Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-31

CONS guest, tells OF prayer he over
heard the president make after the
battle of Bull Run. 40 God! who
didst hear solomon when he cried for
wisdom, hear me and save this ma.
ton" These words were repeated
again and again. In the dark days of
the Rebellion such prayers went up
from all over the land, and God heard
and answered. We shall never know
how much our nation owes to the
prayers of its people till we look on
the earth from the heaven side.
Sd Our country must be preserved by
Gods people. The issues arising from
the war are settled. but new problems
must continually arise, We need for
today new kind of patriotism.
There is as great danger to a country
when a coal monopoly turns taous-
and Americans out of work as when
thousand foreigners invade our land.
Yesterdays paper told of an insult to
our flag by some drunken militiamen
at st. Thomas, for which Canada will
doubtless apologize. The same paper
told of Colorado strikers who blew up
mine and killed a dozen men whose
only sin was that they persisted in
earning an honest living. This is a
worse insult to any flag than that in
Canada. Every lynching is a deadly
blow to an institution. We have the
resources and we must have the laws
so that to have willing workmen un-
deSpaid or underfed; to have women
driven to a life of shame to earn a
living; to have children black or
white without an education or oppor-
tunity to get one, will be regarded as
an insult to the flag and to all it repre-
sents. That flag must float over a
country which has purified ballot; a
rational civil service in place of our
present spoils system; where the
liquor traffic is unknown; where the
christian Sabbath is preserved; and
this must be done by people whose
God is the Lord. And now unto this
divine Emancipator of the only ma
tions known as free, to this destined
breaker of every yoke, this Liberator
who was, and is, and evermore shall
be, will we ascribe blessing, honor and
power in the ages of ages. Amen.
MEMORIAL DAY.
In the morning of Wednesday, May
80, the graves of the thirty-one dead
soldiers whose bodies lie buried in our
cemeteries, and the graves of the dead
sisters of the corps, were tenderly
decorated with howers-the former by
by the members of the post, and the
latter by members of the Relief corps.
In the afternoon, at about 1870
o'clock, the procession formed in
front of the post hall, and led by the
band, the little girls bearing wreaths
of flowers, and the Boy Zouaves
marched to the park, where the pro-
gram of exercises was fully carried
out, as follows:
Music, Band; Prayer by Rev. S. r.
Chubb; Solo," Is the Battle Over" Mrs.
Priestly; Grand army memorial service,
by post; Salute for the Dead; Quar-
tette, "Rest," Miss Phillips, Miss
Emma Chandler, Miss Edith Chandler
and Miss Nina Osborne; Calling Roll
of Honor and Response; Floral offer
ing to the unknown dead, by the w.
r. c.; firing salute; Solo, The Grave on
theHeath, Mrs. A. G. Deller; recita-
tion, The Loves of the Nations, Miss
Lbbie Harris; solo, The Years are
Rolling On, Miss Lena Thomas; Ora
tion by Rev. M. Chase; Recitation, a
selection, Miss Fannie Minor; Exer-
cises by little girls, conducted by Mrs.
thinner, Mrs. Priestly and Miss
Hughes; Violin Solo, selection, by
Miss Mary Shaw; Bass Solo, Soldiers
Dream, James Kober; Bog Zouave
drill on platform; Singing America"
led by band; Benediction by Rev. 5.
r. Chubb.
Nearly all Of the people of this city
and many from the surrounding
country were present, to honor the day,
and all declared the exercises through
out to be of high order. The Boys
Zouave drill was an entirely new
feature and there were many express
sions of thanks TO Comrade Bennett