The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-05

: occasion Of the gathering, 20 triumph
antlV proclaim that we are the leading
nation of The world and every one
who hears them, says 90 himself, ~
agree heartily Hith that sentiment I
endorse This universal custom. and re-
( peat seith perfect sincerity that ia nay
judgment we are the greatest nation
that has ever been buut upon the
earth strong men and women. men
rr-ir1 last when theg
are gone. men who contribute 10 the
b-Llelmeut oil IKE world. do SO because
---s l---te 1r-a lflcu. an1 because they
E have been confronted with hard
obstacles. which they have overcome
I by concentrated and patient work,
keeping their thoughts fastened upon
high and worthy objects. 1t IS so with
communities and with nations our
nation is the leading one of the world
we have gone tnrousH. and because OF
the lofty ideals and purposes when
have actuaUad cur people.
$50 other nation. Z believe. on the
face of The earth could have stood the
ordeal Of OUR civil WaF and survived.
Few people now comprehend what
struggle that was and what 10 meant
+ and fl VIII Doe Interesting 20 you as IL
was 10 We. I'd make comparison ne
tween our great civil war and olner
wars iu our own and other countries
Some Statistics.
/ undertook to gather these facts.
hich I now WIN state. but the labor
was very great and my time did not
warrant me- so that upon The sugges-
tion of a friend. 7 have taken some OF
them from q speech delivered upon
similar occasion to this by one of your
comrades
AS the statistics and ideas are well
worth reprOlu-iug- and with this state
ment to you, 1 win now recite some i'm
teresung data.
Our patriotism was so great and our
devotion to principle such, that actu-
( ally 1879 per cent of the population OF
the loyal states went into The contest
for the preservation of the union.
+ That means THAT one soldier was furn-
ished cut of every eight persons OF
F both sexes and all ages, or one for
/ every four males. including old men
and children
4 Never since the beginning Of time.
i nor amous any class of people, nor IN
amy country, no matter what the pro
I vocation or what the size. has such "a
+ proportion Of lighting men Of the entire
population gone forth To do battle for
. % cir country. Tn addition TO that. the
death rate never has been oquallcd n
proportion by any people at any time,
/ engaged i'm amy war.
Losses in Civil War Battles.
I'm the days Of the power of Rome,
when the fame of her legi0nS filled the
world, and when to be a Roman soldier
was synonym for bravery, If in any
+ war, however small. they lost one
tenth of their soldiers. 1T was marvel,
and rarely. if ever. happened, yet i'm
our war one out of every six who en-
listed for his country was dead be-
fore tie war closed. IL is hard for u9
+ TO comprehend Ihau in several battles
during the war of the Rebellion, the
. number of killed and wounded was
greater than the total of the killed and
wounded i'm an the other wars In
which our country has been engaged.
There were but 1857 killed i'm The MeXi-
can war. and but 1871 fan the war of
lal2. Although the war of the EeTOl1-
Jicn dragged along for seven years, it
. ls quite certain that the uumbe- of
killed did not exceed 900. Only 300
were killed in the Spanish war. Com
pare this with the awful slaughter at
Saiioh. stone River. Antietam. Fred
D eEicksburg, Charlottesville. Chicka-
manga, the Wilderness, Cold HarDJr
ana Gettysburg
j IND M my experience that COmpa-
risOns are always more striking. more
lasting and useful than mere state
. menJ OF facts and dgures.
Slaughter at Gettysburg.
/ More men fen at Gettysburg than we
had soldiers ou Mexican soil at any
time during the Mexican war. Our loss
. al CEiCkamaUga was greater than the
entire army which General Shaftcr
landed at Santiago which did about an
the land fighting in the war with
spain General Grant lost more men
iu that awful march from she Eapidan
HnIr
F Continental army during any time Of
the revolution. Napoleon never COM
mand5d as many men IN any battle as
/ were actually shot 10 death on the
Union side. our campaign against
3 NickSDurg alone cost as many lives as
. Great Britain lost In the Crimean war.
There were 1 200. 600 men I'm the Ger
man army which went into France in
. lslU and 1871 and subdued that cOun-
( try of 40.000.000 population, and they
lost only about 10000 killed in this stu
! peuGou= achievement
We had more men killed on the field
of battle iu the four years of our civil
War than England lost in the SOC years
in which she has been "a nation,
The story of the charge of the Light
brigade at Baiaklava makes your blood
Tun cold. yet hundreds Of Union regi-
ments lost more men In single battles
than the Light Brigade did in its fa-
NOUS charge. AS high as so per cent
of single regiments. and a much higher
per cenl Cfteutimes fell i'm one OF our
Charges while the Light Brigade lost
but Sc per cent Of its number.
Acts Of Heroism.
Instances of individual acts of hero
Ism and or acts OF daring and bravery
br companies. regiments and battalions
VIII fI the books of romance for years
to come that have never been equalled
in any wars by any people at any
s time.
Ihe little Spartan band Of 500, which
. stood az tae mouth OF THemopElae
sinh Leonidas az the head. have lived
U history ever since as an example of
love of country and bravery. Times
without uumber. SO frequent in fact as
To C1us. mo unusual comment, many
more lban goo brave Union soldiers per-
formed greater deeds Of daring out Of
+ love for their country and its iustitu-
tions
f 3 VIII not Worry YOU with more sta
. tislcs showing the greatness of the
F conflict iu which You were engaged.
This Memorial TIar- is ana-s mot