Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-13

President. The chief executives speech
| follows:
Fellow citizens and you members of my
regiment in especial. 1t must neceS-
sarily be to all of us who served in the list
| United States Volunteer Cavalry a matter
| of peculiar qualification to this me-
mortal erected to the memory of dead
| l am sure that none who were there will
! ever forget the funeral services that you
| held. Chaplain Brown. over those who were
killed in the Guasimas f1ght-the first fight
| that we saw. the fight in which we served
| under the after time lieutenant general of
| the United States army. who is with US
here today. General Young.
General Young, there is not member
of the regiment who will not always hold
you in peculiar regacu. Before we came
down here you told that if we would get
into your brigade you would see that We
got sent to the first fight, and you kept
your word.
ANY war must bring bitter grief to some
people, and the deepest-the grief hardest
to bear-must come not to those who go to
the war but to the women and children who
stay behind. | have regard for the
man who breads overmuch to meet the in
! evltable death in so worthy fashion as
when he meets it in battle for his coun-
| try. | never have felt that there was as
much need of pity for of respect and ad-
| IMITATION for those to whom the supreme
| good fortune comes of dying well on the
| field of battle. whittier their duty has call
| ed them. We mourn them, but our mourn
| ings is the mourning of pride and of ad-
| miration even more than of grief. Their
| lot is not hard but the lot of the women
and children who stay behind IS the iot
which calls for sincere sympathy, 70
| our sincere pity.
Sacrifices in War.
almost every man who dies leaves va
cancy in some home that can never be more
than partially filed. The greatest sacri-
fees in war are made not by those who go
IN no who know the aim or
| battle and who, if they are worthy to be
| called men at all, feel the most buoyant
| exaltation in the good fortune which has
| given them the chance to show their man
! hood on stricken fields: our sympathy Is
| not for them, but for those whose harder
. task 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
| Il speak here in the presence of the reg
ulars of the United States army and navy.
All of us who served in the volunteer
forces during the Spanish war came out OF
| the war having learned. so FAR as we needed
| to learn the lesson of the heartiest admlra-
| ton for the officers I'D enlisted men or the
| regular army and navy of the United
| States 1t was our business to serve in
! serve as your lifework. You do for the
| country what no other body of its fellow
| citizens do, and am sure that all vol
| unteers came out of the war feeling. as
| thereafter in private life or in public life to
| do everything that lay In our power for
| the army and navy of the Union, for the
| army and navy, which, by their readiness
| for war, make the grea test guaranty for
| peace that this country possesses.
| Reason for Pleasure.
| "There was one peculiar reason for pleas
| ure In the Spanish-American war, one rea-
| son above all others why our people should
| hac RI wit prida and faction
| and that is the fact that 1t marked In very
| truth the complete reunion Of our country
! In that war there served in the ranks and
/ in the positions of junior officers the sons
| of men who had worn the blue and the sons
! of men who had worn the gray, and they
| served under men who in their youth had
| begun their careers as soldiers, some of
1 them In the army of Grant, some Of
| them in the army of Lee. In our regiment
| there were at least as maay sons of ex-
| confederates as sons of ex-Union soldiers,
/ and they stood shoulder to shoulder, knit
I with respect to one another only that gem
| erous jealousy each to try to be irst to do
| all that in him lay for the honor and the
| interest of the flag that covered the
| reunited country.
| There is another lesson taught by every
| war well waged, taught pre-eminentiy by
| the civil war, but taught also by any lesser
| war such as that in which were
| gagged That is the lesson of real democracy.
| which consists in treating each.man insgood
l faith on his worth a man. 1t is mighty
] good thing for all of us to be thrownsinto
intimate contact with one another under cir