The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-25

and not by sight. Most of the men whose names are written on yender monument died with no shout of victory in their ears or prospect of ultimate triumph before their glazing eyes. To console them in their mortal agony-in their supreme sacrifice-they had noth- ing but their own hope and faith. Sec Ondly-The service these men we com memorate on Memorial day rendered to their country was absolutely disinter- ested. No professional interest in war influenced them. No pay or prize mon ey, or prospect of pension, had the least attraction for them. They offered their services and lives to the country just for love and out of the determination that, if they could help it, the cause of freedom should take no harm. On the spur of the moment they abandoned promising civil careers, dear homes and the natural occupations of men for the savage Instructions and butcheries of war. No mercenary motive can be at- tributed to any of them. To these heroes of the civil war we owe debts which can never be paid, except in re- spect, admiration and loving remem- brance. We owe to them great up- lifting of our country in dignity, strength and security
 But O! at what cost! By their stripes we are healed, and the reinstatement es- sential for our peace was upon them. Thoughts that great hearts once broke
 for
 We breathe cheaply in the common
 air; -.
 The dust we trample feedlessly
 Throbbed once in saints and heroes
 rare,
 Who perished, opening for their race New pathways to the commonpleace.
 Friends, is the end reached? Is this nation all that. God means it to be? Nay! To my mind the most difficult part of. all our work is now upon us. We have to take every nationality in the world, every religion, every tradi- ton, every form of desire, of anarchy and misrule, and bring these together into the quiet, lawful citizenship of a great republic, where one mans ballot counts as another mans ballot. We have to persuade men to tear in tatters forty different flags, and weave the ta- ters together into the Stars and Stripes. We have to teach men that liberty means the liberty to do right. We have to deal with the problem of lawlessness, of the distribution of wealth, of munic- ipal government, of the negro in the south, of the corporation and the labor union, of the various nationalities in our midst of the will of the people yer srs the machine in politics, Will it cost? !? An, yes! It will cost all it is worth, and the more it is worth the more it will cost. When you can heat your homes without cost to the coal in your bins; when you can cool your ice-boxes without cost to the ice; when you can turn the mill-wheel with out cost to the water in the reservoir, or electricity in the dynamo; when you can lift a pound or think thought or enjoy a. harvest without cost to tissue or nerve-cell, or grain of corn; when you can have an omelette without breaking eggs-then you may have a great uplifting to our country in dig nity, strength and security without cost.
 But until then we shall have to pay IOE IldllOIIol iliC ptASS 4tA thought, in sacrifice, in strength.
 The victories of right
 Are born of strife; There were no day were there no night,
 Nor without dying, life.
 It is absolutely, literally and eternal ly true that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins" If our posterity is to have nation wor- thy of their possession it will be be- cause in us, too, there is also some hand-to-hand, foot-to-foot wrestling, some self-denial, some costly struggle with the forces of corruption and evil in our own time. o Beautiful! My Country! What words divine of
 Lover or of poet
 Could tell our love and make thee know it?
 Among the nations bright beyond com pare! What were our lives without Thee? What all our lives to save Thee? We reck not what we gave Thee; We will not dare to doubt Thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare!