Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-06-02

ment, President Hadley OF Yale has
worth ANYTHING is the freedom which
means self government and not anarchy.
Freedom thus conceived is constructive
good man TO 60 better things than he
could do without 1t; which IS IN its es-
senec the substitution of self restraint for
form of restraint which promotes progress
fof the foin which retards it, This is the
right view of freedom; but it can only be
close connection between liberty and re-
thought. II was essentially the view
taken by Abraham Lincoln, and by al!
those who, when the civil war broke out,
realized that in self governing dem
ocracy those who desire 10 be considered
know how TO use 1t with moderation and
Justice in peace, and how to fight for 1t
when It is jeoparded by malice domestic
OF foreign levy.
Lessons for Today.
The lessons they taught US are lessons
as spp,icable In our everyday lives now
men who made this heid forever memo
@ Of fat ese % o e a e0 MS the
practical, common sense fashion. they;
case. They had that love of country,
that love Of Justice, tina. love Of their
follow men, without which power and re-
danger to his fellows. Yet, In addition
tneTe t. hsy sewse The payer
result. They knew each how to act for
fellows. 1hoS learned. as ali the genera
indeed is the chance to do. anything worth
The men who believed that, the civil war
who cried loudest ION to Richmond" If
they had the right stuff in them speedily
Learned their error; and the war was
selves steadfastly down to fight for Three
years, or for as much longer as the war
might II last, and who gradually grew to UNI
not BY a single brilliant victory, but BY
q hundred painful and tedious campaigns.
IN the cast and the west the columns adj
the black shipa stood endlesslv off and on
b before fol the hostile forts: generals and
face his crowded hour Of success or fail
urc; the mon In front fought; the men
behind suppiied and pushed forward
due 70 The Aceds of NIL who played their
parts we'll and mnnrully. in the scores of
battle In the countless skirmtshes, In
inissioned officers, or in the ranks wher-
ever and whenever duty called them. Just
so i must be for us In civil life. We can
men who gave their ives to save it. only,
on condition that the average man among
us on the whole does his duty bravely.
loyally ala With conf! on sense In what
as IN times of war courage is the car
dual virtue of the. soldier, so in time Of
Peace honesty, using the word in it's
essential basic virtue without which all
else avails nothing. National greatness is
Of slow growth. 1t cannot be forced and
20 hn gfy n fot
fundamentally upon national character.
and national character is stamped deep
IN peop.e by the lives of many genera
had to submit to discipline had to CUB
nit to restraint through tho government
Of the leaders they had chosen as the
preserve our liberty and our greatness
in time of peace only by ourselves exer-
e!sing the virtues Of honesty. of self re-
and man. In al! the ages Of the past men
have seen countr!ea loEe thcir liberty, be-
Gauge their people could not restrain and
the right to what they were unable to use
with wisdom.
The Deba to tho Veterans.
1t was because you men of the civil war
both knew hos to use liberty temperately
and our children and our children's chill
s.Fen saall hold YOU in honor forever.
ifere on Memorial day, on this great bat
chiefs who actually won this battle: not
only Meade and his lieutenants. Han
cock and Reynolds and Howard and
StcNes. and the many others whose
names flame In our annals; but also tnei
chiefs who had made the Army of the
Potomac what It was, and those who aft
were crowped at Appropriations and fur
'thermorc those who made and used Its sis
ter armies; Mcclellan, with his extrnor-
binary genius for organization; Rosecrans;
d.
fast; and that great trio, Sherman Sher- +
tdan, and last and greatest, Of all, Grant
like blows finally beat down even the
prowoss of the men who fought against
him, Above all we meet here to pay hom-i
servedand fought and died. without having.
as their chiefs had, the cnancc to writef
their names on the tablets Of fame: to
ranks, vino were buried in long trenches
on lhc tieid Of battle. who died in cots
n,arked only by INV; numbers ,,lr in tn, the hospitals
S @q Vent back each NO. to hts t task on the
farm or in the town, to do his duty In
peace as he had done IL In war;. to take
he had dropped them when the trunpets
OF the nation pealed to arms. Today, all
over this land our people meet to pay rev
age also 10 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 ltfe. for
hi. duty as he saw It; and all should be
at one in learning from the deaths OF
these men how to live useSuly while the
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-
inand of her sons the ultimate proof Of
loyalty