| Show EXERCISES AT MT OLIVET S TUe Beautiful SHaft of Granite Unveiled Un-veiled With Ceremonies Upon this city of silence messages of love and dumb but eloquent tokens of patriotism began to pour long before thei piping sparrow had ceased its r reVriil Spring flowers blossomed as i they had descended from some aerial nursery They were upon every grave however humble its tenant may have been in life There was no caste there The shepherds crook was resting beside be-side the sceptre Over upon an eastern avenue rose a shaft above the slumbering slumber-ing form of the departed McKean which stood a solid monument of rarest flora Shortly before 1 oclock the column under command of Captain J W Greenman entered the gateway and threading its way through bud and blossom paused before the granite 4 column that reared above the spulchre of the man whose name the post of veterans has sought to perpetuate Here the memorial services that were at that hour being recited at the graves of the multitudes who sleep along the crimson trail of war were brought into in-to requisition an anthem rose from the throats of a troop of school children and a salute bade the soldier rest on Tribute having been paid the memory of General James B McKean preparations prepara-tions were begun for the unveiling of the monument presented the post by the James B McKean Womans Relief corps and the column adjourned t its shadow A splendid testimonial too it was to those who fell in their countrys defense its granite shaft momentarily hooded in the nations colors and rearing sixteen feet above the graves of those it honored Simple but tender legends i bore Erected by the James B McKean Womans Relief Corps No 1 in memory of the brave men who periled their lives in the great struggle which secured the unity of the republic and the freedom of an oppressed race was one of them while beneath in bold character were those heart stirring letters G A R For there are deeds that must not pass away And memories that must not tl wither was the patriotic pledge upon f up-on another side and then the formal scroll to warn the stranger as he passed within its shadow the word James B McKean Post No 1 Department Depart-ment of Utah G A R Dedicated Mayo May-o 1S94 Beneath these simple legends however how-ever there languished the story of battle the tragedies of war the final triumph of patriotism and the restoration restora-tion of one people to perfect peace and L barmony ¼ i The dedicatory exercises which are to y be preserved as another chapter in the tale of that bitter struggle between contending brothers were opened with a prayer by Chaplain Hawkes of Mc Kean post which was in impressive n6te with the events that were to follow fol-low Then rose the refrain from childrens voices and MRS C S KINNEY president of the Womans Relief Corps addressed herself as follows as the monument was formally presented to Commander Alff of McKean Post Commander of the J B McKean Post No 1 Department of Utah Grand Army of the Republic y In commemoration and in honor of our noble soldier dead and of those who sooner or later must join the innumerable caravan that moves to ltnumerable 1 thaf mysterious realm the James B MpKean Womens Relief corps No1 of Salt Lake city auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic has placed I plac-ed here this monument that it may niark for all time in this silent camping ground this city of the dead the spot that is held sacred to the memory of the defenders of our country In be lialf therefore of the James B McKean I romans Relief corps No1 it is my duty and a pleasure as well to present pre-sent for your acceptance and declaration declara-tion to our honored and heroic dead this memorial Its enduring granite is symbolic of the unyielding spirit that animated your noble comrades in their battle for the grand principles of patriotism and the record of whose lives will stand for all ages as the crowning example of selfsacrifice and of devotion We ask you to accept it as a tribute of love from the living to the dead as an expression of that fraternity fra-ternity which links the present with the past We ask you to accept it as a proclamation to the coming generations I genera-tions tionsThat That no man can die better Tnan facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his God 1 4 May i speak to you now of the ties jfi > of friendship that were welded in fires of battle and tempered in seas of blood May it say to every person that the defenders de-fenders of a nations honor live forever in the hearts of her people As these eloquent words were concluded con-cluded the patriotic draperies that overhung over-hung the shaft were relaxed and the I mpnument clad in choicest flowers glistened in the blazing sun There were three rousing cheers a salute and expressions of nrofound admiration i Accepting it behalf of his comrades kand honored in behalf A those whose deeds It COMMANDER AIFF said Mrs President of The James B Mc Kean Womans Relief Corps In the name of my comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic