The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29

the monumented mounds of Chalmette, Ar
lington Heights or Gettysburg, and arouse the
a message for this Memorial Sabbath, what
think you would be the simultaneous reply?
Doubtless IT would come back to us in clear
which we fought and fellP'
The centuries have seen many illustrious bat
tletelds. Marathon, Waterloo and Yorktown;
Nicksburg, Gettysburg and Manila. But If the
home7returning admiral, the maker of an
epoch and the builder of a republic, should be
pressed with inquiry to the triumphant
elimination of all victories on sea and on land.
ply, The elevation and publication of the in
dividual citiZen!"
Therefore, soldiers. patriots and fellow citi-
zens, l call your attention to fields of
conquest and to some battles which must be
fought in times of peace, when the portals of
injustice to the achievements of the past, when
l aver that the greatest battlefelds of the
the sword has become a plowshare and the
drowsy cannon sleeps in its citadel.
We must struggle for national and interna-
tional arbitration, and, finally. for the dis
armament of the nations of the world The
arbitrament Of logic and love and diplomacy
must take the place of the barbarians of war.
Many savage customs inherited from pagan
ism and the past have disappeared under the
how strange, that the most cruel and inhuman
OF all OF these should have perpetuated its
bloody personality. The Peace Congress at
The Hague is assembly of signifi-
canoe and will prove as remarkable in its re-
suits as the victory of Dewey's feet in the
In times of peace we must battle for the
determination of the criminal class. But close
~ connected with the extinction of the criminal
class there must be the abolition of poverty
and the suppression of vice. Under the present
system the poor grow poorer and the rich
richer. The Millionaire will be one of the posi-
Bile curses of the next century. A reconstruc-
ton is necessary and il is inevitable If it
does not come by evolution II will be pre-
oipitated by revolution.
Again the conquest of the cities will be one
of the battlefelds of the not distant future.
Altogether too long have the great centers of
population been held UP by corrupt denla-
gogues. The professional politician who feeds
living go to prison. where many OF them
belong To meet the emergencies of the pres
ent and future the incubation OF true manhood
is necessary beyond all things else. The
church. the home and the public school must
be protected-these are the arsenals of the
weapons of peace and the training schools of
the coming warriors who to win laurels
beside which all past victories will fade in
Importance.
Comrades and fellow citizens. as we shall
strew flowers the graves of the brave men
who were sacrificed for liberty let US lift our
eyes to the god of battles and ask for double
portion of the spirit of these translated heroes.
that may honor the opportunities which the
care. Thank God are now united people,
Scatter your garlands over the blue and the
grey. From the mountains of Vermont to the
savannas of Georgia, from the everglades of
Florida to the golden strands of California.
let united nation in tears remember the past,
and, with shouts of triumph. press into the
fiicts of the present and the future.