New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

Of French sailors and soldiers of the
22d Infantry formed guard of honor.
Near the monument was a platform,
swathed in flags. Charles A. Downer,
professor Of French at City College,
presided. The statue of Lafayette was
draped with flags and heaped about the
base were wreaths and flowers.
Five hundred children from the East
Side Settlement houses marched from
Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue to
the Mail in Central Park, headed by d
blue jacket band from Pelham Bay
Naval Training School. On the Mall
the children sang, while high overhead
eighteen fighting airplanes droned an
accompanim
Roosevelt's Address
The American army in France next
year must be numerically superior to
that Of either France or Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt said in his address
in the aldermanic chamber in the City
Hall. In discussing the things that
must be accomplished at the conclusion
OF peace treaty Colonel Roosevelt
said the Austrian and Turkish empires
must be broken up, the subject peoples
liberated and the Turk driven from
Europe.
"Lafayctte Day commentaries the
service rendered to America in the
Revolution by France" said Colonel
Roosevelt. II wish to insist with all
possible emphasis that in the present
war France and England and Italy and
the other Allies have rendered us SINH
lar services. The French at the battle
Of the Marine four years ago and at
Vcrdun and the British at Ypres in
short, the French, the English, the
Italians, the Beleians. the Scrbians
have been fighting for us when they
were fighting for themselves.
"Our army on the other side is now
rcpaying in part our debt and next
and we must insist. that the fighting
army in France from the United States
shall surpass in numbers the fighting
army in France OF either France or
England. 1t is now timc-and it long
has been tme-for America to bear
I her full share Of the common burden
For Full Reparation
"Wc must win the war as speedily
as possible. But VIC must set our
selves to fight ii through no matter
how long it takes. with the reso1ute
determination to accept no peace until,
no matter at what cost. we win tho
peace Of overwhelming victory. The
peace that VIC win must guarantee
full reparation for the awful cost of
life and treasure which the Prussian-
ized Germany OF the Hohcnzollerns
has inflicted on the entire world. and
this rcparaton must take the form of
action that will make it impossible
for Germany 10 repeat her colossal
wrongdoing.
"Germany has been able to wage this
fight for world dominion because she
has subdued to her purpose her vassal
allies. AUSTRIA Turkey and Bulgaria.
Serbia and Rumana must have re
stored to them what Bulgaria has taken
from them. The Austrian and Turkish
empires must both be broken up. all
tho subject peoples liberated and the
Turk driven from Europe.
"Wc do not intend that German or
/ but neither do We intend that they
| shall oppress and domneer others.
france must receive back Alsace and
Lorraine, Belgium must be restored
! and Unidentified. Italian Austria
must be restored to Italy and Ruma-
nian Hungary to Rumania The heroic
| Czecho-Slovaks must be made into an
independent commonwealth. The south
| ern Slavs must be united in great
| Jugoslav commonwealth.
"Poland as a genuinely independent
comm onWealth must receive back Aus
trian and Prussian Poland, as we'll as
Russian Poland, and have her coast
line on the Baltic. Lithuania, Livonia
and Finland must be guaranteed their
freedom and no part of the ancient
empire of Russia left under the Ger
man yoke. Northern Schlcswig should
go back to the Danes. Britain and
Japan should keep the colonies they
have, conquered. Armenia must be
freed. Palestine made a Jewish state
and the Syrian Christians liberated.
League of Nations Discussed
1T is sometimes announced that part
OF the peace agreement must be a