Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-30

charged up this hill, but you moved us
down Ike grass We could not stand
and had to get back"
The major then recounted interest
ing details Of the part Of the contest In
which he participated, After hearing
cross fire OF graphic descriptions of
both Union and Confederates partici-
pants, Mr.. Roosevelt remarked:
This country Is all right so long az
we can have this kind Of a talk on
Little Round Top"
CEREMONIES ON BATTLEFIELD.
Gettysburg, May SO-on historic
Cemetery hill, overlooking ground hal
lowed By the blood Of half hundred
thousand brave men and IN the pres
ence Of a coucourse OF thousands who
had assembled to pay tribute TO the
memory Of the nations dead President
Roosevelt today delivered a notable ad-
dress. ON nearly the same spot on
November 49, 1868, President Lincoln
delivered the immortal address enun-
caung principles which have rung
around the world for more than third
Of a century.
President Roosevelt was escorted to
the cemetery on the battlefield by a
body Of several hundred veterans OF
the Ciyil war. The President and his
special escort were preceded by several
organizations including squadron
OF T. S. cavalry, the Third L. S. Artil-
lery, and the Marine band OF Wash
ington. which had been ordered here
for the occasion Mrs Roosevelt ana
other members Of the presidents party
followed in carriages The rear OF the
procession consisting Of civic organi2a.
tons and citizens in carriages. Gov.
Pennypacker presided at the ceremon-
les which were held In the rostrum In
the cemetery.
After the Memorial day services Of
the O. A. II, had been concluded and
the pupils of the public schools had
streWn flowers over the graves OF the
thousands Of dead. during which cere-
mony the Marine band played sol
emn dlrge Rev. Or. Edward Everett
Hale. chaplain Of the II, s. senate pro-
nounced the benediction,
PRESIDENT INTRODUCED.
The president was then introduced by
Gov. Pennypacker who said IN part
THE battle OF Gettysburg, momeu-
tous in It's exhibition OF military force
and tremendous IN its destruction Of
human life, had consequences which IN
their effect upon the race are imitless.
THE nation os il exists today arose
| when Pickett failed to drive the Phila-
| delphia brigade from the stone wall on
| Cemetery Hill a seer sitting on the
dread day upon the crcsts OF Big
Round Top could have figured I'm the
| clouds OF smoke rolling oVel" the de-
! WIS den and the bloody angle the
| scenes soon to occur I'm Manila bay, at
| Santiago ana sam Juan Hin the beam
| Ing of a new light at Hawaii and In the
| far Philippines, the junction Of the two
! mighty oceans and the near disappear
! ancc OF English control of the CONE
| merCc OF the world.
"The presidential Office IL so great a
| station among men that those who an
| il are not to be regarded as personal
| ities. Their Individuality rs lost In its
| immensely. They become the manifes-
| tations of certain Impulses and stages
| OF development Of the national life,
| Jackson represented its rough unc0uth
| and undisciplned strength. Lincoln
| looms up above all other Americans
! bearing the burden OF woe and suffer
ing which fate laid upon his broad
| shoulders In its time OF stress and trial.
Blessed be his memory foreyermore.
! mo people can look forward to the
! fuhllment of such a destiny as events
|
/ and eager with the enthusiasm ana Wig
or Of youth. 40 other president has so
| stood for that which after all types of
! our llfe-sweep Of the winds over broad
! pralries. the snow capped mountains
| and the rushing rivers, the sequoia
| trees, the eXuherance Of youth con-
sclous OF red blood energy and power
! painting our bow Of promlse-as does
| Theodore Roosevelt lie has hunted In
| our woods, he has enriched our litcra-
ture he has ridden In the face ~ the
enemy, be has maintained our ideals
Upon this day, devoted 10 the memoir
| les Of the heroic dead, In Pennsylvania
as a Decoration day, the achievements
OF prolific past and the promise Of the
teemlng future confront each other
Today for the lrst time Theodore
Roosevelt treads the field made immor.
tai by the sword Of George Gordon
Meade and hallOwed by the prose dirgC
Of Abraham Lincoln
The president was accorded an en-.
thusastic reception His address fol
lows:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
The place where we now are has wor
a double distinction. Here was Tough