Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
AMERICANS FOUGHT
WAR FOR HUMANITY
president Wilson Tells Suresnes Memorial Day Audience
This Must BE Last Armed Conflict That Sacri-
fees Made May Not Have Been in Vain

ihe mothers Of France and England and
italy ana Belgium and ali other suf-
upon for this sacrifice again This can
bc done. 1t must be done. And IL will
be done.
The things that these men let, US.
conceive IT, is the Erea; instrument
watch we have just erected in the
league OF nations The league Of ma
IONS rs the covenant Of government
'hat these men shall not have died in
VAIN. Ike 10 think that the dust OF
those sons OF America who were priyi-
lcged 10 ne buried in their mother
country viii mingIe with the dust Of
me men VINO tough: for the preserva-
ton OF the Union and that as those
i men gave ,heT lives in order ,hat
haye misht be reunited these men
the world might be united.
Ihos. men gave their lives in order
=" secure the freedom Of nation.
heSe men nave given their lives in
nritr L" secure tn" freedom OF man
Kind, and I look forward to An ase
wnen II w.ll be just as Impossible to
rt:iel tic results Of the labor as il is
now impossible TO rcEr-t the result q
tnr ihbor "' mos" men VINO fought
Tor n" Union Or the states. / look
Tor the time when every man who now
hnis ms counsel against the united
At' Nlcc "l man nd under ne league
of nations VIII be Just AZ ASHAMED or
" as II he nov regretted the onion.
'i inc states.
Old Order showing Itself
i"u aye aware. as am aware, that
N" airs of an older day are beginning
TO stir again. ina; the standards OF
an OLD order are trying 10 assert them
seNes again There Is mere and there
an attempt 20 Insert into the counsel
o, statesmen the old reckon.n. OF self
ishness and bargaining and national
advantage when We're the roots Of ,hts
"sT, ana any man who counsels these
"a -
Iih 9 winch these men have made: for
u ms is not tn. hnal battle for riyh,
,mere ~. be another that VIII be
pose that st is possible for them r.
accomplish this return 10 an order OF
men We are ashamed. And that We
cannot accomplish IT, The peoples 81
world are awake and the peoples of
inc world are in the saddle Private
coHase!s OF statesmen cannot now and
MICS OF nations
II we do not now know courage. We
canhot accomplish our purpose and
not nacH"ard: which rejects the stand
ara "t national selnshness that ono.
governed the counsels Of nations and
demands that they shall. give way to a
new order Of things in which only the
questions VIII be Is II right lis ~
JUST" Is It in the Interest OF man
kind"
This Is Challenge Of To-day
THIS Is challenge that no pre-
.."uS generation ever dared TO give ear
10. 80 many things have happened
ana they have happened so fast in
me Iast four years that do NOT mink
man OF Us geaiizc what II is that has
happened. Think how impossible !,
would have been 20 get body Of re-
spoons ole statesmen seriously 10 an
tef,ain the idea OF the organization Of
a league OF nations four years ago
taken place.
II was told before came to Franc.
snat ,ner" WOULD he confusion Of coun-
srIs about this thing, and found unity
o. counsel. was told thar there wanna
"pPos,'ion. and found unity OF
m r' ! found the statesmen WIN
ne ldea tina; we must have league
81 nations; that We could not merely
make peace. settlemen, and men
leave II 20 make itself erectuaI ~,
that we must conceive SOM cn-, ~
"FSah!Zation By which We should give
our common faith that this peace
would he ma intained and the conclu-
Sons at which we had arrived should
"e ihaue as secure as the united coun
seIs OF all the great nations tina.
,Susht against Germany could MAKE
mem. We have listened 70 the chai
eng and that is the proof that there
shaH never be n war like this again
Their Spirits Live.
Ladies and gentlemen We all h.
ueNe' hope, that the spirits ~ these
men are not buried with their honns
theiF spirits live. hope-I believe.
t"". their spirits are present with us
~ TINS hour. | hope that fceI mo
.@mpTlsion Of their presence. hone
mat realize the significance ~ thni.
presence Think. soldiers. Of ,bosn
comrades Of yours who are gone ~
,neN We're here what would thev SAL
heE would no; remember What Won
%rc taxing about today. They womb
rcremher America which thew Inf,
Nth Nth their high hope and p,irpose
Would remember the terrible field
o. battie. They would remember u,b,,
lney CONSTANTS. recalled in times nf
uahse!. what they had come for ana
TOW TOW worthwhile il was to give Their
Ahd they would say. forget all ,hs
niue circumstances OF the dav Re
ashamed Of tho jcalousies that djviJe
YOU We command YOU in the name Of
! NOS, nose VINO, like ourselves. have died 10
hrihe the counsels Of mon together and
we remind You what America said she
was born for. She was horn. she said
r" snow mankind the way 10 liberty
9hc was horn to make this great rif;
a common Gift. She was horn 10 SHOW
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