Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-30

love of freedom, pride of country and
reverence for that starry banner
which you returned to us in 100 with
out one stripe sullied or one single
star obscured; so long as reverence
for it's protecting folds endure, so
long shall posterity gladly dedicate
this day in homage TO the generation
that through hardship, peril and suf-
fering. made it possible for our
united country to go forward to it's
destiny. And when the people fail
in this ennobling sentiment of graft
tude, the purest virtue of the human
heart, greater will be the danger to
our country than ever before.
Days Double Meaning.
"Think not that the day is wasted
which is dedicated to sentiment and
memory. 1t has double meaning.
1t teaches the young and makes bet
ter those old enough to participate.
The higher mankind goes in the scale
of civilization, the tenderer, the
nobler, be becomes
This day is in some respects day
of gladstone reverence mingled with
the alloy of sadness. This day, and
possibly this very hour, 10000. 900
loyal heads are bowed throughout
this mighty nation ia honor of our
departed soldier boys and 10000. 900
patriotic hearts are yelling out to
those brave spirits whose lives were
offered upon the altar of their coun-
try in order that you aud might
enjoy the priceless heritage OF the
blessings of beneficent liberty, and
that our country might fulill the
mighty destiny for which it was or
dained This day of all the days of
the year should find US especially
thankful for the benefits that are ours.
Their great value can best be empha-
sized by the great sacrifices that we're
made &c attain them.
1--WE of the younger generation re-
view the progress of our fathers and
their fathers with fascinated interest
akin to awe. Through the medium of
our school histories we recall the vir
gin continent wild and unknown, be-
ing peopled by the liberty loving spir-
its of the old world who came hither
| not for wrath, but for conscience
sake. and so came Cody men and de-
voted women fleeing from oppressive
statutes that they might find freedom
to worship God There are spots on
he sun aud the microscope reveals
| flaws in FURNISHED steel. So there
were spots and flaws in the early rec
ords of the founders of this land, but
with them all our colonial history is
one that stirs the blood and quickens
| the pulse of him who reads. And
then the glorious record of that revo-
lptionary struggle gives each Ameri-
can a solid historical platform on
which to boldly stand. 1t was an era
of high moral heroism and for princi-
pie aga nst despotic usurpation that
the men of the revolution drew their
swords and entered the field against
the most powerful nation OF the earth
an fought on and on through murky
gloom until triumph came Aud from
the vibrations of the old liberty belt
whose p1nderous tongue proclaimed
throughout the nation newly born the
gladstone news of the surrender of
CORVALLIS, we have been taught the
musical tone of undying liberty.
Mr. Doyle here entered into a review
of the more important incidents of the
civil war. paying tribute to the valor
and loyalty of the boys 10 blue and
eulcgizing the memory of Lincoln.
Their Work Is Done.
Their work is done" the
speaker continued. 1T ended
with the flight OF their brave spirits
to better world, and not before. Be
like them. They are worthy of your
emulation. Do not lay down the
tight, the battle of peace, until death,
that promissor of new and better
things to come. says rest, your work
is done. Until that time arrives la
Dor to make the coming generation
worthy of those that have gone be-
fore. By love of country, by obedi-
ence to it's laws and reverence to its
conditions, teach the growing youth
to be loyal, obedient and true, and
you will be performing servics of
no less importance to the future of
the world than you did in the days
before the brown and golden locks
were gray-in the days when the hot
blood of youth flowed in your veins
and urged you on to brave and noble
| deeds.
.'And as years thin your ranks
sending you to join those comrades
of the better world, you can rest as
sured that those who come after will.
on each recurring Memorial day.
strew flowers upon your graves and
hold your memories dear for what
you did in peace as for what you did
in war. And from the years OF the
present to the years of the future,
from the father of today to the son of
tomorrow, will the story be told Of
| your life work well done. Strew the
flowers tenderly today, pass not un-
noticed neither the mound of the boy
who wore the gray nor the mound of
the boy who wore the blue; place at
the head of the mound q miniature
national emblem for which the soldier
boy gave his life to ripple as it is
wont in the May breezes.
"Spare not the rarest flowers of to-
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