The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-06-06

sas he will hear from the lips of other veter-
ans the same solemn proclamation: ITO
day is the festival OF our dead.''
Upon the shores of the far Northern lake.
Minnesota's farthest strand the same
group stands, and over til crest of the Cor
diIIeras he sees the old flag with its
protecting band encircIed around, and he
decends the western sky to sink into the bos-
of the Pacific he smiles down upon the
same bowed forms of blue coated men in far
California
He will have witnessed one of the final raI-
lies of the most superb military organization
that ever shook the earth with mighty tread;
an organization greater and Inightier than
ever followed the lead of Alexander, Caesar
Napoleon. Its members, old and discrepit
now. meeting in the cemeteries of the land
to pay their tribute to their fallen comrades,
were in manhood the Nations strength and
the Nations pride. All, there were different
scenes than when they swung with heads
erect. with shoulders squared and with
Steady tread keeping step to the music OF the
union, a resistiess tide OF loyalty and patri-
otism. the flower of Americas youth, and
manhood, to trample out forever the doc
trIne of secession and to preserve this land
and this government "a united whole. and TO
perpetuate and l. a Id to posterity their free
institutions
That army was the wonder of the world.
This government during its existence.
engaged in a number of wars, but grow
older Is a nation and the results of each war
IL realized more, we are better able to esti-
mate the Importance of each, of course the
two most important are the wars of the Rev
oIution and the Rebellion, and OF these two
the latter was fought over much larger area
and by armies vastly greater.
There is history single stupen-
dous, in which many were engaged for
long period and in which there We're such
great battles fought and such awful suffering
and sacrifice.
The me1. whose graves we decorate today
and the comrades who survive them were
the heroes of this greatest of conflicts Their
history as soldiers is a glorious and thriIlin g
should be cherished and remembered. No
other suffered much and long. except
the Revolutionary fathers.
In saying this would not diSparage the
soldiers of other wars; am only stating an
historical fact. All did their duty; all did all
that was required, but more was required of
the men of 81 -65.
1t was brave and thrilling act to have
followed Roosevelt upon San Juan Hill and
credit should be given the brave men who
made that charge. the entire lighting
about Santiago about fifteen hundred men
lost, killed wounded and missing.
Not long ago I saw in the National Museum
at Washington " the stmp of a tree eighteen
inches in diameter that was cut in two at
the battle of Spotsylvania Court House. 1t
was grand to have been at San Juan Hill; it
was also grand to have chan ged with Ham
cock on that morning of the 18TH of May,
1861. and broken through the abbatis and
captured a division. but it was heroic to hold
the captured position against the ons1aughts
of the Rebel army; ten thousand men fell on
each side, the bodies of the dead were piled
in hideous heaps; it was awful, horrible
carnival of death, and the place where the
harvest of death was awfuIIest, was called
the 'tBIoody AngIe.''
A regiment of boys went from thu prairies
of Kansas to the other side of the world
where they have fame that has given
them ii lasting place In history; they fought
at Manila, at Caloocan, at Malolos, at Cal :
umpit, and added Iuster to the American
arms My remembrance is, they did not
lose over fifty men killed Many regiments
in the war of the Rebellion were practically
annihiIated in one charge
At the battle of Gettysburg there were
more men killed and wounded on the Union
side than Washington had under his i'm
mediate command at any one time, and
there were more men killed and wounded in
that battle than were killed and wounded on
ton.
1t is one of the things OF which Americans
can bejustly proud that this republic is not
ungrateful to its warriors This day and its
accompanying exercises is a testimonial of
that fact The governments has builded at
various places throughout the country mag
nificent institutions homes for it's old
worn out heroes. and today there is no rea-
son or excuse for soldier being in a poor
house.
The greatest military establishments in the
world is the German army; it is estimated
that ], 100000 men are constantly kept under
arms by the government The United states
pays pensions its x-soIdiers
greater than the German government pays
to support its army, and the payment of this
Z
dial and hearty approval of the great major
ity of the American people
The most unpopular man in the country is
the who when at the mead of the pension
department. administers its duties in a mis-
erly and niggardly manner; unpopular not
alone with the eN-sOldiers but with civilians
we'll
The American people are in favor of a just
and liberal pension to our soldiers; our pub
lie favor such a policy. We have occa-
sionally to suffer with Lochren Evans.
but the Nation believes in the sentiment
pronounced by benjamin Harrison when he
/ said, that administering justice o the
Union soldier he did believe using
apothecary scales-''
When Cassius was cndeavoring to stir the
blood of Brutus against the authority and
power of Caesar he referred to Rome's for
mer greatness and exclaimed Rome, thou
hast lost the breed of noble bIoods.''
That can not be said of country;
1S9S the coal SCOT was just thick every
thing as 1t is now, but appeal
came and-all was changed The spirit OF &c
and 81 was alive in the breasts of the boys of
'ss.
There can be no question to the perpet-
nj OF