The San Francisco call., 1899-09-05

Not alone from Harvard from every college North
forth student soldier
In every battle great the college student
in the front either side and he fought 10
soldier ever fought before convinced right
On the steeped hate; on
the defender of the and oppressed and who
just good and as precious in the sight
God"
The college soldier is the best and the
of all fighters. intelligent unit of a
Caesars and Napoeons. would have had for him.
To them implement; more capable
of self direction than the cartridge and of
when exploded
What, though the soldier knew
Theirs not to reason why.
Theirs make reply.
This cheapening not written Of college men.
When they know some one has bundered it is for them
help At the they must reason why and
have their opinion Of bunders and blunderers. In
other words they have heart and brains as part OF t
equipment If and brains demanded. From their
ranks rise football the Funstons and Roose
velts who speak well as fight and 10
whom the people cannot choose but listen
But folly incompetency, cowardce and pretense
critics these same football heroes The
wrong captain breads the college man, and the
right kind o course delights in him.
The war for freedom touched the heart Of the
college man In every company the university
sented There perhaps $50 from the col
leges Sixty from Stanford at any rate be-
sides the few who there to Santiago and
other few stalled in the swamps of Tampa.
OF the eighty-fve the roll of the fallen,
is from Stanford-Raph Coates of Rohnerve Three
from University California; oneBruno Putzker Of
Eerkeley-the son Of an honored professor.
All is we'll America long as the citizen soldier
alone can fight No honest nation ever had
none needs and none can ever rightly use nercenary
army When America shall make war professional her
glory departed for great army and great repuoc
and exist together There can be no
government people by the people and for the peo
pie" red-coat bully in his boots shall hide the
march of men" from
soldier of the republic has never yet been the
bully in his boots" OF whom Thackeray wrote. His
movement part of the march of men itself
One word more Ihe cluzen soidler costs uie nation
as no other The citizen is of society,"
with the dependence love and helpulness When he
falls field OF battle he does not die alone The
speeds his home to his wife his sweetheart his
mother his The soldier of fortune has no in
cumbrances. Nobody him. He owns nobody. He
lives and dies The soldier Of the republic dies
twice and twcein his home in his hopes, in
And this is not all; only the beginning.
soldier is from his ons that the
better citizenship the future should When he
before his time the stock of manhood is lowered 1t
the fighting becomes the nation Of towards
when fighting dead. Send forth the best
ye breed" This Kiping's cynical advice, and when
we follow breed second class only. It gori
that undid Greece and Rome that has wasted
France and Spain.
For century after century have fallen and
coward the could becomes the father OF
family this day the heroes of the war
of the rebelon-North and South and West in each
family chair.
But the nation all this Not alone
million who fell to expate debt the negros body
and rights stole for every drop Of blood drawn by
the another drawn by the sword" but than
millions who should been and not The
daughters fallen brothers should be with
The nation needs their strength freedom needs
their voices need their sympathy stretch forth
our hands toward them behold they they
have never been they OF all the
of all black, whatever its necessity
this is the deepest the nations hero falls and
with him of the herosm. When nations throw
away lives for glory for conquest for
,iaI snreacv these are the wounds that time can never
heal. it may be the Franconan peasant mother
is than she knows when she says Thank God
saved from the army We may imagine that the
ooks this mother in pityng approvaQoks down
on this mother with a smile of plying approval.