Show RECALLING THE OLD LESSON i ilia y ct derails erans tall fall into title line to prepare to receive their comrades comrade I 1 memory h way with wih the of 0 that perical when the nation vas mas placed upon trial for its life inland and when the result so long temu ined iu in dolbt when under ho struggles of those Y bho he went ovay and the forron of 0 theao ahorio title ho took up lip their v nt clinine e the 0 alie nation ciccil ada away m Y slid and the alie maturity of mail mainhood hood dime come to I 1 it I 1 there never was anything quite ijuro like that no ko nation had ever leea bledso impressed vi ilia peace so lit lt tic fitted for war in oreian foreign lands there fire are at standing armies there is no south who hns has not a friend in ili tio the ranks daiil a anti and there ire ere mothers in every who weekly tell teh their neighbors ol of their lays who are in garrison or out upon the sea behind the guns gum ot of a battlo battle chip but we were wera a people alto had bad never seen alte thousand soldiers in array the tho enc riles ot of mind and body evere being expended in straining draining for bigger forms arm in ia the north anil and wet west and bigger plantations to la the hit south la in a day as it were and without nit hout preparation the mothers of tholand theland tho the land were summoned to give up dp tv air sons the rons bond more summoned to take lako their places in the ranks pull annl to malo ol of their breasts a laring wall of 0 detente how flow they responded the world knows known of 0 course at first there was decision at their mistakes mistake but that passed away when the number ot of their dead was count od ad what was believed to be merely a wild which would quickly lie be calmed cal meil swelled in volume lor for three years men inca died by thou then gands and i of thousands a debt was piled up which was appalling to contemplate and it Is 13 not strange that under that mighty strain the ho people ot of OIL all those hosts lin fla eighty three per cent were american lora bora a heavier proportion still of abo haiie o aji wio died were veto american that mighty tragedy anaa set upon tile blage by buon hands blinds j acro ro called calacal by voices like echoes ot of ellich did not reach this world the scenes were shifted by in an invisible management but there were more no erford there was no ito halting boiling in tile mighty until it was fully fini finished blied thero there was a deep design through it oil all and it a mighty lein was intended tito design was to lifto awny ono one ol of the great wrongs ot of the ages iges ages tho the leiton intended was to exalt ilia hearts lir irla of americans north and south smith with a truer ronco renco for justice with sitti a for or law with a nobler appreciation of order with a deeper cortor liberty thi the arang was ex and alte the th stormy pins pas lons siona eng engendered it the I 1 lesson on Is tally daily sinking finking deeper end and odee deeper per iota into true troll hearts tholo veterans wild who ore are hero iota and tit who firo colo chinini coi nini luit I 1 were ot of the solemn compa died who carried the remen doua rates they axe aro entitled to all doss rind to heartiest hoart leat welcomes lint halt lenir coming decalb tile tha memory of the tragedy in ill all its gio glory ry anti anil terror once more tho the thoughts though of 0 the ho wrong arons aich it required euch a mighty Oco to de troy and ot of the 9 ami tore lo le wn onn which nt ilia la IQ charged ot of cavalry lit la the steel of 0 find and in ili caution cannon photes was cd upon lipon tho ING country come bicki ith renewed rene weil dorco all abil true hearts at the met ivary once ellice more eon con to native liml land at nh ft almo it me an all rilin bund in the of thia continent our r with nil tile the bleming and 0 oi which ills republic all arr birn anil I thildria n on often alien band which through the tha ebb and low flow of TL have been teaching its children treason and them ti that ahli beautiful fabric of ji berty 34 a lill 3 by find nd by be overthrown and la in its ita sleadia stead a kingdom shall bo be up reared in which their priest shall be kings nil an alien band that jim dared to try to 6 the teachings of 0 the Messi all anil and to once more mor degrade B ishO win was degraded W ewt forea until by her exaltation allon men became licca eio Botten anil and onno ennobled bled this llila alien bond bag ignoring the iho teach inge R two thousand thou saml lail hands upon the american honio home anti lias has sought to rosl rest oriu orein lie lia plin pline e ilia harem hint chrit first woi wall horn out ot tho the trin uloa ard ilia barbarism of 0 alii aila and because it lias has been ballel upon to acknowledge the sovereignty of 0 tho the wild laws of this hill republic anti and to con conform forin to thi the usages and necessities ol of oil to extend to ilia iho 1 amid wd which ties en richell its liot host willi unspeakable its fealty now low meet and dress in no mourning 0 the sesta boats or of those I 1 n ho he hove have b been a on chief lu in the teaching toi ching of 0 treason and nastiness und land by object lessons and by words seek to impress upon the ilia plastic p a itic heart of childhood that there is no it rong in deriding and defying spry eary inis gawf and that it is tyranny anti tor for a land to compel obel dienel to its ila decre albeit that land and ex tends extends to its lt people blessings moro more manifold tha than ever to a people before latho la alio presence of 0 this the congress of tho the united state under solemn oath to perform its duty doty sits irresolutely by ignoring aliko alike its present duty duly find anil tho the lesson imn which was taught at tho the cost chatot of a million hills a million shattered hoines liot tica and a weight of debt which tho the nation still si Btag fora under it that lesson meant anything it 1 meant to gil eho 0 notice that thero there is a bookkeeper who keeps the record ot of a nations wrongs wrong and that after awhile they all bt diio 0 to bo be pail paid for the corning coming of the veteran hosts brings sharply back the fail all memory of that other wrong and thin ibis flaunting of oc the banners of grief because this other and meaner wrong can not be permitted to expand 9 gevea ayes it even a more than usually bill later look and causes a fresh indignation dig nation thit the men in authority w who lie are arc under oath to ji protect r elect suit defend their country a aio I 1 li too false tala or too crt criminally weak to perform their simple duty |