Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-31

forts Of 4 home. and who. having
nothing else 20 love, loved his coun-
Try. served it with all his heart and
soul. and finally died for il, and that
because OF what he had done and
suffered for native land, out Of that
pitiable death chamber his soul rose
10 immortality, leaving his memory
aureoled with everlasting light"
sQUIREs ON THE FIELD.
In his presentation speech, COL
Squires said II don't know how you
feel about the confederate soldier. I
do know that there arc some men who
have not forgiven the men who assailed
the flag of our country. but ] have
long ago forgiven them. When ! think
of that magnificent heroism that took
that body of troops che Carolina
troops across the plain under heavy
cannon and musketry fire | cannot but
pay a tribute to the American manhood
and American heroism OF the men who
wore the confederate gray"
CRITICIzEs TILLMAN.
Rev. Goshen, in his remarks criu-
cized Tillman for his recent utterances
in this city, and said Recently we
had with us one of the most dtstin-
gulshed and brilliant men Of the south,
We recognize his brilliance, hut ] trust
that We rcpudiate his spirit. While
he bitterly denounced conditions, he
offered absolutely no remedy except eX-
termination, and the great American
people have never yet eXterminated q
people to settle a question.
do not let us stand here today and
praise the men OF whom we speak and
go and forget them. That is the Sig
niticance of this honor, of this occasion,
II would that my voice Were loud
8 kaHu
Lake 50 that all might hear me when
say that It is a low thing, degrading
thing, a debaSing thing always To
reach out and secure great wealth ana
not TO give of II to the community
THE FAMOUS ADDRESS.
The Gettysburg address Of President
Lincoln, which has become a standard
classic appears in fun on the tablet as
follows:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this coniin-
gent new nation, conceived In lib
erty, and dedicated 10 the proposition
that all men are created equal Now
we are engaged IN a great civil war,
testing whether that nation or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a
great battlefield OF that war. We have
come TO dedicate portion OF That held
as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that nation
might live. IT is altogether htting ana
proper hat we should do this. But IN
a larger sense We cannot dedicate. we
cannot consecrate, We cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men. living
and dead. who struggled here, have
consecrated II far above our poor pow
or to add or detract. The world VIII
little note, nor long remember. what
We say here, but It can never forget
what they did here. II is for uS, the
living. rather, 20 be dedicated here To
the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far 50 nobly ad-
vanoed II is Iater for US to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before us-that from these honoreu
dead We take increased devotion mat
we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have Gicd IN vain that TINS
nation under God shall have a new
birth Of freedom, and that government
OF tho people. by the people for th9
people. shall not perish from tho earth