The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-31
INDIANA DEAD NOT FORGOT
Judge D. P. Baldwin's Effective Address
to the Veterans at Goodland.
Usual Decoration Day Rain Compelled the Old
Soldiers in Many Places to Adjourn 10 the
0pera-H House for the Exercises.
THE DAY AT ~GOODLAND.

Address by Judge Daniel p. Baldwin, of
L~ogansport. on Patriotism.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
GOODLAND. Ind. May 30.-At the Decora-
lion day services hero Judge Daniel Z.
Baldwin, of Logansport, delivered the ora
ton. He said, in part:
Patriotism is educated and decorated
preference. Like all other great senti-
ments 1t has come up from very sinallTbe-
~RinniDgs. Neither does 1t necessarily de-
pend on right or success. South of tho
Ohio the Goth of April is uni versally OBJ
served as Decoration day. Our Southern
brethren boast that this beautiful sol
diers' Sabbath originated with q Georgia
lady-Mrs. Williams, now deceased-and
that a rebel Legislature made the first ap-
preparation for the systematic and dec
Grated burial of their dead soldiers. No
one that has ever travelled In the South
full shafts that stand guard over our con.
federate dead in any considerable city. L
hope the day is near when we shall upon
these sacred days exchange orators. Let
the South tell the North and the North the
South their respective versions OF tho
great conflict upon these occasions, and
bear witness to each others devotion and
herolsm.
my subject to-day lie What we owe to our
soldiers. and that they owe to u.s. 1 do
tLO Va oh0
secession as our greatest work. Great-un-
speakably great-as that is. a greater Is the
standardization of our Republic since 1868,
with new ideas and new forces. The Dec
l~aration of Independence was an imperfect
act. Yorktown had TO be supplemented by
Gettysburg. Lincoln had TO complete
W~ashIngton's unfinished work. Congress
forty years ago was vastly inferior In pOlit-
zeal morality and statesmanship. although
superior in intellect, to what it is to-day.
Forty Vaars oun fhA fanarul nnvarnmAnf
was an almost unknown force in orr indi-
v!dual life. Now 1t touches US at every
point Forty yearsagot this now indissoluble
Union was a rope of sand. and we were two
distinct races. almost wholly lacking In q
common. national life. Forty yearsa 60 q
man from South Carolina excited as much
remark In Indiana as a resident of g. pr.
Forty years ago Texas was the Patagonia of
the United States. Now Texas contains o
majority of citizens OF Northern birth.
ance companies, our national banks and
currencIes, the line between North and
south Is fast disappearing. CAUTIOUSLY
enough the only great bodies that keep mp
this distinction are our churches. At Chat
tanooga. where there Is On almost UNI
yersal fusion of North and Sonth, are two
magnificent church structures. crowding
each other back to back-The Methodist
Church North and South.
If any one will take the pains to COM
pare the Indiana of 1865 with the Indiana
of to-day. he will find that upon the dis
banding Of our great armies a powerful.
but new, and at that date unknown, eie-
ment took possession OF our Legislatures,
our great professions and our industries.
In 1867 our great ditch and road laws were
passed that have completely changed the
face of our territory. In 1867 the bar and
bench of Indiana fell into the
hands of the young men that had Just re-
turned from our armies. and they worked
a revolution. In 1865 our law reports had
sunk so low as to DO a by-word: now.
and for the last twenty-five years they arc
universally quoted. And so on TO the end
of the chapter. Compare the schools of
1892 with those of 1865; the banks. or the
great industries. and You will see that 8
new and mighty force took hold of and
revolutionized them all at the close of the
war"
After various other Illustrations the
speaker said: And now what have We
done on our side for our soldiers? We have
broken in on the calendar and set apart
and cODsescrated to bis use one of theloye-
lest days of the year. May 80. To-day
half a million graves have their sunny
side; to-day ten thousand orators arc cele-
brating the soldiers Sabbath. We have.
North and South. enriched the sky with
the sacred silences of ten thousand marble
shafts. all consecrated to his memory. We
have set apart TO his use $50. 600, 900 per an
NUN of the national revenue The great
pension bill is the financial mainstay and
salvation of the small farmers and work
ingmen of the North. But for ITS merciiuI
harnesses our farmers could never have
tided over the hard times growing out of
the fall in prices and industrial revolutions
tbe last ten years. This $3.50. 900 ZOO finds
its way INTO the merchants tills and the
mOney-lOaners and tax collectors safes,
and is so distributed among the humble
homes of five millions of our peO-
pie that, more than any other
financial measure, il preserves our
small capitalists from bankruptcy.
No one can think of the frightfnl distress
that would eDsue If this merciful and vast
annual poor mans donation were hut Oft
from our people. Look at the Gordon of
soldiers homes and hospitals that are
scattered all over our country If you want
10 know more We have done tor our boys In
blue. Look at the great organizations
the Grand Army of the Republic, the WoIn-
ans Relief Corps. the Sons of N~eterans-if
you want to sec what we have lone social
~ for our heroes. This great work is not
vet finished, nor Will IL be completed until
we see that in this country, redeemed 10y
the dead soldiers whose memories we to-
day celebrate, no man willing to work
shall be without three hundred days work
in the year at fair living wages; until We
make II impossible for any cliGne Of specu.
latOrs in our great cities TO raise the price
of the wOrkinEman's loaf: until We see that
no child Of ten years is unable TO read and
write, and no boy of twenty without a
trade or the means of self-suppport,a and I'M
I'll by law we inhiblt any single corpora.
tion from owning over twenty-five millions
OF property"