Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-31

We must be free or die, who speak the
 tongue
 That Shakespeare spake; the faith and
 morals hold
 Which Milton held"
 Yes, and though as the war went on freedoms road was getting filled with graves and heavy with the scent of death you went on until you not only halted the foe but put autocracy under the sod This. too. went to its death shot through and run through with democratic steel, with American steel doing its share
 Democracy is today practically a world wide possession. Peoples that never be- fore were free from a conuueror's yoke lift free heads to the heavens and thank God for freedoms flag and freedom reign. To you veterans of the World war belongs a large share in bringing this about Your needs will be told in song and story as the>centuries come and go. Your names We wear forever next our hearts.
 Let us sum this fight for freedom by centuries and see it's upward climb. The 18th and 17th centuries gave religious freedom, the 18th political freedom, the 18th economic freedom, the 2Oth carried democracy to the ends Of the earth ano gave political freedom to many long helc in bondage.
 In this present year the United Stafe. 1 led the way to what we hope will come to be the highest peak of freedom ", have yet reached. A first move wa, made against war itself This was il l the minds Of many who fought on al l fronts in the late war War against wal was one of the Gallying cries that called the crusaders to arms The boys wen wit h hat I H,ir and souls. Many of those who sieep unde . the popDies and the crosses in Flander, and France died with the hope that theij crusade would not fail. We must kee, faith with those who died Our aim alst is to end war. To put an end 10 thi, race-oh foe to freedom which has nov become menace and terror beyond al words The move against the intoierabI, burden of the battleship is in the righ direction. It is 8 straw to show the di rectioHIof tine winds of God It is, ", trust. a first step towards that tim. when nation shall not lift up swort against nation, neither shall they learl 1 war any more.
 l We have now outlined in part. ts,f l fight for freedom in certain aspects. I 1 would be fruitful to carry it through in different departments of our modern If and show the mighty contributions mad l by eacfl-we have stressed mainly in 1 political phase. In all these epochs ii 1 the struggle you veterans in diffsren l wars, living and dead, have had a Iary
 share Nen, wish to bring you tn | thanks of the new generation Yo l fought their battles you gave you I strength, your youth, your blood, to sahe guard our liberties. Great is our herftag from you, and great is our debt to vol
 and sirs, fathers, soldiers, in the nam of the present and coming generation. i the name of union and democracy whic you preserved, in the name of freedo,
 Tor which you fought, we thank you W
 realize. sirs. that the benefits you bco;,gt
 us cannot be lightly maintained. The
 VIII not live without labor and sacrifc
 on our part. fSwe fail in our duty i'm
 inheritance will slip from our fingers an
 the fair fortune which you gave 1Is wi
 vanish away. But here in the apresenc
 or this monument symbolic of your deed
 we accept as a sacred trust the resph
 or your labor and strife, and highly r,
 solve that we will do our best to di,
 charge that trust. You helped to sai the land from gigantic foes, we will fgI | rhe- foes that face us with the yaiof an
 sacrifice taught us by your example. W l WIa try to be worthy of your confidenc
 and assure you that not only yosIr pifi ! 10 us but your memory will continue 1
 be both an inspiration and a benedjctic to us, your sons. and brothers, sjste,
 and daughters. And in days~to com
 when God and country calls fl crusade,
 to hght the battles of peace as the .