Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-31
WILSON SAYS THOSE WHO
OPPOSE LEAGUE WILL LIVE
TO BE ASHAMED OF STAND
Especial Dispatch to Morning Journal

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can dead, the president declared it
would be no profit to culogtze the
brave men who fell in the war I'M
less the lessons they taught were
taken T. heart. The American soldiers,
he said, did not cross the seas merely
to defeat Germany; they came to de-
feat forever the things for which
the central powers stood and to see
to it that there should never be a war
like this again,
1T is for us, particularly for us who
are civilized said Mr.. Wilson, ito
use our proper weapons of counsel
and agreement to see to it that there
Is not such war again. The nation
that would now fling out or this conf
mon concord of counsel would betray
the human race.
so 1t is our duty to take and
maintain the safeguards which will
see to it that the mothers of America
and the mothers of France, and Italy
and Belgium and all other suffering
nations shall never be called upon
for this sacrifice again.
This can be done. 1t must be done.
And it will be done"
Presidents speech.
The text of President Wilson's Me-
mortal day address at Suresnes Gene
terry today follows:
Mr.. Ambassador, Ladies and Gentle
men, Fellow Countrymen
No one with a 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 seen since the far days
of the 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 par
ticularly their own, but knew was the
cause 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 years of fiery trial
seemed only to he just discovering. not
for moment losing, the high tenn
per of the great affair men seasoned
in the bloody service of liberty. join
ing hands with these men, the men
of America gave that greatest of all
gifts. the gift of life and the gift of
spirit. 1t will always be a treasured
memory on he part of those who
knew and loved these men that the
testimony of everybody who saw them
in the field was their unflinching
courage, their ardor to the point of
audacity, their full consciousness of
the high cause they had come to serve,
and their constant vision of the issue.
1t 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 they were exhibiting a
shirt as well as physical might, and
those of us who know that they were
discovering to the whole world the
true spirit and devotion of their moth
erland. 1t was America who came in
the person of these men and who will
forever be grateful that she was so
represented
And 1t is the more delightful to en-
terrain these thoughts because we
know that these men, though buried
in a foreign land, are not buried in
alien soil. They are at home, sleeping
with the spirits of those who thought
the same thoughts and entertained
the same aspirations. The noble wom-
en- of Suresnes have given evidence
of the loving sense with which they
received these dead as their own, for