The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-31

not these graves alone. Look at
the veterans before us-ther forms
too early bent, their hair too early gray,
their faces writ with the hieroglyph
OF suffering. bear more eloquent testi-
mony to those OF us W no will read Alright.
While we pay our tribute of respect to
the heroes dead, let us not forget the
heroes living. whose lives were as freely
offered, and have been as freely given
for their country's good, although not
! yielded up in one supreme moment.
And now, boys of '95. with the great
white future before you. longing for bat
| ties TO fight, for victories to win, are you
jealous for the sake of the possible hero
within you, OF the opportunities for
heroism which were offered the boys of
'6lf Are you saying to yourselves:
'All the battles are fought; all oppor-
tunities for heroism have passed 2" Do
You wish, with young man l know.
that there was something for q fellow
to go in for nowRGays?" Know this OF
truth, 0 ye potential heroes, it is not
great mems deaths but great mems
lives, that have made our country glori-
Gus; the bloodless rather than the
bloody battles, that have made it truly
great.
The heorism OF so-called great deeds
needs little emphasis. but the heroism
OF the greater deeds men call little, can
not too.strongly be made clear. Truth
to the small facilities, cheer under
straining of burdens OF WEAKNESS or
pain, privation or dlsappointments,
faithfuluess to the unpopular conviction
requires greater and q rarer courage
than that which holds man before
| lannon's mouth.
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things were done before you were born.
The best has not been, but is to be.
Never were there greater opportunities
for achievement than now. Our country
is still in the infancy OF its development;
science has but begun to reveal it's won
| ders; unsolved problems of humanity
| cry out for solution; wrong and suffering
wage deadly war, and the cry goes out
| for lone hundred Thousand more" to
| meet them in battle to the death: the
public schools are to be defended against
their active foes, and the education OF
the whole people to be accomplished
there are great wrongs in partisan poll
tics to be righted :. there are tremendous
battles between labor and capital to be
fought. God grant that they may be
bloodless battles Intemperance with
ts awful allies is to be overthrown.
There is a great conflict waging against
war itself. Opportunities for heroism
passed They are innnmerable, On
to battle, ye boys OF '94, and let this
he your war cry: "We'll make our coun-
try as great as it 10 big"
1t was given the heroes who sleep on
the hill top yonder, kissed by the sun
shine and caressed by the sea breeze, to
die for our dear motherland. Remem-
Der there is given you the much more
trying duty of living for her. God grant
that you may do your part as heroically
and as we'll as they did theirs The
boys of '76 established this government
and freed it from old world control; the
boys OF 81 preserved US a nation and
broke the chains OF the slave, 80 that
today we stand free people. And as
freedom is echoed and re-echoed in
your hearts, ye boys OF 1894 from the
dying lips OF the heroes who have given
US this liberty, will you not, "having
your loins grit about with truth. and
having on the breastplate of righteous
ness," enlist for a new conflict. and
never desert and never ask Tor dis
charge until the American is not only a
free man, but a noble, vice, temperate,
honest, God fearing man, in whose
heart shall reign and in whose face shall
and Ruler of the universe.
After the applause had died away the
Lorelei club, in the absence OF Mrs. Mo.
dini Wood, again sang delightfully."-, and
President of the Day Jones made some
appropriate remarks.
Gen. A. Pierce. the orator of the day
was then introduced, who took for his
theme Monumental Days, or in other
words, the innate desire of humanity to
preserve or commemorate by monu
ments the story OF events that had
passed. He dwelt on the ancienty OF
the custom. of which the Sanskrit
writer's, several thousand years ago,
have kept record. The impulse to hold
alive the story of humanity by the erec-
ton OF monuments of stone, iron and
other metals is not confined to CLINE or
time. The sands of Egypt, the temples
OF India. the exhumed cities OF the new
continent. the masonry of China. all
these are finger boards on the field oil
time, pointing eloquently, if eilently, to
deeds of heroism which happened CEN
turtles ago.
mental days." The track of the glacier,
the imprisoned shell, the coalbed that
now give back to Us the buried ferns OF
millions OF years ago. all these to us are
wonderful lessons by which the earth's |
ancient history stands revealed. BY
grand monuments also is the history of
the church made plain to US.
And thus also around the monumental |
days of history are clustered the gar
lands of sacred and glorious memories,
by which humanity records the illus
trious deeds of the father to instill into
the mind of the son the lessons taught by
those deeds.
The speaker then reverted to the /
heroic struggles OF the revolution and
the rebellion, and concluded his re-
marks with reference to Memorial day,
which has been consecrated by the love
and reverence of sixty million people.
After more vocal music by the Lorelei
club, benediction by Comrade
Knighten. the exercises came TO close
with taps by Bugler Thomas.
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