The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-06-01
kenosha's Loyal People Turnout
in Force to Celebrate the
Annual Memorial Day.
REV. BROWN AS The ORATOR
The Well Known Minister De1iv-
ers Address on the Subject
principles Affirmed by
the Civil War;"

the drum, keeping step as in other
days, the members of Fred S. Lowell
Post of the Grand Army marched to
the cemetery Tuesday morning and
again recalled the days OF war by
strewing with flowers the graves of
the soldier dead. The annual return
of Memorial day brought with it a pa
triotic spirit for the people and
though years have passed it is evident
that the sentiment of Memorial day is
growing stronger rather than weaker
Hundreds Of people gathered along
Main street to watch the march of
the veterans and many of them fol-
lowed to the cemetery to watch the
simple yet impressive ceremonies of
the day.
There were not as many of the vet
Grams in line as there was a year ago
and less than seventy-fve answered
to the roll call for the day. These,
accompanied by the members of the
Woman's Relief Corps, made their
way to the cemetery and on the sol
dier's lot the ritual of the Grand
Army was read. Later the buglers
of the new Kenosha Drum corps
sounded ''taps" and the assemb1age
OF veterans took up their work Of
dropping tears and flowers on the
graves of their former comrades-in-
arms. The different members Of the
post went to every cemetery in and
about the city and the grave of every
soldier, be he rich or poor, received
the same tender token of love and af-
lection. In the ceremonies in other
parts of the county the work was car
ried on in the same way.
After the ceremonies at the
cemetery the assemblage then re-
turned to Kenosha and gathered at
the Baptism church where services
we're held at IL O'Clock. The church
was filled with people who joined
heartily in the spirit of the occasion.
Special patriotic music was furnished
by the choir Of the church after which
Commander Likes introduced the
Rev. Harvey Dee Brown as the orator
Of the day. Mr.. Brown spoke on the
subject principles Affirmed by the
Civil War" He said in part:
''The simple and gracious act from
which you have just returned p1ac-
ing flowers upon the fag-marked
graves of those who, nearly half
century ago, fought the battles of the
Union-is being repeated in countless
places in the land today. If we could
gather together the memories and
emotions which find expression in
these scenes of love and add the spirit
of heroism and self-sacrifce which be-
longed to the dead, we should under
stand the inner meaning of such ex-
pressions as Our Country The
American Spirit, and the Heart of
the people,
But we seek today to dwell upon the
principles which inspire this spirit of
reverence and love, and are led back
to the historical scenes of the Civil
war.
The modern men who have come
into life since the conflict cannot fully
appreciate all that those times meant.
Only those who participated In the
scenes themselves can have the living
memory. There is record written in
their faces which cannot be read from
without but only from within and by
the soldier himself. But it will be
sign of decay if the time ever comes
when twentieth century men do aot
understand the principles which were
affirmed in the faceIof the world in
the civil war and have today an out
ward and visible symbol in the old sol
der with his crutch and empty sleeve
and the flower strewn mounds of the
heroic dead. And may God save the
race of men if the time shall ever
come when, failing to understand the
struggles which have marked the up
ward progress of the race and left
their bloodstains upon each tragic
century, they shou1d.Ilose also the
spirit of self-sacriice heroism and
dedication to a cause which character
lied alike the soldiers of the blue and
the soldiers of the gray.
The principles affirmed by the Civil
war include the primacy of the union,
the liberty of every man including the
downmost and the law of self sacri-
fee"
These principles Mr.. Brown ex-
planned and illustrated with quota
tions, poems and incidents for half an
hour and declared that they we're of
permanent value and that they were
still needed in American life and al
ways would be, and that it was neces-
sary that every age should under