Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-07-20

of our churches pointing their long taper
| ing fingers heavenward, indicative OF the
object for which they have been erected,
the worship of Almighty God. These are
our temples to Religion.
Here is our beautiful Court House which
we all so much admire and of which we as
| citizens OF Butler Co. feel so justly proud;
this is our temple to justice.
There, now standing in that beautiful
| square beautiful in its simplicity and sym
metry is our memorial TO patriotism.
It is true that it is not grand and mas
sive and towering and costly as are many
| of the monuments of earth, but my fellow
| citizens. il represents a heroism grander, a
patriotism nobler and sublimer, than that
eommemorated By the Arch Of Triumph. the
column Vendome or the guided lantern OF
| the Invalides.
Gentlemen of the Monumental Associa-
tion:-In behalf of the people of our coun-
! ty l congratulate you on this occasion. on
the successful completion of your work.
They placed IN your hands an important
and patriotic trust. The zeal with which
you took hold of 1.-THE energy, fidelity
and perseverance with which you followed
| il up. through discOuragements and diff
culties, meets with eur highest praise, our
warmest eommendation. In the name and
on the behalf of all the old soldiers of our
county we thank you for this beautiful me-
mortal to the memory of our departed CON-
rades who sleep in soldiers graves.
In the name and on the behalf of all the
the people OF our county, we thank you fer
this column which speaks in silent but elo
quent tongue, not only of the patriotism of
those whose memory it commentaries, but
also of the gratitude of our people.
In behalf of all these We accept this
beautiful memorial erected under your su-
pervision and promise to guard and cherish
it with our tenderest care-to tell to trem
| bling age, to youth and lisping childhood
what it represents, and thus to send its
story through the coming ages.
Fellow cltizens:-I have in your behalf
| aeceptedthis monument from the association
it is now yours, and the futures dedicated
| forever to the memory of our honored
dead, and while we thus honor their mem
DRY in granite let US protect, defend and
preserve the union, they by their deaths
saved to us, and we trust to all the gener
ations Of the future. Let a true and un-
selfish patriotism and devotion to duty and
| country ever control US in all our actions
and condnct-thus may we honor their
memory by sending down to the future the
union preserved by them unimpaired.
When they fell beneath our flag there
| were 81 stars upon its field of blue, there
are A now. May they still increase and
| grow brighter and brighter with the COM
| ing years and may the last standard repre-
| senting earthly government, whose folds
may even catch the breath of the eternal
morning be the glorious old stars and
| stripes
For 90 years our houored dead have
| slumbered in their graves, but they have
not been forgotten by their county. This
| monument is now reared aud dedicated
forever to their memory. Sleep on my
comrades fallen; though no father or
mother or wife or sister or loved
one may ever stand by your low green
| beds, yet the birds of song will ever carol
their sweetest melodies there, the stars of
| heaven will ever look kindly down upon
| ingly watch over you, while
"Yon granite columns voiceless stone,
In deathless song shall tell.
When many vanished year has flown,
The story how ye fell"
In dealing with the offence which Debs
and his associates and followers commit
ted, Judge Grosscup is clear and incisive.
The riotous uprising at Chicago was in
surrection against the United States, and
the leaders were guilty of criminal con-
| spiracy to incite insurrecuon. Labor has
absolute control of its own arm. 1t can
refuse to work if it choose. But Debs and
his followers did not content themselves
with refusing to work. They violently
| obstructed the mails of the United States.
They forcibly interrupted the movement
of interstate commerce. These agencies
of intercourse and trade are under the pro-
lection of federal law, and in resisting the
execution of that law the rioters became
not simply a street mob but insurgents
against the authority and power OF the
| United States. When resistance becomes
too formidable to DO dealt with by the or
| dinary civil process and to require the in
terposition of military force it becomes fla
grant insurrection, and every man who en-
courages or sustains it becomes a public
enemy.
THE great Saengerfest ball in Cleveland
was crowded last Thursday at the opening
exercises of the Christian Endeavor con-
vention, and besides this several overflow
meetings were held. 1t was estimated