The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-17

grave can hold YOU. for you viii be
buried in the hearts of all the soldiers
who fought under your command and in
the hearts of an appreciative grateful,
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The president said:
Mr.. Speaker and you, the comrades of
the great chief whose Teburial in the Ma
tional cemetery here at Arlington we have
met together TO commemorate; The speak
builder rather than the destroyer is the
man most entipsad to honor amongst us,
that the man who builds up is greater than
ne VINO tears down, ana that our honqr
must be for the fighting man who not only
fought worthily but fought in a worthy
cause. And therefore, for all time not
only the people of this great reunited cOun-
the hope Tor the ordered liberty IN what
this country has done-they win forever
hold You. the men of great civil war and
leaders IKE MN whose immortal remains
are to be put today in their final resting
place, in a peculiar honor because you
We're soldiers who fought to build; you
were upbuilders. you were the men to
whose lot it fell to save. to perpetuate, to
make stronger the greater naIlOnat laDflc.
the founda ton of which has been laid by
the men who fought under the man whose
home at Mount Vernon stands as an equal
ton.
The exercises at the pavilion over. the
cOrtege moved slowly to the grave, where
the commitment services was read by DR..
Stafford, closing with Nearer My God, to
ed. followed by a salvO of artillery and the
last sad rites over the distinguished sol
der had been performed.
TT is not chance that has made Mount
Vernon and Arlington here in the neigh
borhood of Washington the two great
memorials of a nations past, because one
commentaries the founding and the other
the saving of the nation. If it were not
for what Arlington symbolizes Mount Yer
non would be little or nothing; If it were
not for what was done by Rosecrans and
did then the work of Washington would
have crumbled into chaos and the deeds
of the founders of this republic would
be remembered only because they had
been another of the many failures of the
spirit of liberty in this country. With
out the work that you did, the work of
the men who fought to a successful close
the revolution would have meant moth
ing. To you it was given to do the
great work which if left undone would
have meant that all else done by our
people would have counted for nothing
You were the men of the mighty days
who showed yourselves equal to the day
We have today lesser tasks but shame to
do well the lesser tasks where you car
ried to triumphant victory feat diff
ticut as that which was set you. And
here in the presence of one Of the IL
lustrious dead whose name viii remain
forever more on the honor roll of the
greatest republic on which the has
ever shone, here in this presence it be
hooves an of US, young and old, solemn
continue, undimmed, the traditions you
left US.
ITO do the work necessary. whatever
that work may be- to make good the work
you did; to acknowle ed gssthe inspiration of
your careers IN war ana IN peace and to
remind ourselves once for all, that lip 10y
atty is not only the loyalty that counts
that loyalty that counts is the loyalty
that shows itself in deeds rather than in
words. and therefore we pledge ourselves
to make good by our lives what YOU risked
your lives to gain and keep for the nation
as a whole" Great applause.)
At the conclusion OF Speaker Hender-
sons remarks the quartet choir of st. Pat
rick's Catholic church sang Lead, Kindly
Light" after which brief addresses We're
made by President Roosevelt, Senator For
aker and Representatives Hepburn, Gros-
venor and Gardner