The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-27

heroic men, sound government,
beautiful women and sound money.
It is the tendency of the members of
the Grand Army when they get to-
gether to rejoice over and commem-
crate the events connected with the
saving of the nation and we'll may
you rejoice for had it not been for the
success of the Union arms all would
have been lost. The efforts and the
sacrifices of the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic have
made Of every veteran an envied type
and SO long as the America n people
survive their names will be revered !.
However, the regular army is rarely
touched upon and it has been des-
cribed as white cap on the tidal
wave Of civilization sweeping over
the American nation. In all parts of
the country from the east to the west,
from the gulf to the lakes there is
scarcely a square mile of land that
has not been fertilized and dedicated
army. Take the man behind the gun
as he stands ready to die at any time
or in any cline and he is the finest
production of the American civi1iza-
ton. He finds his inspiration in the
flag the one thing in which we all
unite for reverend devotion. The flag
receives the best in every one of US
and so long as the regular army is
maintained, with its inspiration born
in the flag. the perpetr;tT & the
nation is safe"
Corporal Tanner was the next
speaker and he aroused the members
of the company to highest ranks Of
enthusiasm by his oratory. He paid
tribute to Mr.. Simmons as the host of
the evening and in speaking of Mr..
Simmons he said, II want to sayzone
thing of Zalmon G. Simmons. He
admitted tonne this afternoon that he
was seventy eight years of age and if
he shouldsdie,tonight would like to
write his obituary. 1t would read,
"Here lie the mortal remains of
Zalmon G. Simmons who was
seventy-eigh years of age and every
year of the seventy-eight was round
in ladder which led suffering hui
manity upIto plying God above"
He declared that the old soldiers in
the days Of war had counted on just
sach receptions after the war was
over and that now they we're getting
it in huge chunks. 'sMr. Simmons
hospitality, he said, ''revives in us
that splendid sentiment of regard for
the dead and the love we bear for
them. /" ''The man." he declared,
"who writes the story of the rebellion
and leaves out the loyal support of the
folks at home makes an awful mis-
take. The man who says that his
legs never shook in battle is direct
descendant of Anani and Saphira,
but / want to say to you tonight that
the great principle that made us
stand firm on the field was the
thought. What will they think Of
me at home if l don't prove true and
what will she think at home?' When
you thought of her you stood steady.
then you climbed the heights of death
and sought to carry home to the folks
some of the glory of the great victory.
The greatest thing l have in my
book of memories of that glorious past
is the fact that we kept that flag un-
sullied for the folks at home and for
the men who handed it down to US. We
wiped from its escutcheon the only blot
that was ever placed upon it and when
in Gods good time the last of us goes
to meet those founders of the nation
I am glad to know that to us it will be
said, 'sWell done, Good and Faithful
Servant"
"When we sent secession to hell
at Appomattox we sent the south for
ward a hundred years. We. are proud
of this country we have preserved
and to the citizen we would say that
when at our death we turn it over to
you we want you to distinctly under
stand thatyou accept it as orr heirs.
It was the members of the Grand
Army Of the Republic that sent the
United States so far ahead that Your
Uncle Sam sits today the head Of all
the world and hobnobs with kings
and emperors with the feeling that
with united country and the loyalty
of his citizen soldiers he could con-
quer the world. Corporal Tanner
spoke of conference held recently
with President Roosevelt in which
the matter of pensions for widows
was discussed aud the president he