
"In the providence of Cod, America will have
an opportunity to show that she was born to serve
mankind
I'VE are saying to all mankind that we did not
set this Government up in order that we might
nave selfish and separate liberty. We are now
ready to come TO your assistance and fight out
upon fields of the world the cause of human
liberty In this thing, America attains her full
dignity and full fruition Of her great purpose"
II YOU can filter this sentimental moonshine
into something tangible and practical, you are
gifted with more grey matter than God gave
to me.
If that sort Of talk means anything at all,
1t MEANS that, after we shall have recti(ied
governmental affairs in Europe we must next
turn our QulXotic attention to Asia. and then
to Africa, and then to Oceanica: and after
we shall have remodeled the internal con-
Germs of India, Persia. Turkey. Afghanistan,
China, Japan, and few other countries
where conditions are not so ideal as thew are
IN this Republic-this Republic where the
cats and dogs Of the beneficaries Of Special
Privilege are pampered aristocrats, while the
millions who really perform the toll which
produces wealth are sunk in such despair
that starvation stalks among millons-when,
| say, we shall have finished our circuit Of
Creation, as universal redressers of ma
tIonal wrongs, we may at length be content
to come home. and stay there, and attend to
our own business.
Continuing his sentimental outpouring of
verbal moonshlne, the President said
eve have said in the beginning that we planted
this great Government that men who wished free
dom might have place Of refuge and place
where their hope could be realized and now, hay-
ing established such a Government, having pre-
served such Government having INDICATED 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 the field Of the world
the cause OF human liberty. In this thing
America attains her full dignity and the full
fruitiOn Of her great purpose.
mo man can be glad that such things have
happened as we have witnessed in these last fate
full years, but perhaps it may be permitted to US
t" be glad that we have an opportunity to show
the principles that profess to be living prinCi-
pies, that live in hearts and to have chance
by the pouring out Of blood and treasure to
vindicate the thing which have said wished
to do"
pouring out our blood and treasure" to
demonstrate the glorious fact that our
Fathers did not establish this Government
for themselves and their posterity-as they
foolishly said they debut that they estab-
lished it in order that Professor Woodrow
Wilson might have a sort of international
tripod, which he could periodically mount
and from which he could deliver such oracular
and meaningless utterances as were never be-
fore heard among sane mOderns.
The idea that our Constitution and our
Government were created by Washington,
Madison, Franklin, and Hamilton for the
purpose of universal interference with the
forms of government of all the rest of crea-
ton, is the craziest notion that his entered