represent jng as they do all soldiers and sailors vho defended the Integrity and authority author-ity of the nation I thank you and those whom you represent for this memorial shaft Its very silence is impressive im-pressive Without articulate speech i I fc is Eloquent I needs no words I is Tbi itself an oration I assures us that our I y dead are held in rememberance those 1 1 I dead who gave their lives for the security se-curity ojf the citizen and the union of I the states It is significent of brave f t cH C R and loyal obedience to the command of the nation always and everywhere since the obligations of citizenship are not restricted to time or place or to the conflict of arms I gives encouragement encourage-ment for the future since the recognition recogni-tion and approval it gives of patriotic fidelity and heroism will be an incentive incen-tive for the display of public valor and virtue in all coming time There can be no doubt that the honor you pay the patriotdead and to their memorable deeds will serve not only to make American citizenship in these days more reputable but also to maintain arid perpetuate through all future generations the union and authority of the United States of America The acceptance that had been acknowledged in language and spirit as felicitous as had been the presentation was followed with a song by the children after which REV DR ILIFF delivered the oration oraton Ladies of the Relief corps comrades of the Grand Army and patriotic citizens We are assembled t dedicate this monument I monu-ment to the memory of that noble army of our countrys defenders Of 1SG11SS5 I I Is a gif of the Womans Relief corps of James B McKean t post Grand Army of the Republic which entails upon every old soldier lasting obligations of grati tudeand admiration to these loyal ladies I I have no disposition to offer you ladies discourtesy on the one hand or flattery on the other Your goodness must protect you from former and your good sense would repel the latter The cause in I which loved ones fell whose graves you I have just covered with flowers and bap1 j tized with tears must have failed unless 1 it had been sustained by the ranks of j the patriotic mothers and daughters throughout the north You have invited I me to deliver an address appropriate to the occasion and however earnestly 11 may desire to meet your wish I shall fall far below my ideal of what it stands I I has been my good fortune to look upon monuments in many lands erected to commemorate historic events and in I honor of great men I have stood on the apex of the pyramid of Cheeps amid the sands of the Egyptian desert and looked I down upon the mighty sphinx whose sleepless eyes have kept watch over the mysterious Nile for thousands o years At the close of may a glorious sunset I as the blue Mediterranean was burning with crimson glow I have sat on the I ruins of the Acropolis at Athens remembering remem-bering that the ancient Greek pointed with pride to the matchless Parthenon as enshrining the Palladium of his country coun-try and reverently listened that I might hear the voices of Plato and Demosthe nes sp aking with the clear light of a heavenly knowledge I have walked at evening hour when the closing day shone dimly through the windows of the ancient an-cient Sohloss Kirche at Wittenberg as the simple German townsfolk were strol I Inig in and out of the sacred edifice where I rests the dust of Martin Luther I seemed to see the greatest of Protestant reformers as he came tc that spot nearly 400 years ago with the immortal theses in one hand and hammer in the other The ring of the hammer as he sent home the nails started Germany out of the slumbers of the dark ages And its reverberations were distinctly heard at the Vatican on the Tiber i I have wandered by the hour through that greatest abbey of all countries coun-tries Westminster London and looked admiringly upon chiseled marble that seemed almost to breathe with the inspiration inspi-ration of heroes poets scholars and re former whose dust sleeps beneath the I arches of the sacred edifice I have mingled min-gled with the busy throng in Trafalgar Square and admired that massive monument monu-ment commemorative of the achievements of Lord Nelson on the sea I have been enraptured at the magnificence of the tomb of Napcleon at Paris sullen with gloom portentous with the shodows of Waterloo but holding the ashes of one of the most richly endowed men God ever created and who trod down Europe for liftevn years I have stood at sunset in the shadow of the Washington monument at our national capital and to myself have said this stands for that majestic figure and sentiment First in peace first in war first In the hearts of his countrymen country-men 1 have gazed upon that silent haft which pierces the upn on Bunker Hill until my soui has been stirred with a love of country born of an ancestral patriotism that antedates the revolution Bunker Hill will continue to revoluton famous shot at Lexington and the surrender I sur-render of Corrwallls