Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-09

is joined In my own city. eight hun
dred thousand foreign-born men anC
women are at this moment lifting theil
hands and renewing their views of 10y
atty. From coast to coast in city, II
town and hamlet, our citizens will be
demonstrating that the oath which they
took upon their naturalization was not
an empty form of words. Yes, ano
more than that. When. tomorrow, the
casualty list brings heaviness to some
homes and a firm sense Of resolution
to all, we shall read upon the roll Of
honor Slavic names. TeutOnic names
Latin names, Oriental names, 10 show
that we have sealed our faith with thC
blood of our best youth.
ITO this beloved shade we come with
the hopes of our races garnered in oul
hands. To you, worthy successor Of
our great liberator we give the prom
ise of the millions who sent us here
that we will peresevere in the struggle
until lasting freedom is secured not
only for this nation. but for the ma
tions from which we sprang-yes, anC
for all other nations. The sword which
we have grasped we will not lay dowr
until the dream of Washington and OF
his great generation be fulfilled fol
us. for our American sons and daugh-
JeFS, ana TOT a WnOle SIIuEBll SUI
fering world"
The text of President Wilson's ad.
dress follows:
Gentlemen of the Diplomatic
Corps and Ny 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
nearing of this day of our nations
indep ndence. The place seems very
still and remote. 1t is as serene
and untouched by the hurry of the
world as 1t was in those great days
long ago when General Washington
was here and held leisurely confer
ence with the men who were to be
associated with him in the creation
of a nation. From these gentle
slopes they looked out upon the
world and saw it whole, saw it
with the light of the future upon
il. saw il with modern eyes that
turned away from a past which men
of liberated spirits could no longer
endure 1t is for that reason that
we cannot feel, even here, IN the
Immediate presence of this sacred
tomb that this is a place OF death
1t was a place of achievement.
great promise that was meant Tor
all mankind was here given plan
and reality The association by
which we are here surrounded are
the inspiring associations OF that
noble death which is only slorl-
ons contamination. From TINS green
hillside we also ought TO De aoie
TO see with comprehending eyes the
world that lies about us and shouId
conceive anew the purposes that
must set men free.
II Is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or
their own character and purpose ana
of the influences they were setting
afoot-that washington and his as
sociates, like the barons at Runny-
mede smoke and acted, not for
class, but for a people. 1t has been
left for us to see to it that 1t shalI
be understood that they spoke ana
acted, not for a single people only.
but for all mankind. They were
thinking, not of themselves and or
the material interests which CEN
tered in the little groups of land
holders and merchants and men of
affairs with which they were accuS-
toned to act, in Virginia and the
colonies to the north and south or
here, but of a people which wished
to be done with classes ana special
interests and the authority of men
whom they had not themselves
chosen to rule over them. They
entertained no private purpose, de-
sired no peculiar privilege. They
were consciously planning that men
of every class should be free and
America a 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
intended. We here in America be-
lieve our participation in this pres
ent war to be only the fruitage of
what they planted.
Our case differs from theirs only
in this, that it 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 permit
ted 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 in
SEPARATION 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
its accomplishment. And this is the
appropriate place from which to
avow, alike to the friends who look
on and to friends with whom we
have the happiness to be associated
in action, the faith and purpose with
which we act.
This, then, is our conception of
the great struggle in which we are
engaged. The plot is written plain
upon every scene and every act of
the supreme tragedy. On the one
hand stand the peoples of the world
mot only the people actually en-