Connecticut western news., 1918-08-01

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:: shington.-President Wilson Wis
tied the tomb of Washington at Mount
Vernon on the Fourth Of July and
there delivered the following address:
Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps
and My Fellow Citizens-I 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 nations independence. The place
seems very still and remote. 1t Is as
serene and untouched by the hurry OF
the world as it was in those great days
long ago when General Washington
was here and held leisurely conference
with the men who were to be associat
ed with him in the creation of a ma
ton. From these gentle slopes they
looked out upon the world and saw Ii
whole, saw it with the light Of the fu-
ture upon 1t, saw 1t with modern eyes
that turned away from a past which
men of liberated spirits could no long
er endure. 1t is for that reason that
we cannot feel, even here, In the Inn
mediate presence of this sacred tomb,
that this Is q place of death. 1t was a
place of achievement. A great prom
Use that was meant for all mankind
was here given plan and reality. The
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rounded are the inspiriting associa-
lions of that noble death which is only
q glorious consummation. From this
green hillside we also ought to be able
to see with comprehending eyes the
world that lies about us and should
conceive anew the purposes that must
set men free.
Acting for All Mankind.
It is significant-significa Of their
own character and purpose and of the
influences they were setting afoot-
that Washington and his associates,
like the barons at Runnymede, spoke
and acted, not for class, but for a
people. 1t has been left for us to see
to it that 1t shall be understood that
they spoke and acted, not for a single
people only, but for all mankind. They
were thinking, not of themselves and
of the material interests which center
ed in the little groups Of landholders
and merchants and men of affairs with
whom they were accustomed to act, In
Virginia and the colonies to the north
and south of her, but of 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 Ell
tertained no private purpose, desired
no peculiar privilege. They were con.
sciously planning that men of every
class should be free and America q
place to which men out of every nation
| might resort who wished to share with
them the rights and privileges of free
men. And we take our cue from them
do we not? We intend what they In.
tended. We here in America believe
our participation in this present war to
be only the fruitage Of what they
planted. Our case differs from theirs
only in this, that 1t is our inestimable
privilege to concert with men out OF
every nation what shall make not only
the liberties of America secure, but
the liberties of every other people as
well. We are happy in the thought
that we are permitted to do what they
would have done had they been In oul
place. There must now be settled once
for all what was settled for Americs
In the great age upon whose inspira
ton we draw today. This is surely 9
fitting place from which calmly to look
out upon our task, that we may forti
fy our spirits for its 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
ISOLATED in action, the faith and pur
pose with which we act.
Unorganized and Helpless Russia.
This, then, is our conception of the
great struggle in which we are engag-
ed. The plot is written plain upon
every scene and every act of the SUI
preme tragedy. On the one hand stand
the peoples of the world, not only the
peoples actually engaged but many
others also who suffer under mastery
but cannot act; peoples of many races
and In every part of the world-the
people Of stricken Russia still, among
the rest, though they are for the mo
ment unorganized and helpless. OPP
posed to them, masters of many armies
stand an isolated, friendless group Of
governments who speak no common
purpose, but only selfish ambitions OF
their own by which none can profit
but themselves and whose peoples are
fuel in their hands; governments
which fear their people and yet are fol
the time their sovereign lords, max
ing every choice for them and dispos
ing Of their lives and fortunes as they
will as well as of the lives and for
tunes of every people who fall under
their power-governments clothed witt