Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-30

/, tude with which they struggled against
| the tyranny of the old world had lost
rome Of its fervor in their sons who met
| In the battles of the civil War.
| Such were the men who framed in high
debate the immortal leagues of love that
bind our fair broad empire state with
| state And such were their sons who
| offered up their lives in the defense of IA
4 government that had cost so much to
lestabiish.
Marvellous in Its beginnings. our his
| tory is glorious in its achievements. The
standards of honor and patriotic devo-
ton established by those whom we to-
day honor challenge the world for their
! equal. Since the mind and soul
/! of man began the struggle that has ever
! led onward and up in the plain of living
1 sacrifice has been the earnest of prog
licss. Centuries have circled away, yet
i the struggle ceases not. Westward has
been the march of progress.
Human freedom has found here in ihe
continent of America a congenial en-
/ vironment. Here Liberty has planted
4 her standards and established her bull
wark. Here the emblem of her prowess
unfolds to the breeze and is kissed by
/ the sun of heaven. Here the sons of
4 freemen have been fearless In her de-
4 Tense, and their devotion to her cause
/ has known no bounds. When the war
! clouds have hung low. and the storms OF
political strife threatened her future,
then have her people wrought wonders
Lin her,name.
While our patriotic dead command
4 words of praise and we bestow our
i tokens of love, yet their lives and their
Il fn~ rict
/ Of a sacred duty. ii these recurring
services held in honor OF their memory
are to be aught but hollow mockery
in the years that are to come, it will be
/ because of an unalloyed patriotism and
+, high standard of civic righteousness
4 upon the part Of those who gather here.
a patriotism equaled only by theirs
4 whose memory we today cherish and
i honor. While we seek to honor the mem
lory of our nation 8 heroes, we owe 1T to
them that we heed the admonition OF the
!. hour.
Peace as well as war demands Of the
citizen n devotion to the interests of the
4 commonwealth Shall we ever lose
lsight of the simplicity and frugality that
gave birth to the undyng and uncon-
i querabie patriotism of those who sleep
lin a soldiers grave, or of those who linz
ger here, the surviving veteran soldiers
lof the union? Engrossed with affairs
,foste ring self-interests, shall we become
Negligent and indifferent to the needs
of the nation? Boundless as are the
proportions of our national domain, ex-
haustless as is the extent of our re-
5 sources, proud of our past, and conf
: dent of our future, shall we rock our
$ selves in the hammock of competency,
i needless of dangers from within in our
Isecurity against dangers from without
2 AS surely as our frugality and Industry
fI.fili our land with class of luxury and
s l.indugence. SO sure will that class en-
lgender ruin by its sloth and vice. In
Ina.i onal life the same characteristics of
Industry. perseverance and integrity.
guided by intelligence. are as essential.
; as externally and at all times as essen
tial for success and stability as In the
lives of individuals. The preser-
!. walton of these essentials of citizens nip
Twill ever be recurring problem. Cen
Grafton must follow generation in tread
e ing the common pathway of life. While
I political pertldy in high places may
alarm US, yet it is the vice of the COM
y mon people that is most To be feared.
i lit is only by fidelity 10 the needs of
: the nation that we are to recompense
8 the debt of duty that we owe to our
. countrymen whose memory we would
i honor.
e LAS the home life is the fountain head
y of national life. ii is only by and thru
: The purity of the home life that educa-
II ton and morality can triumph, and the
oil integrity of our citizenship be preserved
II IA citizenship that Will ever court
sIpeace, yet brook no oppression: bench
e lcent in Its purposes, noble in its stand
: ards. conservative in its policy, yet jeal-
: |ous of It's honor 1t will reflect credit
i upon its architects and shower blessings
posterity. To citizen body thus
y lmpresnable to the influences of avarlce
l. lend oppression the future holds in pros
s rect realization most glorious. Lands
r and peoples undeveloped and untutored
! are within the touch of our influence
nj Let not empire and dominion ever be
: cur boast, but
Wide as our own fair race increases
y Wide expand that elastic chain,
4 And bind in everlasting peace
: State after state. a mighty train
II ..Our possessions girdle the earth with
S our power and the dedication of that
i power to the establishment of liberty
e ana law among men 10 tile utleTtDOS'
II parts of the earth appeals to us as a
t duty of the present and the future The
d problem of self government is the prob
d lem of civilization and in its solution lies
II the destiny of the race.
THE foundations of our republic have
n been We'll and carefully laid. The storms
: that have come have but knit more
/. closely It's parts as the fiber of the OAK
d is strengthened by the tempests thai
Il beat upon 1t.
IS From all over this broad land there
y rises the joyous shout and the glad ac.
II claim of Il free and reunited people, one
: in hope and one in honor to the flag
e From out the delugc of blood has com,
the realization of closer brotherhood
n The sacrifice OF life has hallowed tina,
e which was saved from the ravages Of
d the storm.
e ITO the generation born since the
i struggle for the preservation of the
= union there is soon to ne solely com.
It mi,ted the duty tomaintain the achieve.
j. ment OF their fathers. Their crownins