Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-28

Is. Jordan and Congressman Frank ID.
Currier who had boarded the train at
Concord, were with the presidential
party After luncheon, the president
was escorted to the camp grounds,
where the speaking took place. Pres
ident Roosevelt was introduced TO the
veterans and when he could make him
self heard he began his address, speak
Ing In part as follows;
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The president said In part
Amy American who has a proper
sense OF relative proportion OF things,
must realize that to the men who
fought for the Union in the dark days
| 70 the Civil war, there Is owing u
| greater debt Of gratitude than 10 any
others. Great We're the deeds you did
and vital the need of doing them.
Many were the lessons taught the rest
OF us, both by what you accomplished
In the war and by the way in which.
when the war was over, you turned to
the work of peace with the same spirit
which had led you on to triumph on the
| tented fields.
ITO you alone It was given to face
| with victorious valor the one crisis in
which not merely the nations well be-
| ing but the nations life was at stake
| To you II was given TO solve the one
problem, which II not solved Alright
meant death for our people All of the
work Of the men who founded this re-
public would have gone for nothing had
you not done your part well. II would
have prolited little to us or to mankind
Of Ia t,a al. -
eminent by the people and for the peo-
pie had been founded upon this contin-
emily only TO go down in bloody wreck
on the question Of slavery You saved
the Union and you freed the slaves and
thereby freed the slaves master from
the worst of all thraldoms.
There was no money reward for
what you did There was hardly one
Of YOU who did not during those four
years receive far less than he could
have earned in safety at home, But
you We're driven to your work by the
lash OF your own hearts You were
spurred onward by the life which only
comes to a people OF good and generous
soul. You felt instinctively that there
were causes far greater than anything
that had TO do merely with wealth or
bodily wellbeing. You We're willing 10
wager all for the prize of death in
righteous war
I'VE are now in time Of abundance,
peace, and not in time OF war. But woe
10 US II In peace we do not have ideals
as lof.y as yours and IL we do not live
up to them as you lived up TO yours In
the dark days Of defeat and In the
golden glory Of the hour OF triumph.
among the great benefits OF what
you did was the fact that you have al
so left us the right OF hearty and loyal
comradeship with your gallant oppo-
nents who in fghtias for what they
conscientiouslJ deemed to be- right,
f0usht against the stars in their
courses
Besides what you actually did, be-
sides the reunited country. the undi-
vided nation which we have received at
your hands we have received also the
lesson OF the doing Of the deed There
Is great need now that we should show
II not in degree. at least In kind, the
| spirit that you showed We need In
order successfully to face the difficult
and complex problems of our Industrial
civilization all the courage and loyalty
and all the faith and clear sighted
sanity and purpose which there are
at our command, Above all we need TO
learn Alright and TO apply the great les
son Of brotherhood which you taught
and practiced In the four grim years
that began with Sumpter and ended
with Appotomattox. In the simple
America Of our forefathers-the Ameri-
ca which still for our good fortune ex-
lists In country districts-there was
compare tive freedom from certain dan
gers to which the country as a whole Is
now necessarily exposed, The growth
Of great cities and Of individual and
corporate fortunes-the tendency in
great cities to divide men into groups
and classes-naturally diminishes the
realization Of that essential unde wing
brotherhood which ought to be deep
in the heart OF every American. Look
ing into the mists OF the future we see
dark problems looming up before us.
We can solve those problems Alright
only II We keep constantly In mind that
each must work for all and all for each.
In other words we need TO feel I'm our
being the sense Of brotherhood"
I'VE have just brought to a conclu-
sion war In the far east--a war which
sprang us as sequel TO our short
struggle with Spain. The army, which
has done its work so well IN the Philip
pine Islands, has had a task which was
small, Indeed, compared with yours, but
which, nevertheless, was fraught with
hardship and difficulty peculiarly its
own. The men who, after three years
OF painful harrassing incredibly labor
ious warfare In the tropical jungles
against treacherous and savage foe,
have finally brought peace and order
and civi government in the Philippine
Islands. are your sons. your successors
They claim their share In your glory by
Inheritance and by their valor and their
steadfast endurance have added new
luster TO that glory They have been
cruelty maligned even by some who
should have known better. In an army
dn the best army and especially in an
army doing its work under such we'll
night intolerabe conditions as thos.
which confronted our troops In the
Philippines. there are bound to be IN.
stances OF occasional wrongdoing. Tn,
temptation to retaliato for the fearful
cruelties OF savage foe Is very great
and now and then II has been Welded
10. There have been few. and only
a few. such instances in the Philippines
unhnlchng Justice 20 the offenders,
and punishment has been Wetedout with
But the real marvel is that under such
conditions there should have been 50
little wrongdoing. As time goes by and
we get our sense OF the proper proper
ton OF things, these instances will be
forgotten but there viii remain for all
time new names on the honor roll OF
our history because n what has been
done for the nation In the Philippines
our officers and men or the march ana
IN battle showed themselves not un-
worthy OF YOU. the men OF the great
war They have added 10 The memories
N which Americans are proud, and by
their labor they have brought the
peaceful light Of civilization into on.
" the worlds dark places. We feel
hot we have O right TO demand the
sunrort 'of all GOOD citizens for the
my in thc Philippines because OF
hat n hns done and we ask Il also
sor the civil officers Of the government.
no With faithful toll an wisdom, arr
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