at Yorktown forever for-ever reminding the children that the blood i feh f hd WJh rs WJhethc of their fathers disenthralled the colonies I i j from the oppression of Great Britain and united them Into a sovereign republic But higher than any monument built by human hands in ancient or modern times rises the monumental idea represented repre-sented by this granite column nr sented by these mothers wives and aught rs today This monument represents the might tind majesty the power and dignity of the foremost nation pwer world This monument represents the victorious marching columns of Grant and Sherman Meade and Thomas Hooker and Logan Sheridan and Kilpa trick This monument Is a symbol of that heroism displayed by Leonidas and his three hundred at Ther mopylae Xenophon and his ten thousand on the great retreat Miltiades and his Greeks as they swept from the plains of Marathon the hordes of Persian invaders in-vaders Higher still rises the Idea for which this monument stands The idea Inspired the charter of our liberties in the humble cabin of the Mayflower and the trainers of the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence I sent echoing round the world the vibrations of the old Liberty bell as it proclaimed Liberty to all the Inhabitants of earth a hundred and eighteen years ago I broke the shackles of four mil lions of slaves and in the graves where sleeps the nations dead it buried side by side with them the heresy of state rights and secession This idea of liberty and the rights of Individual man is not of human origin I had Its birth at Bethlehem It took dual sham in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man as taught and practiced by the wonder of ages No such Idea had ever dawned upon the race The Tewv called he Samaritan a dog and the Greek called the Jew a barbarian Even Athens whose temples shone with wih splendor and whose marbl < seemed to breathe under the touch of Phidias whoso academic STOVJ were vocal with the hum I of bees thE philosophy of Aristotle and the tragedies o < > ohocIes Athens with all her unbaptis learning I elociience I hilosrphy rt and civilf < ton could say no more than this There are thr e tHnss for which I thank all the gods First that I am a rea < ornf creatur and tot a brute second that I am a Greek and not a barbarian third thatI am a man and not a woman Th t mlghtest nroduct of all her nhil nhl osophv and learning could not rise above the prejudices of race or say The crowning crown-Ing dory for which this monument stands is tbn there is neither Jov nor Gentil Greek nor barbarian bond nor free male 31 f nor female but a universal worldWic brotherhood Vn winer ro ease no color no nrevious condition of servitude The Ftrugcle for rpocxniition of such n princinlp has been long and hard In the earliest trovernmonis of which history gives us anv Unmvleds the chief was pervthinir and the tribe was nothimr Then came the war era wherein the ceo eral was pverythinsr and the ncnnp onl so much force to fporJ thp qmliitioiis and i Wordfhlrstv propensities of the warrior A little latpr and the religious and sun II orstitinus element entered prsttnue pnterE more lirrelv Men died for the rhurch were slauuhtcrrd by the church The priest thp Prophet the oracle pre evorvthin r and thp nroI pie still nothine The next epoch brings MS to where the kinsr th ° emperor tile I ironTfh Is evervthip and the rirMs of the individual man still nothing T V o the largest part of tnI vord todnv is lil In this i era In En Iind Germany Russia Italy Austrb Piain to kine the queen the emperor the nobility art everything and HIP rthlng neoiie still nothing hut 1 prA to furnish these rulers with pomt and Jujcur wih Rut runniner through 1 this dart his tory there has bean n a bright chain of dna tiny es shown in great events ntvl rul mlnatlnjr in the civil war IT 108 < pnv mnrcl washantred hunr and MT ashes flung into the Arno But the sMirrilnn 1rclan roams of Hherfv witched with s1eeleac eyes and when the four ar hundredth npnlver sir of his birth rolled round there was Dedicated to the memory and deeds of Savonarola A monument of which all Italy o wJsrht well bo proud al Ialy In the sixteenth century when blood thirsty priestcraft had crushed out the tle hopes of the common people in all south ern EuropE and was mllintr northward with devastating tread freedom loner en slaved was rescued In Holland bv the flashing sword xrd victorious banner of the obscure William of Orange as he hurled the minions of oppression Mck over the plains of Europe that the Dutch re public mieht become a beacon light of lib ertv for the common people A When In 1WO the sensual King Charles the First of England summoned his sub eervient parliament with Instructions to still further crush the rights of the com mon people there appeared a mysterious member sent up from the bos of Bed ford He wore a slouch hat and thread bare clothes Some one contemptuously inquired of the polished Hampton wh that sloven was His reply was prophetic That sloven whom you see prophetc should ever