Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09

full duty. and he is serving his country
| faithfully. and he is delivering the goods
| every day
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| seems shame to spring it en- your here,
| but it is the best that l have just at this
| time that printer. wherever he may be,
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As to Invidious Comparisons.
| Col B. F. Chase of the Grand Army was
the next speaker. He took occasion to add
! his denial to tic many which have been
made to the charge that Grand Army men
make ins-dious comparisons between the
veterans of the civil war and those of the
Spanish American war, and asserted that
all who fought for their country's honor
are entitled to equal credit and esteem.
Mai. y. e. L. Lecllie then delivered an
address, saying. in part: 1t is especially
| fitting that in this. the capital city, the very
heart OF he nation. there should be
wor,ty apprec alton OF the men who will
ingy offered their services and lives in the
national defense. in the hour when our in
by foreign enemy. Thrice in the course of
our national lie Rave we been in the
midst OF such crisis. The Spanish-Ame
lean war represents our last great conflict
with a foreign foe. and you, our honored
guests, are the heroes of this crisis.
THE war in which you engaged was COM
paratively of brief duration. 1t did not in
volve the suffering, sacrifice and bloodshed
of the revolutionary and civil wars, but, on
this account, you are not less worthy of the
gratitude and honor of the republic. You
responded with an enthusiasm to the call
of your country. unsurpassed by the SOL
diers of any other war, and you went forth
to battle. willing and ready to continue the
fight. without thought of suffering or cost,
until the principles for which the nation
contended were indicated by decisive vic
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nor cost SO much as other wars, it was no
fault of yours, un ess, indeed, the result be
charged to your superior genius.
while recognizing the loftiness of the
ideals that inspired the revo utionary and
the civil wars, the Spanish-American war
represents a still higher and nobler ideal.
The element of selfshness entered largely
into the revolutionary conflict 1t was
struggle to release ourselves from bondage
| of an expressing power. The civil war, too,
had in it selfish element.
! But the Spanisil-ATerican war marks
distinct era in history. The selfish element
, gas entirely removed from it. It was the
! sympathetic response of the heart of
| great, Christian nation to the cry of a dis
| treSsed, suffering people. This was the only
war in the history of the world inspired by
purely humanitarian motives. History re-
cords many wars to crafty revenge; to sat
isty the insatiate greed of national con-
quest; to settle vexing difficulties between
world powers. But history only records one
war where the nation staked all upon the
altar with but one purpose in view, that of
relieving the distress and suffering of a
foreign people. who happened to be located
at the gateway of our great nation.
You are the heroes of that war. The
war with which your name is linked marks
the highest mountain peak in the march of
civilization. You have given to the world
sublime example of the strong helping the
weak; healing the sores; soothing the sor-
rows and right:ng the wrongs of humanity"
March Side by Side
Maj T. Fl. Slime. president of the
United States Historical Society. in his
address said.
We have our Lincoln our Grant and
our McKnley-they will live in the
hearts of the people as long as time
lasts. You have your Roosevelt, whose
fame is worldwide-he too, will be re-
vered by the people, with the names of
Lincoln. Grant and Mckinley. They will
go down in history four Americans
who have served their country faithfully
and we'll.
If we have our Gettysburg that will
have place among the leading battles
of the world you have your Santiago,
which has carried our flag into the
orient. and bid the nations of the earth
respect it for the principles of equal
rights to all, and that a government of
the people, by the people, for the people
shall not perish from the earth
The veterans of the civil and Spanish
wars will march side by side in life's
established by Washington and the pa
triots of the revolution.
Others who made speeches were Capt