The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-31
In TENDER MEMORY OF
THE NATIONS HEROES
Day Fittnely Observed in Butte in Spite of the Inclem
emit Weather-The Roll Of the Dead-At the Opera House.
A Memorial Address by Mr.. j. q. Durston.

house were begun at $50 O'CLOCK, tut
half an hour before that time the house
was crowded with a splendid audience.
The stage was decorated with flags and
pictures of Washington. Lincoln. Grant
and Dewey. A number of the members
of the G.. A. r. occupied seats on the
stage with Commander manchester
]. H.. Durston. the speaker of the even
TENS of Butte. Mr.. Manchester pre-
sided. The first thing on the pro-
gramme was a song. Rally Round the
Flag" by the Silver Bow Glee ciuo,
followed by a prayer by Rev. Sherman
Hill. Another song, AROUND the
Graves" by the Giee club. and a pat
riotic mi by Mrs. Dinswoodv,
Stripes and Stars" of her own COM
position. preceded the reading by DIR.
l.. f. Holmes OF the following extract
from President Lincoln's address at
Gettysburg Nov. 10. 1868:
-Four score years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent. a
new nation. conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men were created equal. Now We are
engaged in a great civil war. testing
whether hat nation. or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated. can long
endure. We are met on a great battle
field OF the war. We are now TO oa5i-
cate a portion of Ii as the fnal resting
place Of those who have given their
lives that the nation might live.
1T is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this. but. in a larger
sense. we cannot dedicate, we cannot
consecrate. we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and
dead who struggled here, have conse-
Grated IL far above u power to add
or detract. The world will very little
note nor long remember what we say
here; but 1t can never forget what they
did here.
ut is for us. the living, rather. TO r.
dedicated here to the unfinished work
hat they have thus far so nobly car
ried on. 1t is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before us; that from these honored
dead. we take increased devotion TO
that cause for which they here gave
the last full measure of devotion that
we here highly resolve that these lead
shall not ave died in ~vsin-tha; tie
nation shall. under God. have q new
birth of freedom, and that government
of the people. by the people. for the
people. shall not perish from lhe
earth"
Mrs. f. B. w. Erick recited with
great effect a beautiful aud pathetic
story of the battlefield and John Ma
guire recited THE Blu and the Gray"
After the Glee club had rendered
There's Rest in the Shade OF the
IEtts, SOIlfllduutT MdHeltSttT intro
duced the speaker. !. Fl. Durston Of
Anaconda, who delivered a patriotic
address and held the closes attention
Of the audience for abous t~hree-quar-
tiers Of an hour Mr.. Durston spoke as
follows:
Mr.. Durston's Address.
Under the wealth of shade at his
toric Arlington, browning a bluff along
whose base the waters of the Potomac
widen on their way to the sea. stands
a tomb with this inscription: Here lie
the bones of 2.111 unknown soldiers.
Their remains could not be identified,
but their names are recorded i'm the
archives of their country, and its CRATE
full citizens honor them as of the noble
army of martyrs" Not far away. at
Arlington, Sheridan and Porter sleep.
Beyond are the graves of Harvey and
Crook and Meigs. In the park that
spreads over the n%eighboring plateau
stretch long lines of modest headstones
that mark the resting place OF SOL
diers-so perfect Ia the alignment that
fancy can picture the battalioned
drawn up for dress parade. There
are fifteen thousand of these silent SEN
tinels at Arlington. Some of them give
the name and the lumber of the regi-
ment of the hero whose mound they
guard: on more thar our thousand OF
them the brief inscription is the mel
word unknown" On Ameri-
can battlefields which their valor made
famous, regiments of soldiers are
buried. In church-yards through
out the land the graves of veterans
cluster about monuments in which
has sought expression
enduring forms of art. Hardly
a hamlet In the land but has within
its borders the spot where some COM
rade's dust is cherished. These. all,
were citizen soldiers whose deeds the
nation commemorate to-day In the
gentle ministry Of flowers.
The years that separate us from the
of the civil war deepen the in
terest taken in the observance of Me-
mortal day. The recollection of the
events In which these veterans had a
share Is vivid In communities that had
not even been spoken into being when
war was waging. The place where we
meet tonight was like a woodland
wilderness a little more than a third
of a century ago. when the nation dwelt
under the shadow of anxiety and the
trembled under the tread OF
a million armed men. Hitler we have
come, during the years that are sped.
to make for ourselves and for our chill
dren, amid Montana's encompassing
hills. homes that are peaceful and
prosperous because war made peace
and prosperity possible: because the
union OF the states was made perfect:
each shining star was left un-
on the flag whose ample folds
belt the united continent in beauty as
with a scarf. To these homes. so far
from the bivouac and battlefield Of the
we, sons and daughters of
the republic. brought with us the un-
dying memory of what the soldier did
and a sentiment of gratitude that shall
not perish. We are taught tina there liz
not an angel in all the hosts OF heaven
but Yields Its blessed influence on earth
In those who loved ii here. so shall the
service of the soldier of the civil war
yield its beneficent fruit as long as the
fires of patriotism warm the hearts of
a redeemed people.
We are not met TO take part in the
hilarities of a festival: his is a day of
remembrance. Its motive is gratitude:
its purpose is fraternal: its inspiration
is love. Garlands are it's emblem-there
Is no sting in its springtide buds: there
In no bitterness in the incense of its
flowers. To-day gray veterans have
fragrant tributes above the
of their fallen comrades. In
R,affa'a Ceneferv they dAcora faA the