New Britain herald., 1918-07-05

realized only by the determination of what the thinking peoples of the world
 desire, with their longing hope for
 justice and for social freedom and op-
 portunity."
 Presidents speech,
 The presidents speech in full was as follows:
 Gentlemen of the Diplomatic corps and my fellow citizens: | am happy
 to draw apart with you to this quiet place of old counsel in order to speak a little of the meaning of this day of our natOn independence. The place seems very still and remote It is as serene and. untouched by the hurry or the world as 1t was in those great days long ago when General Washing ton was here and held Ieisurely con- terence With the men who were to be associated with him in the creation of natlon. From these gentle slopes they looked out upon the world and saw 1t whole, saw it with the light Of the future upon 1t, .. saw it with modern eyes that turned away from a past Which men of liberated spirits coHld no longer endure. Tt is for that reason that we cannot feel, even here. in the imm ediate presence of this sacred tomb. that this is place of death. It was a place of achieVe- ment. A great promise that was meant for all mankind was here given plan and reality. The associations by which we are here surrounded are the lnspiriting associations of that noble death which is only a glorious con summation. Prom this green hill side we also ought to be able to see with comprehending eyes the world that lies around us and conceive anew the purose that must set men free.
 It is significdnt--signifca of their own character and purpose and of the influences they were setting afoot-that Washington and his as- sociates, like the barons at Runny- mede. spoke and acted, not for 8 class. but for a people. It has been left for Us to see to it that it shall be under stood that they spoke and acted, not for a single people, only, but for all mankind. They Wefe thinking, not of themselves and of the material inter- ests which centered in the little groups of landholders and merchants and men of affairs with whom they were accustomed to act, in Virginia ana the tOlO01GS to Lne north and south of her, but of a people which wished to be done with classes and special interests and the authority of men whom they had not themselves chosen to rule over them They en- tertained no private purpose, desired no peculiar privilege They were con- l ciously planning that. snen of every ] class should be free and America a 1 place to which men out of every na- l tion might resort who wished to share l with them the rights and privileges Of ] free men, And we take our cue from tn em,-do We not? We intend what ] they intended We here in America believe our participation in this pres end war to be only the fruitage of 1 what they planted. Our case differs inestima ble privilege to concert with men out of every nation what shall 1 make not only liberties of America 1 secure but the liberties of every other 1 people as we'll We are happy in the thought that we are permitted to do what they would have done had they been in our place. There must now be settled once for all what was set tied for America in the great age upon l whose inspiration We draw today This is surely a fitting place from which calmly to look out upon our task. that we may fortify our spirits for it's accomplishment And this is the appropriate place from which to aVOW, alike to the friends who look on and to the friends with whom we have the happiness to be aS-