The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-31
UNWILLING OF
STATUE OF HERO
Continued from PAGE I


the Seventh Regiment band. the reading
of a poem dedicated to General Lawton
by James Whitcom5 Riley, the introduce
uon OF the president by Governor Hanly.
and President Roosevelt's address.
James Whitcomb Riley read his poem.
me Home voyage" written in honor of
General Lawton's memory when the body
was being brought home from the Philip
pines.
The curtain yelling on the monument
was then withdrawn by Miss Frances
eral.
Governors Address.
introducing President Roosevelt, Cover
nor Hanly said:
This, in and of itself is a great
occasion, but 1t would still be great were
all its other elements absent because
of him who Is to bear the principal share
in its ceremonies. The presidential office
is the greatest office in the gift of men.
IL requires a strong man to administer
A weakling would be quickly overwhelmed
by its responsibilities and lost amid its
lmmensities. But he whom ! now have
the privilege and the honor TO introduce
is at home in that great office Great as
it is, it is to him but opportunity, moth
ing more. By his own intrinsic worth
he has added distinction to its greatness
and luster to its fame. For him there
have been, there are problems Ladies
and gentlemen, the president of the Unit
ed States
President Roosevelt was given another
enthusiastic greeting when he walked to
the front of the speakers stand. The re-
Sepuon was equal to the ovation given
him when he first appeared on the plat
FORM President Roosevelt said:
Presidents Address.
For more than one reason am peculiar
~ glad that this year I speak on Memo
rial day in the state of Indiana There
IS no other class of our citizens to whom
we owe so much as to the veterans of the
great war. To them 1t was given to per-
r.-I,s Oh, oh
feat can be compared, for to them it was
given to preserve the union. Moreover,
You men who wore the blue, blessed be-
Yond the Yictors in any other war of re-
cent times, have left TO your countrymen
more than the material results OF the tri-
;mph, more even than the achieving the
triumph itself. You have left a country
SO genuinely reunited that all of us now,
4 IN whatever part of this union we live,
llaEe right to feel the keenest pride, not
, only IN the valor and self-devotion of
you, the gallant men who wore the blue,
but also in the valor and self-devotion of
your gallant opponents who wore the
gray. The hero whose monument we to-
day unveil, by his life bore singular tes-
tmony to the completeness of the re-
union. General Lawton in his youth
Fought calamity in the civil war Thirty
lhree years afterward he again marched
10 war, THIS time against a foreign foe.
and served with distinguished ability and
success as general officer. both in Cuba
and in the Philippines When he thus
included not only many of his old COM
rades in arms, but some of his old OPP
ponents also as General Wheeler and
General Fftzhugh Lee. Under him, both
among the commissioned officers and in
the ranks, were many men whose faith
ers had worn the blue serving side by side
with others whose fathers had worn the
gray; but all Americans now. and moth
ing but Americans, all united in their feal-
~ and devotion TO their common flag and
their common country, and each know
ing only the generous rivalry with his
fellows as 10 who could best serve the
cause for which each was ready to lay
down life itself. To General T.awton it be-
fell actually to lay down his life; a trag-
edy, but one of those noble tragedies
where our pride rises above our sorrow
For he died in the fullness of time serv-
ing his country with entire deyotion-a
death that every man may well envy.
Indiana in the Civil War.
Indiana in the civil war furnished even
more than her share of brave soldiers. II
also fell TO Indiana TO furnish the greatest
of all the war governors who upheld the
hands Of Abraham Lincoln; for when his
tory definitely awards the credit for what
was done in the civil war, she will put
the services of no other civilian, save
alone those of Lincoln. ahead of the serv-
ices of Governor Morton. No other man
who rendered such services as he rem
dered worked under such terrible disad-
Nantages, and no man without his iron
power could have achieved what he
achieved during the last two years of the
war. when he managed the state govern
ment of Indiana solely on money obtained
by piedging his own personal honor and
personal fortune; and vet never for one
moment relaxed in the help he gave to
Lincoln and Chase and Seward and Stan
ton in the cabinet to Grant and Sherman
and Sheridan and Thomas in the field II
was work that only the strongest man
could have done, and it was work vitality
necessary for the sake of the nation to
do.
The men of the generation which fought
A me civil war had their great tasks to per-
4 form. Ihey met them as strong men
y should have met them. They did them.
land we, their children. profit by their
mighty deeds. But no generation can
ever plead the great deeds of its prede-
cesSors as an excuse for falling 10 nor
form its own duties. Our duties are those
of peace and not of war. Nevertheless
they are OF the utmost Importance; OF i'm
er Importance to the children who in a
few years will take our places as the noen
and women of this republic. If we wish
TO snow ourselves worthy heirs of the men
of the civil war, we must do our tasks
with the thoroughness with which they
did theirs
Problems of Today.
Great social and industrial problems
confront US. and their solution demands
on our part unfaltering courage and LET
wise, goOd-natured self-restraint- 60
that on the one hand we shall neither he
uduAteu DS ulIflcultleS nor fooled by those
who would seek to persuade us thar tbe
dlftlculties are insuperable: while on the
other nand we are not misIed into show
ing either rashness or vindetiveness. Let
us Try as people to show the same quail
ties as We deal with the Industrial and
social problems of today that Abrabar1
Lincoln showed when with indomitabIe
resolution, but with a kindness pafience
ana common sense quite as remarka BILE
he faced tour weary years of open wsr in
'front.' or calumny, detraction and INTRIGUE
from behind, and at the end gave to his
countrymen whom he had served SO well
the blood-bOught gift of a race freed q ~
nation forever united anu
Predatory Man of Wealth.
One great problem that ne
have before us Is to preserve the rights al
property and these can only be preserves
We remember that they are in less leon
ardy from the socialist and the anarcbis,
than from the predatory man of wealth
II mas become evident that to refuse Il
invoke the power of the nation to RESTRAIN
the wrongs committed by the man of
great wealth who does evils not ONLY
neglect the of