Show FULL MEED OF PRAISE Orators Pay Pa Eloquent Tribute to ta the Nations Heroes A M lIf E 1 ill Wil to 0 i SoldIers I fur Tb M B church It a ItI I large audience lilt Ja t evening to 10 the exercises which w were of a hick tone The room was nil tastily decorAted with AI at lag Ing anti and on UIe thu stand and we were seated bow who on tile the program al atso Clark Col M M 1 sail anI Rn If H Henry Th Were wre eloquent and W were i to with UI cloie attention Corn Com mender Clark who presided at th the meeting an tb the opening nuin bar ber the tho tn singing of oC AmerIca by the H Henry offend the In vUon alter Scott kott Wells Well rep representing I resenting tile volunteers of the Philip Philippine 1 pine war rr ee And delivered a 11 very entertaining address lie dwelt upon the results ot of the of Memorial day when men stay In n and aDd uk ask what thy they are doing doln to the glorious le u of their American Mr lr Wells followed the nations lila his history tory through An All tire of war and hIghly eulogized the volunteer In inthe the war who had brevity OM gone out to fIght ht for humanity Mr Ir Plummer then rendered the solo 1010 In a very sweet after which Ml Miss a Munroe Munro tie de an n address In behalf of the Womans Corps Corp her speech pitch was wall full of fervor and evoked rounds of heart hearty applause She said In part rt Once more the Ibe widening circle of the I revolving years ara has ha brought us round the graves of at our heroic dead One Onee more th the nation netlon In its III onward ru rush h to 10 reverently 00 bow before the of To man many here hert the story of oC the wr war fa 1 Uk lIke a dim and nd misty tale lall the shadow adow of a dream To those hON of us III who aa saw the Mot anti nd shell mow down don the ranks tanka of gallant men whose whOle heart he have worn the 1114 weed eda ot of through cli these bit tr years It ii I a tern stern reality Tb The war warnor nor of ancient times waged aN war for lor place and aDd power The soldier of the It lie public fought not fur power not to on en but to set el free Their grand achievements must mut never be forgotten Th The memory of their hero lam ham must mut never dl die Ma May our right hands hand forget their cunning and our tongues be speechless when we forget the debt w we owe those thOle gallant men who marched with Sherman Sheridan Thomas Thom Grant Into the mouth of hell bell into the jaw of death Appau Dut Duty to tb the found founder and aDd Ir preservers erver ot of this Republic DUI Duty to living and to dead To Ih the millions yet to be demand that we forever forner honor those who vho mn mans to 18 save t the t Union The Th Master h hs said Greater love hath io 10 man Inan than that h lie la lay down don hll lit for another If the love I is so 0 great reat which gives life lito for tor a friend how much jr greater ter when given for a principle To such di de to principle we bulk our mints We build to brave mn men every vry whorl We build to write In cold gray litO 10 lii he who runs run may read d that far above aboe all other lem sins of this old World of 01 our oura is II patriotism We build to teach the son IOn of valiant sires that tha t Q a glorious inheritance 1 Is theirs Tie theirs heirs to do to dare to lie Jle It need be for lor all this starry emblem mean to us It means the grandest the freest the truet government under the blue arch aroh of heaven Applause 1 every fYer age and generation thre her ire are men who ho h hate no I hiVe of country no nonte sins ot of patriotism Now as Aa In 81 61 end and IS tile the calamity howler bowler is Ie abroad In the land Now u as then our olar leaders art are on every vel aide It U ig naught to them that the boyc boJ of 61 and nd veteranS ot of today b by their services 1 their their our country upon the map of the world and our flag unstained It I is nothing to much lIuch coward souls that the flower of American volunteer army tIt i Ih the lute caught from the faltering hands or of the Graml arm army our glorious lag flag Tilt Tita most mOlt emblem upon which th Ii sun shines Ita Pave the he glorified cross of the worlds world Redeemer In the name