The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-31
LIBERTY NEEDS
ACTION NOW, NOT
WORDS; WILSON
President Envies Men Who
Fight For Home and
Country.

washington, May Sion the
heights of historic Arlington, the eter-
nal camping ground of thousands who
sought for flag and country, President
Wilson spoke yesterday in memory OF
the heroic dead and to the men who
are to die in another and greater war.
He saids
THE program has conferred an un-
nerited dignity upon the remarks l
am going to make by calling them
an address, because am not here to
deliver an address. I am here mere
ly to show in my official capacity the
sympathy of this great government
with the object Of this occasion. and
also to speak Just a word of the SEN
timent that Is my own heart
2 ANY Memorial day of this sort Is
of course. day touched with sor-
rowful memory, and yet for one do
not lee how we can have any thought
Of pity for the men whose memory
we honor today. do not pity them
u envy them, rather because theirs Is
d great work for liberty accomplish
ed, and we are in the midst Of a work
unfinished, testing our strength where
heir strength already. has been tested
..TherA Is astoi3ch Of SORROW, but
xhers Is a touch of reinsurance also
In. day like this, because we know
how the men of America have re-
sponded. to the call of the cause OF
liberty. and 1t fills our mind with
perfect assurance that that response
will come again in equal measures.
with equal majesty, and with q result
which VIII hold the attention OF All
mankind
.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 me
WORLD free nation espousing the
cause OF human liberty In one sense
the great struggle into which we have
now entered Is an American struggle.
hecause 1t Is In the sense of American
honor and American rights. but 1t is
sornething even greater than that; It
is q. world struggle 1t is a struggle
of men. who love liberty everywhere,
and In this canse America viii show
herself greater than ever because she
WIN rise to a greater thing
awe have said in the beginning that
we planned this great government
0bat man who wish freedom might
have a place OF refuge and a place
where thsdr hope could be realized,
and now. having established such a
government, having preserved such a
xoxernment, having vindicated tins
power Of such government, we are
eayirax to al mankind we did not set
this government up In order that We
light have . selfish and separate I'D
erty, for we are now ready to come TO
lycur assistance and fight out upon the
fields OF the worth the causs of human
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tafns her 1uIl dignity and the full fE-u-
ition OF her great purpose
mo man can be glad that such
thinzs have happened as we have
Witnessed IN these last Hateful years,
hut perhaps IT may be permitted to us
To be g5ad thai ue have an oppor-
tunfty to show the pRincip1es that we
profess TO be living, principles that
Evs in -pur hearts and to have a
chance by the pouring out of our
blood and treasure to yindicate the
things which we have PROGRESSED
~Fcr, my friends. the real huition
OF lie Is to do the things we have
sold we wished to DO. There are
t1mes Syshep wossas saem empty. and
only acton seems great Such a time
GOD. America VIII once moro have an
cpportunaty to show to the world that
she was BORN to serve mankinaf,'
Never was a Memorial Day at the
capital SO big with meaning and so
near to the hearts OF It's people as
yesterday. The day -brods9f Together
the soldiers Of three wartthe dark
blue % the GRAND Army Of the Re
pubHirjv tha h5pe and gray Ct the Span
ish War vetefafaa, and the drab of
the men who are 10 go abroad as the
nrst line in the vprld-war that this
country has entered in the cause OF
liberty