The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-31
PATRIOTIC GRAFTON IS
DELIVERED BY J. FRANK
.HANLY AT NOBLESV|LLE
Decoration Day Address Makes
Lasting Impression on Big
Audience.
DUTIES OF THE CITIZEN
Speaker Says Loyalty of Soldiers
Should Inspire People to
Better Living.
DUTIES OF THE CITIZEN

NOBLESNlLLE, Ind. May 30.-In spite
of rain and mud and darkened skies the
people of this city observed Memorial day
in a beautiful and impressive manner.
During the morning the G.. a. r. w. r.
c., Sons of Veterans and the civic orders
of the city marched to the old and Crown
land cemeteries and decorated the graves
of the soldiers buried there. This after
noon at the NJ. Z. Church thousand peo-
pie met TO hear the eloquent address by the
Hon. j. Frank Hanly, Republican nominee
for Governor. 1t of the most
eloquent and patriotic addresses ever de-
livered in the city and made a lasting i'm
preston upon his audience. Mr.. Hanly
was at his best and was thoroughly
aroused to the patriotic occasion. He said
in part:
This day, with its beautiful and sacred
ceremony of flowers, is for ALL In the
democracy of death all are equal In the
republic of the grave there is no rank
And in the heart of the Nation where are
stored and enShrined the memories of
century and twenty-eight years of history
history replete with sublime achieve
ment and unselfish and courageous sacri-
fice-there is no Partially for shoulder
straps star. The little drummer boy
with crushed and faded cap, and the great
captain, with gold-trimmed and plumed
chapeau, are alike, the recipients of
our gratitude and affection. Between
them we make no distinction in
On the walls of the Nations memory the
musket and the sword, the blouse and the
star. hang side by side. Each is a badge
of spotless fame and fadeless glory To-
gether they constitute a priceless heritage.
The nameless private who sleeps beneath
the pines of the Southland is dear to
the great heart of the people on this day
as the mghtiest general who rests in the
sacred soil of Arlington, or as the great
Captain who sleeps on the banks of the
beautiful and historic Hudson. Private
and officer. chieftan and man, are all he
roes. Each made tender of all he had.
There was no reservation. lAll-life itself
was freely given. And no man hath great
er love than that. More than that the
measures of human greatness cannot hold.
Beyond that point comparison cannot be
projected. Within the finite there is moth
ing beyond IL. 1t is the ne plus ultra of
mortal valor.
CIVIL WAR A STANDARD.
I'VE measure courage, loyalty. devotion
and soldierly virtue. whether before or
after, by the standards and precedents of
the civil war. and we will continue to do
so for years yet unnumbered In the very
nature of things it is impossible that the
civil war will ever be duplicated. Five
centuries hence it will stand alone in it's
awful immensely, unequaled and unparal-
leled.
For these reasons 1 speak especially Of
that war, its lessons and the duties forged
in its heat and flame. Time has swept its
remorseless past. The thirty-nine years
that have interviewed since it's close have
softened it's asperities and filled the life of
the Nation with new thought and new pur-
pose.
1.-The soul wounds inflicted then are now
healed and are no longer painful. Our
grief is less heartbreaking and overmaster-
*,,l has cd solo mr.,
memory, forever associated with the rec
objection of those for whose coming we
long watched and waited. but who never
came. 1t longer embtterS corrodes.
To-day 1t falls upon our lives with the con-
selling tenderness Of benediction. 1t has
ceased to blight On the contrary, it en-
mobiles and inspires and stirs the hearts of
old and young on this anniversary, filled
as it is with ceremony and song and ora
tory and flowers, with a hlgh resolve OF
shrine we renew our faith In the Republic
| and in it's institutions
| ut is this fact that makes Memorial day
| the hottest day in the calendar of the &C
| cumulating years. A day of highest value
| to the people and of the rarest worth to the
| Nation. A day rich in the eXemplification
| of the duties and of the rewards of Ameri-
can citizenship. A day not for the benefit
of the dead, but for the good of the living.
What we do here is and can be, of no inn
| port to the dead. Asleep in death, they are
past our help. Careless of the sunshine
| and the storm, they are beyond our CEN
| sure or our praise We can add to them no
| glory. We cannot give them Immortality
| Their destiny. so far as the influence of our
| lives is concerned, is fixed, and fixed for
| ever. They no longer need us, but we need
| them. Without them-what they said and
| did and the history by them written-we
| would be poor, indeed, and good citizenship
would be for us far more difficult of at
| tainment. Because of our own needs we
! lives is to us like the beauty of the lilies;
| the memory of their good deeds like the
! fragrance of the roses; their virtues like
| the sweetness of ripened fruit. and their ex-
amples like unto lighted torches set at in
| tervals upon our pathway. In honorine
| them we exalt ourselves. BY the remem-
| brance of their devotion ennoble our
own lives and by eschewing their faults
and emuating their virtues we develop
| purer. stronger character within ourselves
and attain higher and more glorious citi-
| zenship.
RESPONSIBILITY OF PEOPLE.
Upon no other people rests so tremen-
dous responsibility. To meet it as becomes
our high estate we must dedicate our lives
to wholesome thought and righteous living
We must meet with strength and courage
! the civic duties of each new day Govern
ment must be more faithfully administered
and higher standards or private and OF
| public service must be attained. Graft and
! peculation must cease both in private and
public life. Bribery must have an end in
city, in State and in Nation. venal councils
and vendible legislatures must cease TO ex-
ist The well and source of power-the peo-
\ ple-must not be further longer corrupted
! either in their franchise or in their public
thinking. The greed of capital must be
| curbed and the unreasonabeness of labor
tempered. TO the end that the individual
citizen shall be no longer mulcted in the
| purchase of the necessaries of life by the
| unlawful combinations of the or the ar
bitrary actions Of the other.
| Generation of the law must be restored
| in the hearts of the people. Its majority
must be re-established among us. Every
man who willfully or corruptly steps out
! side the law IL is written is a public
| enemy and should be dealt with as such
Having himself drawn the sword he must
! expect to perish by the sword For years
| we have been and still are sowing the wind
and We are daily reap:ng the whirlwind ant
must needs continue to do so until we
| change the sowing. These homely
| truths, but they are wholesome ones and
have been already too long neglected by
I us a free people. If this day and its OBJ
servance shall create within us higher
| ideals of life and civic duty, call us back
| to religious ways and give us moral cour
| age to walk therein il will have been OF
lasting value 10 US ana TO our children