The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-13
Speaks of Patriotism and Good
 Citizenship
MONUMENT IS DEDICATED
Memorial to Flrst Cavalry, United States Volunteers, Rough Riders, Is Unveiled By Mrs.
 Allyn capron.

Washington, April 12..-President Roose- Veit made speech in which he touched mainly on patriotism and good ctizen- ship at the dedication today of the mon- ument erected to the memory of the First cavalry. United States volunteers, the Rough Riders of the Spanish-Amerlean war, in the National cemetery at Arling- ton
 Mrs. Allyn Capron. the widow of Cap tain Capron, who fell at Las Guasimas, unveiled the monument. Rev. Dr. Staff ford of St. Pstricks church this city, made the dedication address and Capt. H. A. Brown, United States army, pro- nounced the benedction
 Regular troops and part of the national guards of the district of Columbia par tlelpated. distinguished company as- sembled on the stand from which the Presldent delivered his address. They in- ciuded Ambassador Jusserand of France, baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador: the naval and military attaches of tho Japanese and German embassies. Assist ant Secretary of War Oliver, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry, Gen. J. tranklin Bell and Admiral Cowles Several former members of the Rough Riders regiment were on the stand.
 Designed By Mrs. Capron.
 The monument Is the design of Mrs Capron, It Is a monolith. the largest of its kind in Arlington 1t Is made of Vermont granite. and stands fourteen feet hlgh, on base of six by six feet. The monument bears the names of more than 100 former members of the regiment who died either in Cuba. or after the return of the regiment to the United States.
 At the conclusion of the ceremonies and Wniie the audience remained standing a bugler sounded taps"
 President Roosevelt referred to the ne- cnliar grati1cnton of members of the regiment in seeing this monument erected to the memory of their dead comrades and spoke of the funeral service that Cha plain Brown. held ot CT those ettlrrf. In the Guasisnas figa. s'i'he firsf fight that we saw. the fight in which we served under the afteward Lieutenant General Of the United States army, who is with us here today. General Young"
 General Young had promised that If the l regiment got into his brigade he would see that 1t got into the first fight, and ! said the President turning to General Young, ''you kept your word"
 Marks Reunion.
 He said the paramount reason why our people should look back to the Spanish- American with pride and satisfaction.
 
 complete reunion of our country" that sons of men who had wore the blue and some of those who had wore gray, fought together.
 The President declared there was an- other lesson taught by every war well waged That was the lesson of real dem ocracy, which consisted in treating each man in good faith as man. A war. he pointed out, would try a man out. 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 aolicing camp, to leading a forlorn hope. "All of these contain just the lesson we need every day in our civil life. We could not get on in the army If we permitted ourselves to be surrounded by any class or caste of social or section or religious preju- dice And we cannot conduct the af- fairs of this nation as they can and shall be conducted save by putting into effect the same traits that serve us so well in war
 The President referred feeingly to the dead and said that it seemed to him that every man who was slain possessed quail ites which had made him of special worth to the regiment, who could best be hon. ored by learning something from their death that would teach Us to be more beneficial to the nation and ourselves.