The record-union., 1897-06-01
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prosperity, and to aid in the develop
ment of it's resources.
The true American patriot, by precept
and by example, strives TO encourage
respect for and obedience to law. He
strives to arouse within the hearts and
minds of his fellow citizens a keen
sense of the duty imposed upon them
by citizenship. His chief purpose in
life is to see that the Republic receives
no harm.
To this end he takes a deep interest
| in the political affairs of his city, his
State and the Nation. He does all this
however. not as an e-seelxer. AS a
| true patriot he believes that the office
should seek the man, and not the man
the office. Realizing as he keenly does
the privilege of being a sovereign, the
great privilege of having a voice in the
| affairs of his country, he fails not to
make the highest use of this privilege.
| He permits no election day TO pass
without intelligently casting his ballot
| Realizing still further that the char
acter of our Government can be no bet
ter than the character of the men
chosen to enact and to enforce our
| laws, he uses all his influence TO aid
| in electng to office men of the highest
possible ability and character.
| This is the picture of the true Amer
lean patriot in war and in peace: and
such is the record of many veterans of
our Grand Army-the army which be-
came illustrious in war by its deeds of
valor and heroism, and which, at the
close of the conflict, melted away al
most as speedily as it had been brought
together, peacefully diffusing itself
throughout the Nation; the army
whose members, since the suspension
of hostilities, have by their acts exem-
plified the words of the ancient prophet
who proclaimed that "on earth there is
nothing greater than peace, and among
men nothing better than good will.''
The same thinking, intelligent brains
that stood behind each bayouet in time
| OF war have since used their highest
powers in cultivating civic virtues, in
strengthening our Republic, and in de-
veloping its marvellous resources. The
same spirit that stood ready in time
| of war to kill and to be killed, has
since devoted itself to the cultivation
of the feelings of humanity, of justice,
of generosity, Of public spirit; to the
| cultivation of our public conscience of
arousing within the minds of the Ma
| tion the desire to work, to think, to
| live for the right.
We are assembled to-day to DO honor
| to the ennobled dead.
! The dead need not our tears, our flow
| ers, nor our eulogies.
| Theirs is a rest which must remain
unbroken and untouched No Word and
no deed of ours can add to or take
| from their achievements.
| Why, then. this commemoration? why
| these flowers, these professions and
| these eulogies?
| 1t is not the.illustrious dead who need
these things. 1t is We the living, who
need to be reminded that. since others
have died for us we should strive to
| live for others. It is we the living,
who should remember that the highest
| honor we can pay the heroic dead is by
| emulating their noble example, by Gull
| tivating their virtues, by treading in
their footsteps and by fostering the
| high ideals of patriotism they estab-
| lished for US.
The memory of that once grand army
| E-grander than civilization ever before
saw-and the memory of the departed
ones numbered in its ranks, Should con-
tinue to. exercise their influence in in
| spring us who are taking their. places
as citizens. with their courage, their
power in the hour of need to suffer and
| to forbear, their exalted ideas of prin-
ciple, their lofty conception of duty and
| their high ideals of the responsibilities