Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-06-06
WILSON SPEAKS
IN US. CEMETERY
President EuIogizes American
Soldier Dead; Says League
Fruit of Sacrifice.
MUST PREVENT ANOTHER WAR
Views Foes Of Society of Nations in
Same Light as Those Who op-
posed Union Of North
and South.

Paris, May 31.-The text of the
Memorial address of President Wilson
at Suresnes cemetery, is as follows:
Mr.. Ambassador, Ladies' and Gen
tlemen, Fellow Countrymen:
mo one with n heart In his breast,
no American, no lover of humanity,
can stand in the presence of these
graves without the most profound emo
tion. These men who lie here are
men of n unique breed. Their like
has not been seen since the days of
.crusades.
Never before have men crossed the
seas to a foreign land to fight for a
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 arm
les of liberty already In the field
men who, though they had gone
through three years 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
hands with these, the men of America
gave the greatest of all gifts-the gift
Of life and the gift of spirit.
Praises Unflnehine Courage.
1T will always be treasured MEM
ory on the part of those who knew and
loved these men that the testimony of
everybody who saw them in the field
of action was their unfiinching cour-
age. their ardor to the point of au-
dacity, their full consciousness of the
high cause they had come to serve and
their constant vision of the issue.
ut is delightful to learn from those
who saw these men fight and saw them
waiting in the trenches for a sum-
mons to the fight that they had touch
of the high spirit of religion, that
they knew they were exhibiting q spir-
1t as well as a physical might, and
those of us who know and love Amer
lea know that they were discovering
to the whole world the true spirit and
devotion of their motherland. 1t was
America who came in the person of
these men and who will forever be
grateful that she was so represented.
''And it is the more delightful TO en-
tertain these thoughts because we
know that these men, though buried IN
a foreign land, are not buried in sn
alien soil. They are at home, sleep
ing with the spirits Of those who
thought the same thoughts .and enter
tnined the same aspirations. The no.
BILE women of Suresnes have given evil
dence 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 of neglect and that constant
ly through all the months that have
gone by the mothers at home should
know that there we're mothers here
who remembered and honored theil
dead.
"You have just heard In the beauti
ful letter from NJ. Clemenceau wha
I believe to be the real message ot
France to us on day like this, mes
sage of genuine comradeship, a mes
sage of genuine sympathy, and have
no doubt that If our British comrades
were here they would speak in the
same spirit and in the same language
For the beauty of this war is that 1
has brought a new partnership and {
new comradeship and new under
standing into the field of the effort O.
the nation.
Lesson Taught by Sacrifices.
But it would be no profit to ms I,
eulogize these illustrious dead If VI
did not take to heart the lesson whIcl
they have taught us. They are dead
they have done their utmost to shoy
their devotion to a great cause, an
they Ehave- left us to see to it thG
that cause shall not be betrayed
whether in war or peace. 1t is our priv
ilege and our high duty to consecrat
ourselves afresh on a day like this [
the objects for which they fought.
"It Is not necessary that 1 should re
hearse to you what these objects were
These men did not come across the Sc
merely to defeat Germany and her a:
1ociated powers in the war. The
came to defeat forever the things fc
which the central powers stood. th
sort of power they meant to assert
the world
$50 1t is our duty to take and malr
tain the safeguards which will see
1t that the mothers of America an