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presidents address. He said he look
ed forward to the time when a man
who failed to support the league
would be as ashamed as the man who
opposed the union of the states after
the Civil war.
Text of Speech.
Washington, May 30.-The text of
President Wilson's Memorial Day ad
dress at Suresnes cemetery today fol-
lows:
"Mr. Ambassador, Ladies and Gen.
tlemen, Fellow Countrymen:
mo 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 unique breed. Their like has
not been seen since the far days
of the crusades. Never before have
men crossed the seas to foreign
land to fight for q cause of human
ity which they did not pretend was
particularly their own, but knew was
their cause Of humanity and of man.
kind. And when they came, they found
comrades for their courage and their
devotion. They found armies of lib
erty already in the field-men who,
though they had gone through three
years Of fiery trial seemed only to be
just discovering, not for moment
losing, the high temper Of the great
affair, men seasoned in the bloody SER
vices 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 ...
Memory Is Sacred.
1T will always be treasured men,
DRY on the part Of those who knew
and loved these men that the testi-
mony of everybody who saw them in
the field of action was their un-
flinching courage, their ardor to the
point of audacity, their full con-
seriousness of the high cause they had
come to serve, and their constant Wis
ion 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 touch of the
high spirit of religion, that they knew
they. were exhibiting spiritual as
wellas physical might, and those of
us who know and love America that
they were disclosing 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-
terrain these thoughts because we
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in foreign land are not buried in an
alien soil. They are at home, Sleep
ing with the spirits of these who
thought the same thoughts and enter
tanned the same aspirations. The no.
BILE women of Suresnes have given evil
dence of the loving sense with which
they received these dead as theirs
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 thru all the months that have gone
by, the mothers at home should know
that there were mothers here who re-
membered and onored their dead.
A New COmradship.
"You have just heard in the beau
tiful letter from Monsieur Clemen-
ceau that believe to be the real mes
sage of France to us on day like
this, message of genuine conrad
ship, message of geuine sympathy,
and / have no doubt that if our Brit
ish comrades were here they would
speak in the same spirit and in the
same language. For the beauty of
this war is that it has brought new
partnership and new comradship
and new understanding into the
field of effort of the nation.
"But it would be no profit to us to
eulogize these illustrious dead if we
did not take to heart the lesson which
they have taught us. They are dead;
they have done their utmost to show
their devotion to great cause, and
they have left us to see to it that that
in war or peace.
at is our privilege and our high
duty to consecrate ourselves afresh
on day like this to the objects for
which they fought. It is not neces-
sary that should rehearse to you
what those objects were. These men
did not come across the sea merely to
defeat Germany and her associated
powers IN the war. They came to de-
feat forever the the things for
which the central powers stood, the
sort of power they meant to assert in
the world, the arrogant selfish do
mination which they meant to estab-
fish; and they came, moreover to see
to it that there should never be a
war like this again. 1t is for us, par
ticularly for us who are civilized, to
use our proper weapons of counsel
and agreement to see to it that there
never is such war again. The ma
ton that should now fling out of this
common concord of counsel would be-
tray the human race.
Must Maintain Safeguard.
$50 it 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 Eng
land and Italy and Belgium and all
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