come to a breach with the King will be the greatest man In Eng land The fires of liberty which Charles supposed had been extinguished were only smouldering I the breasts of the I r b people waiting for an impetuous leader The opportune time soon came The pent up fires burst Into flames and under the stirring appeals and victorious leadership leader-ship of that sloven the peoples battle cry of God and Liberty rang out in shouts of victory and Oliver Cromwell became the hero of liberty and the rights of man In 1620 a small company of men believing believ-ing and deeply feeling that the individual man is everything left the oppressions of the old world and tounded a government in this new world on the exalted principle of civil and religious liberty and equal rights for all men We know what masters laid the keel What workmen wrought the ribs of steel Who made each mast and sail and rope What anvils rang what hammers stroke I Is true that the seeds of liberty were wafted to us from Holland and from England but it took root under our free sky pure air and virgin soil and we sent back and sowed through all Europe the same blessed truths which emancipated emanci-pated us England Russia Austria Italy Ireland are now feeling the power of that idea There are governments that still say that men are not born equal that the people have no rights which crowns should respect But the cry of the masses thunders round the world today to-day Not the king not the priest not the royalty not the nobility not the president not the money power but the people are the masters Of the same character of this long line of historic events in that sublime declaration declar-ation of the revolutionary fathers We therefore the representatives of the United States of America in general Congress assembled appealing to the Supreme Congess f preme Judge of the world for the recti I tude of our intentions do in the name I and by the authority of the good people i of these olonies solemnly publish and j declare that these united colonies are I I and of a right ought to be free and independent j I in-dependent states I j I There is one more act in the develop 1 iment I of this wonderful philosophy of history his-tory to which I want to refer The great lti Ch6 rebellion of 1861 is the u1 te01r the I i working out by mighty forces of the problem of selfgovernment I was the I crowning act of al preceding struggles j I for liberty and the rights of the people I was the consummation of eighteen cen I turies the full fruition of hopes long deferred I de-ferred I I propose to turn back the telescope of memory today over that great period of J I our history with which some of us are too familiar but which must not be forgotten j for-gotten lest the lesson which it teaches j I should also perish I am apprehensive i that such a review may provoke criticism criti-cism But the occoslon of the hour and I the perilous condition of our country today to-day impel me t speak plainly of the past earnestly of the present and hopefully hope-fully of the future For when the sons t of God came to present themselves before the Lord Satan came also among them In the wonderful growth of the American Ameri-can republic two antagonistic types of civilization vied with each other for supremacy su-premacy They were born antagonists and conflict between them was irrepressible I irrepres-sible The one type started from Jamestown I James-town and spread along the Southern shore of the Atlantic over the sunlit fields of the south bearing upon its aristocratic aristo-cratic coat of arms the emblems of the imperious cavaliers of Charles I from whom they delighted to trace their origin ori-gin through the first families of Virginia and yoked to their slow car of progress was the growing engine of slavery The effect of slavery was the corrupting corrupt-ing of morals and conscience and the paralyzing of the life blood of public enterprise en-terprise Under its influence the whole south went wrong and the pioneer spirit for the development of new territory was opposed and finally crushed to the death The other type of civilization leaped from the Mayflower to Plymouth Rock unfurled un-furled its banner of freedom and began its conquest of the battlecry I swept along the coast of the Northern Atlantic to Manhattan island where among the Dutch settlers the spirit of William the Silent had been planted See the rapid growth of freedoms domination dom-ination Under the mighty impulse of a common brotherhood and the strong engine I en-gine of free labor it rolled onward through New England and the middle states swept over the heights of the Alleghenies Al-leghenies down the great valleys of Ohio across the broad prairies of Illinois and Iowa hurrying and laughing over desert and plain halting not in the presence pres-ence of the Wasatch Sierra Nevada or coast range mountains and reveling at last in exultant joy under Italian skies and on the golden fields of the Pacific slope This triumphant host carried as their coat of arms the peoples inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Their political gods were free thought free speech free press free labor la-bor free school and free ballot They bore as their credentials the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man Their number Increased so rapidly that In 1860 the population of the free states had reached over 19000000 while that of 1900 whie the slave states had less than 13000000 The leaders of the south had sought to meet this overwhelming flood of freedoms I free-doms host First they clothed themselves I with a representation in Congress based upon a ratio of their slaves Then they passed the fugitive slave law the most cruel insult that was ever offered of-fered by men given over by fate to fatuity fatu-ity Then came the Kansas struggle and the repeal of the Missouri compromise and finally the contemplated changes in the constitution by which slavery should be as national as liberty Dark times were upon us from 1856 to I860 when i looked as if God intended to break this a nation in pieces to teach the world the naton I terrible guilt of human bondage I was only a boy of from ten to fifteen but I had drunk in the love of liberty from the I day that my mother gave me birth and I do not remember an hour in those dark days in which my soul was not on fire for the rights of man My parents were antislavery and our country home was a refuge for many a fleeing slave In the great contest that seated Stephen A Douglas in the United States Senate Mr Lincolns challenge Sttes divided was a summons to battle A house vided against itself he said cannot stand I believe this government cannot beleve endure permanently half slave and half free I do not expect the union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided On this Issue he fought the presidential campaign of 1860 Memorable Memora-ble year The nation had been march naton Ing up to it for nearly a century In November the people asserted their will at the ballot box and by 180 votes out of 303 in balot electoral college freedom placed the invincible wand of power in the hands of that incomparable and incorruptible in-corruptible American patriot and statesman states-man Abraham Lincoln Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad The frt recklessly attacked the fundamental funda-mental principles of popular govenrment j that the majority must rule Again and again the slave power had elected the president by the same processes and the awabiding pto > Je of the north had cheerfully cheer-fully accepted the will of the people But when the descendents of the yeoman of Cromwell and William of Orange elected a man who would do the right as God gave him to see it come what would the madly began to fire upon the stars and stripes hegn waved above the grim walls of brave old Fort Sumpter I vividly recall that Sunday morning April 12 1861 i when the news reached me that the flag had been fired upon I had been taught that my countrys flag of stars reprei seated the past the present and the future fu-ture of my country itself What What liar fired upon President Lincoln in his first call to the loyal people of the north for 75000 troops clearly set forth the Issue of the impending impend-ing struggle I appeal he said to all loyal citizens to favor facilitate and I aid this effort to maintain the honor the integrity and existence of our national union and the perpetuity of popular government gov-ernment and to redress wrongs alredv long enough endured Comrades to that call some of you responded and tne muster I in song was taken up all over the north We are gathering from the east we are gathering from the west shouting the battle cry of freedom I A little later New England the middle states and the west made mountain valley and plain teeming city and quaint country vlllage school house and church resound i with the recruiting song We are coming we are coming the Union to restore We are coming Father Abraham six 1 I hundred thousand morel more-l you look up all the valleys where the growing harvest shines You can see our sturdy boys fast falling into line And children from their mothers knees are pulling at the weeds And learning how to reap and sow against their countrys needs And a farewell group stands weeping at every cottage door Ye are coming Father Abraham six hundred hun-dred thousand more A little later still company and regiment regi-ment division and brigade army of the Potomac and of the Ternessse shook the pation with their tread and sang I Tramp tramp tramp the boys are marching march-Ing Cheer up comrades they will come And beneath the starry flag We will breathe the air again Of the free man in our own beloved home God permitted that awful strife to continue con-tinue for four dreadful years I cost the government billions of treasure and Four hundred thousand menThe men-The brave the good the true On battlefield and in prison pen I Lie dead for me and you good friends Lie dead for me and you I I have briefly referred to these facts of history to make clear the justice of l t the statement that the