The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-07
LAFAYETTE MARINE
DAY OBSERVED HERE
Ambassador Jusserand and
Col. Roosevelt Speak at the
City Hall Celebration.
SEE TRIUMPH OF ALLIES
French and American National
Airs Blend at Meetings
All Over Country.

Those who fall die as brave men
before God: II their eyes could open
they would see the blue sky"
Such Is the message Of Field MAI
shall Foch. Gcneralissimo of the allied
armies, sent upon Lafayette day to
those Americans who have given over
wheimingly in the great conflict for
right and Justice those men and women
whose beloved dead have brought glory
to their own land and to France.
1t was received yesterday at City Hall
during exercises held In commemoration
of the one hundred and sixtieth ami
versary Of the birth Of the Marquis de
the first battle of the Marine. 1t came
with other messages from other famous
Frenchmen; from our own General
Pershing and Admiral Sims and from
Field Marshal Haig and other COM
manders OF the British forces on the
western front.
The message was read after Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt speaking for the
United States had pledged us as ma
ton to give our whole strength and
treasure to the cause for which the ar
mics Of freedom are fighting, and Just
before Ambassador Jusserand. answer
ing for France declared that from the
beginning It had been known In France
that the United States would surely
send her hosts to the battle line and
that once there they would stand hrm
until the day Of "a peace such as should
be-"
Biggest Celebration Here.
All over the American land. and all
through this city there were celebrations
and meetings yesterday in honor and
commemoration Of Lafayette and the
Marine. The principal one here was at
the City Hall to which the leaders OF
the allied armies sent their messages OF
Encouragement and gratitude and at
which Ambassador Jusserand and Col.
Roosevelt spoke. There was another
earlier In the day at Union Square about
the Lafayette monument
[ American and French airplanes both
in the morning and afternoon circled
over the city-one division a squadron
Of twenty-four machines from Mineola
Ffeld--and dropped showers OF cards
and leaflets reminding citizens OF the
days Significance. In the evening the
principal observance Of the day was at
a banquet OF the France-America So
ciety at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Ambassador Jusserand spoke both at
| City Hall and at the French-American
banquet in the evening. but II was at
| his day address that he made clear to
| Americans the answer to those questions
which so many of them have asked them
| selves endessly since we entered the
war: To what extent France considered
| that we were In her debt because OF La
fayette? To what extent she considers
that the obligation of that debt has been
paid?
He left no doubt but that France feels
! the debt has been cancelled already and
| Is sure that there will be payment upon
payment before the world Is again at
peace. And above all hc assured his
| audience that his country had never for
a moment doubted that America would
come into the fight and that she would
come in time.
To certain extent Col. Roosevelt
! made Ambassador Jusserand's speech
doubly happy by his own, preceding Mr.
IJusserand's, in which he laid weight, as
he has done often. on his opinion that
this country should have taken up the
gage four years ago. I'VE came In at
the eleventh hour" he had said. thank
God We did not wait tin the twelfth"
French Ambsssador's Tribute.
But Ambassador Jusserand would no,
permit this to stard. His speech was ~
part:
"A German cannot see. cannot under
stand, the American heart, The French
people can, During the first years o'
the war. when We were suffering. I knew
what there was in your bosom. and thai
Is known now to the whole world. II
was known to us even in those sad day,
OF the first battle OF the Marine. We knew
and We counted on you, and we knew
that we would not have to ask. w,
never asked.
I'VE never had any propaganda: W,
never spent cent for such a thing
while. as discoveries are made by thu
Department of Justice In New York. W,
find that the one who represented Ger
many In those days was spending NIL
lions by the hundred in order to hav,
what you call the propaganda. and tina
propaganda included murder.
We French, you Americans. n
honest nations. would ever do such
thing: and we count on the Justice an
on the honesty that are in the heart O
the upright nations of which We ar
: one and Of which there arc, than
heaven, 80 many In the world, al
banded together for the destruction o
that barbarism which is represented b
, our four enemies. When any deman
has been made on you, there your heart
we're Anything that was asked--im
tons. the depriving OF certain food. tn
( giving up OF an auto ride on Sundays
III libertys fires have nerved yo,
love your soldiers, love the brave me
IN khaki over there who perhaps 500
{ will he over for good You have give
, not only your wealth but the heart O
: your heart. the blood Of your blood IN
soul OF your soul you have given YOU
children. That creates between tn
, French families and American familie
: a real kinship. as II they belonged I
, the same house aud TO the same nation.
. German Treaties OF servttude.
: Mr. Roosevelt has alluded TO tn
, fact that possibly there will be at IN
same time or after the time OF a mill
tsry offensive peace offensive. Whe
their days become gloomy. when tn
Germans are anxious, they begin I
speak OF peace and to use gentle word
. and to become indignant at slaughter
They mistake the other nations. W
, know how to read We are even able I