New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-13

NATIONAL CEMETERY
Dedicated yesterday.
draped shaft the rain was falling even faster
as though the heavens were weeping for the
brave fellows who gave up their lives down III
Cuba. But Immediately after Chaplain Browns
invocation at the very moment General Harries
introduced the President to the throng, the
clouds broke and the sun burst forth. The sun
continued to shine while tho President spoke
and DR.. Stafford. who followed him. delivered
his Grafton. but soon as the exercises ended
the rain began to patter disconsolately over he
acres Of gravestones.
THE PRESIDENTS TRIBUTE.
President Roosevelt was the colonel of the
Rough Riders for most Of the existence Of the
regiment. and he spoke with personal feeling.
He referred to the peculiar qualification of all
the members of the regiment in seeing this
memorial erected to the memory OF their dead
comrades and spoke of the funeral services that
Chaplain Brown held over those killed in the
Guasimas fght-''the first fight that saw.
the fight in which served under the after
time lieutenant general Of the United states
Army, who is with us here to-day General
Young" General Young had promised, he said,
that If the regiment got into his brigade he
would sec that il got into the first fight. ana
said the President, turning to General 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 beat must come
to those who do not go 10 war-the women
and children who stay behind lie had no re-
gard. he stated. for the man who breads over
much TO meet inevitable death IN 30 worthy
fashion as he meets it in battle for his country
The greatest sacrifices in war the President
l,R- u, no
front who know the eager excitement of battle,
and who il they are worthy 10 be called men at
all feel the most buoyant exultation in the good
fortune which has given them the chance TO
show their manhood on hard fought fields our
sympathy is not for them, but for those whose
harder task it is to wait at home, uncheefed by
the stern JOY of battle and who have TO meet
with as brave a front may he the news. good
or Ill, that comes from the front"
The President spoke of the admiration felt
by those who served in the volunteer forces Tor
the officers and enlisted men Of the regular
army ana navy, and he was sure that all vol
unteers came out of the war feeling. as he GER
tainly did. that it should be their aim there
after in private or in public life to do every
thing that lay in their power for the army and
navy OF the Union which by their readiness
for war make the greatest guarantee for peace
mount reason why our people should look back
10 the Spanish-American War with pride and
satisfaction was that lit marked in very truth
the complete reunion OF our country. Sons of
men who had worn the blue and sons of those
who had worn the gray fought together. and
side by side with Young and Chaffee and Lawton.
and served under Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee;
they stood shoulder to shoulder. knit together
by the closest Of ties. and acknowledged with
respect to one another only that generous jeal-
ousy each to try to be first to do all that In
him lay for the honor and the interest of the
flag that covered the reunited country
LESSONS TAUGHT BY WAR.
The President declared there was another les
son taught by every war well waged. taught
pre-eminently by the Civil War. but taught also
by any lesser war as that in which this regiment
had been engaged. That 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 try out
a man and, he declared, you will find out what
he is worth then"
1.-THE man you cared for" the President said.
"was the man who did his ordinary plain duty
right along, just as 1t came. from digging sinks
and policing camp to leading forlorn hope"
"AIl of this" he continued. contains just the
lesson that we need most in our civil life. We
could not get on In the army. we never could
conduct, war to a successful conclusion. If we
permitted ourselves to be sundered by any class
or caste or social or sectional religious preju-
dice: and We cannot conduct the affairs of this
nation as they can and shall be conducted save
by putting into effect the same traits that en-
able us TO do well in war. Distrust above all
other men the man who seeks to make you pass
judgment upon your fellow citizens upon any
ground Of artificial distinction between you and
them.
"Distrust the man who seeks to get you to
favor them discriminate against them either
because they we'll off not well off, because
they occupy one social position or another, be-
cause they live in one part of the country
another, or because they profess one creed
another. Remember this: arrogance and envy
are not different qualities; they are merely diff
ferent manifestations Of the same qualities The
rich man who looks down upon Expresses the
poor is the very man who. II poor. would
envy and hate the who was richer. Con-
versey the poor man who regards with bitter
and malignant envy the man who is better of,
who breaches the doctrine Of hate toward that
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