The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-12-19
WASHINGTON DAY
WAS CELEBRATED.
Mr.. Charles Krichbaum Adj
dresses Old Veterans.
THE ,JINGoIsM OF TO-DAY
Is Not the Brand of Patriotism the
Father of His Country Had-
1t Was Splendid
Speech.

The centennial anniversary of the
death of George Washington was fit
tingly honored by the soldiers of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Canton
with services in the Trinity Lutheran
church on Thursday evening. The dis
agreeable weather kept the crowd small,
but those who did attend the services
were amply repaid for Drawing the
storm without.
The old soldiers sat in body on the
front seats. DR.. Hall opened the meet
ing with prayer and then a quartet, con-
sisting of Messrs Vogelgesang and
Poorman and Misses AHhouse and Cast
sang with good effect, 1.-THE Star Span
gled Banner"
DR.. Hall said that he deemed it fitting
that we should come together to do
honor to the name Of one Of our great
men. He thought too little honor was
paid the great men of America by her
own people. He had noticed in London
that the whole town was filled with
statues and tablets to perpetuate the
memory of her illustrious citizens. He
thought that perhaps England's great
ness might be traced in some degree to
this regard she had for her honored cit
liens,
Mr.. Charles Krichbaum, the orator of
the evening, was then introduced. He
spoke in an eloquent strain for about
forty minutes. "One hundred years ago
tonight" he said, washington lay dead
in his beautiful home on the Potomac,
but around him burned the fires of
new nation to which he had given
birth" In the light Of recent scientific
research, Washington shines bright and
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constellation. 1t was his character and
force as a man rather than anything he
ever said or did that marked him as
one of the greatest of all men. The
world is upheld by the veracity of it's
great men, and we should study them.
We don't know as much as our fathers
did about Washington, said Mr.. Krich-
baum. Our ideals, what we admire,
what we aspire to, the things we con-
template, these largely control what we
are.
This is a day of huge things thought
the speaker. We want success. But we
may well remember that Washington
and Shakespeare lived in day without
the telegraph, without the telephone,
without the bicycle or chewing gum,
or that new Invention with the melli-
| fluouS name of automobile. This mod
ern jingoism and the effort in some
quarters to monopolize patriotism are
not the elements that moved in WASH
! ington, but he had always in his mind
and in his heart the idea of the sacred
ness of man. The things he was will
ing to die for We're the things he was
| willing to live for. He was first in war
because he was not only great STRAIT
egist and strong general, but because he
was moved by lofty purpose contin-
ually. He stood for the great principles
of humanity. And those generals who
are standing for cupidity or conquest
would not be first in war, nor second,
nor sixth.
He was first in peace for he stood for
union. He was first in the hearts Of
his countrymen, being possessed of a
broad human sympathy and mind and
heart imbued with the sacred principles
of higher life. And we need to study
Washington. We need, in these days
of swagger and prosperity, to get back
to the strong manhood of his ideal.
Mr.. Krichbaum was unusually elo-
quent and his address was listened to
with much interest by all present. Fol-
lowing the speech, Mr. Braden called
for the old veterans to express their
appreciation of the address and of the
character of Washington by giving a
salute. The quartet gave another song
and the meeting was dismissed.