The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-06-04
What the Day Means,

What does Memorial day mean?
Well, if anything, it means eternal
peace There can never again be
civil war in the Land now lighted by
the stars ana bound together with the
stripes CT Americas banner Two
metals cannot be mingled together I'M
til subjected to a heat that will melt
them There IRE metals too hard for
the use To which we would put them.
There are others too soft, but We fuse
them together, and the amalgam re-
s;sls the ajtr:ti0n rf time, performs
with fanl,lesS truth the work we
would have it do. and carries its worthy
qualities TO Lands and men of whom
we never dreamed.
In that fierce rushing together of
armies III our late war there was the
furnace heat of FASHION which con
sumcd the very cause Of hatred. No
power on earth but Americans could
have invaded the seeding states. No
people on earth but Americans could
SO long have resisted the attacks of
vigorous armies. But the day when
white winged peace swept past the
flaming torch of war, eXtinguislling
its lurld blaze, that day was solldified
into one people who had never be-
fore been united. Ii was little enough
that the nation set apart one day for
"a n,..,f jnn nf an which
made us what cycles of peace
could never have accomplished. 1t is
/ fitting that once year to the end of
! time we pause and pay the tribute of
regard to the men who made their ma
! ton noble. 1t is fitting we teach our
! children, whose blessed ears have new
er been disturbed by the reverberatons
OF angry artillery, that to the end Of
time perfect peace shall dwell in all
our borders.
1t is fitting they should know with
an increasing knowledge with each adj
ded year that this imperial land can
fear no foe; that there is no power on
the earth whose arm can stay the
wrath of Justly reused Columbia; that
there is no power whose armed hosts
can ever tread the soil baptised at
dawn by Atlantic's pillows and at
evening by the silver surf that whs-
pers of Pacific isles.
Bat there is lesson still greater.
The triumph of arms was the proof OF
their useleSsnesS. \ million men can
not make right a wrong. All The arm
les of the east cannot create Il virtue.
But the mind of man is now open to
reason In the shifting shadow of the
flag which commentaries the day, III
the memory of the men whose Sacrl-
flee made this service possible, let this
truth sink deep INTO our hearts-that
God is with us in the right. The vic
tories reserved fer our nation are the
victories of peace. The modest deed
of all the earth are not the deeds OF
blood. The purest, strongest, truest
souls are those OF men whose hands
We're ever gentle; of women, whose
hearts were NEVER sung Win Lstit.
Memorial day docs not remind OF a
severed nation cemcnted, bat a single
people cast into the crucIhlt OF aililc-
ton and fused-:n invinclble one
This better metal shall be the standard
of excellence for AL about US. The na
tions of the earth shall mark us a
their model The wisdom OF al Lands
shall learn OF us.
And thereb, comes the blessed bur
den. If we be kings our deeds must
needs be kin9ly. If We, sanctiiied by q
hcroisEl SO magnificent as that Which
filled these graves with haToeS-if We
be privileged to point the way to bet
ter things, then let the words of oul
mouths and the nleditations of oul
hearts be acceptable in Thy sight, O.
Lord, our strength and oar Redeemer.
: LEROY ARMSTRONG