The border vidette., 1934-06-09
ROOSEVELT DELIVERS GeTTYS.
BURG ADDRESS

! Gettysburg, Pa. May 80. -
Close by the ridge where Lee
flung the flower of the South
into one desperate c harg
against northern steel, President
Roosevelt today called upon the
nation to heal the scars of SEQ.
tional strife.
The shadow of another Pres.
ident--Lincoln, the rail splitter
was tall across this blossoming
battlefield. for it was here on .
November day in 1863 that be
stepped upon q crude wooden
platform and spoke, I'VE highly
resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain"
Surely" said Mr.. Roosevelt,
this is holy ground.
"On these hills of Gettysburg
two met in com bat. Not far from
here ragged Continental army
survived bitter winter to keep
alive the expiring hope of q new
nation. And near to this battle.
field and that valley stands that
invincible city where the Declare.
ton of Independence was born
and the Constitution of the
United States was written by
the fathers.
The roads that curl among the
monuments were black with
automobiles carrying $4,000 per.
sons up the green slopes to
hear Mr.. Roosevelt praise all
who died here where the for
tunes of the Confederacy touch.
ed the crest and failed.
Grouped around Mr.. Roosevelt
as be spoke were few faltering
figures in blue-men alive when
Picket charged.
I'VE are ell brothers now in q
new understandings" said MIR.
Roosevelt. The grain farmers
OF the West do not set them
selves up for preference if we
seek at the same time to help
the cotton farmers Of the South;
nor do the tobacco growers com.
plain of discrimination, If, at the
same time, we help the cattle.
men of the plains and mountains.
1t was an inspired prophet Of
the>South who said, My brethren
If We know one another, We will
love one another The tragedy
Of the nation was that the people
did not k W one another
because they bad not the neces.
sary means OF visiting one
another.
washington an d Jefferson
Jackson and Lincoln and Theo.
dore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson sought and worked for q
consolidated nation. You and
| have it in our power to attain
that ideal.
Here 10 the presence of the
spirits who fall on this ground
we give renewed assurance that
the passions of war are moulder.
ing in the tombs of time, and the
purposes of peace are flowing in
the hearts of q united people.
Mr.. Roosevelt, in appealing
for national unity, said:
The chief hindrance to pro.
eress comes from three elements,
which, thank God, grow less in
importance With the growth of q
clearer understanding of our
purposes on the part of the over.
wheimiug ma ajority.
These groups are those who
seek to stir political auimosity or.
to build political advantage by
the distortion of facts; those,
who. by declining to follow the
rules of the game. seek to gain
an unfair advantage over those
who live up to the rules; and
those few who still. because they
have never been willing to take
an interest 10 their fellow Amer
leans, we'll inside of their own
narrow spheres and still repre-.
sent the seiishncss of sectiona.
lism which has no. place 10 our
national life."
Mr.. Roosevelt left after bis
speech tor New York, where to.
morrow he will review the feet.
He will remain there until even.
log when be goes to Groton,
Mass, TO attend the graduation
of bis son, John. ..-