Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — WILSON SPEAKS AT YANK GRAVES [ARTICLE]

WILSON SPEAKS AT YANK GRAVES

Pittldut Delivers Memorial Day Address Io American Cemetery Near Paris. PLACES WREATH ON SHAFT Kxecntive Says “We Oommemo* rate Not Only ite union of Our Country,. but Also Liberation of the World.” Washington, May SO. President Wilson will deliver his Memorial day address In an American cemetery In the suburbs of Paris, it wan announced at the White House. The president will place a wreath on a memorial for American soldiers buried there. It will be one of the wreaths sent to American cemeteries in France by voluntary contributions of two cents each front the 883,000 boy scouts in this country, Wilson's Message to Nation. 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 a menaage, to take part with you In its observation and in expressing the sentiments which 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 the free life of men were ever exposed. M We have buried the gallant and now Immortal men who died in this great war of liberation with a new sense of consecration. Our thoughts and puri pose now are consecrated to the maintenance of the liberty of the world and of the union of Its 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. “W® must never forget the duty that their sacrifice has laid upon us of fulfilling their hopes and their purpose to the utmost This, it seems to me, is the impressive lesson and the Inspiring mandate of the day.

"WOODROW WILSON." ,