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Show DECORATION DAY. .Tomorrow will be Memorial day. It should be very sacred to every American. Suddenly, : when ail unprepared, a mighty war was sprung upon this republic. Had the foe been a foreign one it would have been most seriousjjbut this war waa a civil war, every man killed ou eltherslle was anAmerP est on each side it meant the loss, in dead, of Americans in property, it was all American prop. . crty every aspect of it was triible. The men of the southland, lashed into a fury, aprang tn arms. No man can doubt their sincerity when he tries to number the thousands of them who died. Thru the men of the northland, at .he call of their government, put by their hopes and plans, the homes they loved, the tiei sweeter than all save life, auswered the call and went out to interpose their living breasta between their country and their country 'a foes. The awful harvest of death was four years in the reaping. But the republic was aaved; at last the professions of the fathers thit this in truth should be a land of liberty waa made gocd and the old flag, though battle stained, took oi, a new glory and became at last the symbol of a . sirercignty founded on the equal rights of all men urder ths law. Amid the wreck of the aouthland, ' to soma devoted men and women, miurning for their dead, there came a longing to do something in their honor and one of them suggested they go out and dress their graves with flower. The thought was at once accepted and they' went in a body and laid garlands wet with their tears upon the graves of their loved ones. The act was published in local lo-cal paper, the wires took up the story and flashed it over tbo land, and since then, north and south ami cant v- west, it haa been sacred annual custom; cus-tom; the nation on that day tufus aside from business busi-ness to thus honor its dead. Years later the world 'a fairest islam", waa ruled ' by a power which had, to the people of that island, become so merciless that the pity and indignation of the people of this country could no longer be re- strained and aaother call was made for volunteers to crush that tyranny. Tha response waa aomethug sublime. From every state, and territory tha answer an-swer came until the measured tread of armed men hastening to a common center to carry out a common com-mon purpose had the solemn sound of the foot, falls of destiny itself. - ' - ; Utah gave its quota, but some of those of her sons who went away bright and joyous "were brought back iu their narrow housea. and their graves are beside the older veterans. Hence there i., double duty to be performed tomorrow. And our thought ia that the .all of flowers, dropped by loving hands upon ths graves of heroes, though unheard here, still awakena echoes that pierce "the dull cold ear of death" and makes rejoicings re-joicings beyond the stars. ' ' |