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Memorial Day At The
Old Home OF The
Martyred Mckinley
And At Many Other
Places in The United
States and Abroad

GETTYSBURG. Pa, May 30.--Fol.
lowing the example set by President
Mckinley and others of his distin-
gilished predecessors in the executive
chair, President Roosevelt came to
Gettysburg today and delivered the
Memorial Day oratlon on the famous
! battlefield. srhe crowd was one Of the
largest that ever atkaA1ed similar ex.
ercises here and inc ri large dele
cations Of veterans from Harrisburg.
Philadelphia. Reading and other
noints. Governor Pennypacker pre-.
sided over the exercises and intro.
duced the president as the chief ora.
tor or the day. The president was
given an enthusiastic welcome and
his address was listened to with
closest attention by the large crowd.
He said:
The place where we noW are has won
a double distinction. Here was fought
one Of the great battles of all time,
and here was spoken one of the few
speeches that shall last through
the ages. AS long as this Republic
endures or its history Is known, so
long shall the memory Of the Battle
.Qf Gettysburg likewise endure and be
known; and as long as the English
Tongue is understood. so long shall
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech
thrill the hearts Of mankind.
The. civil war was great war for
righteousness; a war waged. for the
noblest ideals, but waged also In
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thoroughgoing, practical fashion. II
was one of the few wars which mean,
in their successful outcome, a life
toward better things for the nation cf
mankind. Some vars Lave meant
the triumph of order over anarchy
and licentiousness masquerading as
liberty. some wars have meant the
triumph of liberty over tyranny mas
querading as order but this victor
ious war of ours meant the triumph
of both liberty and order, the triumph
OF orderly liberty, the bestowal Of ci-
VII rights upon the freed slaves, and at
the same time the stern insistence
on the supremacy Of the national law
throught the length and breath Of the
land. Moreover. this was one Of those
rare contests in which 1t was to the
imms arable interest Of the vanquish.
ed ,thX rthey should lose, while at the
sanih 8 the victors acquired the
preeio,s &yilege Of transmitting to
those Wi. e after them. as her.
itage Of no forever, not only the
memory OIL own valiant deeds.
but the memb.y 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 fellow-country.men.
as brothers, the right 10 rejoice that
the Union has been restored in in.
Idestructiblc shape in country where
slavery no longer mocks the boast Of
freedom, and also the right to rejoice
with exultant pride in the courage,
the seif-sacriiice, and the devotion,
alike Of the men who wore the blue
and the men who wore the gray
He Is but poor American who,
looking at this field. does not feel
within himself deeper reverence
for the pation's past and a higher.
purpose TO make the nations future.
rise level 10 her past, Here fought
the chosen sons Of the North and the
South, the East and the West The
armies which on this. field contended
by long campaigning and desperate
fighting into such Instruments of war
as no other nation then possessed The
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.paigns. N the East and the Went
the columns advanced and recoiled.
.swayed from side to side. and again
advanced; along the coasts the black
ships stood endlessly on and on before
the hostile forts: generals and adj.
#mirals emerged into the light, sach
TO face his crowded hour Of success
or failure. the men In front foMght
the men behind supplied and pushed
forward those IN front; and the tii,al
victory was due 70 the deeds of Al
who played their parts Vol and man.
fully, in the scores of battles. Ii the
reserve, as commissioned officers.
or III the ranks wherever and when-
ever duty called them. Just SO Il
must VA for us III civil life we can
make and keep this country worthy
of ghe men who gave their lives tc
save II. only on condition that the
average man among us on the whole
does Ills duty hrayeiy. Loyalty. and
with common sense, In whstever pp-
sition life allots to him, National
greatness is Of slow growth. Il can
not be forced and vet be stable and
enduring for II Is based fundamentally
+. - tai .
upon national character. and national
character Is stamped deep In people
'by the lives of many generations.
The men who went into the army
had 90 submit To restraint through tho
eovefpment Of The leaders tysy lan
chosen, las tht price or wihAAg 30
ge.the people, can preserve cur liberty
and our greatness IN time of peace
only By ourselves exercising the
virtues Of honesty, of selfrestraint,
end Of fair dealing between man and
r.,:an III all the ages Of the past men
have seen countries lose their liberty,
because their people could not res.
train and order themselves. and there
fore forfeited the right % what they
we've unal.Ie 10 use With wisdom.
Il was because you men Of the civil
war both knew how 70 use liberty tom
perately and how TO defend i AZ need
that We and our children and curichIl.
trens children shall hold you IN honor
forever Here. on Memorial Dag, ON
this great battlefield. we commemorate
not only The chiefs who aft.-ally won
this battle. not only Meade. and his
iieaiaagnts, Iisncock aud Reynolds
and Howard nnd Sicklca. and the many
others whose names flame IN cur an
mails: but also the chiefs who had made
the Army Of the Potomac what ~ was.
and those who afterwards led II In
the campaigns which were crowned
at Appomattox; and furthermore
those who made and used It's sister
armies. Mcclellan, with his extra,
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ST. PETERSBURG May 30 News
which has reached the Russian author.
tiles since the battle OF Kin Chou com
pels the conviction that the advance
Of General Kuroki and the activities
OF ais scouts northwest and south.
west Of Fen Wang Ching. are parts
OF well executed feint 10 prevent
General Buropatkin from detaching
d strong orce to hamper General
Clm's II ations on Liso Tung pen
insula. njer the cover Of General
Kurokint screens i is added part
ol the Japanese army landsd at Taku
Shan and will be moved southwsrd
into The peninsula, while Kuroki at-
tempts TO mako Kuropatkin believe he
intends decisive engag mcnt with
him. This information would tend to
prove that the primary o1ject Of the
Japanese campaign all along has been
Port Arthur and that once that for
tfess Il IN their hands, unless an ex.
20 attack Kuropatkin, the Japanese
plan Il simply to make secure their
tenure and force the Russian com.
mander to assume the offensive. More
over there Is information that the
Japanese propose to storm Port Ar.
thur with briefest possible delay, az
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Splendid Tribute To Those Who Fell In The Great Con.
flict As Well As TO those Who Succeeded In /.
Writing Their Names High On The Living
Rolls OF Fame

