The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-20

| represent purity of character, purity of ac-
ton and purity of SOUL The red bar meant
courage, courage to maintain truth and
purity. Thus we have the triple-colored
banner which we all love SO we'll 1t rep
| resents the ideas of our ferefathers, and
our own ideas of today ALI nations have
| flags, but the flag of the United States,
wherever found, whether on land or on
sea, at home or abroad. is the prettiest
banner that ever kissed the breezes of
heaven.
At the close of Mr. Hatfield's remarks
the Sedgwick band again appeared on the
platform and gave another fine selection
of music
Mr.. j. d. Caldwell then came forward
and recited Bryant's "Thanantopsis" in "a
| most mastery manner.
The department. commander then step
ped forward at the request of the COM
mittee of A, and presented Joe Hooker
Post No. II, Of Hutchinson, with the flag
that was to be presented to the post hav-
ing the largest number Of uniformed men
in line in the parade. in the following re-
marks:
1t has fallen to nv lot to present to Joe
Hooker Post No. II this beautiful flag.
The man who has no sentl-
ment or no poetry in his soul is very
unfortunate. The man who has no eye
for the sublime or the beautiful IS douoiy
unfortunate. The man who cannot treas
ure some sentiment in his heart Is one OF
the most unfortunate beings in the world
Go if you please TO the great ship yard
and see the great piles of timbars and iron
and you say there is nothing beautiful
there, nor neither is there. But wait Que
year. Go back to the yards and see that
majestic and firmly preportioned steamer
that is about ready TO find home In the
boundless oceans. Do you not admire her
handsome proportions. her gracefully
turned corners, her giant spars, her finely
apportioned compartments. Can you say
she is not a thing of beauty? Go back
again after the lapse OF time. Say ten years,
Ste has landed upon our shores thousands
of immigrants. She has trayersed the
whole known civilized world. She has
weathered the shrieking gale and stemmed
the mountainous gale many times and as
she comes sweeping majestlcally up the
harbor to her pier, can you have you not
some sentiment and admiration for that
great and glorious craft?
1t is not the material in flag that
arouses sentiment, love and patriotism.
1t is the principles which it represents
which fire US with zeal and patriotism
This flag means something. 1t means
more than mere sentiment. 1t means that
the principles for which the fathers of the
revolution fought for ara as sacred TO us
now as they were in the days of '76. IL is
made sacred by the history of the struggle
for independence, and it is loved and
feared on land and on sea. No matter
where it is found it is near and dear to us,
not because alone of its beauty. but for
what 1t cost. 1t is the flag of Valley
Forge; it is the flag of Bennington; it Is
the flag of Yorktown; il is the flag of
Perry's victory on Lake Erie; it is the flag
of Lundv's Lane; it is the flag Of Monte
rey, Of Buena Vista, of Chapultepec, of
Shiloh, of Gettysburg, OF Missionary
Ridge, of Hampton Roads, when nailed to
the mast the flag still foated when the
immortal Cumberland sank. 1t is the
flag for which the women, the great re-
serve forces that strengthened our arms
and nerVed US to greater deeds of
valor, have shed many bitter tears
God bless the women of Amer
lea. They prayed for US when
we were at the front that we might bring
it back uAtarnished. The brave and true
women who stayed at home and labored,
and prayed, and denied themselves for US
are entitled to an equal share OF the praise
accorded to the old soldiers. Their flag is
our flag and TO the women of the United
States we owe great debt of gratitude.
For myself, ] know OF d home in Kansas.
There are two pictures there. One is Of
whose former home was away down in the
state of Maine. Side by side there hangs
another picture. 1t is of the same face,
but there is quite difference in the like
nesses the last one is wrinkled and gray.
When depressed and weary. when l begin
to lack confidence in myself and wish to
receive inspiration, go, not to the first
aud the artist would say the fairer picture,
but go to the other one and gazing upon
it receive the zeal, and courags and inspi
ration that only woman whom we love
can give and go out and renew again the
battle of life.
To the women of Kansas we are deeply
during the war as we did. When we come
to think of the dangers of Indians on one
side aud of the bushwhacker on the other,
who shall say the women of
Kansas are not brave and true. And $50
long as there is red on the lip and fire in
the wine l would drink, aud women of
Kansas, the health shall be thine"
Those who assail that flag assail the
honor OF our country. assaii the every
patriotic citizen, and is also guilty of trea
son.
The speaker here paid his respects to
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, and read
from the July Forum some extracts which
bore directly upon the old soldiers. In
the article Mr.. Adams says the pensioners
speaker said Mr.. Adams claimed to have
served his country for four years, but he
nor no one else could point to a single
ensanguine battlefield upon which Mr..
Adams ever fought. Mr.. Adams, he said,
was appointed to a position which had a
salary of 5000 attached to 1t, and while
in that position he had looted the Union
Pacific Railroad company of S1S, 0O0, GEO.
He is a nice man to talk about the soldiers
trying to loot the treasury.
This flag stands for happy and con-
tented nation. Ii the flag had gone down
at Gettysburg and the south had been per- |
mitted to erect the Confederacy and the |
doctrine Of states rights had prevailed, |
it would not have settld the question. IL |
such thing az the flag going down had |
occurred, every state would have been a |
little government by itself The money |
which we have expended In the various /
kinds of Improvements would have been |
spent in erecting forts and keeping a |
army aud each little govern |
mea5 would have been an aristocrstic dy- |
nasty. IL would only have been the be- |
ginning of the end, aud this was the OPP |
portunity for which England waited aud |
worked for. England wanted the south TO |
win aud upon the ruins she would rear |
another monarchy. / have never liked |
England for the part sus took in the re- |
bellIon and old AS / am if war was to |
break out with her would again enlist |
for we can lick any nation on the face of |
the earth. Is is the flag for which men /
laid down their lives. For every star in /
that azure field 10000 men have died. Col |
ouel Dicks saying Is Il hoinely one bat /
| am in favor Of applying it. |
III any man Insults that flag, shoot him |
on the spot
This is the grandese reunion ever held |
In the state of Kansas and We nope TO have |
many more like i5 but the mortality list !
Of the Grand Army shows Us that as an /
we are rapidly passing from /