The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-26
VETERANS REUNION
AT DALLAS
The News Pays a Beautiful
Tribute to Southern
Heroes

Dallas Texas, April Z5.-Ihe Ddilas /
News tells OF the gathering of ex'Con- /
federates Tor the reunion like this;
'rhe lights are turned low. The last
OF the actors OF the bloodiest tragedy !
OF history appear for the finale. AS
the time IS struck on the clock Of hui
man life. it Is but a moment till the
curtain drops and we shall know these
actors no more forever They have
passed They are passing They are
but reaping the penalty OF birth Yet
ii the iuexorable law could be repeal (
ed that man might testify his admira-
tion fer heroes, these actors in that
great drama would live that they
might by personal presence and con-
tact hH future American generations
with that spirit Of emulation which
would place the American common
wealth higher than ever common
wealth reached before. The inexorable
law cxcepts no creature from the
harshness Of its provision, but Il can
not hush the songs sung in honor Of
heroes Il can not hush the story of
tho mother to the child. It can not
hush the father as he tells his son.
and Il can not hush history There its
destroying hand is palsied when it
reaches ferth to mar And what Of
chat histofyg Il is but that song sung
of heroes OF that mothers story, Of
that sires talk to son. Thus has hist
o,y been written forever Thus will
history be written forever
A nation united and warning against
another nation has for itself the same
song Of heroes, the same mothers
story to child and the same sires talk
90 son. Bat when pepole war among
themselves as these people did
warred AS people never warred before,
each with its monstrous bravery and
monstrous effort. the lines OF history
criss-cross and time grows hoary be
fore they are paralleled for satisfact-
ory consideration. Who began the
war? What was done in congress
What politician blew the embers
which had been smoldering from the
birth Of the republic7 What greed
here? What retaliation theref How
much provocation in this? How much
resentment in that? These are the
things which men. devoted to details
and laboTiously wringing causes from
effects will consiuer The devotee OF
military are viii go again along the
lines marked on the maps Of Grant
and Lee; will read them as military
critics read now the campaigns of Ma.
poleon and wellington and show the
msitai,es or the genius or either But
the great people OF this country who
viii live in the future OF it. will not
delye in the proceedings OF congress
and conventions These will be clos
cd 10 them Only a word here and
there Of the merry debates which We're
but the tocsin OF the struggle TO come
viii be remembered by them. The
maps and lines OF battlehelds viii be
blurred and eifaced, and all that will
remain TO them will be the monu
meuts Then there viii be no ques
tiou asked by the American. 'WhC
was nghtg" because even now befor,
IL can be put. the answer is framed
Both were right because both dieC
Tor what they believed Error II
sentiment is made right by sacrifice
not within the strict Interpretation oI
translation Of the word, but he wh'
lays down his lire for an error hai
proved il right with MIN. And as h
has given MS life for pron who Il
that lives would dispute? The fu
ture American will read why the Con
feaegate WaS right or wrong But h
viii never read that he was unfaithfu
10 his stand, right or wrong He ma,
read that il had beer better had thi
OF that been done by the Northern 0
southern people, but he VIII not rea
where either stopped to inquire VII
this o. that was not done. For wit
that reader. all is over, and his Dreas
win swell with pride as he closes bi
history with the right or wrons
they died like men who were Iieh
and they were right" Was this q
thai tactical move the proper one a
Gettysburgy Hush. from across tn
meadow lying at the foot OF the ger
ale slope. across the meadow a mil
away. gray mists arises and takes o
the form Of men in uniform. How IN