Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-05-31
Address by l.. p. Tucker at
East Barre Yesterday,

What may be stated as to the sionif-
cahce OF this occasion which has brought
us together9 Our hearts beat in sym.
palhy with this event, our iudoment
approves it, all the better elements of
u nature are responsive to i~ts.apne,l
anu all the baser elements sink away
and dare not assert their rioht to W.
heard. The man who would utter y
sentiment disrespectful of Memorial
LAY WOULD be suspected of dislovaltv
TO inc Stars and Stripes and all the tra-
olllons which they represent. When
everything around us is yernal wbon
our horizon is a perennial new crca.
son' when opening bud and burstinr
:" breath a thousand perfumes on
.he preeze' when forest choirs vic with
1ho mlnistrelsy of heaven, it is eriuont
y ntflng that a grateful peoplc nanso
~ 'he midst of their ACTIVITIES pmJ
tn shuttles of industry be- %si le q "
ea INTO peace while a united neom1o
move IN solemn procession TO tbp rdrt
ing place of a nations dead.
Memorial Day is a vcneration fon y.
uea1' what an army they vera, uo",
loyal they were to their homes how LOW {
N TO their their Country! How You lov nsI :
,'em' They went from your homes t tho''
,o,'n rrom these hillsides. Thew VERY t
husbands and lovers and 81, "ei1 '
They were yours but th h,u
re yours no longer, thcyare III. na, lucy
lhey were men before thnn nalloh s.
olalers. They had sympatbio ps'a an1 81
en's' affections and hates. Thn, ~
v;o," NV "amlndful of danger O ny r
r,ous Of fear. The more y1or wi o.
.em mat they We're not, for 6 nity ior
1--WE man who knows mo foo ~ "ot u 81
itb d" foa d aero who stands at his no on'
h., lear and trembling. The POST
t P@'ou uhelr lonely beat at night uun er
,rs '"e watchful eye of the ssmt; ul,
u.s. a trembling in every link h'n ut
Danger that lurkcd in ,ho at inc to
," ant 'nese men were not tr ,iu n war, oll
is "ns OF war. They were fa ,rea TO
ro ',ns, lawyers and mechanics 'l TE
= a. u ,falned in the arts of peace t TnHy'
j. ) not their soldierly w ryl,e. lhis
III strength. Men Who con,G but
,e e a ane'r no uountry's peril could per per-
no oIy peru OF the battle field TbPe ero
m no,aang that the volunteer o lnere
ID dnsau could not accomplish e'' Thas
" co oeS1roy a railroad, or bn;ia lney
y could build a LOCOMOTIVES u,iu one.
ate it. ''f TGsv a eo telegraph line a a"n
hel nurse in the hospital and II, nha the DAB
iers ' of me dying. The volu raap- -
,els OF America stormed the eolan'eer
70 ok a" Mountain, in adyan o"e d heights
and superior to tbeir ''ee OF their -
em Memor army of generals.
.ct ~ ILL., ol!a! Day is a rhine, good c
wen to TT the Ii living. Not all 't ths Of P ~r {
w. inc front persisted "e me my W"
,th' T., manned in body and lr some -
'l.n TO serve a generation 1roken "
own their native lan1 longer
u i've and the Others s"". These =
tI tho, We're less brave 'i or DE De- 10 \
proviI9y were spared in the ins LESS o
isb 'i hu Of the Almighty i % -
tho is 'nelr lives what iho 10 ac- TO R
,ne'r death and to accom rne others ov
" what they could Iu un by -
y their death. '"'' not. accom- To 1
ding TODAY ;,u T. On,
/, tbo 1"y IN the gloomino ,;.,. Alice Pr
nd c,s Sieam of a wondrons 'snt- -
wh,t Iaihg our eyes do"'n cen TO RI
"nat ITO we behold "own the suit
people with no Na.h united and up one I
+, no West ~ Norlh, no SoulL by DR.. S
that its TO- II same tlau o,a' one flight
y, ''mstellction of a full nave nave be- =
u, mo, universal, labor relion hundred, Norrc
7 Ky not a liquor saloon IRON class W
,lnmh;, enmIty between rio III 'he hanging
,at R,;, with her colonies ',,, and through
e tho a''ain and her nossa united ALI my e
civilization of tbo sSlohs men. N