The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-04-18
MEMORY OF ROUGH
RIDERS HONORED
MONUMENT AT NATIONAL GENE.
Terry is UNVEILED.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT
Distinguished Persons on the Speak
ers' Stand-Handsom MonoIith
Is the Design of Capt. Cap.
ron's Widow.

Washington, April 13.-President
Roosevelt made speech in which he
touched mainly on patriotism and
good citizenship, at the dedication
Friday of the monument erected to
the memory of the first cavalry Unit
ed States Volunteers-the Rough
Riders"-of the Spanish-American
war in the National Cemetery at Ar
lington. -..
Mrs. Allyn X. Capron, widow Of
Capt. Capron of the Rough Riders
who fell at Las Guasimas, pulled the
cord holding the American flag that
covered the monument, Rev. DR.. d. J.
Stafford of st. Patrick's church, this
city, made the dedication address,
and Chaplain H. A. Brown, U. s. A.,
pronounced the benediction.
Regular troops and part of the ma
tional GUARD of the District of Co
lumbia participated in the exercises
incident to the dedication.
Notables on the Stand.
A distinguished company assembled
on the stand from which the presi
dent delivered his address. They in
lcluded Ambassador Jusserand Of
France, Baron Rosen, the Russian
ambassador, the naval and military
attaches of the Japanese and German
embassies, Assistant Secretary Oliver
of the war department, Assistant Sec
rotary Newberry Of the navy depart
iment, Gen. ]. Franklin Bell chief of
staff of the army, and Admiral and
Mrs. Cowles. A number of former
members of the Rough Riders regi.
ment are in the city and were invited
to seats on the stand.
The monument is the design Of
Mrs. Capron and stands in a good To-
cation in the reservation. 1t is a
monolith, the largest of its kind in
Arlington. 1t is made of Vermont
granite, standing IA feet high on a
base six by six feet. The memorial
bears the names Of more than 100
former members of the regiment who
died either in Cuba or after the re-
turn of the regiment to the United
States.
Address of the President.
President Roosevelt was the colonel
of the Rough Riders during most Of
its existence and he spoke with a
personal feeling. He referred to the
peculiar qualification of all the mem
bers of the regiment in seeing this
memorial erected to the memory Of
their dead comrades and spoke Of
the funeral service that Chaplain
Brown held over those killed in the
Guasimas fight-'the first fight that
we saw, the fight in which we served
under the after time lieutenant gen.
eral of the United States army, who
is here to-day, Gen. Young" Gen.
Young had promised that If the regi-
ment got into his brigade he would
see that 1t got into the first fight,
and, said the president, turning to
Gen. Young, you kept your word"
The president spoke Of the bitter
grief any war entails. THE deepest
woe, however,. he declared, the grief
hardest to bear, must come not to
those who go to war but the women
and children who stay behind" He
had no regard, he stated, for the man
who breads over-much to meet the
inevitable death in so worthy fash.
ion as when he meets 1t in battle for
his country. THE greatest sacrifices
in war;" the president said, ARE made
not by those who go to the front,
who know the eager excitement of
battle and who, If they are worthy to
be called men at all, feel the most
buoyant exaltation In the good for.
tune which has given them the
chance to show their manhood on
stricken fields. Our sympathy is not
for them, but for those whose harder
task it is to wait at home, uncheered
by the stern joy of battle and who
have to meet with as brave a front
as may be, the news, good or Ill, that
comes from the front"