Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-05-31

Industry, STANDS 10 Oay tue Wou0es
and admiration o! the world.
We honor the great generals and
statesmen who directed the affairs ct
the army and the nation during that
most critical time, but our institutions
aud our freedom are the monuments
TO the thousands Of brave private SOL
diers who fill ssmeless graves on the
hillsi,les aud in the valleys of the
South.
No storied marble tells the tale of
how they fell, but their eulogy is the
anthem OF tho freed slave, the hum
of peaceful labor and the thanksgiv-
ing of grateful people.
1t is due to them that no gulf OF
irreconcilable hatred to day divides
the North and South, but that from
the Atlantic 10 the Pacific, from the
Gulf to the northernmost borders OF
our territory wherever soldier lies
buried, no matter whether he fought
under the stars and stripes or unoer
the stars aud bars, his grave is covered
with flowers, the fitting type OF the
resurrs ction, for they fade aud fall to
be rene we'd in more radiant beauty in
all the future springs OF the world.
This day, sacred to the past, is to
us an anniversary unlike any other,
for as we lay our tribute upon the
graves Of those who fell in battle, or
who have since lain down, weary with
the "march of life," to await the buele
call upon the resurrection. our hearts
renew their pledges to their ideals.
The soldier to US is not merely an
armed mercenary, who grudgingly
pays his debt to the State. by bearing
arms for certain number of months
o. years, but he is the citizen, the
mere liant, artisan, clerk, farmer, who,
at the need of his country, transforms
himself into the guardian of her in
sti,utions. He is the living embodi-
mrnt of light and law, OF civilization
and patriotism.
America needs no idle horde of
armed u ians to awe her foes BY In {
array of military pomp. The spirit
of her people is more formidable to
aggressors than any such display could
be, for it would lead them, in defence
of our national principles. to spend
the "last drop of their blood. and the
last dollar Of their treasure"
1t was this spirit that made the con-
test of the Civil War so remarkable.
American fronted American, each side
confident in the justice Of its cause
and equally determined to conquer.
God held the balance of victory, and
though there is a "I.ost Cause" buried
in the graves of the brave Southerners,
looking from the calm heights of
eternity upon the results which their
death wrought, the souls OF the slain
no doubt rejoice that their beloved
land is still part Of the great Re-
public and that secession failed.
Wherever is told the story OF
ChickamauRa, Antietam, Shiloh. and
Manassas by the veterans whose hair
is growing gray with the winters OF
peace, and whose slow steps are ap-
preaching close to the last bivouac.
the victor has praise for the vans
quished, and the defeated soldier OF
the Confederacy clasps the hand OF
his one-time foe and calls him brother.
A few years more, and only the
children and children's children will
be left to recount the deeds Of valol
of the heroes Of the four years con.
ilict, but as wo travel away from thei,
deeds in the true perspective of ou'
national prosperity, they will show
their right proportions. Old animos
tiles are dead, and and their hateful
forms are covered away out of sigh
under the first fruits of the beauty o
the ears, but we are yet too near thu
great deeds that were done by thu
soldiers OF our land to see them a
they were, and to estimate their pro
portions accurately, but as long as tn
memory of noble achieve men.s in
spires po t, patriot and orator, Memo
rial Day will he celebrated as our ma
tons new Easter, when the Sun c
Peace. that had Ian SO long in tn
sepulchre, arose over a stricken eartl
and eyes. heavy with watching al
weeping, were gladdened by the ligf