Dr. Stephen S. Wise played a prominent role in the memorial service held for Woodrow Wilson Wednesday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. Following a long and reverend silence the assemblage cheered and applauded vociferously when Dr. Wise proclaimed the war president the “victim of European conspiracy and American cabal”. Dr. Wise said in part:
“Woodrow Wilson had it in his hands to bring peace to the whole would Men say he failed. He failed not. We failed. America failed, to America which, if it had stood by him as he stood for America, might have made him the immediate victor over every European conspiracy and American cabal.
“We failed, and we failed because we, his fellow Americans, were unequal to his vision, because we did not rise together to those mountain heights to which he summoned, to which he challenged. History will not forget his imperishable name. God give it that history will compassionately embalm in oblivion the names and the deeds of those who, to punish your and my leader, the hope bringer of humankind, struck him down and broke the heart of the world. God forgive them. “As for Wilson, he became not the builder of the new world, but he is its architect. We – you and I – his fellow Americans, we who knew him, we who loved him, we who trusted him, we who followed this fearlessknight of the spirit, we today pledge our eternal allegiance to his ideals, to the ideals of which Woodrow Wilson became the imperishable advocate.”
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