The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-22
PRESIDENT
UNVEILS SHAFT
Monument Erected at Arlington
By Colonial Danes.
LAUDS DEEDS OF HEROES
&
SPEAKS OF THE PATRIOTS AND
THEIR LAURELs.
lAUOs DEEDS OF HEROES

WASHINGTON, May 21.-President
w Roosevelt today unveiled the me-
mortal shaft erected at Arlington
BY the National Society of Colonial
Danes in memory Of the soldiers who
fell in the recent struggle between
Spain and the United States.
Around the platform an immense
crowd gathered. among whom were
many men who saw service in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. The
ceremonies were in charge of Major
General John r. Brooke, commander Of
the department of the east, the mill
tary esta bIishment being represented
by a battalion Of engineers, a battalion
of marines, a light battery Of the
Fourth artillery, two sQuadrons Of the
Second cavalry and over 500 veterans
Of the Spanish war. The services be-
gan with the playing of the Dead
March From saul" and followed by a
choir singing onward, Christian Sol
diers."
Prayer was said by Bishop Satterlee
and a Roman Catholic priest and the
entire audience Joined in singing the
national hymn. Lieutenant General
John NJ. Schofeld u. S. A., retired,
then read the address Of the president
Of the national society. Mrs j. w.
Townsend at the conclusion Of which
the shaft was unveiled amid the cheers
of thousands who had surrounded the
stand.
Salute Fired.
AS the shaft was unveiled the artil-
lery fred the national salute. after
which President Roosevelt delivered
the following address:
Madame President and members Of
the society, and you, my comrades, and,
nnauy, officers and men Of the regular
army, 70 whom we look as our models in
the wars Of years agO-It is a pleasure
10 be here this afternoon TO accept, I'm
the name of the nation, the monument
put up by your society TO. the memory
Of those who fell in the war with Spain.
a short war, a war that called for the
exertion Of only the merest fraction
Of the giant strength Of this nation,
bat a war, the effects Of which viii be
relt through the centuries 10 come.
III Is eminently appropriate that the
monument should be unveiled today.
the day succeeding that on which the
free republic Of Cuba took its place
among the nations of the world as a
sequel % what was done BY those men
who fell, and by their comrades in
1893. We went 10 war for a specific
purpose. We made for Cuba a specific
pledge, and we redeemed that pledge
% the letter. And I think, nay COM
rades, that we have peculiar reasons
70 be proud OF one Of our fellows who
served with US in that war, and, under
whom, during the last few years, Cuba
has taken these strides forward which
have ntted IL to stand alone. / speak
OF General Leonard Wood.
"Anc great though the services were
that General Wood rendered during
the war; they have been surpassed by
The inestima bic service he has rendered
IN peace to Cuba. and. therefore. 10 our
nation FOR our interest was bound UP
ln the success and welfare OF Cuba.
In Honor Of Hoeroes.
and a word here. where we meet
TO honor the memory of those who
drew the great prize of death in battle,
word in reference TO the survivors.
J. think that one lesson every one who
was capable of learning anything
learned from his experience in that
war was the old, old lesson that we
need TO apply in peace-this much-the
lesson that the man who does not care
60 do any act until the time for heroic
action comes, does not do the heroic
act when the time does come.
You all remember, comrades, it's bare
ly possible some Of you remember be-
ing there, when you enlisted, that there
was nothing but splendor and fighting
and bl0odshed in the war, and then
had the experience at once Of learning
that the first thing you had 10 do was
TO perform commonplace duties and
perform them wei. The work Of any
man in the campaign depended upon
the resolution and intelligence with
which he started about doing each duty
as it arose; not waiting until he could
choose the duty that he thought suf-
hciently spectacular to do; doing the
duty that came 10 hand. That is exact
ly the lesson that all Of US need TO learn
IN times Of peace. tt is not merely
great thing, but an Indispensable thing.
that the nations citizens should be
ready and willing TO do for il at the
time Of need.
what we need most in this republic
is not special genius, is not unusual
brillancy, but the honest and upright
adherence on the part OF the masses
of the citizens and their representa-
tives 20 the fundamental laws of pri-
waite and public morality. which are
now what they have been during re-
corded history, and we shall succeed or
fail in making this republic what il
should be made viii go a little fur
ther than that-what IL shall and must
be made-accOrding 20 the manner in
which we seriously and FesoluteIy set
ourselves TO do the task of citizenship,
which consists of doing the duties, pri-
waite and public. which in the aggre-
gate, make IL up"