The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-31
TALKED IN RAIN .
Ten Thousand People Stood in
Drenching DOWnpOur.
And Listened to Roosevelt's
Memorial Day Address.

Gettysburg, Pa, May 31.-President
Roosevelt delivered the Memorial Day
address at this city:
AS President Roosevelt rose to speak
a dOwnpour of rain began and contin-
ued throughout the time he addressed
the great assemblage. He was accord
ed an enthusiastic reception. notwith-
standing the rain, and the crowd of
10000 people in fl1e e4ietery remained
to hear the ADDRESS despite the
thorough drenching it received
Referring in the beginning of his
speech to the allusion of Governor Pen
nypacker to the death of Senator Quay,
the president said:
Governor Pennypacker alluded to
the fact that today Pennsylvania
mourns its senior senator 3 The regi-
ment which Senator QUAY was fnstru-
mental in raising took part in this bat
tie of Gettysburg battle in which
Governor Pennypacker shared. Senator
Quay was not with 1t. He had gone
with another regiment and it is appro-
pirate at this time to recall the fact
that when the term of service of that
regiment expired, just before Fred
ericksburg, Senator Quay declined to
accept the discharge and continued as
a volunteer with the army that fought
at Fredericksburg and won the medal
of honor on that bloody day. The
president continued
The place where we now are has
won double distinction. Here was
fought one of the great battles of all
time, and here was spoken one of the
few speeches which shall last through
the ages. As long as this Republic en-
dureS or its history is known, so long
shall the memory of the Battle of Get
tysburg likewise endure and be known:
and as long as the English tongue is
understood, so long shall Abraham
LincolnS Gettysburg speech thrill the
hearts of mankind.
The civil war was great war for
righteousness; war Waged for the
nOblest ideals, but Waged also in thor
Oughgoing, practical fashion. It was
one of the few wars which mean, in
their succesSfIA outcome, a lift toward
better things for the nations of man
kind. Some wars have meant the tri-
umph of order over anarchy and licen-
tiousness masquerading as liberty;
some wars have meant the triumph of
liberty over tyranny masquerading as
order; but this victorious war of ours
meant the triumph of both liberty and
order, the triumph of orderly liberty,
the beStOWal of civil rights upon the
freed slaves, and at the same time the
stern insistence on the supremacy of
the national law throughout the length
and breadth of the land. Moreover,
this was one Of those rare contests in
which it was 70 the Unreasonable in
terest of the vanquished that they
should lose. while at the same time
the visitors acquired the precious priv
ilege of transmitting to those who came
after them as a heritage of honor for
ever, not only the memory of their own
valiant deeds, but the memory of the
deeds of those who, no less Valiantly
and with equal sincerity OF purpose,
fought against the stars in their
courses. The war left to US all. as fell
IOw-cOuntrymen, as brothers, the right
to rejoice that the Union has been re-
stored in indestructible shape in
country where slavery no longer mocks
hoo of don md a q 10Th
to rejoice with exultant pride in the
votion, alike of the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray.
''But the soldiers who won at Gettys-
burg. the soldiers who fought to a fin
ish the civil war and thereby made
their countrymen forever their debtors,
have left US far more even than the
memories of the war itself. They fought
for four years in order that on this con-
tinent those who came after them, their
children and their children's children,
might enjoy a lasting peace. They took
arms not to destroy, but to save liberty;
not to overthrow but to eSta bliSn the
supremacy of the law. The crisis which
they faced was TO determine whether
or4not this people was ht for seif-gOv-
eminent and therefore fit for liberty
Freedom is not a gift which can be en-
joyed save by those who show them
selves worth of it. In this world no
privilege can be permanently appro-
priated by men who have not the power
and the will successfully to assume the
responsibility of using it Alright.
1.-THE lessons they taught US are les