The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-05

, body knows them 1t is of com ara
lively little iuoortarc' WI Vt WAS the
name given t1eu in DAD in of water.
In the holier and mi hitter baDtiSm OF
blood we know them, AMI yesterday
the nation put both arms aroun them
and hurged them to her heart, crying
Mine forever
Again, by this national ceremony we
mean the future defense % this ma
ton. By every wreath OF fl Iwers on
the soldiers graves we say. Those
who die for the country sul,l not be
forgotten. and that will give enthu-
siasm to our young men in cIse our
nation should in the future neei to de-
! fend itself in attic. We shall never
have another war between north and
south The oil decayei bone of con-
/ teution, American Slavary. has been
east out. although here and there a
| depraved politician takes it up to see
if he can't gnaw something off of it
We are floating off farther and farther
from the possibility of sectional life.
No possibility of civil war. But about
foreign invasion l am not so certain.
| When spoke against war | said moth
| ing against self-defense. An inventor
told me that he had invented n style Of
weapon which could be used in self
defense but not in aggressive warfare
l said: "When you get the nations to
adopt that weapon you have introduced
the millennium" l have no right to
go on my neighbours premises and as
sault him, but if some ruffian break
into my house for the assassination of
my family, and l can borrow a gun
and load it in time and aim it straight
enough, 1 will shoot him.
There is no room on this continent
for any other nation-except Canada,
and a better neigh or DO one ever had
II you don't think so. go to Montreal
and Toronto and see how we'll they
will treat you. Other than that there
is absolutely no room for any other ma
ton. l have been across the continent
| again and again, and know that we
have not half inch of ground for the
equity foot of foreign despotism to
stand on. But l am not so sure that
some of the arrogant nations of Eu-
rope NAV not some day challenge us i
do not know that those forts around
| New York bay are to sleep all through
| the next century. | do not know that
| Barnegat Lighthouse will not look of
upon hostile navy. l do not know
but that a half dozen nations, enviOus
to out prosperity, may want to give us
a wrestle During the civil war there
were two or three nations that could
hardly keep their hands off us. 1t is
very easy to pick national quarrels,
and if our nation escapes much longer
it will be the exception.
If foreign foe shall come, we want
men like those of 1912 and like those
of 1862 to meet them. We want them
all up and dow the coast, Pulaski and
Fort Sumpter in the same chorus Of
thunder as Fort lafayette and Fort
Hamilton. Men who will not only
know how to fight, but how to die.
When such a time comes, IL it ever
does come. the generation on the stage
action will say: INV country will care
for my family as they did in the SOL
diers' asylum for the orphans in the
civil war, and my country will honor
my dust as it honored those who pre-
coded me in patriotic sacrifice, and once
a year at any rate, on Decoration day.
| shall be resurrected into the remem-
brance OF those for whom died. Here
l go for God and my country! HUI
zahr'
If foreign foe should come, the old
sectional auimosities would have no
power. Here go our regiments into
the battlefield: Fifteenth New York
volunteers, Tenth Alabama cavalry,
Fourteenth Pennsylvania rihemen,
| Tenth Massachusetts, artillery, Sew
enth South Carolina sharpshooterS. /
do not know but it may require the at
tack of some foreign foe to make us
| forget our absurd sectional vrangling.
Once more, this great national cere-
mony means the Identification of the
tombs, whether of those who fell in
battle or accident, or who have expired
! in their beds, or in our arms or on our
| laps. l suppose you have noticed that
many of the families take this season
as the time for the adornment of their
family plots. This national observance
has secured the arboriculture and fori-
culture of the cemeteries, the straight
ening up of many a slab planted 80 or
40 years ago, and has swung the scythe
through the long grass and has brought
the stonecGtter to call out the half-ob-
liberated epitaph. This day is the
| benediction of the resting place of
father, mother. son, daughter, brother,
sister.
1t is all that we can do for them now.
Make their resting places attractive,
not absurd with costly outlay, but in
quiet remembrance. You know how.
If you can afford only one flower, that
will do. 1t shows what you would do
| if you could. One blossom from you
might mean more than the duke of
Wellington's catafaIque. They were
so lovely to US. We miss them Sc
much. We will never get over il.
Blessed Lord Jesus, comfort our broken
hearts. From every bank of flowers
breathes promise of resurrection.
In olden times, the Hebrews, return
ing from their burial place, used to
pluck the grass from the field three or
| fOur tineS then thrOyv IL over THAR