The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-18
". R. [. SILVER JUBILEE HELD AT SARATOGA
Silver Service Presented to Corporal Tanner at
 Event.

Not only the dewey showers of heaven but "A Silver Shower" was one of the great features of the week at Saratoga. Twenty-Five years ago handful of brave. energetic women met in Denver, Col, July 25, 26, 1883 and at the request of the Grand Army of the Republic through its command er-in-chief, Paul Van Der Voost launched into existence the Women's Relief Corps. E. Florence Barker was chosen of the 5S charter members for first national president. Surely no more fitting place could have been se- lected for the celebration than beau tiful Saratoga rich in all that has made the history of our beloved coun- try. At the Great Convention hall holding 10000 were gathered the comrades and the members of the w. R. c. to celebrate the silver jubilee or wedding of the c. A. R. and the w R. c. The address of Gov. Hughes, Bishop Ireland, Senator Macomber, President McNulty of saratoga, Dept. Commander Swift of New York, Mrs. Emma H. Dalton for ladies of the G. A. R. were heard with delight by the audience but it remained for Mrs. Carrie R. Sparklin, national president to complete her years work with one ! of the most interesting features of the evening, After accounting for the detail work of the year and during it's | existence, Mrs Sparklin in behalf of the order presented to Commander Brown, beautiful silver loving cup. Within the cup were cheeks to the amount of $6,000 which was the silver anniversary (shower) or gift of the w. R. c, to the permanent fund of the Grand Army, to De used for the relief of the old veterans, Commander Brown accepted the gift for the Grand ArmX and pledged it's use for the pur- pose designed, also returned thanks for his personal gifts
 Corporal Tanner, past commander in-chief responded to the greetings of the Womans Relief Corps and was presented with a beautiful silver ser vice by John E Gilman of Massachu- setts and his reply to the greetings of l the M, R. Cs and although he plead Inability to adequately voice the af- feetionate regard of tho c. A, R. for the w. K. C," he proved more than 1 equal to the occasion.
 No man living" he said. "is eapa- ble of expressing in words tho debt we owe to them. Governor Hughes has referred to the moral worth of our countrys sons, but the country 1 owes its moral Worth to the mothers 1 of those sons"
 Then after a short resume of his views on woman's suffrage, and he is a firm believer in the right of the woman to exercise that right, he paid 2 delicate compliment to the women,
 Tribute to Woman.
 Some people seem 10 think" said he that woman was created as a subsidiary to man, a sort of spare-rib, so to speak ! prefer to think that when God finished man He stood back [and, looking over His handiwork said,
 LSblNNG I Nttl Qb hELtGI liltlH LHHL, and forthwith created woman
 Then in serious vein he said 10 it comes to an issue, there is no man in the vast assemblage who owes moro to womHnkind than I, myself do,t and as tho speakers eyes filled with tears everyone in the hall knew he was thinking of his beloved wife who died b,,4 o lft4Ia y.nra thav n ,,aow aco
 These women" he continued mated their lives with the fragmentary bits of us who returned from the front
 And it has not been only since the
 active days that we've grown
 to appreciate them but in the hospi. tals and under fire there was many a man who did not have to cross the
 river of death to touch elbows witt
 Gods own angels.
 You young men, and I sec many lyoung men, don't smile when we al.
 Jude to these women as girls. The eyes that we see with are dimmet
 with the mists of forty years, and
 boys they stand to-day in our sight a,
 they did when we wooed and wor
 them, nsthe glory of their pristin,
 maidenhood
 Any man who says he went into
 battle and did not fear is lineal de
 seendant of Ananias. But what kep all you boys on the firing line, when your legs had been as weak as you're
 spirits you'd have broken all sprintins
 records? The thoughts of the gir you'd left behind, the girl to whom