The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-13


between the two powerful English
speaking peoples had set the example
for civilized NATIONS the world over. In
further illustration of Grants counec-
with the Geneva tribunal and his hopes
and desires for the successful results Of
the arbitration commission the speaker
read the following from one OF Grants
messages:
81 hope that the time may soon arrive
when the two governments can approach
the solution Of this momentous question
with an appreciation Of what Is due 70
the rights, dignity. and honor Of each,
and with the discrimination not only TO
past. buff TO lay the foundation of broad
principle of public law which viii pre-
vent future differences and tend 70 firm
and continued peace and friendship"
The speaker closed by striking ref.
erence 70 the last hours of Grant, con-
trssting them with the corresponding
period ct the close of the lite Of Napo-
leon, adding brief and fitting eulogy
of the Republic which has SO serenely
survived the death of presidents, of
Legislators, of judges, of governors, OF
generals and of the nations
great leaders and statesmen who
all in times gone by have been laid 10
rest and whose successors must go to
that long rest while the government and
the nation marches on to a greater per-
lection, holding in memory the heroes
that have saved and preserved and up
builded the great government that lives
on.
At the close of Senator Plumb's ad:
dress the Knights Templar band dis
cOursed in Its sweetest melody the
"Dirge DOlore."
President A. Z. Taylor then addressed
the audience on
"6rant, the Man of the People,"
in su distance as follows:
At this hour, in the greatest city OF the
greatest country of any age, Is now clos
lag the obsequies of man who perhaps
commands the homage of more hearts
than ever yielded tribute 30 mortal. A
subdued stiffness Is resting upon this
supremely busy continent Of ours. Ham,
mer and chisel rest to-day. the fires In
our furnaces burn low in their beds ;
traffic has ceased, and prince and peas
ant, the blue and the gray, the old men
and the young, stand reverently at the
bier OF Ulysses 8. Grant. Here are
women, feeble with age, whose hearts
long since went into the earth with those
who went down at Shiloh and the Will
derneSs. There are SCARED veterans
VIII 0se step becomes elastic as the band
strikes up Marching Through Georgia"
Though they may be wanting limb or
an eye, they are yet men, glorious, true,
ready to die for country and home.
This day they recall the weary
and find q sweet relief in speaking OF our
dead general as Comrade Grant. Over
yonder stand young men and women
whose mothers nursed them amid the
tevefIsh alarm Of wars red clsmor and
whose earliest queries were, Why news
from Cant and Sherman. were sought
SO eagerly And here are faces from lands
beyond the sea whose fortunes are now
ours and whose native tongues are full
of achievements OF our noble American
soldiery. In many places are those
whom he strove 10 conquer, and who In
yielding TO his sword, yielded also to his
magnaminous heart. The past quarter
of q century passes before US as dream
and now only seems reality. In the
language of great southern newspaper,
"The south unItes with the north In pay
ing tribute to his memory. He saved
the union and time has shown 1t
to be triumph tor the south as well as
the north. He IS entitled to and will
receive the grateful tribute of the mill
IONS who in the course of time will crowd
this continent with an hundred imperial
states and spread to the world the bless
ings of republican freedom" Meyer
was such picture as this presented 20
the world. IT were worth the while to
die that peace might receive such bap-
tIsmal.
In presenting Grant to you as a gen.
eral and q statesman, our friends are moi
forgetting those sturdy qualities which
have made him the citizen as well
With his career as a youth, we need moi
| dwell, for the cause that left him so
many years in Eeclusion at Gaiena, you
| care little. 1t IS of him as
the mighty giant in whom were
| concentrated the hopes and
the destinies of Iiberty-lcvlng and
| llberty-consecrated millions that you
have to speak. He spoke in actions, moi
| in words, and the silent man seems
wrapped up in his own deep conscious
ness, awaiting the voice that bids him
act Perhaps few public men have eveI
been 80 fully the servants of the people
| He had no scheme of conquest; he aimed
| at no pearled crown. He came forth a.
the call of his country as Cincinnatui
| and Washington and served her faith
| fully In the great struggle for natlona
sovereignty. He found her in the throel
of dreadfnlN civil war; he left her the
proudest and strongest government
among men. Though he may hav,
lacked voice, he did not lack hearing anC
understanding when his country SPOKE
to him.
Every effort he made to advance hi
worldly interests brought confusion ans
disaster He seems To have been pre-
eminently a man with a mighty mission
That mission completed he had nOthin
to do but to await his end. One find
little of friedrich the Great or Napoleo
in him, but more of the Duke of Wei
lington or of the Iron Chancellor c
Prussia. 1t seems fitting in a gret
sense that we should speak c
Grant as man OF tn
people. He is peculiarly their her
by birth, by sympathy, in his yer
triumphs he belongs to them. He reI
resented them In every blow he dea
: against oppression. His democrac
was conspicuous even among the title
. throngs that met him in the mo
brilliant courts of foreign land
Every American shared with him
common the honers showered upon hi
IN that triumph8l march round q
3 world.
a When misfortune befell him, b
q priceless services were not forgotten, al
!, fifty millions of people were at hal
withstheir wealth and sympathy. TIT
have watched and cared for him as
!. brother. His simple message 10 phi.
!. sicians. friend or wife have been caug
II up and given to ANXIOUS men al
y women ali over the glot
II He was q man of the people in that
=. held sacred so many of the raditio
,e and institutions of the Anglo Sax
n race. Though q member of no churC
.e he recognized the overriding proViden
h of God and the potent influence of
,s Christian religion as the great ciYiliz
. of mankind. The home, the Americ
homa, was to him the conserver OF
foundation of true citizenship WI
40 Garfield, he stands out as q man or {
T. home, and no other picture of him is
ID often seen upon our walls as that Will
m represents him surrounded by his lov
;. ones at home. He was a firm belieV
in the education OF the masses, IN
complete separation of church and sta
st in the payment of honest debts "
8. honest money, in a military whose OF
of claim to existence shall be that it m
v support civil authority, in governm,
I'd for the people and for the people on
adj In bidding farewell to our great chi
n tain, let us resolve to svoid his fsu
ca cherish his virtues and swear to p
ri serve for our children and posteritY Z
nd which he held in highest esteem
iuI beloved country.
'iy FJudee ]. Jay Buck then spoke 8
81 stantlally as follows OF
ite Grant, the Soldier"
20 Grant was born at Point Pleasant,
ne on the 9th OF April, 1922. His aDc
~ tors came over 20 this country In
T % ship MARY and John" In 1880 and
-. I'm SoaTfS.