The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-05-30
Memorial Address,


| Alonzo Palmer Post GAR, the Sons
! of Veterans and the Woman's Relief
. Corps, attended the services in body
+ at the Cumming avenue NJ. Z. church,
/ last Sunday morning, and listened to an
/ eloquent address by the pastor, Rev.
/ w. ]. johnson, who preached from the
text That they all may be one" Quite
a number of the Fast End veterans also
attended this service.
/ The principal service of the day was
/ held in the afternoon at the East End
/ Presbyterian church. Allthe various pa
/ triotic organizations were represented,
/ including Company | of the National
| Guard. Here, also, Rev. W. J. John
son delivered the address. taking for
his text, " For none of us liyeth to him
self. Romans, H.. The old choir
and orchestra of the church, under the
direction of II. A. George, furnished
excellent music for the service, which
was attended by an exceptionally large
number considering that it was the
/ SCCOLIu SCI ' itt Vi lllc hllitl lOI lLtl dsiN
! Tuesdays Leader gives the following
report of Rev. Johnson's address:
The speaker dwelt on the relation
ship existing between men and men,
/ nation and nation and age and age The
life of one age is shaped and moulded
by the ages which have been before it,
while in turn it throws the force OF its
purposes and enthusiasms into the ages
which follow.
He paid a splendid tribute to the flag
which the spirit of patriotism has placed
in every school house in the state. and
which has been brought into the
churches and the Sunday schools, and
| then proceeded to tell of the bows in
Blue that fought for four long years
under it for the liberation of the en-
shaved. lie gave vivid description of
the soldiers life while performing their
duty, for what they considered right
After devotlng some time to the ma
tural equality of men, Rev. Johnson
touched upon some ofthe subjects which
are vitally before the public at the pres
ent time, including President Eliot's
attack upon the old soldiers and the war
between Cuba and Spain. He spoke as
follows:
And SO, when President Eliot, of the
University of Harvard, comes to the
front and says: 1--WE haye no right to
bother ourselves about any interest
which does not coDcprn rS narSonallv -
he gives expression to thought which
carries at its heart the quintessence of
selfishness.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
If Spain is brutal toward Cuba; if
England is grasping in its attitude to-
wards Venezuela; if Turkey is devilish
| IN its treatment of Armenia, it Is both
the right and duty of America to protest
in the cause of common humanity we
bear, against the inEumanity and the
injustice ofthese things, and if the worst
comes to the worst to resist the evil
| thing. There is a dilletanteism of learn
ing that does not make toward robust
ness and yigor of living; and it would
seem as if President Eliot had become
infected with the virus. Pureness is of
greater value than peace, and if we are
to retain our peace at the price of our
pureness then it will be the peace of
death that shall fall upon us. Blessed
Old Abe saw the truth of this. The men
of the COS saw the truth of this. This
nation then saw the truth of this.
They were slow to act. They were
long suffering towards those who were
plotting the ruins Of tho cn,nt-y- They
were slow to believe that all the covert
threats which filled the air would be
carried into actual effect. They said:
"Our brothers of the South feel strongly,
but they are our brothers and they will
not mar the beauty of the old home
stead. They will forget their bitterness
and their anger in a little while. But
when it became apparent that these
threats were real; that the spirit of
venom was in them even to division
and national death--then they said ma
'ional righteousness must be conserved
And they drew the sword as last re-
sort, not for territory, not for glory, not
for pique, not for seltishness, but for the
right and humanity, and when they
drew the sword it was not sheathed till
the vital principle at stake had been Sc
cured.
The tears and sacrifice and blood and
life at which victory was gained is be-
yond the figures of mathematics to
count. Not alone on battlefield, nor
hospital ward, nor prison pen, during
the fiery years OF the war; not alone in
the severed households of the north,
where parents and wives and children
sat with gloom-clad hearts sOrrOwing
for those VINO might never return, and
for those, alas, who never could return.
But in the years that have passed since
then, who can count all the trials that
have been endured by those who con-
traCted disease, and who were felled by
sabrestroke and bullet; who for thirty
years and more have walked among us
crippled in strength. deprived of work
ing force, companions of pain and agony
by day and night. | have looked into
the faces of men who have not known
what it was to be free from pain for a
| quarter of century, save when blessed
I sleep soothed them; l have been the
companion of men who at regular inter
walls for as long time have gone through
agones of death on the surgeons table
because in the COS southern bullets had
I passed through their bodies leaving
rnptured organs that bred poisons be-
hind, that would break forth again and
again in spite of all that medical and
surgical aid could do. And they suffered
this willingly, believing that pureness
was to be preferred to peace.