Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-16

SesSed. How they dared the seemingly
impossible. How vast was their scope
of national ideal when they added vast
areas to our then thinly settled state.
Let America remember 1t. We are a
people whose whole trend OF vision and
attempt have been vast and beyond the
dreams of others. Let us never sink
into the spirit of Incidence. l ask you,
is 1t not true that larger and broader
national spirit Is needed now?
Most fitting is 1t that this day of all
days should have been celebrated and
commemorated In the presence of these
grand men in blue and the loyal wom-
en-, who were willing to say, Go, and
God go with you, as those whom they
loved best marched away to brave
death. This of all days is the day when
the old flag and the old coat of blue
should be together Oh may this land
never forget the loyalty, the bravery
and the courage of those who today In
the blue they so nobly honored meet to
honor the flag their loyalty and patriot
ism sustained.
strange as it may seem, our flag,
the flag of the free, has been the fore
most flag of battle. This is seen in the
number of wars we have dared In our
short career among the nations. There
is a meaning here which only adds to
Old Glory's glory As our leader has
recently said II is because our motto
has not been peace at any price, but
righteousness at any price we nave
loved the cardinal principles of our land
enough to fight for them. Note now
many of our leaders have paen men
who first received recognition upon the
field of battle. A country OF the free
~ country wherein the ties when
hind us, have been the ideals for which
the people would give their life blood
Personal ease and safety have never
been placed above national honor.
COL. B. f. BAIR.
Col. b. f. Bair. one of the ogden
veterans. delivered the following patri
otic address during the day:
This is the celebration OF the one
hundred and thirty first anniversary
of the birth of the American nag anu
the story of how and when anu ps
whom the first American nag ,Was
made cannot be told 100 many ti'i. %
The people of the United states, ana
eaneciallv the young people. cannot De
made too familiar with the history Oh
the flag.
When / was in Philadelphia. ] visit
ed the house where the first American
Dag was made by Mrs. Betsy Ross, a
Quaker lady of Philadelphia. me
house stands on Arch street IL Is
built of brick and Is two stories high
dren of America a number of years
ago and presented In practically the
same condition it was In when Betsy
Ross lived In IL with her husband, Johll
Ross. al
History tells us that the first Amerl-
can flag was made by Betsy hoss ~
her home on Arch street In Phlladel-
| phia. The American Congress declared
| that the national flag should CONSIST
| of 13 stripes alternated red and wnite'
| and 13 white stars on Held 81 olue.
| Under this decree George Washlhston
| and a committee of Congress SUPER
| yised the work of making the nag
| which the nimble fingers of Mrs Ross
| finished on the eth OF June, and when
| Congress I, rmally adopted as the fiag
| of the nation on June II, l7I7 so says
| written history of the American nag.
| II. r. Wandell tells us there Is an
other story of "old Glory, that you
| Will not find on any printed page put
| | hope when l have told II TO you, !.
| will be written on the hearts of every
| one. and 1 want you TO repeat II untll
| IL rings round the world i'll one UNI
| broken strain of beautiful music Ihsly
! Is a legend that the most beautltuI
| flag that ever Haunted oreezes oi
| heaven, the flag of the greatest nhtlol
| ever built by man, the flag upon whloh
| the sun continually shines as the great
| round world revolves, and the supren-
aey of which on land and sea AL ma
tions acknowledgements Is legehu,
say, that this nag SOld GiofO Is OF
divine origin.
Floyd resigned, Gen. John A, DIX ae-
cepted the office, There were TWO
| revenue cutters at New Orleans when
he ordered TO New York. The captain
OF one OF these refused To obey. Seey,
Dix then teegraphcd to the collectors
Tell Lieut., Caldwell to arrest capt
Breshwood. assume command or me
cutter, and obey the order gave
through you. II capt, Breshwood
| after arrest undertakes 10 interfef'
| with the command of the cutter. tell
Lieut.. Caldwell 10 consider him as a
mutineer and treat him. accordingly
IL any one attempts 20 haui down me
These memorable words written II
Washington will live so long as the
stars and Stripes continue to float oven
our glorious country No.,
Gen. John A. Logan once said, "oui
old banner IL the only true banner OF
liberty, II has gathered Us mnllonl
from lands OF tyranny ana gladdeneo
their hearts with freedom; II re1oicel
the ey and heart Of every liberty-loVlnl
man whenever seen around the CLONE
II As the banner of freedom today
was Yesterday. and a century ago
'Tis the same that waved over anc
inspired the noble band Of unshod pat
riots that gained the independence OF
this people,
on more than hundred hardly con
tested fields for the Union as BORN
aloft is gladdened the weary, IN
wounded and dying. II took the man
acles from the limbs Of men chained y
the deep gulf OF despair ana 5000
them erect In the glorious sunlight o
freedom
All hail! Porud old flag no ruth
less hands shall despoll thee, as IN
stars that deck the plains o. heavel
are the glory OF the night, ana ligh
up the footpath of man, so SHAH thes
stars he the glory OF this nation, shed
ding their light along the pathwa
OF liberty.
Colonel Robert G, mgersoll said