Show TAFTS TAFT'S MEMORIAL SPEECH In his memorial address a at General Gra Grants Grant's ts t's tomb on Decoration da lay day Secretary Taft spoke of General t v Grant as one who conquered all the enemies of the 5 republic and made fi i still greater conquest over one OIle onet t I of his own appetites And now the papers of the cast are arc re filled with reproaches against the secretary for oJ making that remark at that place We see sec not nothing ling wrong about it because it is history affirmed by 1 the testimony of oC thousands In his young manhood Grant drank liquor just as he hc smoked cigars cigars' After the thc battle of Pittsburg Landing Commodore Foote who was a very splendid officer and man asked General General Gen Gen- eral cral Grant aboard his gunboat and frankly pointed ol 1 out put to him the fame that was already almost within and the service he lie might render his country country country coun coun- try and cl closed sed by telling him it was all within his f reach ch if h he would but re give up the use of intoxicants Jut but that if he did not on some fatal day he lie might make a mistake that would not only he be his ruin min but buta a fearful blow to his country and Grant was great enough to appreciate what the commodore said and 1 1 to act immediately upon i it His first Appomattox was vas his own surrender of a habit that had been If fastened upon him through years of indulgence and for himself was a greater triumph than he won later for native land It It showed sho the inherent strength of pf the great sol- sol It- It rj dier and it is a truth which young men men should know L And it was not out of place to have those words f spoken over the grave where he has been sleeping k three and twenty years ears The greatest of the great captains captain's conquests was the one he hc made over himself |