The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-31

darkness of civil war. He is the uncrown-
ed the immortal Abraham Lincoln. Gap
plause.)
A great nation is a nation whose
thought and life and government are
founded upon the eternal principles of
right and justice. and morality. other ma
tions in the past have disobeyed these
laws. but they are now destroyed. 1t will
be as true of our country if we disobey
these fixed laws of right and justice. God
is no respector of persons. There are
downward tendencies along US, there are
evils all around us which If not checked
and destroyed must bring US to national
death. Unless we stamp out the spirit
OF anarchy in this republic, unless we
stand against that monstrous wrong that
every year leads 10000 to drunkard's
grave, only the owls will boot over the
ruins Of the republic.
I believe that God has ordained the
Anglo-Saxon race 10 carry the spirit of
civilization to the world. He opened up
! the way for the flag in Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines (Applause) We
did not seek the responsibility. 1t came
to us in the providence of God. We can
not safely withdraw from those islands
for the sake of the people themselves.
We gave them religious liberty, a thing
they have never known before. I be-
neve we will not be doing our duty 10
those people. TO civilization or TO the
world. if we haul down the flag from the
archipelago.
Greece gave to the world philosophy.
poetry, forms OF physical ana intellectual
beauty. Rome gave to US law and order
and centralized government Germany
has given us music and the reformation.
The Anglo-Saxon has given to the world.
the Magma Charter, the Declaration of
Independence. applause colonial expan-
sion and commercial supremacy. the
freest government on earth the highest
type of Christianity and the most en-
lightened civilization. 1 believe that
civilization ought TO rule barbaTism and
moral death. I hope to see the time
when the American flag and the Union
Jack shall wave our flag at the post OF
Constantinople and tell the Sultan Of
Turkey to stop killing Armenians because
they are Christians, OF else get out Of
Europe
I'VE are going to take the front seat in
the worlds band wagon and we are going
to drive CApplause)
''The march Of life win soon be over for
You. You have passed through the
SHOWS of winter and the heat OF sum-
mer We owe more to you than we can
ever repay. / viii be glad when it shall
never be said that an old soldier IS in
want
You viii soon be gone. but our country
nations in the progress of the world You
viii soon be gone. but we viii see to it
that your graves are kept green"
At this point the speaker seized tag
and marching across the stage he said.
in a dramatic manner. which brought
forth wild applause from the gray-haired
veterans:
''The old Tag was carried through 10
victory at Antietam and Gettysburg. it
was through the battles Of Chicamaugua
and the Wilderness and waved among
the clouds at Lookout Mountain. It was
carried 20 victory by Joe Wheeler and
Fitzhugh Lee. by Hobson. and By Dewey
At The battle Of Manila by Sampson and
Schiev II Santiago. II has never trailed
the dust in defeat By your valor ard
that Of your sons. the old fag has never
been hauled down. We win nail the old
Tag TO the cross O: Christ and take the
world fer freedom
At the dose Of the address the quartet
sang The Blue and the Gray. by Froe-
iich
Pref. George Hoss then read the Blue
and. the GRAY" and the services closed
with the singing OF America" ard the
heueiictfon