The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
PRESIDENT coNsEcRATEs MA
TON TO TASK OF WINNING
WORLD WAR.
CAN Be NO COMPROMISE
SOUNDS DEATH kNELl OF MILL
TARISM, AS HE PLEDGES
U. 8. TO ABOLISH 1T.
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western Newspaper Union News Service.
Mount Vernon. Va.-President Will
son on July pledged the United
States to fight on against the Teuton
menace until final settlement is
achieved. There can be mo compro
mise" he said NO half way decision
would be tolerable
Before a notable International gath
ering at the tomb of Washington, here,
he spoke proudly and with confident
hope" for the liberation of the ma
tions afflicted by the blinded rulers"
of Prussia.
He defined the ends to which. not
America alone, but the associated
peoples of the world" are fighting,
and declared for knockout of every
arbitrary power anywhere than can,
of its single choice, disturb the peace
OF the world"
The text of ms address follows:
Gentlemen OF the diplomatic corps
and my fellow citizens:
81 am happy to draw apart with you
TO this quiet place of old counsel in
order to- speak little of the meaning
of this day of our nations independ-
ence. The place seems very still and
somber. 1t is as serene and untouched
by the hurry of the world as 1t was in
those great days long ago when Gen.
Washington was here and held leis-
urely conference with the men who
were to be associated with him in the
creation of a nation.
Washington Acted for People.
From these gentle slopes they
looked out upon the world and saw it
whole, saw 1t with the light of the
future upon it, saw it 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 place of death. 1t
was a place of achievement. A great
promise that was meant for all man.
kind was here given plan and reality.
The associations by which we are
here surrounded are the inspiring as
sociations of that notable death which
is only 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.
'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 bar
ons at Runnymede, spoke and
acted, not for a class, but for a people.
1t has been left for us to see to it that
Z it shall be understood that they spoke
and acted not for single people only,
but for all mankind
They were thinking, not of them
selves and OF the material interests
which conferred in the little groups of
1andholders and merchants and men of
affairs. with whom they were accus-
toned to act. in Virginia and the colo
nies to the north and south of here,
but of a people who wished to be done
with classes and special interests and
the authority of men -@hom they had
not themselves chosen to rule over
them. They entertained no private
purpose, desired 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 wish
ed to share with them the rights and
privileges of free men.
For Liberties for All.
"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 cause 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 permitted to do what they
would have done 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 fitting place
from which calmly to look out upon
our task. that we may fortify our spir-
its for its accomplishment
And this is the appropriate place