The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06
WILSON ELOQUENT
TO j. {. Y. HOSTS
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS BREATHES
SPIRIT OF JOY THAT OLD AMI.
M0SITIES ARE NO MORE.
GOD USING The NATION
American People Kept United for the
Purpose Now At Hand, Executive
Says, to Crush Forever the Head Of
Liberty-Killing Autocracy.

Washington, June 6.--To the United
Confederate Veterans President Wilson
yesterday afternoon spoke as follows:
Il esteem it a very great pleasure
and real privilege to extend to the
men who are attending this reunion the
very cordial greetings of the govern
ment of the United tSates.
II suppose that as you mix with one
another you chiefly find these to be
days of memory when your thoughts
go back and recall those days Of strug-
gle in which your hearts were strained,
in which the whole nation seemed to
grapple, and l dare say that you are
thrilled as you remember Il, heroic
things that were then done
Old Days Of Chivalric Gallantry.
You are glad to remember that he
rioic things We're done on both sides,
and that men in those days fought in
something like the old spirit Of chival.
ric gallantry
There are many memories Of the
civil war that thrill the blood and make
one proud to have been sprung of
race that could produce such bravery
and constancy, and yet, the world does
not live on memories; the world is con.
stantly making It's toilsome way for
ward into new and different ways. and
/ believe that one Of the things that
contributes satisfaction TO a reunion
like this and a welcome like this is that
this Is also a day of oblivion. There
are some things that we have thank.
fully buried, and among them are the
great passions of division which once
! threatened to rend this nation in
twain.
Passion Of Admiration.
THE passion Of admiration we still en-.
tertain for the heroic figures of those
old days. but the passion of separation.
the passion Of difference Of principle is
gone-gone out Of our minds, gone out
( OF our hearts; and one OF the things
that will thrill this country as it reads
Of this reunion is that it will read also
Of re-dedication on the part OF all to
the great nation which we serve in
common.
United For Divine Purpose.
These are days OF oblivion as well
as OF memory. for we are forgetting the
things that once held US asunder. not
only that, but they are days Of rejoic
ing, for we now at last see why this
great nation was kept united. for We
are beginning TO see the great worll
purpose which II was meant to serve
Many men, I know, particularly Of you,
own generation have wondered at som,
Of the dealings OF Providence. but tn,
wise heart never questions the dealing,
OF Providence. because the great az,
hong plan as il unfolds has a majest,
about it and a definiteness OF purpose
an elevation OF the ideal. which W,
were incapable OF ooncelving as W.
tried to work things out with our owl
short sight and weak strength.
"Anw now. that we see ourselves par
Of a nation united. powerful great Il
spirit and in purpose, we know tn
great ends OF which God in his mystC
, rious providence wrought through ou
instrumentality, because az the hear
OF the men OF the north and OF IN
south there was the same love OF sci.
government and OF liberty, and now "
are TO be an instrument in the hand
OF God TO see that liberty is made s,
cure for mankind.
AT the day OF our greatest divisio
there was one common passion amongs
us, and that was the passion Of huma
, freedom We did not know that Go
, was working out in his own way tn
= method by which we should best sery
. human freedom-by making this natio
/, great united. indivisible. indestructibI
. instrument In his hands for the accon
!. plishment OF these great things.
Impressed by Registration.
AS / came along the streets a fe
p minutes ago. my heart was fun OF "a
"a thought that this is registration da
h VIII YOU not support me In feellr
n that there is some significance ntl,
J. coincidence that this day when con
!. 10 welcome you 10 the national capita
% is day when men young as you we
4 in those old days, when you gathered I
e gether 20 fight, are now registerir
y. their names as evidence OF this gre
\. idea. that in a democracy the duty
n serve and the privilege to serve fal
upon all alike.
"There is something very fine. my 4
low citizens, In the spirit OF the v,
fs unteer. but deeper than the volunte
"a spiri, is the spirit OF obligation.
II There is not man OF MS who mu
in not hold himself ready TO be summon
e. to the duty OF supporting the great gC
ernment under which we live.
No Patriotic Man Grumbles.
"No really thoughtful and patrio
man is jealous OF that obligation.
h man who really understands the pr
- ilege and the dignity OF being an Am
IT. lean citizen Quarrels for moment wi
the idea that the congress OF the Ur
In ed States has the right TO call up
'b- whom Il viii 10 serve the nation. TIL,
solemn lines OF young men going tod