The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-30
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chants the gaze; something that must
have stirred the breast OF our Redeem
er when he said that the great king
Solomon in all his glory was not ar
rayed like one of these" OF what
beauty must be this floral custom then,
when all the wealth of Sheba's Mins
all the pomp Of earthly power. cou
not in splendor raise the wisest king
to the level of the lilly that bio
SONS in the field. Year after year as
long as the rain falls. as long as the
sun shines and flowers grow. instead
of fading, as other memorials fade,
it will assume a richer hue ard draw
new converts to its vir~in fame. Fos-
tered by natures magical touch 1t wi
ever link the present to that which
has gone before. and never cease to
kndle the kindler sentiments of the
'ng for the dead.
This day which is consecrated by
this custom is not a day of mourning
1t revives no melancholy memories of
those that are no more. In thinking
of them as they were in life( thought
that is uppermost i'm every mind
this occasion) there is felt no pain OF
sorrow that is not mingled with de-
light. Though II may for moment
depress our spirits with sense of
loneliness, and Inc us to brood owe
our loss. yet soon a sweeter remem-
brance dspels every shadw from our
minds.
Who would stifle that thought and
seek to revive it no more?
Where" says Irving. where is the
mother that would willingly forget the
infant that perished Ike a blossom from
her arms. though every recollection is
a pang? Where is the child tha+
would willingly forget that most ten
der of parents. though to remember
be to lament? Who even when the
tomb has closed uoon the remains of
her he most loved. when he feels his
heart crushed as It were in the clos.
ing of its po- tails. would accept or
consolat on that must be bought by
forgetfulness
4NO lAtIc Is liOife tildl NouiQ.
remembrance Of our loved ones tha:
death has taken away is an heritage
of unvalued worth. There is a vol
from their abode that is music in T.
ar. 1t checks each startling tear and
heals the anguish of each stricke
beast. The tender recollect'ons it
awakens on this hallowed day redeem
IL hours from sadness and transform
them into hours of glad communio
with the loved ones of other times
We could not forget them and as the
years roll hy. let us grow moe arden
in expressions OF esteem. Let us keep
Their graves like the memory OF Their
virtues always green, and from those
verdant mounds that same sweet voice
will draw us closer to TIE ioveliness
s'de OF the tomb. AS we are assembled.
here to commemorate a custom tha.
has become national. we are inclin'
to think of that great struggle from
which it sprung. and of the heroes
and he~oines who made its events me-
morabe. 1t IS now a well settled con
Wet on that the Civil War could no.
have heen averted.
During that crit cal period prior {
its beginning when it was thought
thee might he some other wav to
adjust the differences between the
North and South, this country had
eowe of the ablest statesmen of he~
history: or of any other history. The
was Webster ard Lincoln and Clav
and rany others of like fame who
vealously strove to preserve the mu-
tual concord of the people. But II
efforts of these true patriots were all
in van. No political SKILL howeve-
t~anscendant. could unity the wrathful
and diFcordant States. or avert the
fearful struggle in which they wer..
about to engage. The inherent vice
! i'm the government was lying deep be-
yond the reach of every treatment
except the heroic remedy of war. II
seemed that even that last resort could
not remove the EVIL without destroy
ing the Union. Many important ques-
tions of civic policy had been decided:
on the battlefield before. but none
Taught with such vital consequence
to all mankind had eve- been contested
in war. The reader of history may
search its pages from Marathon "a
/ Waterloo and find no crisis. the final
determination cf which meant more T.
the human race. 1t was not whether
the slave should be delivered from
bondage, or that nation should bc
free that made the Civil War OF pc
ilous moment to humanity. Principles
; of that kind had often been contested
in the past and In many instances the
result had been favorable to liberty. II
was a different and graver question
now to be answered.
On this Western Continent. as if by
the hand of Providence. had been Sc
nation whose form of government
was unlike any that had ever been