Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-10-25
ADDRESSES GREAT THRoNG IN
DIxls'S CAPITAL.
LAUOS SOUTHERN VAL0R
Gives Praise to Civil War Soldiers
Who offered Their Lives as the
Measure Of Their DeVotion-Pros-
perlty in Place of the Desolation
of Conflict.

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large and administrative southern aud
fence. He addressed hims, ,artic-
ularly to the effects of the CIVIL war
and the remarkable fact that the bit
terness Of that great conflict had died
away.
The wounds left by the great civil
war have long healed, nut its mem
cries remain, said the president,
Think of il oh, my countrymen,
think OF the good fortune that isl
ours! That whereas every other war
OF modern times has left feelings Of
raneor and bitterness to keep asundei
the combatants, our great war has
left to the sons and daughters of the
men who fought, on whichever side
they fought, the same right TO feel
the keenest pride in the great deeds
alike OF the men who fought on one
side and of the men who fought on
the other. The proud self-sacritice,
the resolute and daring courage, the
high and steadfast devotion to the
right as each man saw it, whether
northerner or southerner these quail
tiles render all Americans forever the
debtors of those who in the dark days
from 81 to '65 proved their truth by
their enjeavor. Foreign observers
predicted that when such a great war
closed it would be impossible for the
hundreds OF thousands of combatants
to return 70 the paths or peace, They
predicted ceaseless disorder wild
turbulence, the alienation of
anarchy and despotsm. But the good
sense and solf-restraint or the aver
age American citizen falsiied these
prophecies, The great armies dis
/ banded and the private in the ranks
like the officer who nad commanded
| him, we1.t back 10 take up the threads
of his life where he had dropped them
when the call to arms came. 1t was
a wonderful, a marvellous thing, In a
country consecrated 10 peace with but
an infinitesimal regular army, TO de-
yelop so quickly the huge hosts which
fronted one another between the
james and the Potomac and along the
Mississippi and It's tributaries. But
it was an even more wonderful, an
even more marvellous thing, how these
great hosts once their work done, re
solved themselves into the general
fabric of the nation.
Only a heroic people could have
battled successfully against the con
ditions with which the people OF tn,
south found themselves face TO face
at the end of the civil war. There
had been utter destruction and disas
ter, and wholly new business and
social problems had to be faced with
the scantiest means. The economic
end political fabric had to be read
justed in the midst of dire want. oil
grinding poverty, The future of tn,
broken, warswept south seemed be
yond hope, and if her sons and laugh
ters had been of weaker nber tnert
would in very truth have been no hope
But the men and the sons Of the mer
who had faced with unfaltering from
, every alienation of coed and evi
fortune from Manassas TO to Appomat
toX. ANA the women, their wives aut
! mothers, whose courage and endur
ance had reached an eren higher
, heroic leyel-these men and thes,
women set themselves undauntedly Il
the great task before them. Fol
twenty years the struggle was hare
and at times doubtful. Then thC
splendid qualities Of your manhood
bound 10 tell. and the wealth Of YOU
extraordinary natural resources be
gan 10 be shown. Now the teemins
riches of mine and leld and factory
attest the prosperity Of those VINO are
all the stronger because of the trial:
and struggles through which this pros
perity has COME. You stand loyalll
10 your traditions ard memories;
you also stand Loyalty iur our grea
common country Of today aud Tor oui
common flag, which symbolizes al
that is brightest and most hopeful fol
The future Of mankind; you face the
new age in the spirit Of the age. Alike
in your material and N your spiritua
and intellectual development yor
stand abreast of the foremost in the
worlds progress.
"Our voice must be effective fol-
peace because it is raised for righte
BUSINESS first and for peace only as
the handmaiden Of righteousness. We
must be scrupulous in respecting the
rights Of the weak, and no less care
full 10 make it evident that we DO not
act through fear Of the strong. we
must be scrupuIous in doing justice
to others and scrupulous in exacting
justice for ourselves. We must be
ware equally of that sinister and
cynical teaching which would per.
suade US to disregard ethical stand
ards In International relations, and Of
the no less hurtful folly which would
stop the whole work OF civilization By
well-meant but silly persistency in
trying to apply to peoples unified for
them those theories Of government
and Of naiionaI action which are only
suited for the most advanced races"
Richmond's Hearty Welcome.
Richmond threw open ner gates to
the president and during the seven
hours Of his stay state and city on
Gals and citizens accorded him wei.
come, hearty and sincere. The presi
Dental train arrived a few minutes
after noon and from that moment I'M
til last night, when he departed for