act of secession was treason treason against a government govern-ment that had been patient and long suffering suf-fering submitting to injury and insult rather than see the conntry plunged into civil war It was an assault upon the rights of man the freedom of speech and the potency of the ballot What other name can history use when It describes rightly the awful act of firing upon Sump ter but treason Let it be written and spoken over and over that the children may never be in doubt that Jefferson Davis and his confederacy were in rebellion re-bellion against the country of Washington and Adams and Jefferson and that Abraham ham Lincoln and his generals and soldiers were the defenders of the right man the of liberty and the promoters lberty preservers of the Union l Thus far ni have spoken of the past It is fitting that I dwell a little upon the present and the future vce hath its dangers and its duties as we X wr The security of that magnificen > aSt ought to be the foundation upon wKVh we will build for all time This mon ment stands for the preservation of tEe preervaton tlt Union The Union must and shall be preserved pre-served should be made the motto of every state and the pass word of every organization When Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House twenty nine years ago it was determined that this American republic from Plymouth Hock to the Golden Gate from where the waters of the great northern lakes dart themselves over Niagara to where the father of Waters roll onward beneath be-neath a tropical sun snail forever consti tute me country under one flag under one law singing one song and the theme of that law and that song A union of lakes a union of lands A union of states none can sever A union of hearts a union of hands I And the flag of the Union forever I I may he that we old soldiers are over sensative and too suspicious Be that as It may I shall stand guard while there is a solid south making solid claims on the party in power My comrades did 1 you know that twenty of the United States senators were in the confederate army and only ten in the Union army That twentytwo of the confederate soldiers sol-diers are chairmen of committees In the Senate and twentytwo are chairmen in the House The Union soldiers have six chairmen in the Senate and four in the House These figures and others as striking were given by the New York Sun The National Tribune in a recent issue I gives the following The property of the United States by the census of 1890 is given at 565000000000 the southern seceded seceed states possess 8000000000 The border II states 5000000000 Total 13000000000 I Leaving 7uOO000000 belonging to purely I northern states The committee on ways I and means is composed largely of southern south-ern gentemen Some of whom were confederate con-federate soldiers There may not be sufficient suffi-cient in all this to be worthy of note nevertheless while this government is in the hands and at the dictation of a solid south Grand Army veterans will remem ber that Eternal vigilance is the price I of liberty Many of those who come to us make useful and patriotic citizens I have not I forgotten the Irishman who fought under General Meagher nor the German who followed the brave Siegel I welcome any I descent element from any country who i i i come here to be loyal Americans That I j I wise thinker Chauncey Depew has well f We can lnc welcome those who will add to our strength and assist in the development of our resources but we should rigidly inquire who these emigrants I are and for what purpose they come We are no longer in need of the surplus popu I I d i lation of the old world and should care fully examine our guests We quarantine cholera yellow fever and small quarantne I i we ought to have a national department I I of political health empowered to search for paupers and criminals and by summary procedure to seize the summar I I proceure open and blatant I i enemies of our government who are not I i citizens and send them home I We are confronted with I the most stu I I pendous problems that ever appealed to I I any government Problems says Glad I I stone arising from the complexities and cmpleItes I perplexities of conserving the Integrity of I modern civilization From the subarctic i I lands of Ireland to the subarctc I I Hellesport from the Spanish peninsula to the mountains of the t I te Caucasus there is I j i I not a nation not a tribe or people but is sending its mighty contingent wasted I I by despotism and corrupted by waste I i the eastern portions of the continent I while thundering the celestials at the western O inert I I forcing admission Our population has I 1 grown from less than forty millions to I I over sixty millions since the miions I miions war George Bancroft was born when we had but 5OCO I 000 when he dIed we had 65000000 Joseph 600 I Cook says that In the year two thousand I we will have some 400000000 while Mr I whie 1r i Gladstone thinks we will have SOO000000 Formerly we received the very best leI le-I ments of all nationalities