The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-05-30

tion that the average man among III
on the whole does his duty bravelN
loyalty and with common sense, IL
whatever position life allots to him
National greatness is Of slow growth.
1t can not be forced and yet be stable
and enduring; for 1t Is based funda-
mentally upon national character, and
national character is stamped deep in
a people by the lives of many genera
tions. The men who went into the
army had to submit to discipline. had
to submit to restrain through the
government of the leaders they had
chosen. as the price of winning. So
we. the people. can preserve our lib
erty and our greatness in time Of
peace only by ourselves exercising the
virtues of honesty, Of self-restraint
and of fair dealing between man and
man. In all the ages of the past men
have seen countries lose their liberty.
because their people could not re-
strain and order themselves, and
therefore forfeited the right to what
they were unable to use with wisdom.
Use Liberty Tsmpsratsly.
civil war both knew how to use lib
erty temperately- and how to defend
it at need that we and our children
and our children's children shall hold
you in honor forever. Here, on Me-
mortal day. on this great battlefield,
We commemorate not only the chiefs
who actually won this battle; not
only Meade, and his lieutenants, Han
cock and Reynolds and Howard and
Sickles, and the many others whose
names flame in our annals; but also
the chiefs. who had made the Army of
the Potomac what it was, and those
who afterwards led ii in the cam
paigns which were crowned at Apo
mattox: and furthermore those who
made and used its sister armies:
Mcclellan. with his extraordinary
genius for organization: Rosecrans;
Buell.: Thomas. the unyielding. the
steadfast; and that great trio, Sher-
man, Sheridan. and last and greatest
Of all. Grant himself. the silent SOL
der whose hammer-like blows finally
beat down even the prowess of the
men who fought against him. Above
all We meet here to pay homage to
the officers and enlisted men who
served and fought and died. without
having. as their chiefs had. the chance
to write their names on the tablets
of fame; to the men who marched
| and fought in the ranks. who were
buried in long trenches on the field
of battle. who died in, cots marked
nj tU hxs taaH In thA t.l.
who. If they lived, when the war was
over. went back each to his task on
the farm or in the town, to do his
duty in peace as he had done IL in
war; to take up the threads of his
working life where he had dropped
them when the trumpets of the ma
tion pealed to arms. Today. all over
this land our people meet to pay rev.
erent homage to the dead who died
that the nation might live; and we
pay homage also to their comrades
who ere stili with us. e.
All Are United.
.All narc 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 life for his duty AZ
he saw IT; and all should he at one in
learning from the deaths OF these
men how to-live usefully while the
times call for the performance Of the
countless necessary duties Of every
! day life, end how TO hold ourselves
, ready to die nahly should the nation
ever again demand OF her sons tho
uiDEsate prcof of loyalty 49,