St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-31

loyalty. in obedience to established au-
thorities. We who knew the hardships
and the horrors of war want to guard
the sacred heritage of peace as price,
less Jewel. These times seem TO tend
toward disorders, and matters of trifiing
moment seem to be pushed to the front.
1t might perhaps he a blessing to us
now II some serious matters could come
10 the front and arouse the masses as
they were aroused in 1860 and 1851.
The bugle call to arms in our times
converted boys of fifteen and sixteen,
who were playing marbles and coyly
making love to their gill playmates, into
men OF eighteen and twenty in single
night. Stranger still, it changed old
men of fifty-five to fifty-seven Uoo old
TO enllSD into young men. They bought
10 cents worth sof h,ir dye, and next
morning, with blonde locks, enlisted as
recruits of thrty-three. 1t was all for
liberty and union. Ii was to save "Old
Glory and to make the Declaration of
independence. that ''all men are ere
ated free aud equal,' mean something.
The war taught us another lesson that
we must not forget; that is, that we do
not need to maintain a large standing
army. but that with nucleus of trained
soldiers and experienced officers we can
quickly arm. drill and equip troups
equal to any emergency.
we boys in blue nave also 10 be proud
that our tight was against veterans in
gray of our own race and nation: bows,
loo. at the outset, who enlisted and
fought under such lea ders as Joe john
ston. Hood, Early. jackson. Beaure-
gard. Bragg anu hosts of others equally
distinguished. The soldiers CT the Con-
federacy were not hired Hessians nor
Ignorant foreigners. They were men of
the Anglo-SaXon race. with traditions
OF courage and patriotism handed
down from Revolutionary sires, bap-
tlzed in blood from Bunker Hill to
Yorktown. The South did her full
share in 1912, and more than her full
share i'll Mexico. The sons of these
patriot sires were men educated i'll
American ideas, with that self-reliauce
which comes from good blood and a
life in the mountains and in the valleys,
with courage which comes from grap.
pling with nature in the wilderness.
They were officered and led. too, by
some of the most distinguished and eX-
pert soldiers that West Point has ever
produced.
We can we'll afford to admit that
officer for officer and man for man, they
were equal in courage, skill, endurance
and fighting ability to Northern troops.
They exhibited courage, skill, pluck
and endurance worthy better cause.
We simply outnumbered them, had
greater resources, heavier guns, more
munitions of war, larger fleets and bel
ter credit. TO the youths before me l
want to say: Be not deceived; war is
cauel, implacable and bloody. 1t is one
vast asSembiage of well drilled armed
men, termed an army. seeking to cap
ture, destroy and kill an opposing army.
1t is sometimes necessary; but on this
memorial occasion, in the presence of
the patriot dead, whose deeds we honor
and whose memories we venerate today,
and In the presence of the living who SUR
vlved that conflict, and before the repre-
sentatives of younger generation, who
will live when we are dust, | want to
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