severity Of the tishting is attested BY
the proportionate lossa loss I'm.
rivaled in any battle Of similar size
since the close of the Napoleonic
struggles; loss which in certain reg
iments was from three-fourths 70
four-fifths Of the men engaged Every
spot on this field has It's own asso-
Citations Of soldierly duty nobly done,
'of supreme self-Sacrifice freely rem
dered. The nanSs Of the chiefs who
served in the two armies from long
honor roll; and the enlisted men were
worthy; and even more than worthy,
Or those who led them. Every acre Of
this ground has its own associations.
We see where the fight Numbered
through and around the village Of
Gettysburg: where the artillery formed
on the ridges; where the cavalry
fought: where the bills were attack
ed and defended, and where, finally
the grtat Charge surged up the slope
only to- hreak on the summit IN the
bloody spray Of gallant failure.
But the soldiers who won at Gettys-
burg. the soldiers who fought to q
finish the civil war and thereby made
y L. .1 W .
their countrymen forever their debt,
ors, have left us far more even than
the memories Of the war itself. They
fought for four yearsin order that on
this contenent those who came after
them, their children and their chill.
dren's children. might enjoy lasting
peace. They took arms not ITO des,
troy, but to save liberty; not to ovel.
throw, hut to establish the supremacy
of the law. The crisis which they
faced was TO determine whether of
mot this people was fit for self-goyern
ment and therefore ft for liberty
Freedom Is not a gift which can be
enjoyed save by those who show them
selves worthy of it. In this world nc
privilege can be permanently ap
propriated by men who have not the
power and the will successfully to as,
sumo the responsibility of using l
right. In his recent admirable little
volume on freedom and responsibility
in democratic government, President
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Noble Sentiments. Country Can Be Kept Worthy
Only By Every Man Doing His Whole Duty
Victories Of Peace Greater Than Those Of War

