Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-02-15
THE NATION M0URNS
ITS SOLDIER HERO
Mourning Multitude Attends Burial
Of General Lawton at ArIing-
ton Heights.
en- ELOQUENT FUNERAL GRAFTON
Rec. DIR. striker, Of Hamilton Col.
lego, Enlogizcs the Dead Conn
m:mlcr--- 5000 Regulars
Take Part in Ceremony.
N ELOQUENT FUNERAL GRAFTON

Washington, Feb. l0-The mortal
part of General l,awton was buried to-
day i'm the National cemetery at Ar
lngton. The services at the grave
we're preceded 10y those at the Church
of the Covenant, where President III.
NJ. Striker, of Hamilton college, New
York, delivered u funeral Grafton sell
dom equalled i'm beauty of expression
CT in more perfect accord With the
spirit of the solemn occasion that
called it forth. Never in the history
of the capital has there been a more
tons official life TO pay last tribute
to the nations honored dead.
Nearly all the available regular
troops in the country were called out,
5000 men, infantry, cavalry and ar
iillcry, followed the hag-drape'l
caisson to the grave. Every depart
ment OF the government paid official
tribute the president and cabinet,
Representatives of the supreme court,
congress, the army and navy filling
the darliened church to- the utmost.
But these official representatives OF
the people We're lost in the great
crowds that surrounded the church
and lined the streets along which the
procession passed. Soft lights burned
above the chancel, WHARF, flowers were
piled railing high, while the casket be-
meath was buried under roses, lilies
and white carnations, which over
flowed the narrow resting place and
fell i'm pcrfllmcd avalanche to the
fool'. A guard of cavalrymen from
I4awton's own command stood at each
end of the catafalque silent and mo-
tionless as uniformed statues. aud the
hush of the silent church was broken
ONLY by the soft tread of those who
entered With bowed heads to pay Il
last silent tribute to the brave The
Presbyterian burial service was read
BY Chaplain Pierce, of Lawton's old
command.
Funeral Grafton.
President Striker then delivered the
Grafton. He said in part:
Cover the width of the earth sol
dicr's household has brought its war
rior home The dust that the nation
gathers to its guarding is that of no
common man. We have met TO cele-
bratc and mourn him. But while we
recall the record so compact With
manliness; while we rccite the story
of one who personified the best Amer
lean traditions. first this day we re-
gard Ter SORROW who trcads that sol
emn aisle of pain sanctuary whose
shadows are accessible only to her and
God. Hither we have come, the peo-
pies chosen head and all the authori-
4. 4. I, srrl, al ~.
tions, to pay our poor but tender aims
of love to an unbienished memory, to
thank him who is our dwelling place
il-all generations. that the stout tree
OF liberty still yields such manner of
fruitage and to pledge ourselves. con-
sidering the issue of the lives of our
renowned dead. to initiate their UNI
bianched, unblightnd faith.
''Station is secondary, humanity pri-
mary. and whatever else amy is, today
we are all only men and women. BROTH
ers and sisters, lifting as children our
vet faces toward the consultations OF
Cod The stars of the spangled BAN
ner covering now this shape of its no
BILE warden shine multiplied upon the
vows of grief. But with solemn JOY it
besecms you, his comrades of the
army, to give thanks for the life whose
end must (after this parentllesis of
difficult farewells) be viewed not as a
calamity, but as Il conquest.
A Modern ttcvai;er Hayard
Dr. Striker eulogized Lawton's mill
tary career and went on TO say:
This later Plantaganet, this latest
Bayald. was without fear and without
reproach.' This modern Philip Sidney,
whose life also was poetry put into ac-
ton has shown once more of what
stuff is incorrigible manhood, in what
substance the root of memories that
last.
''Thus is he admitted to the fellow
ship of heroes by equality and the
was one whom Raleigh, GustaVus,
Adolphus, William of Orange. Wrinkle
reid, Camhronne and Garibaldi would
know at sight. lie was of that time
enduring breed which has made Agin-
court and Naseby and Lucknow OF inn
mortal story. He was comrade 10
Mary Landcrs who guarded the re-
treat AT Long island; to the men who
passed the Delaware; who served the
guns of Plcasanton; who soaked the
SOD OF reach orchard: VINO ran sing
ing through the tide at Manila, who
held Guantanamo.
Let it be said, and let it be said
here. that none of rs are of those who
walk backward into the future and
translate the present upside down.
THE timid. carping pessimist lives
only i'm the plnpcrfect. but the good
faith in the future is perfect One is
sIbiunctive, the other Indicative. Nay.
duty is in the imperative and uncondi-
tional mood. When. in the name OF
mankind, and that peace might be
real, we undertook i'm 1898 to cleanse
the seas. we affirmed principle and
made a precedent that ! for one hold
the most honorable leaf in all our his
tory. But all that has been since is;
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