New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-06-01
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But to-days ceremonies are different.
They concern the entire Union and we
are here to honor and thank the men who
in our i'll -fated civil war offered up their
lives to save this glorious republic from
ruin and to free race of fellow ,beiugs
from servile bondage.
| And when we see the hurry and fever
ish haste with which the people Of this
land battle for the almighty dollar; when
we see the practice Of swindling and
cheating go unpunished before our very
eyes; and when we behold with what
success religious hypocrisy and the in
sane temperance cause do flourish, we
can only be surprised that these same
people find time to take an interest in
the commenoratlon of Memorial Day.
The thought, however, revived here to-
day, that so many men were SO imbued
with patriotism as to be willing to sac
rifice their lives and fortunes for their
lcountry's sake is evidence that Justice
still remains rooted in our people and
the conclusion naturally forces itself fupon
us that they are not entirely lacking in
good principles and that the American
nation has not yet become completely
stagnant in the pursuit of the tempting
dollar.
AS we look back to the great war and
see how the citizens of the Northern
States, with but few exceptions, stood
united as one against the common foe
Protestant with Catholic, free thinker
with the fanatic believer, the learned
with the poorest workingmen, we must
acknowledge that there is still firm
principle embedded in the nation as one
complete whole, and that this true prin-
ciple,e ,even if the people sometimes wan
der from it, brings them back eventual
ly into the proper path. Occasionally
the time may seem long before the peo-
pie understand all the circumstances that
90 to make certains courses orrect and
the demagogue's scheme may be crowned
with temporary success, but in the end
the good. true principle guides the stray
ing multitude back into the channel Of
rectitude and crushes with impalpable
force the demagogue and all his selfish
interests. 1t is this true interest in our
mutual welfare which lies rooted in the
masses of the people of the United States
and gives us assurance of the further ex-
istence and rerpetuity of our republican
institutions and the preservation of that
which the fathersof our country, Washing
ton, Jefferson, Payne and others, secured
for us and which our7now departed and
gray-haired veterans maintained in civil
strife with their blood and their lives.
If therefore we would emulate the no.
bic deeds of our fathers and defenders of
our country aud show our appreciation
of their work we must battle for that
true principle which lives in the Ameri-
can people and see that it is not choked
by the many demagogues Of the land,
but rather that it may be strengthened
and trained to grow. By doing that we
can give our fellow-c1tizens and the gen
erations, that are to come after us, proof
that the works of the veterans whom we
honor to-day is appreciated in reality as
we'll as in ceremony. The task is but a
small one, when compared with that Of the
Union soldiers. Think of the great numbers
who sacrificed their health in that great
struggle! How many who offered their
lives on the altar of their country! How
many might not have been spared to
spend a happy life among us for the ben
eft Of their families and the state, who
are now mouldering in the earth, had
they not fallen from the fatigue of long
march or been sacrificed to the bullets
lof the enemy and the perils of a cruel
and barbarous war! Why then should we
shun the independent thought and action
that is required to bring up our children
as unprejudiced men and women, 50
that upon entering public life and enlist
ing in the service of a citizen, they may
be broad and intelligent2 If every one
bears his mite Of duty in mind, the pre-
servation Of this great and glorious Re
public is assured and the blood OF our
fellow citizens shed in the civil war, will
not have been she'd In vain.
Col. Pfaender concluded the exercis-
es by reading the names Of those
who fell during the eCiVH and Indian wars,
and as the throng left the cemetery, the
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