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Show THE ARGUS. in raising the tariff another notch or noti Republicans should decide upon their plan at once and; Democrats should not oppose it. ' r ' . ' No political utterance of a party wIrninto'J leader has caused such universal Republicans. comment since the inauguration as that speech of John Wanamakers at Philadelphia the other day. He has long been one of the 6hining.lights of the Republican party, a heavy campaign contributor, an able advocate of the protective tariff, a recognized factor in politics, whose reward was a position in President Harrisons cabinet. These distinctions lend weight to his expressions and attach to them a significance which is not lost upon the administration and its friends. As a successful merchant and financier Mr. Wanamaker is just as well known ; and when he tells the party in power that its promised prosperity has not materialized he speaks not only as a business man, but out of solicitude for the welfare of the party he has helped to build and maintain. He warns his in the cause of protection that a patient and ' heart-tirepeople, our own suffering, people, who, betrayed and disheartened, no longer have faith in their party, will turn to any leaderships that offer promise of better times, believing that worse times can never come than those now existing. co-labore- rs much-promise- d d Mr. Wanamaker predicts the establishment of a new party as the result of laws continually despised and disregarded, legislation conceived for blackmailing purposes, speculation by public officials in trust and other stocks, while tariffs and other bills are pending. And his references there to the present administration are too apparent to be questioned. Mr. Wanamaker declares further that the young men are growing up indifferent to Republican principles, with no respect for parties of broken platforms, who use national and state patronage in payment of election contracts. The political religion of the nation is falling lower and lower under insults to intelligence, violation of law, reckless daring of unscrupulous bosses. There are immeasurable depths of misfortune for this nation and state if the continued use of corporation and public moneys and the dispensation of federal and state patronage continue to be controlled in the interto hold office for themselves est of and to benefit those who desire to keep government contracts or maintain particular protections through the money given by which elections are decided. office-holde- rs Themistocles, embittered by his Nafion5 personal experience, remarked that Cemeteries, u republics are ungrateful ; and, in a measure, this may be so. But evidence to the contrary is not wanting. The sum laid out by this government yearly for the survivors of two Avars, the annual amount expended in caring for the widows and orphans of the soldier dead, the homage of a national anniversary in honor of those who fell in battle or perished from the effects of war in defense of the union these seem to show that some republics are sometimes grateful. WThat greater proof of gratitude is needed? Every respect is shown the dead, every encouragement held out to the living. Empires celebrate the anniversaries of their great events ; the poets sing of the leaders and the people bow in reverehtialdeference before the tombs of rulers and conquerere ; but where in all this world save in this republic are the graves of ; common soldiers honored with the tokens of a nations love and commemoration? Other governments have been established at the cost of human lives and pre served in human blood, but they have never set apart a day for the decoration of the graves of the dead. . Since the days of funeral orations in ancient Greece there has not been a more tender, graceful expression of love, a more spontaneous exhibition of patriotic sentiment than there is in the associations, the exercises, the floral tributes of our Memorial day. The nation which honors thus its dead, honors its living and itself. Eighty-threcemeteries, owned and maintained by the government, a half million graves kept and decorated yearly by this nation tell the story of our republics gratitude. A list of these is as WAR TlflE REfllNISCENCES. REMEMBER well the music of the march, the hoarse war songs of the boys in blue as they groped through clouds of dust or crawled along the muddy roads, splashed and bedraggled 9 e follows : Alexandria, La Alexandria. Ya Andersonville, Ga Annapolis, Md Antietam, Md Arlington, Va.... Balls Bluff, Va Barrancas, Fla Baton Rouge, La Beaufort, 8. 0 Beverly, N. J Brownsville, Tex Camp Nelson, Ky Cave Hill, Louisville... Chalmette, N. C Chattanooga, Tenn City Point, Va Cold Harbor, Ya Corinth, Miss. Culpepper, Ya Custer's battlefield Cypress Hill, L. 1 City of Mexico Danville, Ya Danville, Ky Elmira, N. Y Finn's Point, N. J Florence, 8. G Fort Donelson Fort Gibson. I.T Fort Union, Ya Fort Leavenworth Fort McPherson Fayetteville, Ark Fort Scott, Kan Fort Smith, Ark Fredericksburg, Ya Gettysburg. Pa Glendale, a .... 