Evening journal., 1902-05-27
WILL ADDRESS
VETERAN LEGION
General DODahOe Pays Trib-
ute to Departed Heroes
Memorial Season at The Union
Veteran Legion Was FittiOglv
Observed

address in Philadelphia tomorrow
evening. The address is as follows:
The Meaning of Memorial Day
1t is a day Of wondrous meanings
and Of hallowed memories. Soiled and
,ading photographs and oid-fashioned
aague1Teotypes will be held in trem-
bling hands by fathers and mothers
who are growing by widows whose
temples are white. and from whose
cheeks the roses have vanished, by
mon and women whose eyes will light
ND with holy pride of fathers pa
triotism and self-sacrifice. and by little
prattllng children who will learn for
tho first time TO lisp the name Of a
soldier grandsire and the name Of the
battlefield on which he fell.
Hallowed forever be that day which
the Nation has consecrated TO the
memory of her soldier dead.
Appreciation
We can doubtless measure the de-
gree of a nations and a peoples en-
lightenment by their appreciation of
virtue of heroism. A sad decline must
smite race before it can forget where
its benefactors sleep and permit their
monuments to decay. 1t will be found
that degenerate people forget the very
names of their heroes and no longer
sing their deeds. but this cannot be
charged against a nation in its full
vigor and virtue. 1t was in the splen-
l.4 MONDAY Of Athenian glory that
poet and orator. painter and sculptor,
historian and philosopher joined in
pOrtraying the deeds of Grecian heroes.
1t was in the golden age of Augustus
that highest honor was paid to every
record and tradition of Roman hero
ism But when Athens fell before
Rome and Rome before the barbaric
Northman. those classic nations had
even forgotten where the tOmbs of
their dead heroes were. hence they had
no living heroism and were fit to per-
Isl.
The appreciation which the people
show for the heroism of the past be-
comes the inspiration of present and
future heroism. The Revolutionary
fathers were inspired by the records
of the Pilgrims, their suflerings. tolls
and sacrifices for convictions sake and
truths. SO the deeds OF our RevO-
lutionary fathers had been told again
and again in every city and hamlet,
every mansion and cottage, every
schoolhcase and pulpit of the country.
Therefore. when mighty hosts Of he
roes and patriots We're wanted to save
the Union. they sprang up from every
State. village school district and fire
side. ready to emulate the heroism Of
their sires and grandsires in protecting
the liberties which they had won.
The best nations Of the earth today
are those which are intelligent and
high-mlnded enough to appreciate the
men VINO have wrought out by self
sacrifice some common good. the men
who by toll and suffering have left
blessings of peace, truth and freedom
to their fellow men. Moreover the
people who appreciate benefactors pro-
duce and reproduce them.
Agents of Providence
Honor. eternal honor to the soldiers
dead and to the soldiers living who
saved lnis glorious Republic.
Speak out the honest word, Ameri-
cans. Say to these sleeping heroes,
say to these surviving soldiers of the
civil war:
without your valor, your devotion,
your victories. the new world had
been found in vain and
in vain had the Pilgrims
come and in vain had the revo-
luton been fought and in vain had
this government been founded. You
have given a new meaning and new
power to every progressive achieve
ment of history; your laurels make
the laurels of every hero more unfad-
ing and secure; your victories have
given fresh value to all the victories
of the past Honor to whom honor ls
due" yAS
The Influence OF War
with all the land bathed in the
golden light of liberty and peace, while
poets ~
'Sing the death of war;"
il can hardly seem possible, though II
is true. that from the worlds great
battlehelds have come the most potent
1uuuenceS lndl nave AdohAvhNo NAfAAA
cation. The oldest song is the epic OF
the sword Il has been estimated tha
seven billions of the human race have
perished in battle enough to populate
six worlds like this. If drawn up OF
me they would circulate the earth on
hundred times.
Results OF the Civil War
Though two and half million o
men marched from our homes to bat
.,c. though six and half billions o
dollars were expended in war. thougl
three hundred thousand graves o
Union soldiers tell of the inhnitel.
greater than financial cost Of the con
fiict. nevertheless, it paid; the wa
paid 1t saved the Union, the Unio
not simply as it was, but the Union a
IL is. and the Union as it viii be /
all the glory and splendOr of the full
ness Of time. Today, exulting in on
law-protecting freedom, in our indis