Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-13
ROUGH RIDERS MONUMENT
President Speaks at Dedication Of Shaft il
Arlington Cemetery.
TALKS OF LESSONS OF WAR AND PEACE
Preparation for Former surest Guar
Rntes of the Batter-Experience
in War Tests Real worth
of Men.

/ WASHINGTON. April 12-President
I Roosevelt made a speech on Patriotism
and Good Citizenship" at the dedication
today of the monument erected in the
National cemetery al Arlington to the
memory Of the Rough Riders OF the Spanish
American war Mrs. Allen X. Capron
widow of Captain Capron OF the Rough
Riders regiment, who fell at las Guasimas
pulled the cord holding the American flag
that covered the monument Rev. d. j.
Stafford Of St Patrick's church, this city,
made the dedication address. Regular
troops and part Of the National Guard of
the District Of Columbia participated in
the exercises.
The president was escorted to the monu-
ment by Captain Prestons troop Of the
Thirteenth cavalry. Those present included
Ambassador Jusserand OF France, Baron
Rosen, Russian ambassador; the naval and
military attaches Of the Japanese and Ger
man embassies, Assistant Secretary oliver
of the War department, Assistant Secretary
Newberry of the Navy department.
number Of former members Of the Rough
Riders regiment occupied seats on the plat
form from which the president spoke.
The monument is the design of Mrs
Capron. 1t is a monolith and stands IA
feet high on a base exc feet. The memorial
bears the names of more than 100 former
members of the regiment who died either
in Cuba, or after the return of the regi-
ment to the United States The main deco
ration is a bronze tablet bearing the regi-
mental device and the inscription:
First United States Volunteer cavalry
In memory of the deceased members of the
First United States Volunteer cavalry,
Spanish American war. Erected by MEM
DerS OF the regiment, 1906
President Roosevelt, who was colonel of
the regiment, referred to the peculiar graft
| flcation of himself and his comrades in
! this memorial.
Address of the President.
! The president spoke of the bitter grief
! any war entails. THE deepest Woe how
ever" he declared, 1.-The grief hardest to
bear must come not to those who go to
war, but to the women and children who
stay behind"
He had no regard, he stated, for the man
who breads overmuch to meet the newt
able death in so worthy a fashion as when
he meets it in battle for his country.
1.-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 1t 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 i'll, that comes
! from the front"
The president spoke of the admiration
felt by those who served in the volunteer
forces for the officers and enlisted men OF
. the regular army and navy. He was sure
l all volunteers came out of the war feeling
, as he did, that It should be their aim there
: after to do everything that lay in theii
power for the army and navy of the union
which. by their readiness for war, make
: the greatest guaranty for peace that thi.
! country possesses. He said the paramount
reason why our people should look bach
to the Spanish-American war with pride
was that 1T marked in very truth the com
e plete reunion Of our country" Sons OF
l men who had worn the blue and sons OF
those who had worn the gray fought to,
gether and side by side with Young and
Chaffee and Lawton and had served under
Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee.
t Lesson of Real Democracy.
, The president declared there was another
lesson taught by every war we'll waged
, This was the lesson of real democracy
which consisted in treating each man in
good faith on his worth as a man. The
experience Of war, he pointed out, would
5 try man, and he declared: You will find
2 out what he is worth then"
! THE man you cared for" the president
said. was the man who did his ordinary
plain duty right along, just as it came
! from digging sinks and policing camp, &c
leading a forlorn hope"
"All of this" he continued, contains
just the lesson that we need most in ouI
civil life We could not get on in the army
? we never could conduct war to sue
cessful conclusion If we permitted ourselves
to be sundered by any class of caste oil
social or sectional or religious prejudice
and we cannot conduct the affairs of this
/ nation they can and shall be conducted
! save by putting into effect the same traits
! that enable US to do we'll in war.
I Distrust Artificial Distinctions.
''Distrust above all other men the mar
who seeks to make you pass judgment or
your fellow citizens on any ground of ar,
/, tiicial distinction between you and them
Distrust the men who seek to get you tC
, favor them or discriminate against then
either because they are well of or not wei
of, because they occupy one social 20,
sluon or another, because they i've IN one
part of the country or another or because
they profess one creed or another. The
e rich man who looks down on or Expresses
, the poor man is the very man who, Il
: poor, would envy and hate the man who
! was richer. Conversely the poor man who
: regards with bitter and malignant envy
! the man who is better OF. who breaches
! the doctrine Of hate toward that man. is
t himself the man who, II 1t had happened
that he were rich, would grind down the
? faces Of those who were less we'll. on
I than he"
e The president discussed good citizenship
= and the necessity above all to remember
10 do the seemingly little humdrum daily
I duties well. The first step a man can take
toward good citizenship is TO be a good
man in his own home and then a good
= man toward his nelghbors. I'VE need hon
, esty and courage" he declared, land toined