Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-21
He Lands Man in Whose Honor the
Statue In Erected and Other Heroes
Of the Civil War Appropriate
Ceremonies Mark Unvetl1ng-Thou-
sauds OF Veterans Attend.


regular troops in the vicinity Of Wash
ington, a battalion of marines, two
battalions of seamen and the district
national guard we're reviewed by the
president before the unwilling ceremo-
MES which began at 2:30 o'clock.
After the invocation by Rev. D. J.
Stafford and music by the Marine band, )
Gen. Granville M. Dodge, president of
the Society of the Army of the Tennos-
see and chairman of the Sherman statue
commission, made the Introductory ad-
dress. Upon it's conclusion the Marine
band struck up "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner," the Fourth field battery, United
Statos army, fred salute and the flags
which hid from view the statue were
drawn aside by the grandson of the
hero to whose memory it was erected.
Address Of the President.
President Roosevelt was then intro
ducsd and spoke in part - follows:
In opening, the president eulogized
tho generals Of the civil war, and said
there was a peculiar fitness In CON-
memorating the great deeds of tho SOL
diers who preserved this nation, by
suitable monuments 1T tho national
capital. Continuing, he said:
THE living can best show their re-
spect for the memory Of the great dead
by the way in which they take to heart
and act upon the lessons taught by tho
lives which made these dead men
great. Our homage to-day to the men,
ory Of Sherman comes from tho depths
of our being. We would be unworthy
citisons did We not feel profound graf
1tudo toward him, and those like him
and under him, who, when the country
called in her dire need, sprang for
ward with such gallant eagernees to
answer that call.
Moreover, our homage must not
only and expression on our lips; it
must also show itself forth in our
deeds. 1t is great and glorious thing
for nation to be stirred to present tri-
umph by the splendid memories Of tri-
umphs in the past. But it is a shame
full thing for nation, if these memoir
les stir it only to empty boastings, to
a pride that does not shrink from pres
ent abasement, to that dissatisfaction
which accepts the high resolve and un-
bending effort of the father as an ex-
cuse for etfortless ease or wrongly di-
rected effort in the son. We of the
present, If we are true to the past,
must show by our lives that we have
learned Alright the lessons taught by
the men who did the mighty deeds OF
the past"
The Army and Navy.
He lauded the virtues which made
the men of 81 to '65 great in war, and
referring to our present army and navy
said: IF we are far-sighted in our
patriotism, there will be no let up in
the work of building, and of keeping
at the highest point of efficiency, a
navy suited to the part the United
States must hereafter play in the
world, and of making and keeping our
small regular army, which in the event
of great war can never be anything
but the nucleus around which our VOL
unteer armies must form themselves.
the best army of it's size to be found
among the nations"
In conclusion, the president referred
to the recent corruption of certain
public officials, and said this could only
be avoided by continued vigilance of
the people. "Those upon whom our
institutions cast the initial duty of
bringing malefactors to the bar of JUS
tice must be diligent in it's discharge, -
he said, ''yet in the last resort the sue
cess Of their efforts to purge the pub
lie service of corruption must depend
upon the attitude of the courts and of
the juries drawn from the people.
Leadership is of avail only so far as
there is wise and resolute public senti-
ment behind it. >~@'r ~ ~
7 I'm the long run, then, it depends
upon us ourselves, upon us, the peo-
pie as whole, whether this govern
ment is or is not to stand in the fu-
ture as it has stood in the past; and
my faith that it will show no falling
off is based upon my faith in the char
acter of our average citizenship. The
one supreme duty is to try to keep this
average high. To this end it is well
to keep alive the memory of those men
who are fit to serve as examples of
what is loftiest and best in American
citizenship" <ss...b5.,< ..=5G = +.
AS soon as the applause following the
presidents address had subsidized David
B. Henderson, Of Iowa, former speak
|. er Of the house Of representatives, spoke
on behalf Of the Army Of the Cumber-
land. # .s3 | i. t{ &. u 4. s.
OBJ The ceremonies closed with the bene-
fiction pronounced By Rt. Rev. Henry
Yates satterlss. bishop. Of Washington.