The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-07-06
President Wilson Pledges the
United States and Allies to
No Compromise
FLAYS MILITARY RULE
Chief Executive Forcibly Outlines Aims
for Which America and Associates
Will Not sheathe the Sword
Until They Are Accomplished.

Washington. July Sin his Fourth
/ of July address at Mount Vernon,
President Wilson said:
Washington, July 5.-President Win
son In his Fourth of July address at
Mount Vernon said:
/ 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 nations independence. The place
seems very still and remote II is as
serene and untouched by the hurry of
the world as ii was in those great days
long ago when General Washington
was here and held leisurely conference
with the men who were to be asso-
ciated with him in the creation of a
nation. From these gentle slopes they
looked out upon the world and saw
II whole. saw it with the light of the
future upon II, saw 1t with modern
eyes that turned away from a past
which men of liberated spirits could
no longer endure. 1t is for that rea-
son that we cannot feel even here,
in the immediate presence of this
sacred tomb, that this is place of
death. 1t was a place of achievement.
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 in
spiriting associations of that noble
death which is only a glorious con
summation. 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.
II is significant-significan 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 single
people only, but for all mankind They
were thinking, not of themselves and
Of the material interests which cen.
tered in the little group OF landowners
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 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.
Lofty Inspiration Found.
They entertained no private pur.
pose, desired no peculiar privilege
They were consciously planning that
men Of every class should be free, and
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 intended. 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 liber-
ties Of America secure but the liber-
ties OF every other 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 settled for America in
! the great age upon whose inspiration
we draw today. This is surely a fit
ting place from which calmly to look
out upon our task, that we may fortify
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
associated In action, haIfaith ana pur-
pose with which .WsIaGtgo2 nj sfIsd
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