The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-30
Gen. Blacks Grafton
At Arlington Cemetery
of Memorial Day in National
observation-disclosures Deeds of Dead Gen
Grafton Inspiration to the Living.

prOgt esses may be in sunshine and in
peace, or through the tempests of
strife; but she advances, and when she
retrogrades it is through destruction
ana chaos, through such revolutions as
history but rarely chronicles and which
We pray God she NAV never record i'm
this. our land. And these men. build
ms, strong and deep the foundations of
righteousness and justice, have pre-
pdreu structure, every stone laid in
precious blood. within whose walls lib
crty may abide in safety forever. Not
m vain did they die; not in vain did
they live. Their sons have heard them
ana they will keep what their fathers
established
This Memorial Day.
1T was to memorize what these fallen
Americans did that this day has been
instituted. and with each year its OBJ
servance is more widely marked and
its high purpose more deeply honored;
arc 1t is within The reasonable hope
o. the survivors of the great war that
when the latest era in time shall dawn
the American people will still annually
gather in the cOnsecrated places where
these dead rest, and tender them the
same deep homage that we here ten
der today.
The stout arms Of the Grand ARMY Of
the Republic. touched by resistless time
must lose their power. and all that wore
the blue must disappear; but led BY
those hands which upheld the flag. the
coming generations, with splendid tread
exulting In all that was good in the war
and pouring oblvion's balm upon ali
that was terrible. will throng through
the corridors OF time. and by these
5epuichral abodes while liberty IS worth
preserving and the land is fit to endure
Again. ! say no spark of resentment
glows amid the fires Of our devotion, but
We reach out our hand to every Amerl-
can. who. recognizing the great war and
Its results, accepts those results and
honOrs these dead o my cOuntrymen.
can you for one moment think what
would have happened IL these men had
failed? What would have advantageG
the long battle Of a thousand years ?
What awaited the Magma Charta and
the Declaration and the Constitution
OF the Union2
Pray for Peace.
I'VE. the aging men OF the war, pray
for peace. We believe II TO be the great
est blessing of Almighty God TO MS
struggling children: but we know that
peace can not endure save as It IS united
with righteousness. the righteousness
that respects the rights OF all, the right
eousness that gives TO each man a far
place In the great contests OF humanity.
We do not arbitrarily assign 20 any man
his exact position. but wherever his pO-
sition is all his rights therein should be
respected
come the fullest measure OF national
growth and unity. Then we may look
for the realization Of that dream which
puts the embattled republic secure IN
it's continental home all its flags alight
with glory. all its institutions beneh-
cent. all working toward the upbuild-
ing Of humanity and the advancement
of American ideals, which. in that time
wiz not be American ideals. but viii
be the world ideals which the phil
osOphers and friends Of humanity and
he
brated and dreamedof and hoped for
from the beginning until now. For these
dead tina lie here. l. In behalf OF their
comrades. claim your fullest regard.
Saved the Republic.
They kept the Republic among the
nations OF the earth: they established
IL beyond overthrow; they have made
it an asylum; they have banished from
its midst unruly power; they have de-
creed the wide prevalence of law, and
over the Republic and through all its
borders they have set the flag Of the
fathers. OF freedom, OF justice and OF
..The flag has come Blackjack TO
every ancient pathway where once strife
ruled; back TO every hamlet, back 20
every lonely grave; back 10 the eta
dels Of our legislation; back to the cap
ftals OF all our States; back 20 all the
graves Of our dead, and there II Will
abide forever
ana now ptAoTN We vi - ~ sAt''N%-'A
year from this exalted place let US for
a moment think of the individual men
whom we knew and who gave their lives
for liberty
In the deep sleep that men call death
This warrior long hath lain;
Come forth from the four winds, Breath,
And breathe upon the slain
And he shall rise again from out his lowly bed
And speak 70 men as speak the deafness dead.
The Matchless Dead.
THESE are deathless dead. They live.
they move they breathe. The earth is
filed with their matchless fame, and
history's page is aglitter with their glo-
rious deeds. Their banners rise higher
I'm the skies; their exploits take on no
bier vision: the great things that they
did and suffered are part OF the heritage
Of the world. and from each grave,
whether here amid the ranked thous-
ands or in far forest and fen, OF on the
consuming sea. there rises the shade of
and 1 knew. who died that liberty might
live and whose spirit in this shining
hour pointing TO HIS lOwly place of rest,
can say in the prOudest words on the
proudest tomb OF all the past,
Go. stranger. and TO the Union tell
That here at her behest I fell
He is the proudest figure in time. No
wTeathed conqueror whose sword drips
blood and whose Iaurels are stained
with tears can compare with the sim
pie. gentle, and splendid soldier Of the
republic for whose coming all the ages
nave waited and wawkt awktwkatkw
all time will contribute