New-York tribune., 1908-09-02
MONUMENT UNVEILED
G.. Il. r. At FORT MEIGS.
Senator Foraker and General Young
Speak-Pdrade at Toledo.

Toledo, Sept IA civic parade. PREDATORY to the
greater parade of veterans tomorrow, and the
dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at Perrys-
burg twelve miles from Toledo, divided interest
to-day in the forty-second encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Forty thousand persons journeyed by trolley and
boat to the historic spot where General William
Henry Harrison in 1N2-13 checked the ambitions
of Proctor. the British general Many speeches
were made. chief among them being the utter
ances of Senator J. B. Foraker. Governor Harris
and General Bennett H. Young who represented
Governor Wilson of Kentucky, who was unable
to be present. General Young said. in part:
1t makes heap of difference how you come
TO Ohio. I to Ohio and you all took
now and a put apps In Fes ee it harhe
that God should decide that our cause should
God Knew better than I did for this is the great
s e man AND saw f thank @ r n
the result, although 1t was bitter pill at the
time.
1 have to bear to you the grateful thanks
Of Kentucky: You men who have for r. forty forty
memorating this ground deserve the gratitude not
only of Kentucky, but the gratitude of the whole
the spirit generated by the men ,Ss2 Thq
made the armies of the North and South the
greatest volunteer armies that ever ever ,slh rallied
courage which only freemen can feel, and that
has made this the great nation Of history
General Young has been member of the Maumee
Valley Pioneer and Historical Society for three
years
When Governor Harris and his party arrived on
the ground shortly after IL o'clock this forenoon,
the Governors salute of seventeen guns was fired
by Battery B. under command OF Captain Grant s.
Taylor. When the bunting which draped the newly
completed monument drawn by the hand OF
David Robinson, jr, four guns OF the battery nreo
another salute and the band burst into patriotic
music. which almost drowned by the cheers
from several thousand throats.
Governors which included
Foraker and Dick. to Perrysburg in launches,
snd from that village transported to the battle
field in automobiles. preceded by the band
SENATOR FoRAKERS SPEECH.
Senator Foraker spoke. in part. as follows:
1t is only by some such occasion this that the
reminded of the trials and tribulations that
went before our triumphs The spots that arrest
men are those which identified with great turn
ing points in national destinies and human analrs.
Fort Meigs has q special Importance or this cnar-
acter.
but eighteen states in Union; now there are
forty-sx. Then we had d less than looooSoO OF Pe0
only the Atlantic: now we face both oceans. The
government our fathers had given then still
pertinent unfit for any large expansion OF territory
or increase OF population nod.
Each acquisition of territory that we nave mace
excited serious apprehensions as to whether our m
m wepo e that our Constitution Ats
requirements perfectly as though 1t had peeh
But greater than the expanse Of our domain,
greater than the multiplication of our Wealtn
Greater than any glory we have achieved. greater
than any of physical accomplishmfsynts has
meraH fe and in a that makes for good ctizensh
need of the statutory straitjacket or. when they
less deserved TO be discredted in their own esu,
nation and before the world by official censure and
public criticism.
under which people 6pp can nnd ace9m cont
such influence abroad cannot be TOO tnop9uslifx ~,
5edro be Teast fe 100 pubcists agree that the most
feature of the general plan OF our government MS IS
separate Independent and coordinate departments
It is fundamental that neither shall eReroa0 s66
Judicial diseord would be @ an III of efer t6e
the other 6y ne are censodated in
single Individual He is the 99mmandsr In. In CHIEF @
hands all the tremendous power OF public patron
age. , 5 40.
signing executive. this power OF appointment and
and drected as as to GesToy the ndependence and
impair the usefulness and efficiency of both the
6eher be- 1fdaton Of the constution which long
acquiesced In might eventually work its overnT1w row
they are not likely often to occur. but nevertheless
they do occur lest in them find undolng:
Open and avowed enemies are not always the most
mine and thwart human endeaVor before they are
recognized.
Under command of Colonel L. W. Howard. OF the
Regiment
in honor of the assembled hosts of the Grand Army
PRAYED a brilliant pageant. Starting at Jefferson
and 10th streets. the pavements along the line oil
march were blocked with people, their eyes fixed
on the passing ranks. ready to cheer at the sight
of brilliantly equipped company and to applaud
vigorously those who stepped with military pre-
cison or who executed difficult manGuvre
without mistake. Spectators estimated that near
" four thousand marchers were in line.
Tonight the Womens Relief Corps held recep-
- l., toSa rfnr and tha Py-
prisoners of war held campfire at Memorial Hall.
Senator Foraker addressed audience of negro
veterans at the African Methodist Episcopal
Church
The spectacular feature OF the evening the
Venetian Night on the river. All the pleasure
craft in the narbor. led by the old gunboats VOL
VERNE and Essex moved down the river under the
rays of powerful searchlights thousands watching
their progress
At the various state headquarters the day was
spent in issuing instructions for the formation of
the parade tomorrow.
MAINE AND ALABAMA SAIL.
Aden Sept 1.-The battieships Maine and Ala
hama which are preceding the Atlantic battleship