Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-01
REV. C. WHITE SPEAKS
Pastor Of St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Makes Address Of Day at Services
at ottumwa cemetery-chiIdren
strew With Flowers Graves of the
peparted-Many Attend Services.
FROM Tuesdays Daily.

FROM Tuesdays Daily.
Ottumwa paid fitting tribute to it's
soldier dead today. Notwithstanding
the threatening weather thousands of
citizens gathered at the Ottumwa Gem
etery this afternoon where impressive
ceremonies were held under the au-
spices Of Cloutman Post, No. SO, G. A.
r. A splendid address by Rev. Father
J. @. White, pastor of st. Patrick's
Catholic church of South Ottumwa,
WAS one of the principal features OF
the afternoon program and was heard
with the closest attention.
AT 2 o'clock the parade formed on
Court street with the right resting on
Third street. The column was halted
at the Court house and supplied with
flowers by the Women's Relief Corps.
The order of the parade was as fol-.
lows:
Platoon of police.
Chief Marshal W. H. G. Jaques, John
Mahon. ]. X. Dysart and Captain G. E.
Caughlan, aides.
Fifty-Fourth Regiment band.
Company G, Fifty-Fourth Regiment
/. N. G.
Sons of Veterans.
School children in charge of Past
Commander T. r. Buckley and Prof. A.
w. Stuart.
Cloutman post No. SO, G. A. R., and
all old soldiers willing to march.
Orator of the day and chaplains in
carriages.
Prof. j. H. Rheem and choir in car
riages.
Woman's Relief corps In vehicles
prepared for that purpose
Program at Cemetery.
Arriving at the Ottumwa cemetery
the school children under the direc-
ton Of Charles Bachman and e. M. B.
Scott were placed one at each grave
and supplied with flowers. A military
salute was fired by squad from Com
pany G and was followed by a bugle
call when the children placed the flow
ers on the graves. After this simple
and pretty ceremony the children re-
turned to the platform where the pro-
gram was given.
Charles Bachmsn, post commander
and president of the day, called the
meeting to order. After the Fifty
fourth regiment band played Nearer
Ny God to Thee" Rev. G. N. Tegnell,
pastor of the Swedish Mission
church, pronounced the invocation.
The choir under the direction of Prof.
J. H. .Rheem, sang Under the Daisies
Our Comrades Are Sleeping" in a
most effective manner.
Rev. Father White Speaks.
Rev. Father ]. c. White was the
introduced and spoke as follows:
y~A~ -
A. R., Ladies of the Women's Relief
Corps and Fellow Citizens: l am a
friend of the union soldier, whether
living or dead. l am always proud to
he considered his friend, and thank
you for the honor you have done me
IN asking me to be with you today. In
decorating the graves Of our heroes
we are but reducing to practice SEN
timent of the heart as old as human
ity. It was a practice of all the ma
lions of antiquity. Since Greece and
Rome decorated the tonbs of the he
roes whose deeds were sung by Homer
and Virgil, why should not we strew
flowers upon the graves of our nobler
dead--the men who fought and died
not for ACKNOWLEDGMENT or glory
but for that eternal principle which
proclaims the equality and brother
hood Of man. 1t is needless at this late
day to recount the causes of our frat
ricidal war, which claimed the vic
tins in whose memory we are assem-
bled.
Brave veterans of the grande.
army that ever shook the planet. they
and you have stricken the shackles
from the limbs of a million slaves pre-
served the union, and perpetuated to
grandest and freest government since
creations daw~ Seconding the sen
timent voiced oy the south's greatest
orator, I ON glad that the Omniscient
God held the balance of the battle in
his almighty hand, that human slav-
cry was swept forever from the Amer
lean soil, and the American union
saved from the wreck of war
Il glory in that union and love to
speak to this generation of those who
stood It's staunch supporters when it
was imperiled in those dark days of
discord and dissension.
Those men, who IN 81, put plead
Ing love aside, unclasped the dimpled
hands of prattling babes, fast locked
about their necks. parted from wife
and child because their country called;
boys who forced back their tears, for
sock a fathers house, the happy
home group, the love of maiden and
the joys of youth, and with mothers
kisses warm upon their lips went fol-
lowing the flag, who voluntarily ex-
changed peace and comfort and safety
for peril and hardship and danger, who
to maintain the union, willingly flung
their identity, personality, ambitions,
hopes, loves, their all, into the swift
swirl of that mysterious maelstrom,
which men call war
Those men who drilled, stood guard
dug trenches, stormed forts, marched;
to whom, if they survive, my words
today bring back the old blue uniform,