Hadley Of Yale has pointed out that the
freedom which Is worth anything Is
the freedom which means self,gnyern.
ment and not anarchy Freedom thus
conceived Is constructive force,
which enables an intelligent and good
man To do better things than he could
do without il which Ii III Its essence
the substitution Of self-restraint for
external resiraint-the substitution
of form Of restraint which promotes
progress for the form which retaras it
This is the right view Of freedom; !;
but il can only be taken II there 81
a full recognition OF the close cnnnec.
tion between liberty and responsible.
lity in every domain OF human
thought. II was essentially the view
taken By Abraham Lincoln, and by
all those who, when the civil war
broke out, realized that In self-goy-
ernins democracy those who desire
to be considered flt TO enjoy liberty
must show that they know how to use
1t with moderation and Justice lii
peace. and howsto fight for II when It
is ieoparded by malice domestic Or
foreign levy.
The lessons they taught us are les.
sons as applicable In our everyday
lives now as In the rare times OF
great stress. The men who made
this field forever memorable did so
because they combinedl The power Of
.faait 70 q lofty Ideal with the spowsr
Of showing that fealty In hard. pracs
tical, conmonaense fashion. They
stood for the life of effort, not the life
Of ease. They had that love Of coun.
try. that love Of Justice. that love or
their fellow.men, without which power
and resourceful efficiency but make
a man 4 danger to his fellows Yet
In Addition thereto. they likewise
possessed the power and the efficis
ency:: for otherwise their high purpose
would have been barren Of result.
They knew hcW toact each for himself
and yet each how 10 act with his fei.
lows, They learned, that rare indeed
q
Is the chance 10 do anything worth
doing by one sudden and violent eg-
fort The men who believed thnt the
civil war would BIC ended in ninety
days. the men who cried loudest "on
to Richmond II they had the right
stuff Id them speedily Learned their
error: and the war was actually won
BY those who settled themselves stead.
fastly down TO fight for three years, or
for as much longer rs the war might
last, and who gradually grew to under,
stand that the triumph would conc,
not by a single brilliant victory. but
BY hundred painful and tedious cam.
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN Peru !.
AND eRAzILREAcHEu.

NEW YORK. May ao.--faron Rio
Branco and SENIOR. yelard. ttae Peru
Wan minister, have practically reached
an agreement for the ssittement d the
Acre controversy. accafding 70 dis.
patch from Rio .Ianeiru but, The dis
patch adds. the basis ot settlement u
not made public, II Is reported in
rio Janeiro thai the Pcruvians have
repuIsed the Brazilians near the from
tier, but high officials declare The re-
port is untrue.
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Memorial services a 81. PauI,s

X Memorial Services At 81. Paul's
A gathering that filled the beauti.
ful audience room Of the Episcopal
church listened with deep Interest to
Rev Mf. French as he discourse,l
eloq,Iently on the heroisms u peace
At The morning hour, yesterday.
The Grand Army veterans. the Elks
and Red Men were present BY iuyi,
tation and each order was well rep
resentei Above the altar suspend.
ed from the high architrave Of the
roof TWO large American flags were
gracefully hung significant of the oc,
casion. The music was beautiful and
appropriate and the whole service i'm.
pressive and inspiring The choir
was composed Of Misses Furro and
Ross, Mr., yaeth and Mr. KInkel. with
Mrs. Gise at the organ.
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which were preceded BY parade q
veterans and others, Included N
dresses by Judge George w Wake
field and Others.
Monument Unveiled.
DURAND. Mich, May 80 h11td.
some granite monument in memory
lof the twenty.eight victims, rnzny a
them manslvd beyond recoKnition.
who perished IN the wreck IA the
Wallace circus train here last August
Twas unveiled today The shaft \ ~
Gray granite. thirteen feet nigh, and
lsuitably inscribed. The cost NJ
raised BY popular subscription among
lthe show people throughout tho
country
Worlds Fair Celebration.
/ ST. LOUIS. Mo-. May 80. The city
Of St Louis and the worlds fair Join
sd IN celebrating Memorial Day to-
| |day The local G. Al II. posts ana
lother organizations Of veterans. to-.
|gether with regulars from Jefferson
|barrackA marched through the prips
Eripaf streets Of the city and then
proceeded I'd the exposition eroundl-
|At The Blair monument the process.
|si0a was Joined BY the Philippine
|g,,4rtL constabulpry and scouts nov
|stfIoned at the fair, Arriving et
1fhe LDuisiapa manument inside ~
exposition grounds, the vetsrans a
banded ana rssocceded 10 Festival
hall, whore thss listened to addresses. Z
|by Major Warner of Kansas Cit5s
Judge Leo Rassienr, ex-comniandert
ohiet s0f the Grand Army Of ths ~.
public. and q number o. other srs6h
|efss
MonumeHt 10 Commander.
DAYTON. o., May so.-One Of the
principal features Of the Memorial
DIV celebration in this city was the
tedicstion of monument over "
grave d the late Harry Kssinger r.
Woodland cemetery Kisxinger w
.9ncs ex4s kfs apn,mander q the,
Sahiaa & R.. and dies' lest nail frcz5
injuries received In being thrcwd
from horse during g. a. X. parade.
Tomb Of Lafayette:
PARIS, May 30.--The tomb Of Lar
fayette was visited by many Ameris
cans today and was the scene Of ap-
propriate Memorial Day exercises n
accordance with the custom of many
years. Ambassador Porter and sew.
eral others delivered addresses. after
whick d number Of wreaths were de-
|posited about the tomb. -
Americans IN Rome.
ROME, May ao.--Flags were hoist
! ed on the American embassy and
church and many private houses to-
lday in Observance Of the American
Memorial Day. There we're no special
ICeTeHOHieS. 3
In Far Manila.
| MANILA, May 3o.- Memorial Day
was observed In Manila as b general
holiday Civil and military officials
attended special church ceremonies
this forenoon and aftcward th4
graves In the AmerNan cemetery wei Y
decorated, <
G. a. n. and spanish War Men. N
LOUISVILLE, KY. May 30.-Met
mortal Day was observed bere UNDER
the joint auspices Of the Grand Army
Iof the Tsepublic and the Veterans Of
the Spanish-American wa,. The.
Il -..s..s.. - r mn rtnt<.,. aotdt.r.s In ravA
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ASTEERFy TEERF[y ADDRESS BY NATIONS EXECUTIVE DELIVERED ON STORED
FIELD WHERE GREATEST BATTLE OF CIVIL WAR WAS FOUGHT

