Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-06-03

gazes toward the setting sun, wonder
ing If there is yet left TO him one inch
of the land Of his fathers. Our oppor-
tunities in Cuba and the Philippines
are great. and with our moral and fl
nanclal strength, God has made us the
possible defenders of all the OPP
pressed peoples Of the earth.
There can be no doubt that the
glory of this nation has been and is
its men, and notably, its line of great
presidents. We have had great ora
tors as Sumner and Phillips and Cur
tbs. great statesmen as Webster and
Whitman. great politicians as Blaine
and Mckinley great generals as
Hooker and Grant, great good men as
Hayes. Garfield and Arthur, and line
Of presidents almost incompatible in
their greatness.
| Among these. as stars of the first
magnitude, shine with increasing
brightness, the names of Washington,
/ the father of his country; Jefferson,
the author of that immortal Declara-
| tion of Independence Monroe, main
| tanning our guardianship of this
western world Lincoln, the Emanci-
| pator of a race; Cleveland, greater
than any political party, greater than
any congress, maintaining the dignity
of the presidential chair and the pres
tige of the United States among the
nations. even bidding our mother Eng
land hands off little Venezuela or
there will be trouble in the family;
and last, but not least. Theodore
Roosevelt, made vice president by
those who hated and feared him, lest
the people elect him to higher office
and thwart some of their gigantic
schemes. But Gods purposes are not
forever prevented. AS in the case of
Joseph, He took His own way to exalt
His servant, and / smile when these
same capitalists and politicians accept
the invitation of the chief, whom they
despise for his integrity and power
to confer upon matters Of interest to |
all of the people. Like Cleveland, |
Roosevelt is a poor politician, but like |
him, also, while he remains in office, |
he is first and Hast and all the time, /
President of the United States.
Such men as these we have pro-
duced and we are still producing
them. This is our assurance for the
future. that in adj the walks of life we
have many just such men as these;
and we will preserve the land which
YOU redeemed-the one. great, grand
mighty republic of the age, the asylum
of the nations and the hope of the
world
What though some are Indifferent to
the meaning of this day, a great null
m !
preach reverence for the men who in
the dark and stormy days between /,
81 and '65 wrote with their own
blood, in living characters those burn !,
ng words of Abraham Lincoln, Gov
.rnment of the people, and by the peo
1le, and for the people shall not perish !,
rom the EARTH" and reverence for the
sons who with Dewey at Manila and
at Santiago, repeated in
ones of thunder that echoed round the
world, the immortal sentiment of the
athers, that human oppression can not
i've on this continent, and reverence n
or the wives and mothers and sisters l
nd sweethearts. who fought the d
ravest battles of all of the wars on h
he battlefelds of their own hearts, o.
md we will ever pray the benedic p
ion of Almighty God upon you and W
our successors. b'
At the close of the services parade ol
-as formed in the following order: II
hief Marshal, Col George H. Bond; CO
ides, Luke Ferriter, H. F. Brooks, III
aymond S. Elmer of Bellows Falls i'm
nd Col. L. d. Taylor; First Regiment III
and. Company I, V. N. G.. Capt. E. OF
2. Gibson: Sedgwick post, G. A. R.; tr
alestine canton, l. o. o. F.. Capt. W. tn
Haigh commanding; orator. guests II
honor and disabled veterans in car tn
ages. The procession went first to pu
e Soldiers monument on the Com 70
on where prayer was offered by Rev. as
r. Miles; then to the Connecticut tn
yer bridges upon which brief SER Hi
ces in memory of the sailor dead wi
ere held by the Women's relief corps it.
ID school children; and finally to
'ospect hill cemetery where the us
/ exercises took place, delegations
pm the post going to Morningside tes
d the Catholic cemeteries. The line of
en- reformed and marched to the Be
Nn hall where dismissal took place. Jul
= Br
ilding yesterday shaking the struc- the
re and putting the 200 children into -
panic. They rushed out in disorder .ee
q some were quite badly bruised. ihe
yhtning also struck the big CHM !
Y at the Rutland-FYorence Marble rec
npany's mill at Fowler. scattering edit
cks, some of which were thrown of
,ough the skyLgnts INTO me % mil SUI
down the engineer, f. P. Thomp- -
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