The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-03

responsibility of using Ii Alright IN his
recent admtrahle little volume on freedom
ment, President liadiey OF Yole has
pointed cut 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 Intelligent and
good. man TO DO better things than he
could do without 1t; which is in its es-
sence the substitution of self restraint for
external restraint-tllc substitution of IL
form of restraint which promotes progress
for the form Which retards it. This is the
view of freedom; but it can only be
taken il there is Il full recognition of the
close connection between liberty and re-
sponsihiiity in every domai of human
taken by Abraham Lincoln. and by all
those who, when the civil war broke out,
realized that in n self governing dem
hit TO enjoy liberty must show that they
know how TO use 1t with moderation and
justice in peace. and how to fight for it
or foreign levy.
Lessons for Today.
The lessons they taught US are lesson,
as applicable IN our everyday lives HOW
as in the rare times of great stress. The
rabie did 50 because they combined tho
power of teaity 10 a lofty ideal with the
power OF showing that feaity in hard,
prac.icai, comnon sense fashion. They
stood for the life of effort. not the life OF
case. They had that love OF country,
that love OF justice. that love Of their
soureeful efficiency but make a man a
danger TO his fellows. Yet. in addition
~thereto, they likewise possessed the power
and the efficiency: for otherwise their
hiGh purpose would have been barren of
result; They knew each how to act for
himself, and yet each how to act with his
tiun OF the civil war learned. that rare
indeed is the chance to do anything worth
doing by one sudden ana violent effort.
The men who believed that the civil war
would be, ended in ninety days, the men
who cried loUdest "Cn TO Richmond" ii
they had the right stuff in them speedily
actually Won by those who settled them
selves steadfastly down TO fight for three
years, or Tor as much longer as the war
~derstand that the triumph would come,
not by a single brilliant victory, but by
a hundred painful and tedious campaigns.
xanced and recoiled, swayed from side TO
side. and again advanced; along the coasts
the black ships stood endlessly Off and on
before the hostile forts; generals and
face his crowded hour of success or fail
ure; the men In front fought: the men
t 1ensea in s trnaf and an tba lpusl ID forward
due to the deeds of all who played their
parts Well and manfully. in the scores of
battle, In the countless skirmishes, in
Hlarch, IN camp. or in reserve. as COM
missioned officers, or in the ranks-wher-
ever aud whenever duty called them. Just
SO It must be for US in civil life. We can
MAKE ana Keep this country worthy of the
men who gave their lives to save it, only
on CONDITION that the average man among
US on the whole does his duty bravely,
loyalty and with comnon sense. in what
ever position life allots to him. Exactly
as n times of war courage is the car
d.nal virtue of the soldier, so III time Of
peace honesty, using tho word in It's
deepest and broadcast significance, is the
essential basic virtue without which all
else avails nothing. National greatness is
yet be stable and enduring. for it is based
fundamentally upon national character
and national character is stamped deep
tons. The men who went into the army;
had to submit to discipline. had to sub
NIT to restraint through the government
price of winning. So we. the people, can
preserve our liberty and our greatness
in time OF peace only by ourselves e1er-
stra-nt and of fair dealing between man
and man. In al! the ages of the past men
have seen countries lose their liberty. be-
order themselves. and therefore forfeited
the right to what they were unable to use,
with wisdom.
The Debt to the Veterans.
1t was because you men of the civil war
both knew how to use liberty tcmperately
and how to defend 1T at need that we
and our children and our children's chill
dren shall hold you in honor forever.
tledeld, we commemorate not only the
chiefs VINO actually won this battle; not
only Meade and his lieutenants, Han,
names flame in our annals; but also the,
chiefs who had made the Army of the
erward led 1t in the campaigns which
were crowned at AppomattoX; and fur
thermore those who made and used its sis
ter armies: Mcclellan, with his eXtraor4
Buell.; thomas the unyielding, the stead
fast; and that great trio, Sherman, Sher-
himself. the silent soldier whose hammer
like blows finally beat down even the
owe of the men who fought against
served and fought and died, without having,
as their chiefs had. the cnance to write
the men who marched ana fought in the
ranks, who were buried in long trencheS
on the field of battle, who died in cots
marked only by ! numbers in the hospitals:
over, went back each to his task on tho
farm or in the town, to do his duty in
peace as he had lon It IN var; to take
he had dropped them when the trumpets
of the nation pealed to arms. Today, all
over this land our people meet to pay rev
Z oAAie5 y III tNaNI- WIZ blc lllil
the nation might live; and we pay hom-
age also to their comrades who are still
with us.
All are at one now. the sons of those
who wore the blue and the sons of those
who wore the gray, and all can unite
In paying respect to the memory of those
who fell, each of them giving his l.fe for
his duty as he saw It.; and all should DO
at one in learning from the deaths of
these men how to live u~sefully while tho
times call for the performance of the
countless necessary. duties of everyday
life, and how to hold ourselves ready to
die nobly should the nation ever again de-
mand of her sons the ultimate proof of
loyalty.
The Day in Washington.
Washington, May 3O.-The usual Dec
Grafton day exercises were held today
at the various national cemeteries. At
Arlington, where the chief interest CEN
tered, General Johr c. Black, comman-
der in chief OF the Grand Army Of the
Republic, delivered the grafton Of the
day.
Ceremonies in Chicago.
Chicago. May 3O.-In spite Of a chilly
wind that made the weather decidedly