The Newtown bee., 1905-06-09

hem, at the point of the.bayonet and 1y the fire of our guns, respect for our selves and respect for our flag; only in this way could we be able to do them | my good and bring them at last, as we have brought Cuba, out from slavery into freedom and from despot- | ism into government that commands respect.
 What were these blessings of which l the war bore full crop? There was THE BLESSING OF TEACHING MEN TO
 COMMAND AND OBEY. It is the man who has survived who knows how to lead the line. It is the boy who has been trained in the drudgery of farm work and by diScl- pline of chores who goes into the city and soon takes foremost rank among the captains of industry. The war taught men how to obey. Alas, that we have fallen upon a generation which seems to have lost out of it's vocabulary the word obey. There seems to me nothing finer in all history than Keenan's last charge. It was at the battle of Charlottesville. "StOne- wall" Jackson with his 20, 900 men had put our Eleventh Corps in utter rout They were flying through a lonely patch of pine woods. Nothing, it seemed, could save the day. Suddenly Gen Pleasanton whirled to where Major Keenan was sitting with his 300 men. "Major," exclaimed Gen Pleas anton, "yOu must ride into those woods and keep Jackson's men in check until can re-align my guns. You must do it.' The reply came sharp and quick: "General. it is as good as saying that h. lxS1 1a1s hI1f ci it, we will go." Their swords glint- ing in sunlight, leaning hard forward in their stirrups, Keenan's men prick ed across the field into the patch of lonely pines. They did what was ask ed of them. They held Jackson's men in check until Pleasanton re-aligned his guns and fired them, dou ble-s e-shotted, into enemy's lines. Even "SGOnewall' Jackson could not resist such a 'raking lire. The day was saved; but not one, not one of those 300 brave men ever came back. Fighting in their stirrups they perished, not because some one had blundered, but because they knew nothing else than to obey.
 What other blessing shall we gather from the shaaf of the war?
 THIS, HERCIsM APPLIED TO ALL DE-
 APARTMENTS OF LIFE.
 know of no greater danger that faces our Commonwealth than this. l do not forget greedy monopoly or selfish wealth or the tides of low immigration or MOrmOnism or any other evils inn ported or native-bOrD; but l fearleSSly say that the greatest of all our dangers is this, that men will act as lions in the hour of the nations peril, butsbecome sheep and sycophants in the time of peace. These days of bursting gran aries and gathered store are producing laws that are only loopholes by which men escape from paying to others their rights, citizens who will not un- dertake duties that augur hardship bilities of life. Oh! for g re-baptism of the spirit of the men who charged up the steep at Lookout Mountain. when g Confederate officer viewing the forming of the lines at the base said, "I verify thought that those men had gone clean mad?" Let us have sea- soning of that courage which burned in Grants breast when, after the first days fighting at Pittsburg landing, assembling his officers for conference he remarks, "Weli, boys, we have been beaten to-day, but we'll whip them out of their boots tomorrow. The men who match we'll to the demands of war are the Men who respond to the de- the battlefield of Antietam when the Federal forces were hurled against Lees right, an Ohio regiment was sta tioned at the left Of the bridge upon which was centered Lees terrible fire of shot and shell. To the rear of that regiment were the supply wagons in charge of young comm niSSary ser geant. As the battle grew hotter this young sergeant thought those at the front would be wearied with the fight ing and would need soMe refreshment. Without orders from any superior of ficer, this young sergeant loaded his wagons with stores and drove them in- to the thick of the fight. Tine soldiers were refreshed and stood the more steady against the terrible fire. The general in command of the Ohio regi ment recommended that this young sergeant be raised in rank for bis brav- cry. His request was compiled with. Who was this general Commanding this Ohio regiment? Do you not know him? The regiment was the 23rd Ohio, and it's commander was Ruther ford B. Hayes, the 18th President of the United States. Who was this you young aaH eommissary ts sergeant, who, a with oOO HtAS%H fSoA44 onRStAoA OtifSOA3 brought refreshment to these men in the thick of the fight? Are you not familiar with the incident? It was
 WILLIAM MCKINLEY, THE aKANDEsT
 PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD.
 Are you not glad, comrades of the Held, that the war is oyer? Are you not glad that Grant and Lee met at A ffnVp unI ntad tI1of terms of peace were con- cluded under that famous apple tree? The men who followed Lee and Jack son and Longstreet and Johnston strike hands to-day with the men who l followed Grant and Sherman, Sheridan l and Hooker. Oh! tell you men wno l looked into each others eyes along rifle l barrels are the men who knCW how to shake hands. If the settling of the , that grew out of the war had been in the hands of mep who hands Of those who went South with 1 that they might fill it with 1 spoil, the horrors of the Recopstruc tion period would not to day be chap i ter in our eo4ntry's history that we should all like to wipe out, Was it not ] Captain Philip, of the battieshin 'Ohio," who, when the commander )f the "Viscaya' handed him his sword. turned his hand away, refusing to receive the sword of one who had fought with it so bravely? Is not that title incident worth recalling, that Fighting Bob" Evans when the opaniards were lowering their flag on the "Oquendo' and his tars could not -epress cheer, motioned to them de- Don't cheer, boys; don't you see they're dying over there?" WaIlld that the Cnirit that amin tad