Evening star., 1897-05-31

quired, when all differences between ma
tions shall be settled by the benign in
fiuences Of mans best judgment. and that
arbitration shall be substituted for artil-
lery, musketry and the saber. But while
man is mortal perhaps the hope that this
consummation 50 devcutly wished may be-
lied, and 1t Is therefore incumbent upon
every prudent people to at all times be
prepared for any emergency SO that II
war should come they would be In readi-
ness.
May we then hope, the soldier equally
with the civilian. that the day will come
when with one accord the great nations
of the earth shall say: Let the bugler
sound the truce of God to the world for
ever God speed the coming of that day.
In no human heart will that prayer be
stronger than In the heart of the true SOL
dier. Remember that peace hath her vic
tories no less renowned than war and that
the country has use for chivalrous soldiers
In peace as well as war;
Justice Brewers Tribute.
After this Justice D. J. Brewer of the
United States Supreme Court delivered an
orauon on the occasion. His speech fol-
lows:
we stand today in the presence of q
stately column, erected by the soldiers and
S.ilceIs S. OF the regular army of the United
otateS 10 commemorate the heroism and
sacriiice OF those of their number who dur
ing 'ne CIVIL war gave their lives for their
country, and in order that liberty and
onIoh might remain one and inseparable
now and forever. 1t speaks of heroic
acnleVements. 1t is eloquent with the suf-
lering and self-denIal and sacrifice which
the great war developed and ennobled. But
beyond all that 1t bears two voices, which
1 lam would catch in the words of my talk
States. A'eu
And first, 1t voices the fmmeasurable
value OF law and peace. 1t saws to ms
1ts race gave up their lives not merely for
military glory, but also that war should
cease and peace, with all its blessing, pre-
vail. PAe
The greatest need of praise which can
pc bestowed upon the army Of the United
states is that it makes certain to every
citizen the blessing OF peace and order and
law. Doubtless, young gentlemen. as Won
look over the bright fields Of the future
you see dazzling before you visions of mill
tary glory; the pride, pomp and circum-
stance OF glorious war is there, and the
eagle and the stars wait to rest on your
shoulders, but when the evening of life
shall come you will realize that the high
est praise which can be awarded to YOU
Is that in your military lives you have
been the defenders of law and the guar
dlans of peace; that you have stood back
OF legislator and judge and President and
been the unfaiiing guarantor that in peace
they shall act. and that by every citizen
their acts shall be respected and obeyed.
And today this column lifts it's stately
height In the presence Of the American
people, proclaiming to all in 4 voice which
fills the land and will fill the centuries that
these men died that law might live and
peace prevail.
Died for Others.
THE other voice which comes from this
silently eloquent witness is that these men
died i'll order that there might be preserved
In our borders equal opportunities for all.
From an humble farm house in Ohio,
through the gatWays of this school passed
modest, resolute young Ran, to become
the great commander; the present general
of the army commenced life as dry goods
clerk. and private soldier is now the
President of the tinital States. The bare
foot boy may thank God and take courage,
for beneath the stars and stripes the fu-
ture is his; this doctrine of equal rights
and equal opportunities which has always
been the theory of our political and social
institutions is, notwithstanding some IDLE
talk, STILL ever, the great fact of our
life. The great a.:cumulations of money
are not in the hands of those who Inherit
ed, but of those who themselves accumu-
lated 1t, and as YOU rim over the list of the
leaders in our thought To-Day you will find
that no rank, or class, Or place mopopoliZed
their beginnings. Their power and int!u-
ence is something which they themselves
have Won. and not something which they
inherited.
1.-The hunblest child may look upon the
White House with expectation. The poor
est and most friendless student may begin
with faith and hope his struggle for a seat
on the highest bench of the nation A
place in the halls of Congress is not a
thing of purchase or inheritance, and the
few exceptions which occur only attest the
fact, as well as the strength and vigor CT
the rule. This is today, and God grant that
1t may ever remain, a land of equal rights
and equal opportunities 1t Is fitting that
this memorial to the officers and soldiers
OF the regular army who died in the recent
center of the nation, the great school Of
those who are to be the officers and COM
mandcrs; ard it is ell that the lessons
of those patriotic and heroic lives should
ever be present before the young, who shall
come to prepare themselves to take the
places they filled and glorified.
lit was fitting also that this work should
have been undertaken and carried through
by the surviving officers and soldiers of the
army. for 1t is your comrades memory
that is thus preserved.
Column's Stately Beauty.
Here let this column rise In stately
beauty, proclaiming to the coming genera
tions the great occasion and the great
truths which have caused It to be. And
may every ripple Of yonder stream, as 1t
passes and floats onward toward the COM
mercial metropolis Of the nation. bear from
its lips to the tomb where sleeps the cof-
fined dust of the great commander the as
surance of the unvarying loyalty Of the
army of the United States now and here
after to the heroic ideas and ideals Of his
life, to peace with equal rights and pr1vil
egeS to ALL