The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-30

ADDRESS TO ne c. A. R.
Memorial Serum Delivered by
Father Allaey at st. Paul's.
IT'S FULL q PATRIOTISM
Touching Wordsjpoken to the Veterans
Who Have Csried the Destinies OF
b Union 1 Their Bosoms-The
Post Atends in a Body.

Rev. Father Allaeys delivered an elo-
quent memoril address to George q.
Meade post. q A. r., at st. Paul's church
last evening. Seventeen veterans went to
the church a body. The large ediice
was nearly hll of attentive listeners. The
address wa considered a master effort
by everybody who heard it. The fathers
patriotic sntiments were put in beauti-
fully grouped words and sentences. and
Throughout his discourse he was accord
ed the cDsest attention. He feelingly re-
ferred u the spirited farewell given to
the departing volunteers a few weeks
ago by The G.. A. r. veterans. He also
spoke of the devotion of the veterans to
their comrades in distress. Father AL
laey's address is as follows:
I'VE welcome tonight i'm our midst the
veterans of George G. Meade post. G. A.
H., and under the eyes and at the be-
hest of the Supreme Ruler of nations we
pay cur homage of respect and allegiance
to these glorious stars and stripes. SYM
Dol OF the greatest nation on earth.
George q. Meade post is to be COM
mended on celebrating its memorial serv-
ice in st. PauIs church. for 1t Is from
among st. Pauls congregation that three
fourths of the Anaconda volunteers have
gone forth to the front. The head of the
Catholic church, it is true. has been fore
most In advocating peace: but as soon
as our government had declared war, her
loyal sons were the first to sacrific their
lives upon the altar of the nations honor
and of peoples liberty. A great patriot
has recently said: We do not fully real
ize how ardently We love our country I'M
til some crisis occurs which awakens our
hotpnffnn fn her nn6 rn,,cag .,,- l.o;r
ton and gratitude for those who have
died in her service
THAT two-fold sentiment, my friends,
is to-day being re-echoed from ocean TO
ocean. from the gulf to the lakes. 1t
groups the sons of the North and of the
South more closely around the one flag.
1t enthuses new generations whilst gath
ering around the venerable survivors of
many battles. and the memorial of their
noble deeds inspires the heroes of the
present war.
"war is always dire destruction of
human life and property, a check upon
progress and civilization. which are un-
able once more to supersede the evils Of
war. But praise to God that Our powerful
republic might set to the world an in
stance of righteousness and magnanim-
fty; that she should never brandish that
murderous weapon but for the prosecution
of the noblest purposes; that her purposes
being such might be realized and rowne
with a speedy and glorious peace. No,
this republic of ours is too far-sighted and
mindful of her founders warnings and
will not conclude an alliance with her for
mer oppressors, an alliance that might
split up the world in two fierce fighting
camps and inaugurate a perpetual war of
race and of selfish conquest. The United
States know a higher mission. You, my
friends. veterans of the G.. A. r.: you
have carried the destinies of our Union in
your bosoms, made a bulwark of your
breasts on a hundred battlefields, and fin
ally cemented by streams of generous
blood that precious Union to which North
and South alike rave sworn eternal feaI-
ty. The laurel of peace planted, stepped
in brotherly blood. is too costly a flower
to be continually tossed and shattered by
the storms of eternal strife and war.
Thousands of comrades nave fallen by
your sides at Bull Run, at Gettysburg, at
Vicksburg; with the same charity YOU
have laid at rest the blue and the gray,
burying with them old feuds and laying
the foundation. as it were, with the
corpses for a great nation. one and un-
divided. So it happens that two rivers
for a time flow opposite courses. but fin
ally combine and form one stream, gigan-
tic and majestic.
las time rolls by, a grateful people is
vieing with each other in surrounding
your declining years with honor and COM
fort. But every year reduces your files.
Inc silent waterman calls one by one to
the silent shore. One by one the white
winged messenger of our supreme gen.
eral beckons his faithful soldiers to their
eternal reward. The 18th of last March
IL was the roll call of the last of the
great commanders of our civil war. Major
General Rosencrans, the popular hero of
Chattanooga, is no more; but his exalted
patriotism. his civic and Christian vir-
tues live in our memory.
1.-The same month of March was a dis
astrous one for George Meade post. car
rying off four beloved comrades. ! was
moved at your devotion and charity in
nursing them day and night: and you re-
member how we were called upon re-
peatedly to perform the last rites of the
mother church over those soldiers. as
faithful to their country as to their
faith. Already silvery hair Is covering the
heads of the few survivors. but your gold
en- hearts beat in unison with the young
est, A few days ago we saw that splen-
did parade I'm honor of our brave volun-
teers; and our veterans, though lament
ably decimated. with a martial gait as
of yore elected repeated cheers: the
memory of your past deeds, my friends.
and the spirited farewell you gave them.
led your successors in the country's de-
tense ~courageously to their post of duty;
led them. We hope. to the field of honor
and victory. Their company was led
George Meade post. who forgot his adj
country. which was the call of his heart.
achievements and a safe return follow