ot humanity have borne It full tull high Rd ad rind planted It In the Islands be beyond yond the sea There It II shall han stay ap plaume a as the standard around which shell hock the ignorant vie victims 11 of Span tyranny and It be to them th the evangel of 01 liberty We V cunot canot read the future Our Rt U public may I Parish The wide arch or of our varied ved union may fall by stone atone It Its tl mil may crumble tar b by star It iti glories may but to so Ion long an aa American heat heal te III Iball beat t and human tongs tong plead for a true liberty those thole hearts shall wIn tM the memory and thee tho tongues proclaim the fame Casne of the tbt Grand Arm Army ot of the Union and the volunteer arm army of the nit Philip The rise toiling bells bell have han scarcely reel ceased to In sound lOund upon IOn our ears a for or the last of Utah Uth soon fItI who came to us UI wrapped In the flag h he dIed to uphold have ban tenderly laid hint him beneath the theod sod od ot of hit him native nat land which h hence henceforth forth beli ahall br be sacred because ot of R a heros dust dut Palsied ht he the tongue or hand that In the face lare or of such lIuch sublime cour courage age ag and gives aid Id and to 10 the enem enemy b by word or deed Ap plu Soon the last veteran wilt wrap his hla flag around him anti and lay lar down H as onto oat tp to dreams Soon the lint bugle shall na sound for tor hie hi re recall all And when with more than mortal via Ion we see IN th the columns columna of the receding boat still marching on to on cam III the IhorN of tile the beyond when through h the pearly gates t thet ope for aU all our nations mighty dead deall w we see He them hang bannera un on the waits of heaven there thre shah 11 fall upon our walt lag lur listening ear I tl the great at solemn mn Voice olle proclaiming War Ihan be beno beno no mo more laths 1111 Clark recited Music on the Piano It was very Tery well done lair Jr Theme Fitch was wal then Intro Introduced med delivered a very tIC nd ad address dr dress n Ifs said Id In part partI rt I 1 wIh that I might address th Imme old soldier In tile he literal as a welt an th the brander of tM the word as corn oom ade for the hl might to 0 carry ClUI the Grand army anny badge la Is a franchise franch ol of nobility i rr greater tu this any ever tvr tod by br the mc ac I of oC a kin kIng It la is a right which I could not no leave gained by birth op 01 wealth or by the pencil Pinell of ar arlist list t or pan of oC author or vIce of orator by to sovereign or by the breath ol of popular applause 0 those that faced 11 the Iron Mil bill tl it battle NUle lea In behalf of lilt unity of the MIl and the fr freedom edom of nf man ar have th the te I wear ear the badge of the Grand And whether the ba badge G ot of pa paa a service appears under the Ibl sm gm atari or till the eagles or I Is worn liv the OIt or r whit hIt 11 i marched under Ih the tl hug I tM Is wi I III Sr is II to our ielI a Is It nut nol rutting tim nc 11 In Ineich n noh eich oh springtime WI tn 0 iii ot of our h heros rol nalder th t It e I lI fl d Ions whIch them to the reo re or of their servIces Who that thul lived In tho those Ila can ever eff forget the Iho instantaneous and almost amOtt unanimous uprising ot of till the of the North In response to th tb ull on as 11 Willi the action of the Its Ita had haJ yet the of some months ot of time for preparation Many an Confederate rel regi meats all mUd arm arias and muni ot of war had Hen been accumulated But Dut the nation nUon was utterly Our little navy was our arm army sent t tto to remote our empty and aDd our Up tip to the very vry lIa day ot of the bl blow w the nit North hoped for A peaceful solution of the quarrel and mad nu M preparation for the C eon IUd diet Bat ThU the bombardment or of ort Sumter Arid a train which shook the theland theland land Atlantic w to be end nd almost before re the of the first rebel gun had ceased tv te a continent with tile the tread of the force armed and marshaled for win war Party tI thai V t sundered ii lax dix I itt It the touch ot of lire fire and Democrats anti and marched shoulder to