Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

citizens of Ripton about the virtues of
the Morgan horse, you have them in
your midst. The women of Vermont
have been as loyal and true as her ever
lasting hills, from Ann Story who lived
in her cave among Indians and Torres
upon the bank of Otter Creek, to the
thousands of brave noble women who
babe their husbands, sons and lovers
good bye and God speed in the dark
days of the nations peril from, 81 to s..
Ethan Allen once said that the Gods of
the valleys were not the Gods of the
hills. Surely with her green hills and
fertile fields her past history and her
present flourishing condition of farm
and quarry and work shop; there is ho
reason why the people of Vermont
should not be contented prosperous and
happy.
And what of the future? Do we
realize that 100000 emigrants are land
ing on our shores each year, largely
Italians, Hungarians and Russian Jews,
which are to be educated, employed,
assimilated and converted into good
American citizens, that we have COM
menced one of the most stupendous
undertakings ever conceived by man.
the construction of the Panama Canal?
Corruption and graft in our great cities
and anarchism, are among the things
which threaten the very life of the Re-
public. Are we equal to the great
questions which confront us: l believe
we are. Tie American people have
met and solved aright.s all the great
questions of the past and | believe they
will continue to do so in the future.
am pleased to see so many school
children present on this occasion. 1t is
eminently fitting and proper that the
children should be prominent factor in
the proper observance of Memorial Day.
believe the free public school to be the
bulwark of the American Republican.
The boys and girls of today are to be
the fathers and mothers of tomorrow
and if this nation is to be preserved it
must be by and through them. The
boys who are being trained in our pub.
lie schools, are soon to become citizens,
and rulers of the State, and it behooves
us one and all to see to it that their young
lives are inculcated with patriotism,
love of country and respect and devo-
ton to its flag and its institutions
Then let us all strive to make this
country of ours better, greater, grander,
more prosperous. law abiding and God
fearing in the future than it ever has
been in the past so that the proudest
words "a man on this earth can utter
will be, am an American citizen.
Members of J. j. Hale Post Grand
Army of the Republic your ranks are
being rapidly depleted by the hand of
time. but you have the satisfaction of
knowing that YOU participated in the
most gigantic rebellion in the Worlds
history. that YOU fought upon the right
side, that sccess crowned your efforts
and that grateful people will ever hold
in kind remembrance your patriotism,
your sacrifices and your deeds of valor'
'when the years of earth are over and the
cares OF earth are done,
When the reign of time is ended and eterni.
ty begun;
When the thunder of Omniscience on our
wakened senses roll,
And the sky ABOVE shall wither and be
gathered like a SCROLL
When among the lofty mountains and across
the mighty sea,
The sublime Celestial bugIes shall ring Out
the reveille;
Then shall march with brightest laurels ano
with proud victorious tread,
To their station up In Heaven. our Grand
Army of the dead"
CHARLES S. DANA.
May 80, 1905, Ripton VT.