The sun., 1918-07-05
Text of Presidents Address
WASHINGTON, July 4-Folowing the address, in FULL de-
livered by President Wilson TODAY at Mount Vernon:

lvered by President Wilson to-day a Mount Vernon:
Gentlemen Of The Diplomatic Corps my telop
this place of old counsel in order
speak little the meaning this day nations independence
The untouched by
the world those when
Washington here and held ure conference with the who
be associated with him in the nation From these
gentle slopes they looked the world and whole
with the light the future with modern that turned
which liberated spirits could longer endure
the immediate
this this death place
Of achievement promise that for all mankind
reality The associations by which here
rounded the npng associations Of that noble death which
only glorious consummaon From this hillside also ought
comprehending
and conceive the purpose that must set men Free
1t sgncansgncan of their character and and
the influences setting aootha Washington and his
associates like the barons Runnmede spoke and acted
understood that spoke acted but
all mankind They thinking of themselves Of the
material interests which centred in the little proup of landbodes and
the
people which wished to done with classes and special interests and the
authority
They entertained private desired peculiar privilege
They consciously planning that every class should free
America which nation might
wished share with them the rights and privileges free And
take from themdo not? We intend what they intended
We here believe participation this be
only the utage of what they planted Our differs from theirs
only this privilege
what shall liberties America
but the liberties other people we'll We happy the
thought permitted they
they been There be settled for all what
settled for America in the whose inspiration
to-day. surely fitting place calmly look
spirits accomplishment
And this the appropriate place from which alike the friends
who happiness be
associated faith purpose with which
This conception Of which we hre
engaged the
On hand the the world
only the actually engaged but who suffer under
and Of the
people among though they
for the unorgand and helpless Opposed them
of isolated frndl Governments who
purpose ambitions of their by
which profit themselves and whose peoples fuel their
hands the time their
and fortunes they WILL well of the lives fortunes
who fall under their clothed with the
trappngs primitive authority altogether alien
hostile The Past and the Present deadly app
and the peoples the world being done death between them
The be final There
be compromise No halfway decision would be oeabe No
halfway decision conceivable These the ends for which the assoc
ad peoples the world fighting and which be conceded them
before there be peace:
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These great objects What
law based the governed
by organized opinion Of mankind.
ends be achieved by debating
wish
balances and OF national opportunity They realized
determination of what the thinking of the
SIRE longing justice op
portunty
fancy this carries
principles peculiar kindness Here
great against which primarily directed regarded
against ghu authority, which long
haveh Of its
United stand here
proudly with confident hopeo the spread of this revolt
atn great the world itself! The blinded
have little oorces which
earth they have their
and purpose Of triumph!