Arizona republican., 1919-05-31
TEXT IF MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS GIVEN
 BY TIE PRESIDENT

The text of President Wilson's Me morial day address at Suresnes ceme- 1 tery today follows:
 Mir. Ambassador. ladies and gentle men, fellow countrymen:
 No one with heart in his breast, | no American, no lover of humanity, can stand in the presence of these graves without the most profound emotion. These men who lie here are men of a unique breed. Their like has not been since the far days of the Crusades. Never before have men crossed the seas to foreign land to fight for cause of humanity which they did not pretend was particularly their own, but knew was the cause of humanity and of mankind. And when they came, they found comrades for their courage and their devotion They found armies of liberty already in the field-men who, though they had gone through three Srars of fiery trial, seemed only to be just discovering, not for a moment losing, the high temper of the great affair, men seasoned in ! the bloody service of liberty. Joining i hands with these, the men of Ameri- ca gave that greatest of all gifts, the ! will always be a treasured memory on
 the part of those who knew and loved 1 these men that the testimony of every
 body who saw them in the field of
 action was their unflincing courage, l their ardor to the point of audacity, i their full conscienciouSneSS of the high causes they had come to serve and their constant vision of the issue.
 It is delightful to learn from those
 who saw these men fight and saw
 them waiting in the trenches for the
 summons to the fight that they had a
 touch of the high spirit of religion,
 that they knew theS were exhibiting
 a spirit as well as a physical might,
 and those Of us who know and love
 America know that they were discov-
 ering to the whole world the true
 spirit and devotion or their mother
 land. It was America who came in
 the person of these men and who will
 forever be grateful that she was so
 represented.
 And it is more delightful to entertain
 these thoughts because we know that
 these men, though buried in a foreign
 land, are not buried in an alien soil
 They are at home, sleeping with the
 spirit of those who thought the same thoughts and entertained the same as- pirations. The noble women of Su- . resnes have given evidence of the loving sense with which they received
 these dead as their own, for they have
 cared for their graves, they have made
 it their interest, their loving interest to see that there was no hour o1 neglect and that constantly through
 all the months that have gone by the
 mothers at home should know thai hH nm. : bered and honored their dead.
 You have just received in the beau. tiful letter from NJ. Clemenceau wha l believe to be the real message O. France to us on a day like this,
 message of genuine comradeship, message of genuine sympathy, and
 have no doubt that if our British com
 rades were here they would speak il the same spirit and the same Ian guage For the beauty of this war il that it has brought a new partnership : and new comradeship and new
 understanding into the field of the ef fort of the nation.
 But it would be no profit to eulogiz these illustrious dead if we did no : take to heart the lesson which the! ) have taught us. They are dead the,
 have done their utmost to show thei } devotion to a great cause, and the. have left us to see to it that tha 5 cause shall not be betrayed, whethe ) in war or peace. It is our privilege an, l our high duty to consecrate ourselve
 afresh on a day like this to the object l for which they fought. It is not neces ! sary that I should rehearse to yo I what these objects were. These me did not come across the sea merely | B defeat Germany and her associate [ powers in the war; they came to de | feat forever the things for which tn q central powers stood, the sort of powe e they meant to assert in the world, tn
 arrogant, selfish domination whic 's they meant to establish; and the IS came, moreover, to see to it that ther
 should never be a war like this agai1 Il It is for us, particularly for us wh n are civilized, 10 use our proper weap e Ons of counsel and agreement to see [ u it that there never is such a war agail ie The nation that should now fling ou