The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-06-05
WILSON SPEAKS
IN U. S. CEMETERY
President EulogizeS American
Soldier Dead; Says League
Fruit of Sacrifice.
MUST PREVENT ANOTHER WAR
Views Foes Of Society of Nations in
Same Light as Those Who OPP
posed Union of North
and South.

Paris, May 3l.-The text OF IN
Memorial address of President Wilson
at Suresnes cemetery, is as follows:
"Alr. Ambassador, Ladies and Gen
tlemen, Fellow CounTymen:
mo one with a heart in his breast
no American, no lover Of humanity
can stand in the presence Of thes'
graves without the most profound emo
ton. These men who lie here arr
men of a unique breed, Their lik'
has not been seen since the days Of
cruSades.
Never before have men crossed the
seas TO a foreign land to fight for 6
cause Of humanity which they did not
pretend was particularly their own
bur 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 10 be just discovering, not
for O 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 Unflinchine Courage.
1T will always be a treasured mem
DRY 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 untllnching 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.
1T 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 a touch
Of the high spirit of religion, that
they knew they were exhibiting a spir-
it 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 il is the more delightful TO en-
terrain these thoughts because We
know that these men, though buried in
foreign land, are not buried In an
allen soil. They are at nome, sleep
ing with the spirits Of those who
thought the same thoughts and enter
tanned the same aspirations. The no
bic women Of SureSnes have given eyi-
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, 10 see that there was
no hour Of neglect and that constant
ily through all the months that hay,
gone by the mothers at home should
know That there were mothers here
who remembered and honorcd their
dead
You have just heard in the hcauti
full letter from NJ Clcmcncoau what
J believe 10 be- the real message Of
France to MS on q day like This mes
sage OF genuine comradeslip. q mes
sage Of genuine sympathy, and I haN,
no douh, that IL our British comrades
were here they would speak ga Tho
same spirit and Ia the same language
For the beauty Of this war is that II
has brought a new partnership and +
new couradcShip and "A new under
standing into the field of the effort Of
The nation.
Lesson Taught by Sacrifices.
But It would be 40 profit 10 ms tC
eulocze these illuslrlous dead if W,
did not take 10 heart the lesson whlcl
thcy have taught u.s. They are dead
they have done their utmost TO show
their devotion 10 q great cause. onc
they have left us to see to it tha
that cause shan mot be betrayed
Wh. Their in war peace. ItiSour priv
ilegc and our high duty 40 couspcgst
ourselves afrpsh on day Hike this .,
the objects for which they fought.
at is not necessary that should re-
hcarsc 10 you what these objects Vcec
These men did not come ucro,, me So,
merely to defeat Germany ana hcr 81
socatcd powers u the war. Tho
came to dcfca. forever the things fo
which thr central powers stood Oh