Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-27

On Saturday, May 5Vth, the DAY
that should bring oil men into sym
pathetic harmony, will again come
arodnd With its golden memories that
lime, so far from diminishing, beauti'
fully enhances and senlimentally en-
mobiles. Tender feelings, mingling
with pride and a loyal sense Of graft
tude, inspires lofty state Of mind, and
TO these no man not sordidly selfish
should be iEsensible on a day set apart
as a memorial Of patriotic yalor and
devoted manhood, and Ut life surren-
dered for he %cquntry's veal. So re-
mote and shadowy is The epoch OF the
civil war that even they who partici-
pated in its dangers and hardships,
and had lis horrors stamped with
graphic farce imperishably upon their
minds, may hardly think of ut other
thaa4as Of a wonderfully intense and
realistic dream. The empty sleeve,
the missing leg, the bent frame and
broken health are eloquent reminders
OF the stern fact, it IS true, but it is a
benevolenco and a compensation of
nature that adversely and pain and loss
soften into e3unteTfelts of beauty and
sweetness und love as they recede
further into the perspective of human
experience. X
Love of country is love of country
man and We who visit the graves of
the soldier dead do SO less to pay
Difference TO memory than to give
pledge to the future. 1t is respect OF
the living that bids US revere the dead,
that lofty respect that arises from our
recognition Of man in Gods image as
our brother, and our knowledge of the
truth that the ~animating spirit is the
beir Of the eterniiies.
Memorial Day tends to restore the
moral and personal equilibrium dis
tuFbed BY the seltizh activities Of life.
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The spirit Of It is a leveler, an elimin.
ator,of distinctions, a creator of the
close bond Of affeetionate sympa-
thy that is understood by the word
conarade. We all become comrades
under chat intinence-ihe veteran Of an
hundred battles and the youth who
knows war IN his imagination alone;
lhe nan Of wealth and the victim OF
poverty he who is distinguished and
he who Is obscure; he who fought and
he who served in other way comrades
all tor Il day in the year, and the
grind Of the world is q little the easier
forsit, and the music Of the spheres
m a little nearer to. our bearing.
Days Of peace and days of love are
these days =pf remembrance. Blessed
be the days Of remembering.
Following is a Memorial Day appeal
By Rev. Thomas HAYWOOD, taken from
the Albuquerque Citizen.
Comrades oftac Grand Arny of Me Republic.
Department Of Neie Meeico.
The time is approaching when il will be-
como our duty as members of the Grand
Army q the Republic, and old soldiers. to
again prepare for the solemn services of
Memorial Day.
The department commander has. no
doubt, sent out an appeal, accompanied
with orders to all the posts under his com
mands reminding US that the anth aa9
May is set apart as a memorial day a dav
conseorated 20 the memory Of the dead.
and that all comrades and soldiers. in ac.
cordanc with The rules and regulations of
our order, should observe aid day.
And whileat may not be the duty Of The
department chaplain to make the general
appeal q his comrades, he feels At ire
same time ko taking the liberty to ioin
hands with the department commander
and urge 2 more general and more solemn
observance of said day.
There is a tendency. and II il r~an,a,v
growing 10 many circles, to make this
Mem rlol Day-;his funeral dsv Of an,
brothefs-a mere holiday, a day of recrea
tlon. Memorial Day means something
more to tie cd soldier Than a day OF rec
'eation or Publication. The memories 81
our fsllea adinipdes are b~rodebffa kois5n
resiewon that day and We hold the d.v
IN sacred rsmembrahca ef4hose wb5 Is1