ordinary genius for organization;
Rosecranss Buell.; Thomasg the i'm.
yielding, fhe steadfast. and that great
tsIo, sherman. Sheridan. and last and
greatest Of all, Grant himself, the
silent soldier whos hammer,like
hlows finally beat down even tho
plowsss u The ,nen who fought against
him Aboveaa all wc meet here to pay
homage ID the officers ami enlisted
men who served and fought and died,
without having, ais their chiefs had,
the chance III write tlteir names on
the tablets al fame: to the men who
marched and fought III the ranks. who
were buried IN long trenches ON the
field nf battle who died IN cots mark
ed only By numbers hi the hospitals;
who. II they lived, when the war was
aver. went hack each 10 his task en-
the farm Or In the town, 70 do hts
duty III peace as be had done Il in
war. % take up the threads of his
working life where No had Dropped
Them when the trumpets Of the ma.
Etion pealed 10 arms. To-day. an owes
this land our people meet 70 pay
reverent homage TO the dead who died
that the nation might live, and We
Day homage also 40 their comrades
who are still with Us.
All are III one now, the soUs Of
those who wore the blue and the
sons nf those who wore the gray, anti
all can unite In paying respect 70 the
memory of those who felh each q
them giving bis life for his duty as be
saw II; ami ali should be at one ln \
learning from the deaths ~ thsss
men how to live usefnlly while tha
times call for the performance u the
countless necessary duties II every.
day lie. and how to hold oarselvts
ready to die nobly should The nation
ever again deuaud of her sd1s the
ultimate proof of loyalty
Al MekInIey's Home.
s4 sssrsi:y Z + tssiasss
lsa!s s,,@peraed l.pEe unaas asss me
populacs joined In commemorative
decoration day cevemoaies lat Ae
tomb of President Mckinley TIE
exercises Of the day were held ul,-
der the auspices Of the Grand Army
Of the Republic, From the many
choice flowers that arrived from
Washington. Cleveland, Chicago and
other cities Mrs. Mckinley selected
several large clusters to be placed at
the tomb of the late president
Cincinnati Celebrates. N
CINCINNATI, o., May 80. cincinl
natl observed Memorial Day by gen.s
cral suspension Of business. by large
parade Of Grand Army and Spanish
War veterans, children Of the public
,sclipes, city and county officials and
sariaas civic and patriotic organiza-
tone Mayor Fleischmann delivered
the principal memorial address ct
saring Grove cemetery.
impressive Ceremonies.
sOuIx CITY. Ia. May 30. The
most impressive Memorial Day cere.
monies ever carried out In this city
were those leading up 70 and includ-
ing the dedication Of 4 handsome sol
diers' monument in Floyd cemetery
today. The dedication ceremonies.
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All the Y NJ. G, a. boys who III.
tend TO SO on the three days tramp
starting Wednesday are requested 10
mset at the club rooms tomorrow
morning At o'clock 10 complete ar.
rangements. No one but those re-.
porting tomorrow morning will be al
lowed 70 go on the trip.
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JAPANESE CLEVER
PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

