Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — TELLS NEW SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY. [ARTICLE]

TELLS NEW SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY.

Washington, D. C., May 29. President Wilson has cabled the following Memorial day message to the American people: “My fellow countrymen—Memorial day wears this year an added significance, and I wish, if only by message, to take part with you in its observation and in expressing the sentiment it inevitably suggests. In observing the day we commemorate not only the reunion of our own country, but also now the liberation of the world from one of the most serious dangers to which free government and free life of men were ever exposed. We have buried the gallant and now immortal men who died in this great war of liberation with a new sense of conscience. Our thoughts and purposes are now consecrated to the maintenance of the liberty of the world and of the union of the people in a single comradeship of liberty and of right. It was for this that our men conscientiously offered their lives. They came to the field of battle with the high spirit and pure heart of crusaders. We must never forget the duty that their Sacrifice has laid upon, us of fulfilling their hopes and their purposes to the utmost. This, it seems to me, is the impressive lesson and the inspiring mandate of the day. “WOODROW WILSON.”