Show xyr ys th there ere GW are gili hot stand heroic upon the calendar for all time these are arc days honored in common comman by races and nations they aro are days that enlist the particular respect at 0 nations because they perpetuate the memories of 0 persons persona famed for what they have done in ono one or another walk ot of life tho the tendency ot of mankind la Is to eek ek to have the famo fame or of the great ones equal in duration with their bestowing upon their follow fellow men there la Is ono one day for the american people that stands alono alone in solitary grandeur separated in the tha high flights oe at glory that encircle it isolated yet majestic in tho the pathos which will over ever attend tta its celebration that day to la decoration day in these times when tho the peace pipes are as as tho the pipes of pan when the buglo bugle la a becoming hoarse while the heralds trumpet announces general gen pral arbitration treaties to the ends enda of the earth in these times limes when tho the progress of at mankind appen rii to be set act toward the fulfillment ot it tho the far ort oft prophecy that swords shall be turned into plowshares and odears into pruning hooks it Is well to lay emphasis upon the day that has the most distinctive glory of any peculiarly american holiday the glory of decoration day Is that it holds in national hallowing the mighty deeds of bravo brave men their deeda will be immortal who fought not because they had bad spleen toward their breth united in the bonds of a common home endeavor and destiny but because they is saw a w a 4 shattered nation wrecked upon the shoals ot at sectionalism they will bo be immortal because the tha tendency of mankind la Is to havo have the fame of the noera doers of at groat great deeds conterminous with the benefits conferred the benefits will be everlasting and augmenting so that decoration day far from having diminished gefory glor wilen when the last of the sold lors of at the nation shall hown passed away will hayo have even more honor paid it the growth of at the nation the working out of tta its destiny tho the recession ot of the magnifying of tho the incidents of national progress and aed national purpose these theao are all factors in the march of progress that shall make hallowed the day sanctified by mem orles of the blood of the nations do tenders gul cad indeed the occasion tar or fratricidal strife but the working out of at the national issues from the glorious battlefields of the nation in tta its great doru estle contest make eyen even the pathon of at the warfare elo quent with brotherhood unity and a common co cinon devotion the time may come coma aben wilt nut will le 14 refe ardol doi As an outright when the closeness clos enest of the tha nations and tho the identical interests of the powers will be such as to ta obviate warfare when bell the tribunals will exist for fop thirn t support of all auses without rec iw to td war nut the uma time can over never came iz me when the laurel j it the barrot var rot roii b bal dimmed dima aed ni iconoclast vor cals a wa 0 all will seek to tear down the monuments ot of the men who molded the worlds destinies using the blood of the battlefield as aa the cement for or their constructive efforts indeed it to la conceivable that the day ruay may camu when there can no more bu be opportunity for military distinction but this very fact will increase the glory of at the ages of heroism I 1 then the nation will look loo kick bk to tho the deeds of the heroes who baked the union tinion and they will tie be honored as aa living in an age the majesty ot of which cannot be underrated by any change of ideas as aa to the utility of warfare war faro hence bence tho the tribute paid the dead heroes of the nat nations igns strife will bo a less tribute than any to follow for every year the meed of 0 praise and the warmth of at encomium will be increased as the widening vista of the past lends additional enchantment to the theme tho the time will come when every part of the nation without disparagement to tho the men who fought on thet the other olber side aide will unite in acclaiming the men who preserved the nation and made it tho the mighty leader in all aira movements for tho the peace and honor of at mankind war may be all that it has been painted and its horrors cannot be too loo gravely set forth but there la Is a profound religion in the ivard warfare a that tha reconstructs ae a nation that re justice that sets beta mm men free anil and liberatos liberates the intellect from shackles that fetter progressive thought and prohibit the full expression of progressive conduct the south ta is blossom log ing today in its national fervor and industries teem throughout its domain the north Is clasping hands with all other sections in the movement of the american brotherhood toward the highest alun acle of lotty ethlea ethics and serviceable achievement th the organ roll of american sentiment la Is heard with deep and resonant melody all the nations of tho the earth are learning from the united american state the groat great federated people of the american republic the righteousness th that a t exal a nation american statesmen american educators amerlean american all havo have done mightily toward riving giving this country its position of prestige in the realm of world of affairs fairs its reputation tor for probity and honesty but bitt the men who give gave their lives tor for alo nation made all this possible they exalted an ideal that bas lias placed upon tho the american people the tha destiny ot of necessity to oppressed people and to uplift the standard of freedom and moral right out from the furnace of the war canie came tho the gold of american ideals out from rom the iho blood and alrtle came the type of american statesmanship and the type or of american Arne ricAn sentiment that have caused the tha republic to be 1001 looked red up to tg by bi the peo ale of and asia an aa the moral mentor and the tha ideal for or all of them tho the vork of the mon men who are drw honored lio nored upon decoration day la Is not concluded w wilt III never be their soula move mova majestically onward with I 1 the movement of the raco race of the age of the uni universe terse somo some day thoe the wul aul be b a 4 general roll call cali when those who have deserved well of mankind wilt will pass in the review of the eternal ages and the men who did the deeds hon ored upon De decoration coradon day will not miss the tribute of the wider effects ot of their mission to preserve the amer lean ican political tie unbroken united glorious and peaceful with undimmed vision and unshaken faith in their primary principles the amerl can people are one in I 1 heart and one in spirit in their purpose to have hais the illustrious ideals of the nation made increasingly glorious glori for the blessing qt etli it Is easy enough after i a w war ar mad has been fought to prove the uselessness of at it it has often been shown how the difference between the north and the south might have been adjusted with such a terrible ter waste of life and treas treasure bre grant grani that within the devices of political expediency these thes I 1 proven preventions tiona were possible the tact fact still remains that the wars were fought that great moral faults were purged and the god of battles en eni forced his ancient law of eye tor for eye and drop of blood for drop of blood children are always bearing the faults of their fathers and the men and women of CO 60 to 65 poured out of their own veins and out of their own souls an equal portion of blood and misery that their fathers drew from the veins of an enslaved race no moral debts long remain unpaid what it the purging was drastic and the throe s suf suffered fored by the warring elements brought it staggering to its knees was not the cleansing complete the nation stands today the stronger and the sweeter for that cOnA conflict lct for it was not merely the quarrelsome distemper of war that afflicted the people but a score scare of at diseases not human slavery alone but factional jealousy greed selfishness state misgovernment government and federal abuses how vastly these have been eliminated can be appreciated only by a study of at the injustices of 0 that antebellum ante bellum period the nation in that memorable struggle was expected by cynical observers in europe to cru crumble rable and fall dut but those these observers failed utterly to grasp the significance of the struggle that thai was being fought for national purity and national unity instead of perc perceiving elTIng a giant rending himself as aa they thought they were watching a slant giant wrestling with the evil that was within him As the day of at that conflict ever re cedes and the din grows less les strident to the ear its better significance makes makel itself felt the broad page of history teaches beaches a lesson that participation in the actual war itself might not have taught it any soldiers stood to 10 tho the trenches unmindful of the significance ance of the struggles in which he ha was a part he Is not unmindful noy noly as he measures his step to the tha beat of tile the drum today par time has haa shown shawn all wherein lay the universal meaning of that conflict the nation wua was being kled bled of its distempers dis tempers oven even through his veins and it rose up weakened and saddened maddened tut with the courage of the victor and the tha resolution of the chastened chasteney chast ened |