The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-07-12

ing peoples OF the WuEiu utc4Tc VIII
their longing hope for justice and fol
social freedom and opportunity"
The presidents address in full VA
as follows:
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 speal
little of the meaning of the 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 Gen. Washington was
here and held leisurely conference
with the men who were to be associat-
ed with him in the creation of ma
ton. From these gentle slopes they
looked outsupon the world and saw il
whole saw it with the light of the fu-
ture upon it, saw it with modern eyes
that turned away from a past which
men of liberated spirits could no long,
err endure. 1t is for that reason that
we cannot feel even here in the immedi
ate presence of this sacred tomb that
this is place of death. 1t was place
of achievement. A great promise that
was meant for all mankind was here
given plan and reality. The .associa-
tons by which we are here surrounded
are the inspiring associations of that
noble death which is only consumma-
ton. From this green hillside we
ought also to be able to see with COM
pretending eyes the world that lies
about us and should conceive anew
the purposes that must set men free.
at is signifcant-signifcant of
their own character and purpose and
of the influences they were setting
afoot-that Washington and his asso-
Citations, like the Barrons Of Runny-
mede, spoke and acted not for class,
but for a people. 1t has been left for
us to see to it that it shall be under
stood that they spoke and acted not
for single people only, but for all
mankind. They were thinking not of
themselves and of the material inter-
est which centered in the little groups
of landholders and merchants and men
of affairs with whom they were accus-
toned to act, in Virginia and the col
onies to the north and south of her,
but of people which wished to be
done with classes and special interests
and the rule of the men whom 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 wished
to share with them the rights and
privileges Of freedom. And we take
eur cue from them-do we not?
1--WE intend what they intended We
here in America believe our partici-
patton in this present war is to be only
the fruitage of what they planned. Our
case differs from theirs only in this,
that it is our inestimable privilege to
concert with men 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 per-
mitted to do what they would have
done had they been in our places. There
must now be settled once for all what
was settled for America in the gyeat
age upon whose inspiration we draw
today. This is surely fitting place
from which to calmly 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 ard to the 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 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 moment unorganized and help
less. Opposed to them, Masters of ma
ny armies, stand an isolated, friend
less group of governments who speak
no common purpose, but only selfish
ambitions of their own by which none
can profit but themselves, and whose
people are fuel in their hands; govern
ments which fear their people and yet
ere for the time their sovereign lords,
making every choice for them and
disposing of their lives and fortunes
rs they will, as well as the lives and
fortunes of every people who fall I'M
der their power-governme clothed
with strange trappings and the prim-
tive authority of an age that is alto
gether alien and hostile to our own.
The past and the present are in deadly
grapple and the peoples of the world
are being done to death between them.
"There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromise No halfway de-