Out from frona time fields hl out from the shops out from the factories and furnaces and dk desks they tend mechanic lawyer and farmer clerk and millionaire and pau ey eyes bias blu lug with Ih the new light feces set t toward the southland and hearts bul swelling lIIng with the purpose never to 10 pause paUle for hunger or cold or weary or the thunder of hattie or OJ wound or death itself until the benner of 01 the tho Union should once more float In security fr from m tb the Potomac to the Gulf Thu WAS the Grand Army ot of the TIc Re public and from the hour bout of It its II birth to the hour when Its herON reo re returned turned to their Uler workshop and nd arms its Ita history I is a hlOI of sacrifice of patriotIsm of coura courage of devotion and of victory such a as WU was never nver before belore Placid among the annals annal of the human humn race S Th The war whose heroes and mattys w we honor and ad remember with laurels and androse nd ro rose with song n and speech tift on this mp me dy day was wall A contest In whIch great grat And principles loomed behInd the tbt combatants and ad adt cv t Pr soldier whether he ha carried A mu kt kit ir commanded II a company or dl di the lilt movements of a regiment or ora ora a brigade thoroughly comprehended the for tor which he fought and be behind behind hind each Unto Union was a brain animated with the reigning of oC the ninee th the lat last cataclysm which ob a all traditions It If not all signs of 01 human occupancy of the earth there hal hai nn never been a great army ann marshaled for purer or more Unselfish than Ihn those whIch animated ted the Union hosts hOltI They fought foucht not for tor power or plunder or extended rut role not to deter determine mine whether Goo God should be It wora worshiped In a or a coat not to or overthrow a dynasty not to clothe some ome royal adventurer with time tile pur pl pIe not to more morl lie crumbling of some throne thron But they went out to die diem In order that thet of the people by the pea peo pIe for lh the people should not pariah froni the earth erth Io Look k abroad today upon tb the Ration that the vilor and of the Grand Armr What That extant of what wealth of If sea a and I shore of fort forest ud and mine of fIeld and nd orchard ot of furnace and 10 forge of mill milland milland and factory Ire ou ours Five oceans all wash alb our shores and upon the he loom of two hemispheres appears the fabric of knItted called the UnIted ed Blat States of America Our treasuries are to burstin Our land rings with the music mule of honored contented and ancl well paId toll toil Invention harnesses the cataracts and telegraphs their power to light IllI citie and propel railway trains train The of thee acts erell of the Infinite Art an and life and nd by km our mIghty heartbeats throbs throb through the of the Those wh whose graves Wet were decorated today hay carried their record with them Into the beyond Only the Om can comprehend all ot of each life hut It is 18 for us UI to 10 know so 10 much ut of their all as were Inn given to a high and cause caUM I H see them now with helms lIem high set cot and fac face lit with t the lofty lorty purpose that sanctitIes Wit war and milk makes of the battle bailIe thunder an anthem or of angels Iq along for lor led and for lor country thy they at ar march In ing alon along MarchIng to suffer that the slave might bP be relieved from marching to 10 wounds that freedoms fair form torm might be of wounds wound to death that the country live 11 Not hot crowns crown of gold nor diamonded gIft nor son IOn nor loUd acclaim Nn can fUll folly express the he boner that I is their due The art of man Mil ends Iy hi the tbt graves or of tile the Union dead dd all that strong arms arm and beautiful bands tan all do It Ii to aM the silent ministries of 01 Ute the flow pr era Under the lell and aDd the Jill lilies under the roses end and the boughs bouch anti blossoms WI we leave Ilave th the mortal tart ot of those Whose immortal h have on to the reward ot o those thoM who die for mankind The was by bv Mrs Ira Plummet who ng In a mOlt moat beautiful manner Th The FIA Pl Without a |