Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-17
TRIBUTE To A SOLDIER
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There was no doubt that he was touched
by the occasion.
The President spoke as follows:
Mr. Speaker and you, the comrades of
the great chief, whose reburial in the ma
tional cemetery here at Arlington we have
met together to commemorate:
THE Speaker In his address has well said
that the builder. rather than the destroyer
IS the man most entitled to honor among
us; that the man who builds Is greater
than he who tears down; and that our hon.
or must be for the fighting man who not
only fought worthily but fought in worthy
cause. And therefore for all time not only
the people of this great reunited country.
but the nations Of mankind, who see the
hope for the ordered liberty in what this
country has done-they will forever hold
you, the men of the great civil war and
the leaders like him whose mortal re-
mains are to be put today In their final
resting place, in peculiar honor because You
were soldiers who fought to build; you were
upbuilders: you were the men to whose lot
it fell to save to perpetuity, to make
stronger the great national fabric, the foun-
dations of which had been laid by the men
who fought under the man whose home at
Mount Vernon stands as an equally priced
memory of the past with Arlington
1T is no chance that has made Mount
Vernon and Arlington here In the neigh
memorials of a nations past because one
commentaries the founding and the other
the saving of the nation.
What Arlington Symbolizes.
IF it were not for what Arlington SYM
bolizes Mount Vernon would be little or
nothing; if it were not for what was done
by Rosecrans and his fellows, if 1t were
not for what they did, then the work Of
Washington would have crumbIed into
blooded chaos and the deeds of the founders
of this republic would be remembered only
han fha1- bod ,ofI, - |,
failures of the spirit of liberty in this
country. Without the work that you did,
the work of the men who fought to sue
cessfm close. the revolution would have
meant nothing. 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
And you left US reunited country
and therefore the right. the brotherhood.
with an a1l-pride in the gallantry and self
devotion of those who wore the gray and
were pitted against you in the great strug-
gle.
1.-THE very fact that we appreciate more
and more as the years go on the all impor-
lance to this country and to mankind of
your victory makes it more and more pos
slble for us to recognize in the heartiest
and the frankest manner the sincerity. the
self-deyotion and the fealty to the right
as It was given to them to see the right of
our fellow Americans against whom YOU
fought And now the reunion is SO com
pete that 1t Is useless to aHude to the fact
that 1t is complete. (Applause) You left
US another lesson in brotherhood Today
You come here, comrades of the Army OF
the Cumberland. the man who had a COM
MISSION, the man who fought in the ranks,
brothers because each did what there was
In him to do for the right; each did what
he could and all alike share equally in the
glory OF the deed that was done. Officer
and enlisted man stand at the bar of his
tory to be judged. not by the difference
In rank. but by whether they did their du-
ties in their respective ranks (Applause)
And of how little account, looking back.
the difference in rank Is compared with the
doing of the duty; and what was true then
is true now. The doing the duty well Is
what counts.
The Enlisted Men.
In any audience of this kind one
sees in the highest official and social posi-
lions men who fought as enlisted men in
the armies of the Union, in the armies of
the confederacy, and all We ask is did they
prove their truth by their endeaver? If
they did, honor to them, and little else
and little we care the particular position
which they held save in so far as the
holding of exalted position gave the man
chance to do great and peculiar service. l
should not try to eulogize the dead general
in the presence of his comrades, in the
presence of his fellow countrymen who
have come to honor the memory of the
the past and who come here because they
now, like US. are Americans and nothing
else. devoted to the Union and to one
country should not try to speak Of his
services IN the presence of those who
10ught through the civil war, who risked
the loss of life, who endured the loss of
ilmb. who fought as enlisted man or came
out boys not yet ready to enter college,
put able TO bear commissions in the army
of the United States as result of four
years service or three years service with
the coiors
There are those of each class of whom 1
nave spoken who have addressed or will
address you today. They are entitled to
speak as comrades of the great dead We,
the younger among us. are entitled or.ly to
pay the great dead the homage Of those
10 whom ordered liberty has been handed
down as heritage because of the blood
and the sweat and the toll of the men who
fought to finish the great civil war. You
taught us in war. Great have been the les
sons you have taught us in peace since the
war. Reverently and humbly the men who
came after you FASTENED to acknowledge
the debt that is owing to you
You were the men of the mighty dayS
who showed yourselves equal to the days
We have today lesser tasks, but shame 20
US If We finch from doing or fail to do
well the lesser tasks where you carried to
triumphant victory feat as difficult as
that which was set you. And here in the
presence of one of the illustrious dead
whose names will remain forevermore on
tne nonor ron OF lne greatest republic on
which the sun has ever Shone here in that
presence 1t behOoves all of US, young and
old. solemnly arG rererentially to pledge
ourselves to continue undimmed the tradi-
tionS You left us.
To do the work necessary, whatever
that work may be; to make good the work
that you did; to acknowledge the inspira =
ton Of your careers. in war and in peace.
and to remind ourselves once for all that
lip loyalty is not the loyalty that counts;
that loyalty that counts Is the LOYALTY tina t
shows itself in deeds rather than in words,
and that therefore We pledge ourselves to
make good by our lives what you risked
your lives to gain, and keep for the nation
| as whole.
| President Roosevelts sentiments met a
| hearty response and his words were cheered.
Addresses by Senator Foraker and
Others.
| Senator Foraker followed the President.