New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Nation Honors
Lafayette on
Name Day
Continued from page I

reception room. In front of the dais
there stood stifly at attention three
members of the Lafayette Guard in
the uniform Of the French army of
1870, acting as color guard for a
furlcd, battle Scared flag that was car
ricd in the Revolutionary War by
troops commanded by Lafayette.
Justice Dcwing. after mentioning
some Of the actions of Lafayette that
made the United States Of America his
debtor for eternity. said:
Joy to Repay France
at is a great JOY to Americans that
we are at last able to repay our debt
TO France. With the France of yester-
Gay and to-day We arc bound by mem
ories OF Lafayette, Rochambeau, de
Grassc and d'Estaing. 1t was on the
prophctcally named La Victore that
Lafayette arrived from France. 1t is
an equally happy omen that American
arms have helped TO carry victory to
France in the second Battle Of the
Marine"
John Jay Chapman. poet and reader,
whose son. an aviator, recently lost his
life on the French front, then read a
poem dedicated to France and "thc
cause that makes her great" after
which Colonel Roosevelt was intro
duced amid applause that indicated his
popularity is as great with the fighters
OF Americas allies as it is with Ameri-
can fighters.
Fighting Americas Battles
Colonel Roosevelt, in lis address, de-
clared that the French at the Marne
four years ago, the British at Yprcs,
the Italians on the frontier of Austria,
all were fighting the battles of the
United States, just as much as they
were fighting their own.
There were three Russian officers in
the chamber. They were Colonel A. NJ.
Nikolaietf, Lieutenant Commander p.
G.. Potrovsky and Lieutenant Com
'aander Gordeneff. AT one point in his
speech Colonel Roosevelt referred to
Russia as an infectious plague, and
then said
During the last year Russia, under
the dominion Of the Bolshcvists, has
betrayed her allies, has become the
tool Of German autocracy, and has
shown such utter disregard of her ma
tional honor and plighted word and
her international duties that she is
now, in, external affairs, the passive
tool and ally of her brutal conqueror,
Germany
Germany Barred From Nations League
During this passage the Russian Of
icers, all of whom wore many decora-
tions for valorous deeds performed IN
the service of Russia, stirred uncom-
fortably. But, while they did not join
in the applause that followed the dec
larations concerning their country, they
Colonel Roosevelt also said that there
could be no league Of nations in which
Germany, Austria and Turkey were
admitted.
Ambassador Jusserand, replying for
France, said:
"America rs nation that remem-
bors. Nothing goes more deeply into
our hearts than the fact that, while
years pass. you want to remember. You
remember details. You remember a day
which sometimes in France, if we do
not forget, at least we do not think of
con stantly.
stand the American heart. The French
people can"
Victory Surely Coming
Referring to the victory that is COM
ing to Allied arms, the French Ambas-
sador said:
81 wish all Of us could be there when
cur united troops viii pass to the
sound Of the 'Marseillaise, and will sc
to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and
in that cathedral hymn will be heard
that has never been heard there. 1t
will be the hymn Of independence. the
hymn of justice. 1t will be that hymn
which we all worship and which we all
love. The Star Spangled Banner.
In the morning Judge Alton s. Parker
was the principal speaker at open air
exercises at the Bartholdi statue OF
Lafayette in Union Square. A platoon