The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-22
PRESIDENT SPEAKS AGAIN
UNVEILS MEMORIAL SHAFT TO
 SPANISH WAR DEAD.
Accepts Gift of Colonial Danes for the Nation-The War Called for Exertton of Only Merest Fraction of the Giant strength of the Nation- Doing O fOne's Duty-The Time-Ali-lmportance of Doing the Ordinary, Humdrum Com-
monplnce Dutie. of Life.

l Washington, May 21.-President
 Roosevelt to-day unveiled the memorial
 shaft erected at Arlington by the Ma 1 tional Society of Colonial Danes in
 memory of the veterans 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 ia charge of Ma | ior- General John R. Brooke, command CT of the department of the east, the
 military establishment being represent ed by battalion of engineers, bat talion of marines, light battery of the
 Fourth artillery, two squadrons of the Second cavalry and over five hundred veterans of the Spanish war.
 The services began with the playing of the Dead March from Saul" followed
 by a surpliced choir singing Onward,
 Christian Soldiers" Prayer was said
 by Bishop Satterlee and a Catholic
 priest. and the entire audience joined in singing the national hymn. Lieuten-
 ant-General John M. Schofield, U. s. A.
 J,
 president of the national socey, Mrs.
 Justine V. R, Townsend, at the conclu- sion of which the shaft was unveiled amid the cheers of the thousands who had surrounded the stand,
 As the shaft was unveiled the artil- lery fired the national salute. after which President Roosevelt delivered the following address:
 Mrs President and Members of the Society, and you, my comrades (cheers and applause), and finally, officers and men of the regular army (cheers and applause), whom we took as our models (applause) in the war four years ago. It Is a pleasure to be here this after- noon to accept in the name of the na- tion the monument put up by your so- ciety to the memory of those who fell in the war with Spaln--a short war: a war that called for the exertion of only the merest fraction of the giant strength of this nation (applause), but war the effects of which will be felt through the centuries to come because of the changes it wrought. It is emi- nently appropriate that the monument should be unveiled to-day, the day sue ceeding that on which the free republic of Cuba took it's place among the na- tions of the world as a sequel to what was done by those men who fell and their comrades in '9S. (Applause)
 'We went to war for. specific pur- pose. We made for Cuba a specific pledge. and we redeemed that pledge to the letter (Applause.) And I think, my comrades of the war, that we have peculiar reasons to be proud of one of our fellows who served with us in that war, and under whom during the last | years Cuba has been, under whose ad- Cuba has taken those | strides forward which have fitted it to | stand alone-I speak of General Leon- 1 ard Wood. Cheers and applause.) | And great though the services were that General Wood rendered during the war, they have been surpassed by the service he has rendered in | peace to Cuba, and, therefore, to our nation, for our interest was bound up in the success and welfare of Cuba. (Applause)
 And a word here where we meet to honor the memory of those who drew he great prize of death in battle--a word in reference to the survivors hink that one lesson every one who vas capable of learning anything learn d from his experience in that war was he old old lesson that we need to ap- ,ly in peace quite as much--the lesson hat the man who does not care to do my act until the time for heroic action omes does not do the heroic act when he time does come. Laughter) You ,tor ra 6ne ic possible some of you remember being he man who, when you enlisted, had a heory that there was nothing but
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