ter first closing the harbor to rem.
DIR egress of the Russian ships i'm.
possible AZ the last moment, thus
forcing the Russians to destroy them
without subiecting the Japanese to the
ineyitahle losses which must occur II
Inc Nussian squadron gets out for
last fight before going 20 the bot
tom.
Repairing Railroad.
LAO YANK, May Lieutenant
Colonel shirdonoff, of the fourth
Trans-Amur railroad battalion. has re-.
paired the line north of Kin Chou be-.
tween the stations Of Sininchen and
Van zalin and tomorrow will com.
plete the work between Bfangoy and
wa.andian. The Chinese are readily
offering themselves for employment.
A typho0n prevails which hinders the
Japanese landing operations and
heavy rains are spelling the roads.
The Russians, it is reported have
captured Japanese convoy.
Japanese Advance.
ST. PETERSBURG, May s0.-The
war office has received the following
dispatch from General Kuropatkin ua,
der today's date:
=, this morning RECEIVED q report
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stating the Japanese advance on
Kwang Tien has been begun from
Sainatsza The number Of the en-
eny Is not known"
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MRS. JAMES a. GARFIELD
LEAVES PASADENA

LOS ANGELES. May S0.r Owing to
IN health. Yrs James A. Garfield.
widow of the late president, has been
removed from her home at Pasadena
to carpcnteria for rest. She IL ac-
companied by her daughter, Mrs. stan
ley Brown. The illness Is not xors
ious. ~
- ~ tN
The Ladies Guild viii meet VIII
Mrs. n. ]. Taupert tomorrow aftesI
noon at 8 o'clock Fan astspdance y
desired as Il Is the last meeting -
fore vacation : llkEJ : AstlkAA2
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Free Single Tax Literature.
. Single Tax Literature will be sent
free to anyone who writes: for it. If
you will kindly send u.s. copy of the
issue containing this notice we will
send set Of pamphlets explaining the
single tax.
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Single Tax Information. Bureau,
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Paris omnibus drivers were working
ID to 16 hours a day for as low wage
as go cents-S francs: They are now,
thanks to a successful strike, receiving
to 5 francs for II to IA hours work.
Most Of the wages Of the French
workingman are spent on his storn-
ach. Rent may take $50 to $40 year
fuel Is very small item, and clothes
do not cut any great figure It is the
table that COST, and; thi S supplied,
Jean Main Is a happy man. What fol-
ly in the ruling classes to turn the
screws to the proint where the pres
sure drives the human French work.
ing animal to such desperation that he
erects barricades, pulls down monu-
ments clarifying the deeds Of his OPP
pressors, and, if successful, cuts off a.
few thousand <heads-usually the
wrong ones. .
So long as France insists on raising
the major part Of its needed revenue
for the support Of government from
taxes on consumption, it cannot be a
serious competitor against either the
United States Or England for the trade
of the world. There are some things
Ill "44SAA kA4c I1C11Nu cACclS ILLS LrdQG
is theirs by natural right There are
other things which. France does: well,
but her exhausted vitality prevents
her doing them econon ically. And
should the socialists succeed :fn,stf1efr
aim for a cooperative COMMONWEALTH,
I doubt very much II here IS suffi-
cient economic knoWled ges among
them to: make matters better the
chances, are they, would be made very
much worse. 8; B.s: Ut IT,
# A book might be written on the SUBJ
[sject OF. the resta,lra IS of Paris. which
are. patroifzed sby. .al Il classes Il and on
the custom s.of Il Isl ting out of !. doors,
either in the public. streets Or I'M the
eInb powered garden aeff= the vel o-do
l:1t IS q picturesnY custom and might
Ebe copied nanta 81 ~ other
com ties. zee countrie But
this letter g alread much too
long and so selose 81 the promise
.5of.saz Swiss. M
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SECRETARIES; PLEASE MAKE.
~ "a 81: NOTE OF tina Ill.,.

a.SS.We desire all unions III the. lefty to
appoint a. correspondent & for: THE
LABOR WORLD. All Items st 6 news
relating. to the different unions, the
members b and their families will Ebe
duly appree n. There =Is= no reason
why every union u the city should not
5beS represented In our columns every
week. I,et Us 3| .Ss
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next, where the initiative and refer
endum are in full force, but where, in
spite Of it. there. are marked social
and financial differences between the
governing and the governed classes.
JUDSON GRENELL.