Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-31
Observation-Disclosures
Hon. N. E. Kendall Speaks to
Large Des Moines Assembly
Memorial Day
THE eIsT OF HIS REMARKS
No Place in the Territory of This West
ern Continent For Any But American
Institutions, and no Room in Atmos-
phere of This Western World for Any
but the American Flag.
,ecial to Times Republican.

here on Memorial day was that by Hon.
N. Z. Kendall yesterday afternoon at
the Auditorium. Mr.. Kendall was at
his best and spoke to the assembled
veterans young and old with much
feeling. In the course of his remarks
he said:
Nothing it seems to me could be
more gratifying to all the soldiers living
and t., all the soldiers dead, could they
be conscious of it, than the reflection
that their unrivaled exploits are re-
counted with solemn but exultant ap-
prevail upon almost every public oc-
casioln. So long as we entertain the
slightest sentiment of gratitude, so
long as we appreciate liberty, SO long as
we extol loyalty, just so long VIII we
preserve the splendid history of the
most gigantic civil struggle in the an
nails of humanity. The soldiery of any
country represents the physical SOW
ereianty of that country, and no nation
can organize an army so imposing or
so powerful as We're those invincible
battalions which mustered under the
stars, and stripes from 1861 to 1860. NO
solidery ever entered field with more
noble purpose and none ever emerged
with record of more glorious accom-
plislment. 1t is appropriate then that
at this hour we temporarily abandon
the ordinary activities of business and
professional and laborious life. to COM
menlorate the bravery Of our immortal
patriots. This is not holiday, II is a
holy day, dedicated to memorial cere-
monies for the men who persisted in the
cause of freedom. When our beloved
flag was insulted, when our territorial
Integrity was threatened, when our
national life was assailed, they prompt
ly responded to the appeal of President
Lincoln and cheerfully embraced self
imrnolation to secure the perpetufty OF
this government Of the people, by the
people and for the people; and TO make
forever positive the certainty that that
government after having been baptized
in the sacred blood OF the revolutionary
fathers, should not perish from the
earth, but that it, under God, should
have everlasting life. And tell you
here, this afternoon. my countrymen,
that every man who volunteered to
rescue the grandest flag in all the skies
from dishonor is entitled to most lib
eral recognition from his grateful gov
errlment Every man who surrendered
his life that we may live must be en-
rolled with the redeemed host on high.
And every man who starved to death
in a rebel prison pen must be lmme-
tliately admitted to the most transcen-
dent ecstasies Of the New Jerusalem.
And every splendid woman In this
country who saw the light of her eyes
ard the love of her heart so forth to
conquer the vicissitudes OF war; and
babe him God-sped and Wept for him
ard yearned for him and prayed for
him. must have her name inscribed IN
imperishable letters upon the most en-
during monuments to earthly glory
Turning to the subject of the more
recent war and its lesson of the reunion
OF our country, north and south, Mr..
Kendall said. after depicting the pre-
lilninary steps leading up to the con-
flict:
Then came our declaration of war
Il Il
unified this country as no other agency
could have accomplished. Party dis
agreements were forgotten in the ma
tional peril; personal differences were
silent in the presence of the Insult to
the flag. Instantly a million men were
ready to respond to the crisis, and they
came from every city. town. village and
hamlet In the broad commonwealth.
For the first time in generations there
was no north, no south, no east, no
west; only q common country whose
authority had been impeached and
whose dignity demanded defense. On
every crimson battlefield, on every CORY
battleship, in every sweltering trench,
at every deadly charge, the old songs
once sung to symbolic antagonistic
sections were rendered alternately and
indiscriminately by the grand orchestra
of aroused. enthusiastic. united Amer
lean patriots. Rebel General Wheeler
and the Federal general, Merritt, stood
side by side and shoulder to shoulder
under the flag of the free to protect the
home of the brave. Thus fortified we
proceeded from victory to victory, while
vengeance was ours. and until we had
Tcpdid. lddl Wdl was ooupiS hoiy We
cause it was in defense of liberty, In
defense of humanity. 1t was our SUI
preme privilege to emancipate a be-
leaguered people. to avenge fiendish
and brutal assassination. and once
again TO Danish European tyranny from
the occidental hemisphere. My friends,
do not know what your opinion may
be, but I have the profound conviction
that there is no place in the territory
of this western continent for any but
American institutions: there is no room
iin the atmosphere of this western world
for any but the American flag. And in
that brief but brilliant engagement
with Spain, whether with George
Dewey steaming over the torpedoes into
Manila bay, or with the redoubtable
rough riders at San Juan and FL Caney,
or with the peerless Schley at Santiago,
the American army and the American
navy achieved impertshable renown
and communicated a new and Illus
l{trious glory to the Respondent republic.
Again I say, ii is our common country
now Who intimates that reconstruct
ton Is an unfinished and impracticable
project? From Maine TO California and
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico, the veterans in blue and the
veterans in gray are unanimously CONF
mitted to the proposition that this is q
single country, with a single flag and a
single destiny. And thus in harmony