The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-31

enthusiasm which time does not
wither nor abate. The day of hero
worship has not yet passed. Great as
are Inc civic and domestic virtues, no
sooner 40 hostile bullets begin their
| music, than the man who fails tn re-
spond TO the call OF duty and face that
music, has before him a fate to be
Dreaded more than death the con
tempt OF MS countrymen, and, worse
| sun, or his country women
war Is nations most intense and
| profound experience. 1t is seldom
that history records a war which drew
SO heavily upon "a nations resources,
Whlch brought a whole people under
such strain, as did our civil war. No
| one can imagine how great that strain
| was VINO did not share it. The cost of
! the war in its vast expenditure of
money, as we'll as in the loss and de-
structlon OF property and in the cessa-
tlon for four years of the money earn
| Ing activities OF the most vigorous
| part of our population can hardly be
| counted. All this is but a tribe of the
real cost of that war. No hui an in
teIlIgence can ever fathom the depths
OF the misery, pain and suffering on
the battle field and in the prison pen.
Nothing short of divine sympathy can
| comprehend the anguish felt and the
sacrifices made by the dear ones who
were left at home
And when all was over, OF the men
who came out of the war with no
severe wounds, there were few whose
lives were not shortened by the ex-
pOsure and excitement of army life.
Most OF our distinguished generals who
nave passed away since the war, died
in the prime of life.
Was all this loss and suffering worth
ia a hi mr.
soldier or sailor who did his part,
whether great or small, in the war for
the union, would venture to ask, I'M
less quick with the answer yes-a
thousand times, yes.
Friends, the Grand Army of the
Republic does not pose before their
countrymen to attract sympathy or
praise. The organization was formed
shortly after the close of the war,
partly to keep up associations formed
in the service, and to see that NOPE
who had an honorable record in the
war should come to want as long as
comrades hand or purse could be
found to help. But it's main object
was to see to it that our country
should not again, while men of the |
Grand Army or their descendants re-
manned, be imperilled by the hands of
traitors. Let us thank God that the
the old flag waves now over all of our
beloved aud again united land.
The Union veteran cheriSheS none
but the kfndest feeling toward the
battle-scarred, ex Confederate soldier.
The men of the South, who fought for
the Confederacy are as sincere in their
love for the Union as if they had new
er met us in the hour Of battle.
On the 18th of June of 1887 it was
co.. fol nd -
the line formed of Union and Confed-
crate veterans about to march out to
Bunker Hill to join in celebrating the
anniversary of that national day.
There they were, the men of the
Robert e. Lee Camp of Confederate
Veterans of Richmond, Virginia, who
were in the grand charge of Pickett at |
Gettysburg, hollow-backed and broad |
chested still, starting off on the march |
with the old swing of a soldier, in |
fullest sympathy with the men of
Massachusetts,, who had fought them
at Gettysburg, Antietam, Chancellor
vile, Fredericksburg. and at the
Bloody Angle. 1t was an object les
son to fill the patriots soul with graft |
tude. a.N ae z ffY
This was the finest result of the
war, that it made us united people |
a people whose children and grand |
children, down to the remotest gener-
atoms, shall, if true to their country
and flag, have it for their proudest |
boast to say: 1--WE are Americans"
Attorney-Gener Smith deiiv-
cred the following address at the
graves of the two men: 90
1t ia helpful to meet on anniversa.
ries like this and let memory bring
back those dear to US who have gone
before.
There is nothing OF greater worth
in the world than the friendship and
approval of others. There is no
greater truth than that no man lives |
to himself alone; and there is nothing
that develops courage more than the |
feeling of fellowship and the con- |
that we are not alone.
The knowledge of the loyalty of |
others nerves men to be faithful anu
to be brave.
1t is not only to the living that we |
should be loyal, but to those who |
nave gone from Us.
Our powers and vision are so linn
tied that we cannot see beyond the /
horizon of this life, but who can say
that the tributes we pay to those who
have entered upon the Immortal life |
are not known to them; who |
knows that these acts of loyalty |
are not helpful 70 them. This we do
we are made better and |
stronger by recalling the memory of
those who stood by us and wrestled IN
the conflict.
And it is especially appropriate that
comrades in arms should meet to pay |
tribute to those who fell in the per- |
Torrance of duty.
who shall be taken and who left Gre
ates a sense of dependence and re-
sponsibility which appeals to the |
deepest feelings of the heart.
These whose earthly remains were
laid here were loyal to duty and to
their comrades. Such loyalty we rev.
erence. 1t thrills our souls and steels