Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-07-06

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The changing busy years of more than century
have passed since the SACRIFICES struggles and valor
of oppressed people, for them their pos
terty, the most precious legacy and priceless pos.
session achieved by victorious freedom
| forever.
Gray headed sires totterng beneath the weight of
years, living largely in the past because venerable
WILL perhaps, recall to lspng children incidents of
patriotic celebrations held this anniversary
| long ago, which perhaps graced by the
\ presence Of aged survivor of the troops which
marched and fought with Greene, Lafayette and
Marion, and suffered and conquered with Washing
ton at Valley Forge and at Yorktown.
Nothing that we other Americans can do TODAY
who are in fitting manner and appropriate form oh.
serving this anniversary add ustre to the splen
dor of their noble achievements but we, and ali our
countrymen from the fountain of their glorious ex.
| ample of unselhsh devotion, draw inspiration
which will make us better citizens and worthy
heroes who forgetf of self faced death the Grim
son field Of glory-and Of those statesmen who pro
claimed our Independence, though it brought them
the displeasure and hatred of the mghtiest poentate
earth, for the failure of their great cause meant
death TO the signers OF the Declaration of Independ
| These statesmen and soldiers approach nearer than
any other whose deeds recorded in history to
| exemplFfyng the beautiful sentiment portraying
| pure patriotism, thus:
$50 nigh is grandeur to our dust,
! So near is God to man,
| When duty whispers low thou must
| The youth responds can"
lis pleasure to recall that when they had
descendants, who on the bloodiest battiefelds OF
history again rendered glorious the deeds of Ameri
| can arms.
The history of the civil rich in its legacies of
brave deeds done by men on both sides, who
unsesh in their devotion to their respective causes
for the brave men who rallied from the Sunny South
and the intrepid heroes who gathered from the hills
| and valleys of the North, were both actuated by
lofty devotion to principle the correctness and su.
| premacy OF which all wise Providence decreed had
TO be settled by the arbitrament of arms
II is told that in New England regiment, the
Colonel in the presence of his entire command de-
yered the regimental colors into the hands of the
| color bearer with these words "Color bearer, take
this flag, fight for it, sir. die for it, but
surrender It into the hands of the enemy"-and that
young soldier boy of eighteen years, with flashing
eye, and his cheeks touched to the color of morning
| by the ruddy blood mamtling upon his boyish face
received the flag and proudly replied, Colonel | will
bring this flag back to you in honor, will report
to God the reason why. 1t is recorded that shortly
after with his comrades he entered into battle. At
its close, he was found where he had died with his
face to the enemy, his countrys flag elutched to his
breast, stained with his crimson life stream
He died the exalted death Of patriot, and his
memory Is glorious inspiration He was but type,
and his life and death eloquenty proclaim that the
Americans OF 81 to IS worthy Of the legacy of
liberty left them by their fathers of rs.
The year sos marked and glorious epoch in
our national life It was year when humanity tri.
umphed over sefishness, and our great republic
gave aid and succor and liberty to humble and
pressed people. IL was year in which America,
lighting in behalf of a holy cause overcame the
Aside from the blessings enjoyed by our own peo-
ple this government had always been heneficent in
another direction, for by its example il had been
powerful inspiration the patriots of every land
who have sought to throw off the yoke of oppression
. We welcome each new accession to the ranks o.
republics as endorsement of the principles of free
government of which our own country has long beer
the most conspicuous example. Each republic
is pledge of the stability of popular government
and strong indication that monarchies and king
doms will soon be numbered with evils which thu
world has overthrow for something better.
Near our Southern shores brave people were
making an heroic effort to redeem their land from
the blighting curse of tyranny. With help say,
that of few chivaric Americans. who espoused the
quarrel the inhabitants of Cuba, with courage aae
fidelity born of a high purpose, were waging a wa
for their independence THOR troops poorly armed
and scantiy equipped. when opposed by the trainet
veterans of Spain, carried the Cuban banner to vic
tory on scores of hattlefeids
, Spain, unable to subdue the Cuban army in thu
field, ignored the rules Of civilized warfare and prac
tced the barbarous methods Of the avate. Peaceful
citizens tiers of the soil and on-combatants wer'
: moved from their homes concentrated i'm the vii
lagos and herded like animals, by Spanish hrelings
while the homes from which they driven wer
: pillaged by the minions of SPAIN who then applied
the torch Of the incendary The mothers wives an,
daughters of Cuba at the hands of these foreign de
spoilers suffered indgnities from which death tsel
> would have been welcomed BY true womanhood witt
smile OF relief In other words, fair island was be
ing ruthlessly devastated and rapidly depopulated b
i the OF guerrilla warfare The people OF thi
island had long been Obliged to bear the burdens
high taxation to maintain the crown of SPAIN Thi
island together with its neighbor, Porto Rico wa
almost the last spot of the western hemisphere wher
decaying monarchy had foothold.
1776 taxation without representation in America
tyranny and wrong. And in 1898 taxation mithou
J representation in Cuba was tyranny and giganti
r our commerce with Cuba was ruined American
citizens in Cuba enduring the pangs of hunger
II Their property had been destroyed and indigntie
e heaped upon them. IL time that this govern
e ment announced TO the world that our flag grea
enough to protect citizens at home and abroad.
u We occupied an exalted place among the nation
& of the earth. We had eorrespondingiy importat
. mission to PERFORM and foremost among our duele
l. nurture the spirit of liberty wherever il
ifested ITSELF more especially since it was at our
!, door on the western hemisphere
10 Selfshness prompted us to turn deaf to til
walls of anguish borne the wings of every brees
y from the SOUTH century OF liberty had auickene
. the sympathy of the people these cries of di
I tress touched responsive chord in the America
o heart As nation we keenly felt the truth Of tn
~ .'He is true TO God who's true to man. whereyt
II wrong is DONE
. = To the humblest aud weakest meath the all beho
i That wrong is also done to us, and they are sa
most base,
n Whose love of right for themselves and not for
- their race
d while the current of public sympathy was runnit
,k strong for struggling Cuba, Spanish treachery
it eeiyed and executed the plan of destroying Il
< American warship, the Maine, which peaceful
ie anchored in Havana harbor sinking the noble
nc and bringing death to hundred of her "a
le liant crew. Then it was that the elous paten
at OF our citizens was eNhausted-from that hour "
or rightdous-war declared with the approval OF Il
w whole American people Representatives of eve
N he hands President, and he voted apprt
1s- priations without dissenting voice to carry d
es war for humanity.
to President Mckinley called for volunteers follc
nd the flag and from every section of eountry-from
in cry class of citizens response made, and
an incredibly short time quarter OF million of 0
fellow citizens were in arms, not soldiers of Amer
q merely, but champions Of humanity the wide woi
n overall volunteers not eonseript unwitli
~ recruit in all the number.
g. The countries Of the Old World Obliged to col
. pei military service. There the people exist for t
b government the rights of disregards
III Here the government exists for the benefit of the
:, izen and individual rights are sacred And this
q" plains why when the President had all the troops
needed millions Of Americans stood ready to respo
u another call should there have been opp0rtun
.ir First came the glorious from Manila of DE
- ey's yictory-news that thrilled the hearts of
a. countrymen with patriotic pride-that filled his
tive land with the strains of rejoicing. We do
forget the men who fought with him. The men y
~ served the guns under trgpie sky, sweteri
decks, or who remained below IN torrd heat, all G
on cutting the commands OF the great admiral, all g
ot tributing to victory the most complete in the
w mails OF naval history
When declared Deyey's feet was ancho
at Hong Kong in Chinese waters China declared
Sc neutrality and he was compelled TO leave port