It does seem doe I SEem now that In a large measure we are I getting down to the very dregs We have Jade ourselves the Botany bay of the world l We have thrown doors hve our open tco wide and taken on too heavy a load of garbage Some one has said There is danger that our boasted republic will become one vast republc wi beasts not caged And presently these hordes gtheled vfromthf slums of all lands s march to al the 2k pools fufledged citl zens and fulfedge cl I eject the president of the United States Unied Over our countrys should from this hour write In broad lei we er anarchist which will need shine apply over all the world nee school Again this monument stands for the house Let me quote again from t that clear thinker Mr Depew Ignor I Turn ance JUdges the Invisible by the visible theTshin the lights < The sheet anchor of the ship of state must be the public school It pUblc S Kii I is imPossible to maintain our r republic for repubJc any great length of time without We intelligence We are not slaves are not subjects of a despot who knows no law but his own will We I are Americans with the blood of ances tors who fought for liberty at Runne mede Naseby Bunker Hill and Gettvs I burg running through our veins Our re public Is dependent upon the will of the I people alone therefore an intelligent people can maintain it The life of the I Jfe nation is impossible if the school house I be not free to all To guard the suf frages of a free people from the arts of demagogues and the insidious encroach ments of men who would buy themselves place and power with the very money of the state we must maintain the com mon school Home shall teach obedi ence the church shall teach religion but the public school shall teach knowledge and patriotism to the patriotsm state at the ex pense of the state and no influence must Interfere Whoever Is an enemy of the public school is an enemy of our coun try whether Methodist Romanist Chris tian or infidel General Grant Generl addressing the army of the Tennessee at a reunion In 1878 said i i I there is going to be another battle I in the near future of our national exist ence the dividing line will not be Ma I sons and Dixons that dividing line will be intelligence and patriotism on the wU hand and ignorance and superstition on I I the other And then adds Cultivate I as you love America free speech free press free schools free religion keep I church and state distinct or the time I may come whan our republic will fall republc I wi l I through the apathy of its citizens I I Some of you followed the lead of this I silent hero to Corinth Shiloh Vicksburg I Chattanooga the Wilderness and on to lAppomatox I Will you obey and teach j your children to obey the great commander com-mander I concerning the public school as I the high tower ths thick wall and the moated gate of the republic I This monument stands for patriotism Breathes there a man with soul so dead That never to himself hath said This Is my own my native land The need of America Is patriotism I do not mean the loud and frothy sort that gets Itself off n a Fourth of July racket and in mere bombast We need the patriotism of principle and intelli I gence growing out of a knowledge of our I history constitution and laws We need the patriotism that watches over every interest of the republic Patriotism demands de-mands intelligence therefore patriotism and the public school should march hand in hand down the ages teaching the history his-tory and the principles of our government govern-ment to every child while over goveI school house waves the American flag I would have over 13000000 of public school children declaim and write of our heroes and our wars and sing with rap turous joy My country tie of thee Sweet land of liberty Of thee I sing Land where my fathers died Land of the pilgrims pride From every mountain side Let freedom ring This blood consecrated flag is the sym bol of our nations nonor I must f tin t-in the breeze without a voice and beg be-g rded against any irreverent treatment We should forbid the carrying of any flag or symbol emblem or transparency in public processions except the glorious stars and stripes Let the rising generation genera-tion be taught to honor the flag to I love i to Invest it with all the history that it suggests and to cherish as one of the lasting utterances of the civil war I Governor Dixies immortal order 1 I any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot The monument stands for law and order i or-der How are the 65000000 of today and the 400000000 of the next century to be governed There are but two answers to the question FIrstby the force of arms Secondby the force of a moral sentiment which is obedient to law As to the first answer A people who have enjoyed the liberty of selfgovernment I for a hundred years or more will never I submit to the iron rule of a military despotism des-potism Therefore we must govern I 1 ourselves hence the necessity of good will back of law That there exists throughout our country a widespread and growing discontent