Show Q I THE VARIOUS WAR CRIES I I Remember the taine Is Only One of a Lga Number Owen Oliver in Chicago Times HerI aId Remember the Maine Is n slog 01 the soldIers and sailors in the war I with SpaIn Flying from the masthead of Deweys flagship in Mania bhy the mystic sIgnal cheered his tIgers to a I victory eQualed In the worlds history hIs-tory of batte In arlcolored flags to he read alike by friend and foefor I Dewey used the international snal code Remember the Maine had a I dual effect I cheered the gallant lads of the Asiatic squadron and it shrunk the heart and courage of Montojos I Ien Remember the Maine is as thrilling to the Spaniard as it Is to the Yankeebut the thrill is productive of different emotions To the one it serves as wIne to the other as opium o < To the warrIors at Santiago Remember Remem-ber the Maine was as stirring and appealing ap-pealing and effective as to Deweys men at Manila and to Schleys fighters when Clrver good ships were beached All along the lines the battle cry was scnded and It was heeded whenever heard Men die with It on their Ups Rough riders fell thinkIng bItterly of the men who died like rat in a trap in foul Havana harbor Officers whIle not encouragIng the shout were glad to hear it and never a man was cautioned cau-tioned to be silent if his voIce found vent In Remember the Maine The great battle cry was punctuated with rifle shots chorused with the shrieks of cannon balls and echoed Cver hill and dale early in the morning and when the stars looked down > C e Nations tribes and clans have had their battle cries ever sirce war was invented as a means of settling questions ques-tions nobody can solve in any other way The hosts of Midlan In the valley of Jezreel were struck with consternation consterna-tion when the Israelites ifted up their slogan The sword of the Lord and of Gideon was the cry of the chosen of the Lord and thisls the earliest record of the use of a slogan in battle Nations usually invoked their particular patron saints but when war came each party had its separate cry The droit de bannierre and the cr1 tie guerre were given over as conjointly the attributes at-tributes of the nobles who bore arms For instance of Sir Simon de Felbridge I it was said he was a gentleman de nom dnrmes et de cry The rallying cry of ancient and honorable Otter bcurne was Percy Percy and the fate of Banbury field was decided by moans of the slogan A Warwick ABut A-But war cries became too vicious and their effect too marked for merrie England Eng-land So In 1495 an act of parliament was passed which forbade all these cries and slogans It had become the custom for strolling bands of mischlev ous gentlemenatarms to rally to their sides all sorts and conditions of men by means of a particular cry Mischief was set afoot easily in those uncouth days and manya manwas pinked In a street brawl that had its origin in nothing more than a slogan shrieked out into the night air by some knight oerfed with wine and seeking an encounter en-counter with anybody who would draw and defend So the strong arm of Englands law was introduced into the matter and all knights and their retainers re-tainers were ordered henceforth to call only on St George and the king The effect produced the result I that was desired Street brawls became less frequent and the only excuse for stirring a fracas was when some personage per-sonage declined to shout for the man who killed a dragon and the defender of the faith who happened to occu the throne at that particular time i < i Montjole Notre Dame and St George was the war cry of the an dent kings of England The French used Montjoye Saint Denis The oldtime Spaniard screamed San lago In the feuds of the middle ages I each party had its own slogan For Instance in Scotland the retainers of the clans of Douglas and Home rushed to battle with the cry A Douglas a Douglas or J Home a Home Hot spur at the battle of Shrewsbury rallied ral-lied his hosts with Esperance Percy Seton earl of Morton cried Seton I and Abo The Irish cried Croma bood and Butleraboo when first they went Into battle ages ago These cries however were especially prohibIted prohib-Ited by law In the heat of conflict the embargo often was forgotten and the oldtime Hibernian warrior daring and courageous never failed to show his contempt for the laws He shouted his slogan whenever the spirit moved Sham ONeils bloody followers used Laundaig Abe The Bloody Hand and Strike for ONeil It is believed that the present British motto Dleu et mon droit was a war cry long before be-fore it became a royal trademark for Richard I is recorded to have said Not me hut God and our right have vanquished France at Gisors Scripture was used by the Puritans The cries of the tribes who revolted against the house and rule of David weie adopted by the republicans who made history in the seventeenth ccii tury To your tents Oh Israel was the shogan of these defenders of their rights and at the battle of Hyltonon theWear in 1644 the great rallying field cry of the Scotch was The Lord of Hosts Is With Us In the same bat tie the Marquis ofNorthampton struck with the shout Now or Never Cor nlshmen fought valiantly to the old song And shall Tnehawney die Theres thrice ten thousnd Comish men Shall know the reason why One and All was also a famous Cornish war cry and is now the motto of the Cornish coat of arms beneath a pyramid of 15 balls Although war cries In battle have seemed to come into general disuse in modern days among the armies ofclv ilized nations yet the Remember the Maine of our own lads shows that a slogan is still as effective as of yore Highland regiments battling for the queen again use the old Shoulder to Shoulder Highlanders Napoleons men charged to th echoing shouts of Vive lEmpereur or later to Vive Is France During all her latest wars Germany has heard STaterland Vaterland well up from her sturdy I warrIors as a rallying cry Great Bnit I ams men seem to have dropped For St George and Mernie Engancl They rasp out Hurrah and then waste iso more breath or time on anything but lighting Men who have heard the British Hurrah in Afghanistan anti Zululand and in the sandy Soudan say it is music It Is an thrilling as the Racokszy march of the Russian and as terrible as the Vive lEmpereur of the Old Guard of the little Corsican |