1,280 3,444 13,717 3,474 4,670 16,200 250 955 2,922 8,219 from head to foot. Worn and weary, hungry and sleepy, they might be almost ready to drop in their tracks, but some one would start up an old war song and every throat would open, every eye brighten and every step become more firm and It might be Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, or John Browns Body, but the long chorus of masculine voices, often twenty-fiv- e thousand strong, would swell and echo through the hills for miles. In the matter of music we had the advantage of the Johnnies. They hadnt a war song but We had the two already mentioned, Dixie. Star Spangled Banner, America, Flag ' of the Free, and Kingdoms Coming, Marching through Georgia, all favorites on the field and march, while around the bivouac every evening, almost, were concerts at which were sung with feeling, and often "well, such mournful ditties as Tenting Tonight, When Just Before the Batthis Cruel War is Over, Mother Ive Come Home to Die tle Mother, and others in the same strain, many of which have since been burlesqued and parodied or worn threadbare by constant and irreverent repetition. One, however, has remained sacred, all through these years of indifference and iconoclasm : The Battle Hymn of the Republic. But the music of inspiration, the notes that thrilled through every vein and made every man a hero whether he would or not, was the martial music of the wartime instruments the drums and fifes and horns and trumpets the music of the bugles and the bands. Every day at four oclock, the weather and enemy permitting, it was a rare treat indeed to hear one after another of the assembled bands, under the leadership of an accomplished discourse sweet music to hungry-heartehosts of men. It was the field music though that dispelled the thoughts and fears of danger and sent many a heedless musketeer to his sudden doom ; the bugles, whose piercing notes went through the soul like the conscience call of duty ; the drums, whose roll and rattle like the mimic sounds of battle timed the beat of pulse from reveille till taps each day ; the wild, invigorating strains of the marching bands whose patriotic appeals in harmony left the roar of cannon all unheard ; this was the music that stirred men to action and left its notes engraven upon the tablets of memory. self-relian- t. 145 2,967 3,526 3,774 12,321 12,948 3.828 1,941 5,670 1,348 918 3,115 1,004 1,293 359 3 995 2,779 2,9 8 639 2,152 256 1,108 443 1,210 409 1,604 6,603 3,575 636 What an army is already bivouacked on the shores of eternity ! But all the dead of the civil war are not to be found in these national cemeteries only a portion of the victorious army the great majority of unknown dead are there interred. Hundreds, of nameless graves are filled by heroes just as true and brave, and in every graveyard of the North, in almost every rural burying ground of the East and middle West, are little mounds in which tiny flags will stand tomorrow. And many an unmarked grave conceals the dust of those who followed the forlorn hope to defeat and death, mistaken but honest, vanquished yet courageous. Side by side the cemeteries of the contending forces lie in many a border State, where the blue and gray have stacked arms on the same field at the command of a common conquerer. Of those who sleep on the heights of beautiful Arlington on the Potomac 4,349 are graves of unknown heroes ; at Vicksburg there are 12,720 unidentified mounds ; at Fredericksburg 12,7SG are nameless ; Salisbury is the resting place of 12,035, Gettysburg of 3,592 and other places have their squads and companies and regiments of unknown dead. Five of the national cemeteries contain the bodies of United States soldiers who fell in other wars than that of the late rebellion. One of these is in Montana where the rash but gallant Custer fell where lie the remains of 918 regulars. These are days of uncertainty to Arthur Brown and days of hope for Lannan. RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY. On June 5th. 6th and 7th the Rio Grande Western Railway ANNUAL VACATION EXCURSION excursion rates. Tickets announces the following East-boun- d good until September 5th: $10 00 Omaha and return 30 00 KansasC!ity and return .17.50 .... .. ...... St. Louis and rot urn 42.50 Chicago and return. 70.90 Mexico City and return Two fast through trains daily, carrying all classes of newest equipment, et 7 :50 a, m. and 7 :40 p. m. Cool and delightful ride through tlio Rocky Mountains. Magnificent scenery. Unexcelled accommodations. City ticket office, No. 15 West 29-Second South street. ,., - 7 drum-major- ,' d The war of the rebellion brought many changes and so did the reconstruction of the South. Among the many changes was that of Judge Sam Rices politics. He was a rank secessionist before the war and a Republican leader in Montgomery, Alabama, after Lees surrender. Before the war, while inciting the war spirit, Judge Rice was wont to say on the stump, Why, we can whip these Yankees with popguns. He was making one of his Republican speeches in a country town after the war, when he was interrupted by an Look here, in the audience. the latter questioned, aint you the fellow who told us iii 1861 that we could whip them Yankees The question raised a shout of with popguns? derision, which gave the speaker time to recover. Yes, I am the man who told you that. he |
