The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-07-12
NO PEACE UNTIL
HUN IS CRUSHED,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Speaks at Washington's Tomb on
independence Day.
SETTLEMENT MUST BE FINAL
Says blinded Rulers Of Prussia Have
Reused Forces They Knew Little
Cf--Fo rccs Which Once Reused
Can Never Be Crushed to
Earth"


Mount Vernon. Va. July 4.--Presi-
dent Wilson In his Independence day
address at George Washington's tomb
here said that the father Of his coun'
try and his associates spoke and act
ed. not for class, but for "A people
and that II has been left for us 10 see
fo II that IL shall be understood that
they spoke and acted. not for single
people only but for all mankind and
were planning that men OF every class
should be free and America IA place to
which men out of every nation might
resort who wished TO share with them
the rights aud privileges OF free men.
The president then referred TO the
present world struggle and said that the
peoples Of the world ind themselves
confronted by selfish group Of ma
tons who speak no common purpose
hut only selfish ambitions Of their own
and by which none can profit but
themselves and whose people are fuel
In their hands. He declared that these
governments are clothed with strange
trappings and the primitive authority
gA uA 1kG thNt 10 uitNbVthti 49,
hostile to our own. lie said the past
and the present are In deadly grappie
and the peoples Of the world are be-
ting done 10 death between them. The
rulers of the central powers even fear
their own people. said the president.
lie declared thut there can be hut one
issue In this war and the settlement
must be final. that there can be no
compromise and no halfway decision
n conceivable.
The president urged the establishing
0f nm organization OF peace which VIII
make II certain that the combined pow
err of free nations viii check every In
vasion OF right and serve 10 make
peace and justice the more secure by
affordlng u definite tribunal of opinion
tn which all must submit.
The president In closing his address
said "rhe blinded rulers OF Prussia
have reused forces which aroused can
never be crushed 10 earth ngain--for
they have at their heart an inspiration
and purpose which are dcathless and
Of the very stun OF triumph
Text Of Address.
The text Of the presidents speech
follows:
Gentlemen of the Diplomatic Corps
and My Fellow Citizens: | am happy
10 draw apart with you To this quiet
place Of old counsel In order TO speak
q little of the meaning of this day OF
our natiop's Independence The place
~~cms very still and remote. II Is as
serene aud untouched by the hurry OF
the world AS II was In those great days
long ago when General Washington
wns here aud held l.isureiy conference
with the men who were to be nssoci-
ated with him In the creation of IA ma
tion. From the gentle slopes they
tooled out upon the world and saw II
whole. saw IL with the light OF the flu
fure upon H. saw il with modern eyes
that turned away from past which
men OF liberated spirits could no longer
endure. Il Is for that reason that we
cannot feel. even here. In the immedi
ate presence of this sacred tomb. that
this IL place OF death. II was u
place nj achievement. A great promise
that was meant for all mankind was
here given plan aud reality. The MS.
xociations by which we are here sur.
rounded are the Inspiring association
nj that noble death which IL only n
glorious contamination, From this
grcen hillside We also ought TO be able
10 see with eomprehending eyes the
world that lies about US and should
conceive anew the purposes that must
set men free.
Planned universai Freedom.
at Is acknowledgement of their
own character and purpose and OF the
Influences they were setting afoot--
that Washington and hts associates.
like the barons at Runnymetie. spoke
and acted. not for class. but for a
people, II has been left for Ms To see
"a II that IL shall be understood thar
they spoke and acted. not for II single
people only. but for all mankind. The,
wer. thinking. not OF themselves aud
of the material interests which cen
tered In the little groups NJ landhold
= ers and merchants and men OF affairs
with whom they were accustomed 10
act. Ia Virginia and the colonies to this
north and south Of her. but Of peopl.
which wished In he done with classes
and special interests aud the author
lily of men whom they had not them
s~lveg chosen TO rule over them. They
entertained no private purpose, de
sired no peculiar privilege
They We're consciously planning
that men al every class should be FIRE,
and America u place TO which men GU
of every naii"n might resort VIII,
wished Ia share with them the right
and privileges of free men And ",
take eur cue from them--do We not
w. InInnl A,hn1 IhaN int InLl..l ~.