Arizona republican., 1904-05-31

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 in certain regiments was from thre-- fourthS 10 four-ffths of the men en- gagged Every spot on this field has it's own associations of sOldierly duty D0- bly, done, Of supreme self-sacr.fice frey rendered. The names of the chiefs who served in the two armies form a long honor roll; and the enlisted men were worthy, and even more thar wol thy Cf those who led them. We see where the nght thundered through and around thr village of Gettysburg; where the artil- lery formed on the ridges; where the cavalry fought: where the hills were attacked and defended, and where, fln- ally, the great charge surged mp the slope Cnly to break on the summit in the hloody spray of gallant failure.
 IMMORTAL CREDITORS.
 But the soldiers whc won at Gettys- burg, the soldiers who fought to a fn- ish the civil war and thereby made their countrymen forever their debtors. have left us far more even than the memcr- les of the war itself. They fought fer four years in order that on ths cont:- nCut those who came after them, their children and their .chi,dren's children. might enjoy a lasting peace. They took arms not to destroy but to save liberty; not to overthrow, but to ezt7b blish tha supremacy of the law. The crisis which they faced was to determine whether or not this people was fit for self gov ernment and therefore fit for liberty. ] Freedom is not a gift which can b. enjoyed save by those who show them- selves worthy of it. Tn this world no ! privilege can be permanently GppgO- l pri2ted by ner who have not the power and the will successfully to assume the responsibility of using il aright. In | his recent admirable little volUme on | freedom and responsibility in demo- craGc government. President Hadley Of ! Yale has pointed out that the freedom which is worth anything is the freedom which means self government and not anarchy. Freedom thus conceived Is a constructive force which enables an in | teuigert and good man to do better ! things than he could do withCIt if:
 which is in it's essence the sub zti;u-ion Of self restraint for external restalrt- the substitution Of a form of restraint which promotes progress fer the form which rctards 1t. This Is the right view of freedom: but it can only be taken if there is a full recognition of the C'ose connection between liberty and resDoh- sibility in every domain Of human thought. T. was essentially the v-ew
 taken by Abraham Lincoln. and by those who, when the civil war broke ous realized that m a self governing de- mocracy those who desire to be c0Esid- cred fit to enjoy liberty must show that they know how to use 1t with molera- ton and justice in peace, and how 10 fight for it when it iz jeopardized by malice domestic or foreign levy.
 THE LESSON OF THE FIGHT.
 The lessons they taught Us are lesson
 as applicable in cur everyday lives now as in the rare times of great stress. Th5 men who made this field forever nen- ) orabie did 70 because they combined th= } power of feal;y to a lofty deal with , the power of showing that fealty lr
 hard, practical, common sense fasaio- They stood for the life of effort not tho life of ease They had that love O. B country. that love of justice. that love ! of their fellow men, without whicl , power and rcsourceful efficiency bu
 make man a danger to h,s fellows. Ye. ir addition thereto, trey likewise los J sessed the power and efficiency: fo 0 otherwise their high purTose woulC 3 have been barren of result. They kcev , each how 10 get for himself and V
 each knew how to act with his fel O lows They learned, az all the genera V tion of the civil war learned, that rar o indeed is the chance to do anythin; o worth doing by one sudden and ViO n lent effort The men who believed tha , the civil war would be ended in miner
 days. the men who cried loudest "On ( V RichrrCnd," if they h-d the righ. stu o ia them speedily learned their crr2r Q and the war was actually won .ly thos a wl,o settled themselves steldfasu n down to fight for three years, or for 9 . much longer as the war might last, an " who gradually grew to understand tta J the triumph would come, not by al sin 70 gle brilliant victory. but by hun5re 70 painful and tedious campaigns. Tn in .o east and the west the columns advance n and recoiled, swayed from side to s'd
 and again advanced; along the co st
 ;he black ships stood endlcssly off an Y on before the hostile forts; generals an Q admirals emerged into the light, e2c .r to face his crowded hour of success C
 failure; the men in front fought; tE " men behind supplied and pushed fol 'I ward those in front; and the final vic = tory was due to the deeds of all wh (. played their carts well and manfup , in the scores of battles, in the countle;
 ski-n,isnes, in march, n camp, or J reserve, as commissioned officers, or
 the ranks-wherever and whenever dJ
 ty called them. Just so it mu al be fer Us m civil life. We e
 make and keep this country worthy
 the men who gave their lives to sa' % it., only on condition that the averas - man among us on the whole does h 0 duty bravely, Loyalty, and with con
 mon sense, in whatever position Ii
 allots to him. National greatness is IS slow growth. l. can not be forced ar ls yet be stable and enduring; for it t. based fundamentally upon nation ,- character. and national character
 . stamped deep in a people by the hv '7 of many generations. The men w
 went into the army had to submit
 discipline. had to submit to restrdi as through the government of the ieada n- they had chosen. as the price Of WI