The National tribune., 1906-04-19
MEMORIAL DAY.
CommaAaef.fn-Chief Tanner Issues .
General Order.


HEADQUARTERS Grand Army Of the Re
public, Fendall Building, Washington
D. c., April Z, 1905.
General Orders, No. z.
Memorial Day.
On the eve Of my departure to thu
Southern, Western and Pacific Coast
Departments, am reminded Of the ear.
ly approach Of the day sacred to al
comrades Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic.
We have been observing the day ever
since our beloved Logan instituted Il
in 1868. This year, my comrades, we
ARE crossing the broad river at the rate
of 5000 q month. $4,000 q year: sOor
the great majority will be sleeping their
last sleep, and 1T is our privilege now
as 1t has been for so many years. to
pay loving tribute to their memory by
decorating their graves with flowers
which. starting forth from mother earth
with each recurring Springtime, are EN-.
blematic of a resurrection to a glorious
immortality.
| am but performing my solemn duty
when / ask all to assist in this loving
service. Upon Department and Post
Commanders the duty rests of attending
to the fitting observance of Memorial
Day, which this year will fall on
| Wednesday, May 80. Welcome all aux
Hilary and allied organizations. encour-
age schoo! children to attend and as
| sist. and secure speakers who, in clear
and eloquent language, will teach the
lessons Of patriotism for which our
comrades gave the last full measure
of devotion"
Confederate Graves.
| Thirty years ago, when 1 was Depart
ment Commander of New York, in a
Memorial Day order I then issued. I
| suggested to the comrades of New York
that wherever from Montauk Point to
Buffalo any Confederate soldier had
| found sepulcher among us, l trusted
| that when we went out to laurel the
graves of our Union dead that our COM
mon American manhood would prevent
us passing by the graves of our former
opponents without dropping thereon
some floral remembrance. Not" ]
said, "in honor of their cause, for that
we opposed. fought and conquered: but
| because we who met them on the field
of battle, know that drawer men or bet
ter soldiers have not been known since
men were first marshaled In battle ar
ray
| We were then scarce a dozen years
away from Appomattox. but the sug-
gestion seemed to meet with very gen.
eral approval. To the Order at large l
now confidently make the same sugges-
! ton.
| We have returned the battle stand
ards of the dead Confederacy to those
who treasure them as sacred memen-
| tos Of their loved ones who died under
them. The Congress of the United
States has just unanimously voted
100000 to care for the graves Of those
dead, and the heart of the Nation has
said. with great unanimity, at is Well"
| Untedly we march along the highway
of nations, rose bushes blossoming over
and around, and the birds nesting In
the mouths of the cannon that once
roared defiance and death at each 9TH
er. the world applauding, our conscience
approving.
If mothers of the South still sit like
Rachel Of old. weeping for their chill
dren." and refusing to be comforted be-
cause they are not, let the news go
down to them that on our most sacred
day we feel 1t a privilege to stand in
the place Of their far-distant kinsmen
and lovingly mark their last resting
place with Gods sweetest emblem OF
peace. flowers.
The old Flag has been rebaptized
since 1865 with the blood Of the North
and the South alike. and the Ship Of
State is securely anchored for all time.
The address at Gettysburg will be
read at all Memorial Day services:
President LIncoIn's Address Mt Gettys-
burg.
fathers brought forth on this continent
q new Nation, conceived In Liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that Nation or any
nation SO conceived and SO dedicated
can long endure. We are met on
great battlefield of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion Of that field
as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that Nation
might live. 1t is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But. in larger sense. we cannot
Idedicate-we cannot conservative
cannot hallow--this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember what
we say here. but 1T can never forget
what they did here. 1t is for US the
living, rather, to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. 1t is rather for us to be
here dedicated to the great task re-
naming before us-that from these
honored dead we take increased deyo-
ton to that cause for which they gave
the last full measure Of devotion-that
we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in yain--that this
Nation, under God, shall have a new
birth Of freedom-and that government
Of the people, by the people. for the
people shall not perish from the earth"
James Tanner. Chief.
John Tweedale, Adjutant- General.
Encampment OF the Department of New
York.
Department Commander James Nj.
Snyder, Of Albany. n. ", having ascer-
tanned that it would be impossible for
the hotels at Saratoga Springs to be
open on June Is, IA and Is, has am
nounced change in the date OF the
Encampment, which has been post
poned to June 20, FL and p.
\ WONDERFUL BUSINESS con-
Germ.
How the Chicago H0use WPeekinK Com.
pany Swings MilliOn-DOllar Deals
and Sells Goods to It's CustOli-
ers mt Less Than the Cost
Of Manufacture.
The Chicago House Wrecking Com