is too obvious to require re-quire more than the hint The culmination culmina-tion of a crisis may be delayed But it is certain to reach us sooner or later unless un-less turned aside I Is not the time for hasty reckless inflammatory speeches neither Is it the time to be silent I the country is in peril and the god of our fathers must know that i Is then I it becomes our duty to speak and act as intelligent law abiding freemen Shall I we be deaf to wail of the millions who I are crying for bread Shall we sustain an administration and a Congress that seems to be heartlessly indifferent to the appeals of the suffering millions Shall We approve of courts and executives whose treatment of peaceable and law abiding citizens is unjust and unAmerican Shall we sit supinely still and see our country wrecked to ruin Such a course would render as unworthy to strew flowers flow-ers over the graves of our comrades or dedicate this monument to their memory Let us solemnly see to it that there is some little government for the people and by the people at Washington Our legislators legis-lators have been in session at the nations na-tions capital almost continuously for ten months and the condition of the common com-mon people and the country at large has become worse each succeeding day and yet Congress lifts not a finger except to please and conciliate the money power But my countrymen our appeal is not to arms We must bow to the supremacy of law obey the orders of the judiciary and regard the official acts of the executive execu-tive whether just or unjust To us is given the potency of the ballot the exponent ex-ponent of freemens will and therein lies our peaceful resort We must see to les resort it at the polls that the wand of power is put in the hands of true Americans In some degree worthy to occupy the chair of the immortal Lincoln the rail splitter split-ter Ulysses S Grant the tanner and Charles Sumner the uncorruptible Herein lies the real remedy While wUn all my heart I sympathize with the op pressed and the multitudes out of employment em-ployment and promise high heaven that I will stand by the common people if unjustly un-justly assailed or treated nevertheless I want to say that notwithstanding all the frets to which the laboring class is subjected sub-jected there is no law for material or force revolution No uprising to destroy I person or property can be tolerated in I this country All of us must obey all laws In closing I turn from these gloomy forebodings of the present to a glorious future I am not a visionary optimist for I can see danger and plan to meet i I am not an imbecile pessimist pessi-mist for I am willing to help conquer the perils without fear or favor I believe peris wihout in the great future of this great land I believe that the law of the survival of the fittest will find Its sublimest political illustration in the perpetuity of this republic re-public In the language of Daniel Webster we shall live and not die The illomened sounds of fanaticisms shall cease The ghastly specters of secession and disunion disun-ion shall disappear and the enemies of united constitutional liberty if their hatred cannot be appeased may prepare to have their eyeballs seared as they behold be-hold the steady flight of the American eagle on burnished wings for years and years to come Sat had On a certain occasion Henry Clay climbed with some friends the heights of the Alleghanles and had gone out on a projecting crag Looking toward the valley of the Ohio and the prairie lands valey as yet all silent and desolate he was al sient seen to incline his head as if listening to far away sounds What hearest thou senator from Kentucky asked his familiar fam-iliar friend Hear responded the great statesman I hear the thundering tread of the coming millions that will ascend these mountains descend into these valleys val-leys and hold these prairies away and away and away to the setting sun Fellow Americans standing here today in the memory of the monumental facts of the past history of our country remembering re-membering the way by which God hath led us I seem to hear the thunder tread and triumphant song of the coming millions lions of freemen on this continent proud intelligent patriotic inhabitants of our heritage It patriotc anthem of a homo I geneous people of many origins and so all sounds mingle in its harmonythe woodmans axe clearing giant forests the rattle of the reaper gathering golden ratte hum of nachinery manufacturing manufac-turing home industries the whistle of the engine breaking the long silence of mountain and valley the thundering blast significant of the earth giving up her rich treasures the cheer of loving women and the shouts of happy children mfhgling their voices with stalwart men in home and school and church and market mar-ket all in spirit and tune with the national anthem natonal tenebras luxAfter darkness light Benediction was then pronounced by Rev W H MoFarland chaplain of the Ninetyseventh Ohio Volunteers and the observance at Mount Olivet was over |
