New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Lafayette Day
Observed Here
By Many Events
Ambassador Jusserand Pays
Tribute to Memory OF
Theodore Roosevelt as
Leader in City Hall Speech
g of Allies Represented
Myron T. Herrick Says With.
out Aid of France RcvOlu-
ton Would Have Failed

ton Would Have Failed
Lafayette Day, observed annually IN
this city and throughout the United
States since 1918. was celebrated yes
terday. the l62d anniversary Of the
patriots birth and the ffth nnniver-
ssrv Of the Battle of the Marnc. by i'm
pressiye ceremonies at City Hall, IN
which representatives Of the nine prin-
cipal Allied countries participated. Ex-
ercises also were held at the Joan OF
Arc statue. Riverside Drive and Nine
ty-third .,reet. and the Lafayette
statue IN nion Square.
Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador
10 the United States. speaking at City
Hall. brought cheers from his audience
OF city officials and foreign government
representatives by referring TO the
satisfactory ending Of the war with
a pcac ~hich is not peace OF venge,
ance. peace OF reparation and
safety" Myron T. Herrick. formerly
United States Ambass sador 10 France,
and DR.. John u. Finley. State Commis-
sioner OF Education, were other speak
ers. Mayor Hylan represented the city,
and Major General +. II. Barry, com
mandan. at Governors Island, and Rear
Admiral II. 7. Huse, u. S. NJ. Jointly
represented the United States.
Other Governments Represented
The governments represented in
tluded, besides France and the United
A..4o Ri. fon.Ha l-a
Japan, Belgium, Russia. Poland ano
Greece
As the services were about TO begin
telegram was received from the
Prince Of Wales. in which he described
the victory OF the Marne as "an inn
mortal achievement which Britons
never will forget Cable messages
came from President Poincare of
France, Premier Clemenceau, Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. Sir David
Beatty. admiral Of the British feet, and
General Pershing. who said he was
sorry he could not speed up the Levia-
than so as TO be able 20 take part IN
the celebration. Secretary of State
Lansing wired that State Department
duties kept him away. Major General
Leonard Wood also sent regrets.
A tribute was paid by Ambassador
JuSStTdiU 10 iilt lNtUlNiy VI lurNuOAt
Roosevelt France no less than Amer
lea, he said. mourned the absence of
"thc voice which on mCmentous occa
sions reached from one end OF the
world 10 the other teaching men how
20 attain better days through courage.
sense Of duty and good citizenship"
Jusserand Defends Treaty
Ambassador Jusserand's speech, which
began with a tribute to the late Colo.
mel Roosevelt, who, he said, he had
seen last AT The 1918 Lafayette ami
versary, developed d defence Of the re-
cent peace as one not of vengeance, but
Of reparation and safety, nothing
more: rather something less
"'This reparation,' he quoted from
the former Presidents Lafayette Day
address last year. "'must take the form
of action that viii render 1t impossible
for Germany TO repeat her colossal
wrong doing President Wilson has
spoken and acted to the same effect"
For those who would have had a
softer peace for Germany, the Ambas-
ssdor added he had but one admoni-
tion, Remember" Then he related his
own recent experiences and observa-
tions during trip through the war
ravaged regions OF his country 20 show
that vanqgishcd Germany, even ye: un-
repertant and willing, were she able,
10 repeat The crimes Of the past, is in
better condition physically TO face the
coming winter than victorious but
msngled France.
- weak peace and weak resolves"
the ambassador proceeded, would only
cause scorn and tempt TO new aggres-
sions, which is not way OF speaking,
but the stating OF actual incontrovert-
ible facts. Just remember.
Was the peace Of 1871 a harsh and
cruel peace for the Germans2 1t was
written at their own dictation; they
took our billions and provinces. Yet
they never, for one moment, ceased to
be on the lookout for an occasion to
begin again and achieve the destruc-
tion of France. They very nearly
started new war in 1875 and de-
sisted. not out of sense of justice,
but out of fear Of the British and the
Russians. France herself was. in the
mean time. so bent on peace that she
yielded and yielded, going even so far
as to present to Germany part OF a
colony, the French Congo, which We
had settled and civilized, without. BY
the way, any bloodshed.
Enemy Must Repent
"If ever the enemy changes. under
stands and confesses not from the lips