Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-10
HEROESARE HONORED
MEMORIAL DAY rs OBSERVED
THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
Sleeping Soldiers Are Given Reverent
Homage The President Addresses
War Veterans at Arlington McKin-


age. The cemeteries have never been
more crowded with those who We're eager
10 mark their remembrance of the dead
With flags and flowers and pay them the
sacred annual tribute of pride and graft
tude.
As time goes ON the ranks of the veter-
ans must continue TO grow smaller, and
in the course of nature it cannot be many
years before the last of them Will have
passed away. But Decoration Day will
not, and should not. be given UP. II
stands for everything which has made
this country great and prosperous; for
the abolition of slavery; for a reunited
union of States; for the wiping out o.
sectional lines and the awakening of bet
ter feeling between North and South
for a broader and healthier national spir
it; and for renewed devotion TO the old
flag; and, in the memorable words OF
Abraham LincolR, for the resolve that
this nation, under God, shall have new
birth of freedom, and that government
of the people, by the people, for the peo-
pie, shall not perish from the earth
When the last of the veterans shall have
been gathered to his fathers Decoration
Day will continue to be commemorated
with all its kindly and beautiful observ-
ances.
President Roosevelt spoke for the new
policies of the government of the United
States at Arlington Cemetery on Memo
rial bay. While the occasion was the
annual tribute of love to the soldier dead
at the national cemetery. extraordinary
| interest was shown in the Presidents
| speech owing TO the fact that it was
current report in the capital he would
touch on subjects close to the nations
| heart
| IL this no one was disappointed, for
| the President spoke gravely and deeply
on topics now agitating Congress and
| the country, and which have everything
| to do with the future conduct of national
affairs. His introductory remarks were
almost wholly confined TO the careers Of
| Grant and Lincoln. From them he pass
| ed to an eloquent defense of the course
| of the army in the Philippines, con-
| demnation Of lynching, an exposition Of
the rules of warfare, a declaration of the
| government that all guilty offending army
| officials would be punished, and a re-
newed pledge to the Philippine people
that when they showed themselves wor-
thy of self-goyernment the United States
would be willing to grant it to them.
When the President referred to the
''counsels of unmanly weakness in con
nection with the Philippine situation it
seemed to many direct challenge to the
| speech of Senator Hoar delivered a few
days before. The inference was drawn,
| apparently with reason that the Presi-
dent had chosen the occasion to declare
definitely his Philippine policy and to re-
ply to the critics of the government He
said:
Our soldiers conquer. And what is
the object for which they conquer? To
| establish a military government? No.
| The laws we are now endeavoring to en-
| act for the government of the Philip
pines are to increase the power and do
main of the civil at the expense Of the
military authorities, and to render even
more difficult than in the past he chance
of oppression"
| He added the significant sentence:
Great is the gain to humanity which
follows the steady though slow introduce
ton of the orderly liberty, the law-abid-
ing freedom of the individual, which is
| the only sure foundation upon which ma
tional independence can be built"
| The President carefully analysed from
his point of view the state of mind and
the present position of the Filipino and
what American civil rule would bring to
him in the way of blessings of civiiiza-
! ton. He said of the course of the army
in the Orient:
They represent as high standard of
public service as this country has ever
seen. They are doing a great work for
| civilization, great work for the honor
of the nation and above all for the well
fare of the Philippine Islands. All hon
or to them, and shame, thrice shame, to
us if we fail to uphold their hands"
| For the rules of warfare which have
prevailed in the islands the President
| says: THE rules of warfare which have
| been promulgated by the War Depart
ment and accepted as the basis of con-
| duct by our troops in the field are the
| rules laid down by Abraham Lincoln
when you, my heSrers, were fighting for
| the Union. The most destruc-
| tive of all forms of cruelty would be to
show weakness where sternness is de-
manded by iron need.
when the Filipinos have shown their
capacity for real freedom by their power
| of self-goyernment, then, and not until
| then, will it be possible to decide whether
they are to exist independently of us or
be knit to us by ties of common friend
ship and interest. When that day will
| come it is not in human wisdom now to
| foretell"
Flowers on McKin1ey's Tomb.
| Many bright and beautiful flowers were
placed on the tomb of the late President
/ fl s,,I., al
there by order of Mrs. Mckinley and
many were sent by friends in all parts
| of the country. A large crate came from
the White House and others came from
| Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and 9TH
er cities. Some were in the form of elab-
crate pieces and many were arranged in
simple garlands and strands.
/ Funeral exercises were conducted ty
! the G. A. R., beginning at l o'clock. The
/ G.. A. X. post of which the late Presi-
| dent was a member felt that If he could
express his wishes he would have no dis
| tincticn shown him other than was ac-
4 corded his dead comrades, hence the post
| placed no special emblem on his tomb,
only the flag of the order and a bouquet
such as was placed on the graves of the
most humble.
| When the people Of Havana, Cuba.
awoke Friday morning they saw on the
wreck of the Maine the evidence on the
part Of President Palma, who ordered
| that the wreck. which stands as a monu-
ment for more than 200 brave Americans,
be appropriately decorated to commenlo-
rate the day. American and Cuban flags,
garlands Of roses and wreaths CONSTITUTE
ed the decorations. and memorial ser
vices were held in several OF the Ameri-
can churches.
The ceremonies at Lineoln's tomb were
| Of the usual order. The sarcophagus in
| which the body formerly rested before
being put in the base OF the monument
was covered with flowers The Rev.
Frank Bruner Of Chicago made the prin-
/ cipal address A parade Of old soldiers
! preceded the ceremony at Oak Ridge.
The first statue Of the martyr Presi-
| dent. Mckinley, yEas unveiled at Mus