The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-31

hospital, the prison. The past rises be-
fore you-each detail is photographed
upon your brain-your soul is thrilled
your pulse beats more quickly. l have
seen the quick tears start to the eyes
of strong men under the influence of
these memories.
Why should we recall the past? In
order that we may the better aDpre-
ciate at what a cost war preserved to
US the heritage received from our fore
fathers. In order to stimulate our graf
itude into active exercise. in behalf of
those true men who offered their lives
for the preservation of the Union.
There is inspiration in the past that
should inspire us to noble deeds in the
present.
Our country still demands heroism
fromsloyal, upright men. The war cloud
has passed. The danger of disunion is
no more. The bitterness of sectional
strife has passed away. Our nation is
a unit. May her boundaries never grow
lessi But all the problems of a repub-
lican form of government have not been
solved. All the battles have not been
won. We have a foe to our national
prosperity in private immortality. In
temperance that debauches the indi-
vidual will ruin the nation. THE
strength of a republic is found in the
character of her citizens" If anything
blood, that weakens her defenses, then
that is treason that robs her citizens of
strength Of body, clearness of brain
and purenesS of morals. We need a
body of patriotic citizens who are brave
enough to be true to themselves.
There is danger TO be guarded against
in the great influx of foreign influences
and un-American ideas. "Americanize
every foreign element
There is danger in the ''spoils sys-
tenn" in politics, and in the dishonest
methods of grasping monopolies.
There is danger in the dictatorial
power in public affairs, assumed by
handful of great capitalists.
There is danger in the threatening
attitude of certain classes of our pop
ulation toward our flag and what it
represents.
The battles that are yet to be fought
demand the same qualities of moral
herOism that made the heroes OF the
past Let us with these thoughts come
to the celebration of Memorial day L
close this address by repeating the
words pronounced one year ago today
by the Hon. William Mckinley, presi-
dent of the United States:
THE services we have performed to-
day has done us all good, because the
| service was one of love-loye for the
men who imperiled their lives to save
/ Tie COuDlIy anu DSCduSc u liz ScIflEC
| of loyalty to the country they saved.
/ can imagine no more beautiful trib
ute to be paid to heroism and self
sacrifice, to loyalty and patriotism.
| than the service which the people of
/ this country and every section of this
/ country paid to its dead today, not
only in the north, but in the south. In
every part of our common country, cit
liens have turned aside from their bus
iness, their toll. and their labors to
pay tribue TO the men who saved the
country for freedom and nationality.
1t is the business of those who come
after US TO see that this liberty of the
greatest government on the face of the
earth shall be preserved unimpaired
/ forever and forever more.
Stretched across the capitol at
Washington, in letters that can be read
/ by all. are these words: There is one
debt this nation can never pay. That
/ is the debt they owe the men who
saved the nation That was true then
/ and is true now. When we look into
| your faces and remember you as you
were then, mere boys, we honor you
and the old soldiers get closer to-
/ gether. Their hearts are with each
4 other. Not only do they get closer to-
| gether, but the people begin to appre-
ciate more thoroughly the sacrifices,
valor, Willingness to give up their last
drop OF DloOd tndt their country should
| be saved
God bless you, May you ever live
in our memoriesl The victories which
you have achieved are just as much
for our children as they were for you.
and they were for the common good of
all the United States. What we want
now is a patriotic issue that will not
die They will stand faithfully firmly.
unyieldingly for that for which their
fathers have established. and their
children Will maintain it. too