The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-31
ANACONDA NEWS.
THE DAY IN DEER LODGE
Address of President Martin of
the College of Montana.
| ELOQUENT AND INSPIRING
Salient Features of American History
Place of the United States Among
the Nations of the World-Our
War With Spain.
ELOQUENT AND INSPIRING
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Deer Lodge, May 30.-Memorial day was
4 fittingly observed here, all the business
4 houses being closed the greater part of
! the day and the citizens generally uniting
in the Observance
Y Owing to the heavy rains of yesterday
and the day before which rendered the
streets well-nigh impossible on account
of the mud the march to the cemetery
4 was abandoned. Instead the citizens as
! sembled at Cottonwood hall at 80 o'clock
and there carried out the programme
which had been arranged to take place at
4 the cemetery. The Citizens band played
Il several patriotic airs, the choir sang
Il songs and hymns appropriate to the oc-
casion, Rev A B. Martin. president of
i the College of Montana, delivered an adj
: dress and Rev. A. A. Walker of the Meth
4 odist church offered prayer and said the
J. benediction. At the conclusion Of the ex-
Il ercises at Cottonwood hall members of
Z the G. A r. and citizens in carriages pro-
ceeded to the cemetery and laid upon the
Il graves of the old veterans the floral Of
Z ferngs which had been procured in boun-
4 tiful profusion for the occasion. Follow
& ing is a summary of President Martins
address:
1 comrades: We have met here just as
i millions more are gathering to do honor
+ ITO the brave deeds of nations illustrious
4 dead. to pay honest tribute to their mem
Il cries. Nothing is holier than liberty. We
B join our voices in memorial song because,
II under the inspiration of patriotic song you
Il soldiers of the living and they of the dead
marched to deeds of valor and of glory.
Il We come with our most beautiful minis
4 try of flowers. only regretting that no
d flower of earth is fragrant enough, beau
4 tiful enough, to express the thoughts that
& well up in the hearts of the old soldiers.
Il How well I know the grandest euogy
d and our most beautiful garlands are all
u 400 paltry too cheap, to measure up the
4 demand of the hour. Gratitude is better
b than speech flower, and glad l am that
u rhe nations gratitude is the pure gold
& coin of standard of never-varying worth
Il and value.
& What a precious flood of memories
Is comes rushing upon these Veterans-mem-
cries cemented by the blood of your COM
Il rades I remember two brothers in the
same regiment in the front OF Richmond.
Il One of them, the younger, stricken TO
death by bullet from the enemy. The
IS surviving. brother telegraphed home
Brother is dead Three little words
passing along the line. A hero, whose form
is still and cold, unclasped by arms that
loved him. Eyes that yesterday were
gfbright and expressive, to-day expression
dess: two hands that some comrade had
Sfclded inR4eoffined rest lips that always
aled words Of hope and cheer. now unre-
ssponsiVe to the call of action or the call
4of love. Up in the North a silent home to
(which the idol will not return. A mother
sdifts each dainty keepsake and puts them
aWay with aching heart: the memory of
"a love that can never die. ] hear still
sthe low sob and see the bitter tear as
Broken dreams aWoke to sad reality. The
sbopeS of future years wrecked like a fair
sghp that suddenly goes down in sight of
1.-THE land. The present agony of grief, the
future emptiness of heart, all held in three
flittle words, Brother is dead Can a
2mother ever forget the great sacrifice?
mo- A thousand times no! Can an old SOL
der ever forget the scenes of carnage and
of blood of the years of 1861 to 1865? Can
Tthey ever forget or do too much to keep
alive the achievements of the precious
dead? Never, while reason remains Ell
.ithroned on the heart and conscience of a
liherty-loving people.
.'These dead, in whose memory we are
gathered, are the Aliases on whose nigh
ty deeds rest the great fabric of our re-
public. In honoring them honor our
selves. Poor. indeed. would be our world
without its mighty dead. You are better
men and the nation is more glorious be-
cause of the hundreds of thousands of
graves decorated to-day. Last year we
decorated these graves under the awful
shadow of war, and the shadow has not
vet been lifted, and some of Montana $
heroic sons sleep in the South Sea islands
and three of them in the bosom of the
state they loved and honored with their
life's blood to-day. With glad pride we sa-
Cute the LIST regiment of Montana and con-
Sgratulate its valiant Kessler and fighting
GIallahan for their loyalty and dashing
bravery No graves will be more fra.
grant with flowers than these three-Lieu.
fHenant French in Helena, one in Anacon-
ad, the other in Helena, All these years
hNou have thought what a privilege il
siwould be for your children, when you
Fare gone, to come with reverent step anG
kSilently bedeck your resting places witt
fragrant flowers, loves best gift; but to.
lday, with unspeakable pride. vet with
tspain almost unhearable, the fathers will
$50 forth to place flowers on the graves o
1.-the sons My fancy sees the old father
decrepit with age, bending over the newly
made grave of the boy and with tremblin;
hand and aching heart, in which there i
u void the earth can never fill, leaving hi
tribute of love with the feeling the cart
will rest little lighter on the breast o
the dear boy. Arlington, hard by tn
winding Potomac; Arlington beautiful Al
a!ngton; consecrated Arlington, Conse
Grated by the divine right of the patriot
that sleep in thy bosom, will be MOI
beautiful than ever because of the youth
ful patriots that rest in her embrace. Bu
you think now, what historical year
mas been; what a tremendous series {
surprises have come to the American PEI
pile since our assemblage of a year ag
Never has the world been a spectator
such a war II was not fought for terri
torial possession, as were the wars
Julius Caesar and Alexander; nor fC
glory as were the wars of Napoleon; M
Backed by religious fervor, as were II
wars of the Crusades; but it has been
war majestiCaIly and mercifully to Ii
the burdens from the hearts and lives
a whole people. Spain sealed her ia
when the bomb exploded, killing the sal
ers of the Maine
Nothing has so surprised the natior
of Europe as the response to the pres
dents call to arms When war was d
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