The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-31

rot restricted to time or place or to the
conflict of arms. 1t gives encourage
nent for the future, since the recogni-
ton and approval it gives of patriotic
fidelity and heroism will be an incen-
tive for the display of public valor and
virtue in all coming time.
There can be no doubt that the
honor you pay the patriot-dead, and to
their memorable deeds, will serve not
only to make American citizenship in
these days more reputable, but also to
maintain and perpetuate through all
future generations the union and
authority Of the United States of
America"
The acceptance that had been
acknowledged in language and spirit as
felicitous as had been the presentation
was followed with a song by the
children after which
REV. DR.. ILIFF
delivered the Grafton.
Ladies of the Relief corps, comrades
of the Grand Army and patriotic citizens
We are assembled to dedicate this monu-
ment to the memory of that noble army
of our country's defenders of 1S61-1S55. Il
is a gift of the Womans Relief corps
of James B. Mexican post, Grand Army
of the Republic which entails upon every
old soldier lasting obligations of graft
tudes and admiration to these loyal ladies
! have no disposition to ofier you ladies
discourtesy on the one hand or f1attery
on the other. Your goodness must protect
You from former, and your good sense
would repel the latter The cause in
which loved ones fell, whose graves you
have Just covered with flowers and bap-
tized with tears, must have failed unless
it had been sustained by the ranks OF
tbn nd a
throughout the north. You have invited
me to deliver an address appropriate to
the occasion, and however earnestly
may desire to meet your wish 1 shall
fall far below my ideal of what it stands.
It has been my good fortune to look
upon monuments In many lands erected
TO commemorate historic events and in
honor of great men. I have stood on the
apex Of the pyramid Of Cheops, amid the
sands Of the Egyptian desert, and looked
down upon the mighty sphinx, whose
sleepless eyes have kept watch over the
mysterious Nile for thousands of years
At the close of many a glorious sunset
as the blue Mediterranean was burning
with crimson glow. l have sat on the
ruins of the Acropolis at Athens, remem-
herring that the ancient Greek pointed
with pride to the natchleSS Parthenon
as enshrinlng the Palladium of his coun-
try, and reverently listened, that / might
hear the voices of Plato and Demosthe-
mes spanking with the clear light of a
evening hour when the closing day shone
dimly through the windows of the an
Gent Sehloss Kirche at Wittenberg, as
the simple German townsfolk were stroll
lnig in and out of the sacred edifice where
rests the dust of Martin Luther. / seemed
to see the greatest of Protestant reformers
as he came tc: that spot nearly 400 years
ago, with the immortal theses in one hand
and hammer in the other. The ring OF
the hammer. as he sent home the nails
started Germany out of the SAUNDERS OF
he do I'll AID -I,<,,., +,o,r
were distinctly heard at the Vatican, or
the Tiher. 1 have wandered by the hour
through that greatest abbey of all coun-
tries, Westminster, London, and looked
seemed almost to breathe with the inspi-
ration of heroes, poets, scholars and re-
formers, whose dust sleeps beneath the
arches of the sacred edifice. 1 have min
gled with the busy throng in Trafalgar
Square and admired that massive monu-
ment commemorative of the achievements
enraptured at the ma gnificence of the
tomb of Napoleon at Paris (sullen with
gloom, portentouS with the ShodoWS OF
Waterloo. but holding the ashes of one
of the most richly endowed men God ever
created, and who trod down Europe fol
fifteen years. l have stood at sunset in
the shadow of the Washington monument
at our national capital. and to myself have
said, this stands for that majestic figure
and sentiment: First in peace, first in
war, first in the hearts of his country.
men" 1 have gazed upon that silent
shaft which pierces the sky on Bunker
Hill until my soul has been stirred with
love of country born of an ancestral
patriotism that antedates the revolution
Bunker Hill will continue to echo the
famous shot at Lexington and the sur.
render of CORVALLIS at Yorktown, for
ever reminding the children that the blood
of their fathers disenthralled the colonies
from the oppression of Great Britain and
united them into a sovereign republic
But higher than any monument built
by human hands in ancient or modern
times. rises the monumental idea repre-
scented by this granite column, presented
by these mothers. wives and daughters
today. This monument represents the
of the foremost nation of the world This
monument represents the victorious
marching columns of Grant and Sherman
Meade and Thomas, Hooker and Logan
Sheridan and Fitzpatrick. This monument
is symbol of that heroism displayed by
Leontdas and his three hundred at Their
mopX,lae Aenophon and his ten thousand
on the great retreat, Miltiades and his
Greeks IS thew swept from the plains
of Marathon the hordes of Persian in
Vaders Higher still rises the idea for
which ,.;h THIS monument stands. The idea
the humble cabin of the Mayfiower and
the trainers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. 1t sent echoing round the world
proclaimed Liberty to all the Inhabitants
Of earth a hundred and eighteen years
ago. It broke the shackles of four mil
lions OF slaves. and in the graves where
sleeps the nations dead it buried side by
side with them the heresy of state rights
and secession
This idea of liberty and the rights OF
individual man is not of human origin
1t had its birth at Bethlehem It took
dual shape i'll the fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood Of man as taught and
such idea had ever dawned upon the race
The lew called che samaritan a. dog and
the Greek called the Jew a barbarian
Even Athens, whose temples shone with
breathe under the touch of Phidias whose
academic groves were vocal with the hum
of bees. the philosophy of Aristotle and
the tragedies Of SouhocIes-Athens with
all her unbaptised learning. elocuen 3c
philosophy. art and civiliza ton. could saw
no more than this: There are three
things for which I thank all the gods:
First. that ] an 2 reasorine crea ture and
not a brute; second. that I am Greek
and not a barbarian; third, that-I am a
man and not a woman
The miChtiest product of all her phil
osophy and learning could not rise above
the preiudiceS 0f race or sex. The crown
ing glory for which this roonument stands
is that there is neither Jew nor Gentle
Greek nor barbarian. bond nor free. male
nor female hui a universal. worldwide
brotherhood. knowing po caste no color
no previous condition of servitude.
The struggle for recognition of s1lch
principle has been long and hard In
the earliest governments of which history
gives US anv knowledge the chief was
everything and the tribe was nothing
Then came the war era wherein the gen
eral was everything and the neonle onl,.
50 much force to feed the an7hitious and
hloodthirsty propensities of the warrior.
A little later and the religious and SIM
erstitious element entered more largely
Men died for the church. We're SLAUGHTERED
by the church. The priest. the prophet.
the oracle we're everything and the neo-
pie still nothing. The next eroch brings
us 10 where the king. the emperor. the
the individual man still nothing. nv far