| Show memorial ne never neer er day to bring up animosities memorial day might conceivably be in some countries an occasion for appealing to martial boastfulness or ancient animos animosities liles americans have reason to take pride in the fact that we have hav never enever been tempted to io use it in that way the names of our battles antietam Antle tam vicksburg gettysburg the wilderness chateau 1 thierry clerry the argonne carry a thrill to all americans put but we think of the battles as a larger background for Forth tills ls we are indebted partly to national but more largely to our leaders in time of crisis in tile civil war there was mas plenty of popular hatred and anger yet lincoln never once yielded to them never deviated an inch from his course of loftiness and map mag and never ceased appealing to the country to pursue its objects with ith malice toward none and charity for all when wilson went before congress to ask ash a declaration of war it was with the earnest declaration mat tant we are the sincere friends of the he german people from beginning to end of the conflict he insisted that his chief concern wit was ii to define its alnis alms in such a way as to awal aw alien ten tile ideal ism of the whole world and mike m ke pos sible bible it siner saner and better world order after the civil hll war there ns a 11 period of reaction and fatigue wh when the baser side of the national char acter asserted itself after the world war there was a less les marked hut bill decided slump front the best wart wartime line ideals hut we can safely say today that that also is past Alemer hil city now and heren fler will he P a jay day for remembering even inore than tile the alir bend tile the exalted alms for which hey died new york world |
