The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-31

the north, men and women alike the
passion for the union.
Honor love. Can it be given in due
| measure to the men who by night and
day gave through four long years their
all for the union? Can we fifty honor
| these men who from Bethel to Appomat-
toX bore the brunt of the fray, the toll
of march, the inclement elements the
hunger and inconsistencies and despair
| that this might be for us and ours and
| the age? And under all the discourage-
ment they tOiled on, toiled ever TO the
blessed end of victory and an established
union.
And so by way of Wilderness and
Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Lookout and
| Missionary Ridge and a hundred import
ant fields the weary wheels of the years
rolled around through blood. The gar
ment OF life was sOdden with the nations
tears, and all the glory of mere victory
was forgotten in the terrific cost of its
purchase.
Dawn of Peace.
when peace came again with its
blessed sureease of agony and loss, when
assent TO the fundaments which guaran-
tee national life had been given in the
surrender of the brave Lee and his
armies; the men who had learned war
IN such fashion as patriots must who
had written their names imper-
ishably on the face of time, who had
shown the world that power was in the
| NNSt NiAet iluSl De HOIeQ, VINO mad won
| the freedom Of race of slaves who had
rewritten the constitution and the decIar-
alton in unfading letters of scarlet sac
riIlce' VINO had re-molded the nation in
the furnace of their endurance and toll
this army with farewell review in a
frenzy of sladness was dissapited by the
sun OF peace: as quickly as the snowfall
OF the desert night by the kiss of sun
light. returning to the avocatfons of
peace to build more widely the founda-
tons of that mighty life whose wealth.
prosperity and possibility are at once
| the wonder and envy of the world The
sneers of subjects across the sea died
out in the glory of your achievement
| me great struggle set immovab1y on its
foundation the union-for-eVer imperish-
| able.
when the rosy dawn of peace's COM
ing, black eclipse Swallowed all the life
OF America as the fretted heart of the
greatest man who ever lived this side
of Paul. fell by the leaden missile of hat
red In Ford's theatre in Washington. and
| the truest friend of the, north and south
| went out to the great peace. the danger
OF that hour even was apparent rather
than real. Through social and financial
eataclysms, by sectional questions and
| huge corruptions. through depressfons
ana marvellous properties that life
| stands firm on it's base where you see IT.
and we believe is destined to repose there
TIL the great questions of civilization
shall eventuate in their solution into the
golden day of perfectness.
And as the mind sweeps the wide cir
NtF VI tic HdltOI ilIR. WITH It's ever in
creasing power and wealth its enIarg-
ing participation in the questions of
| world import, with that love that res
pect or that fear ip tbs. places of iniq-
u1ty for the flag you made real we sense
anew that We and posterity are your
debtors.
New Chapter Written.
Recent history has demonstrated that
your example is a living thing There is
| thank God, no longer a south or a
north, an east or west, but just Amer
lea. Your sons and the sons of YOUR
worthy foemen wrote in the late nineties
| a new chapter of patriotic service worthy
you and the flag. Yonder at Manila bay
Philippines. Yonder at Santiago and on
the heights of San Juan they wrote them
selves worthy sons and carried the flag
out Tor wider ministry in the earth, and
we are proud to remember that no body
OF troops that went to the war not even
the famous rough riders Roosevelt led
wrote more splendid deeds than those
| which made the name OF Utahs batteTv
famous. Fear not, you who served the
nation and made the Union what If is
The spirit that famed in your lives and
problems at home or abroad, problems so,
cial or financial problems of peace or
grim war, we will be ready to follow your
example. Let the teeminIg millions OF
lar. We will teach them to reverence the
flag and to love its ideals. So long as
we nave IN the mighty seat of Lincoln a
successor so devoted to the rights of the
common people we need fear nothing. The
good sense and the trained and enlight-
ened mind of our American citizenship will
solve the questions they arise The
future will bring us grave problems, but
! the American character holds the ele-
| ments of their solution.
We honor today the gray bent forms
of those who wrought in the Indian
wars. who served in the primitive DAYS
of Utah when the great foundations of a
commonwealth rich with wonderful oppor-
tunity was being laid. Theirs is a part
of that service to the nation we recog-
/ nize. Utah is in the Union. and her pa
triotism is part of that which is the ma
tons guarantee. And here as elsewhere
In the wide land, liberty of life and speech
and thought shall come to their perfect
flower. for the blessing of men.
A Toast of Tears.
And now to sacred memory we will
drink toast of tears. To the noble wives
| who gave so freely of their hest, sons
and husbands, AMI in the darkness of
those bloody years toiled and bore the
burden of life. To the mighty army of
the brave, lying in the vast cemeteries or
| whose bones. scarce covered repose by
the ruined prisons, to the dear ones lying
in the southern glades, unnamed and I'M
known. whose only monument is the wild
brier and whose resting place is sprinlzled
only by heavens tears, to those lying in