The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
Street ParRdes and Church Services,
in Which the G. A. II. and Other
Societies Participated.
GREAT CROWD At ANDERSON
ADDRESSED BY Nj. Nj. DUNLAP, THE
CITY'S ELOQUENT MAYOR.
Judge Daniel T.. Baldwin the Orator OF
the Day at FowIer-His Out
spoken Utterances.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON, Ind, May 30.-MemoriaI
day was observed in Anderson this after
noon under the auspices of Major May Post
G. A. r. The veterans marched with halt
ing step and less of martial air than on pre-
vious years but the presence of civilians,
fraternal orders and the Columbia Rifles
made the parade an imposing one. 1t is
very doubtful if as many citizens ever par
ticipated in Memorial day services here as
turned out to-day. The line of march oc-
cupied Main and Meridian streets and the
entire route was lined with spectators
from the city and country Col A. /.
Makepeace was marshal of the parade, as
sisted by Messrs. B. B. Campbell, Conrad
Smith and d. f. Mustard. Anderson cem-
etery, where the services were held, was
thronged by thousands long before the
marching columns appeared in sight and
conservative estimates place the crowd at
six to eight thousand. The orator was
Anderson's gifted young mayor, M. M.
Dunlap, who rose grandIy to the occasion,
delivering an addres that was remarkable
for its fearlessness and patriotic fervor.
The veterans and hundreds of laboring men
from the mills and factories Well as
business and professional men cheered en-
Enthusiastically the rounded periods of the
orator as he touched on the practical ques-
tions of immigration and capital and labor.
He said in part:
Il invoke of you patriots reverence for
this day and hour Ii was not meant fer
sport and mirth and idle thought. 1t is
the day when generating people pays to
civic virtue the homage of It's love, and,
remembering all the periods of heroic strife,
bends above the dust of its martial dead
and garlands the thousands of grass-cov-
cred hillocks with the wreatneu emblems of
ar hnf ne Wa
may behold to-day the beauteous gifts of
natures prodigality. The earth is clothed
in emerald garb, resplendent with embroid-
cry of flowers. The air is still redolent
with the breath of spring, and summer is
at hand, with rose and amaranth, pink and
asphodel, panses and forget-me- e-nots flock
ing in her train. How hitting ii is, then,
at this season of freshness and beauty for
a great nation to pause from its swift
career and oyer the graves of it's hero dead
strew the bright blossoms of affectionate
gratitude and remembrance. No sentiment
full recollection of those who died that it
might live. Through all the periods of
human history courage and heroisn have
been the most exalted of virtues II exer-
cised for home and native land. 1t was
true of the heroes of Thermopylae no less
than of the bleeding patriots of Lexington
and Valley Forge. 1t is grandly true of
those who for the preservation of a united
Republic, poured their blood at Gettysburg
and the Wilderness. And 50, in memory OF
them at this happily appointed season. we
reverently assemble about their low and
but eloquent, symbols of our affectionate
regard. This tribute to the dead Is un-
abridged by geographical bounds or by the
race, nativity politics or creed of our citi-
zens, but everywhere the children of the
Republic, actuated by a lofty and patriotic
devotion, join in this halowed service of
decoration. Among the noblest scenes pre-
sented to human observation is that Of a
mothers tireless pilgrimage to streW with
flowers the gentle dust of those she loved
and nurtured How infinitely grander, then,
when a nation of seventy million souls,
with all the tenderness of mother love-
performs the same sweet service for its
dead and cherished sons, So, then on this
Memorial day let us remember all the
patriot dead"
Having alluded to the questions now of
public concern, he had this to say concern
ing immigration:
Incident to this question there is an
other. Go to Castle Garden and see the
beat upon the shores. Day by
day and year by year the great transoceanic
current Of immigration bears its mighty
drift of Heterogeneous humanity and in
jects it into the splendid body of our civil
ization. The question is, can this element
safety of the Republic may not be imper-
lied. To those who come with enlightened
minds and independent purse, to reverence
spirit Of our institutions, all welcome and
honor. But against those who come mis-
taking liberty for license desplsing govern
ment the ignorant, the pauper, the Social
ist and the Anarchist, American gates
should be closed and forever barred. We
want no revolution in this land of ours
no commune, no reign of terror, no funeral
pyre Of liberty.
Il believe in an ultimate America in which
none but popular government shall prevail
an America in which the flag of our
country, with new stars in its field of blue,
will be hailed as the dominant ensign in a
hemisphere wholly dedicated to the cause of
freedom There is no room in this western
world for a foreign despot. The Declaration
of Independence has never ceased to echo
down the years. 1t has been heard by the
oppressed and suffering peoples of other
lands. France, king ridden and ambition
cursed, heard it, and over the wreck Of
arose the vision Of a second great republic.
The peoples of Mexico, of Central and
South America heard it, and one by one
they have been wrestling their liberties
from the oppressor's grasp. The islands
OF the ocean have heard 1t and in far-off
Hawaii, flying the banner of freedom, is an
infant natiOn-bone of our bone and flesh
of our hesh-clustercd jewel of the Pacific
sea waiting for its intended setting in the
diadem of this Republic Cuba brave
struggling bleeding, starving Cuba, long
ago heard the patriot cry of liberty and
now, after four hundred years of Spanish
tyranny, OF pillage and rapine and cruel
wars, is engaged in final and desperate
endeavor to throw off the binding letters
and stand forth in the light OF heaven VIC
torious and forever free Some of these
days the web OF diplomacy and conserva-
tism which has held the United States in
asunder The conscience and patriotism OF
the American people, already aroused will
say 10 the oppregsor: In the name Of this
Republic, for the sake of the humanity
YOU have outrag ged, in behalf of that liberty
which you trampe under foot you are
commanded to lift your heel from the neck
of the oppressed From that moment the
end will be known and the God or nations
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