The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-31
IN MEMORY OF BRAVE
MEN DEAD
Continued from Page u


Memorial Day address to the veterans
He said in substance:
Veterans of the War. Sympathetic
Friends, All: Forty and five years have
passed away since there sprung in
to existence, as in no other time, mighty
armies in response to Lincoln's call fol
volunteers. Created almost out of moth
ingness these armies at the beginning
were poorly equipped, without train
ling, and without officers. Oh, the glori
!ous history of that war that has called
out in the lessons derived therefrom
heroic devotion and self-sacrifice, bril-
liant achievements that marked the
whole course of the war of 81. Never
will it pass from the minds of the
VETERANS here present, or throughout
the world. memories of those days
Wei will they remember the tattere6
uniforms, the unbeatable infantry, the
unconquerable cavalry, the wild
| charge, the roar of battle and at times
the terrible retreat. We sons Of veter-
| ans, who glory in the days of the past
| who hung at our fathers knees eager
| to gather the story of that war, will
| always remember the past as well as
our children and our children chill
dren, the story of those days as it has
| come to US. One of the armies follow
ed flag in that war, created in the
| din and roar of battle, and after the
four years it was fought for it dis
appeared from the earth. The other
army followed the glorious old Stars
and Stripes, created in the days of the
Revolution.
Thirty-seven years after the opening
Of the Civil War another war broke
out and then our fathers from the
North and from the South WED with
each other in seeing who would be first
ready~to respond to the call of the ma
ton, and South and North and North
and South fought side by side to prove
that there is only one American nation,
that there is but one flag and that the
glorious Stars and Stripes.
Soon after the Civil War, one fair
Sunday in the month of May the peo-
pie gathered together and with music.
flowers and song and prayer dedicated
the decoration of graves of those who
had fallen in the strife That act in
itself brought out the greatest feeling
throughout the United States. It was
the symbol that the perils of war were
over and there was ushered in a reign
VI pSciCc anu year ny year lDdt SlillplS
service has by deep conservation ce-
mented the union of this great nation.
Naturally, directly after the great
war, it was the personal element that
made Memorial Day so attractive
Many We're the graves that were dec,
GRATED; many the friends that gathered
around to decorate the graves md
naturally as the years have gone by
that personal element has somewhat
disappeared and today we commence
rate the ideals of the American so!-
der. We see the ranks of the veter-
ans grow thinner year by year. Theirs
is an army to which there can be no
recruits. The artillery of time is max
ing terrific ravages in their ranks, but
while they live Memorial Day will live
and flourish. And when they have all
passed away Memorial Day will still
live in the Sons of Veterans and when
they have passed away the glorious
ideals will live in their children
Today. all through the broad land, ,
East and West and North and South
and even in these islands of the sea
We see people gathered, together to do
honor to the day. Let no man make
You believe that this day will die. 1t
is not So This day represents freedom.
1t is as old as the world. 1t has found
its greatest response among the Ameri-
can people. We cherish its principles
and pass them on to our children This
same principle was evidenced in those |
who fought at Lexington and hung on
the retreat from Concord, and faced
death at Bunker Hill and experienced
the horrors of famine at Valley Forge. !
This principle is imbedded in the hearts
of the English people from Runny-
mede to Gettysburg and to the terri |
BILE charge up san Juan hill. This
principle of liberty is what we celebrate
today.
We have two national holidays, the
Fourth of July which uShered in the !
birth of the nation and Memorial Day
the preservation of that nation.
The war teaches US of couage in the
standing up for principle, of standing
by the truth and sincere self-sacrifice.
You veterans of the. war. you know
what all this means. AS the years go |
by it crystallizes in your memory
What then is the lesson for US. not in |
words only. but in deeds. Let us train |
our children also in the way you have |
trained your children. 1 shall ever re- |
member the lessons I gathered at my |
fathers knee as he told me of the war |
of 81. Never can I forget those stir |
ring campaigns of three years. They |
have become a part of my life an in |
spiration to me and will ever remain
with me and will be transmitted to my
children and to their children and on !
down through time so long as this ma
ton shall have before it this day Of |
memory. Show the children the graves
Of the soldiers; let them understand the
meaning of such names as Washing
ton. Lincoln. Grant and Lee.
This Memorial Day shall never pass
from our understanding. Never let us
hear that this day is liable to die be-
cause of lack of sympathy. People
come in increasing numbers to these