Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-05-30 | Page 4 | Rally Round the Flag Boys.

RALLY Y nOU ROUND D TILE TIIE FLAG BOYS noys This is tho the day when the old soh soldiers lers march This is the one big da day In the Grand Gran Army year They are older men now but their ir s I are I i m t nearly halt half a century n ago o when the they marched awa away from Crom their homes in defense of a n. nation There are a good many different kinds kinde of patriotism But tho the special brand toda today is that patriotism which honors the tho man who volunteered in the early stages of the war when war when President ent Lincoln was uncertain whether the men of his country would indorse him with their lives The patriotism m of loda today is that son sort sorL which honors the bo boy who left homo home when life liCe was strong shong and antI hope was bright who left lert behind him a n. gl girl l that loved lo him himan an and and loved him him the better that he was bravo brave enough and stron strong enough to daro dare the ml mighty hl ordeal of or camp campan an and battle hattle for the honor of the hag flag and tho the life Ufe of a nation Tho The patriotism of oC today is that sentiment which honors tho loyal Union soldier who fought to for Cor his country who suffered the exhaustion of or man many marches and heard the bullets of or armed enemies seeking ln out his life It ItIs Itis Itis is tho the sentiment which honors the man who I put lUt ut off of the blue when the tho war was over an and donned the garb galb o of citizenship in a n nation ho ha had i helped to save under a fl na flag whose whoso folds he ha had ag helped hold aloft from every very s stain tain It Il I is a sentiment nt which honors more and more with the passing years yeans the soldier citizen who has been w willing illing in all these years to risk his life again at the tho call o of f duty who honors tho laws an and loves lovos tho the land ho c christened with his blood who is ig true to the tho Commander Commander- I in chief who glories in the heritage he has helped to win for fOI the tho millions in America a today loday