Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-19
...,o Than a Hundred Gather in
Armoy Hall for Joyful
Occasion.
CAMPFIRE SONGS A FEATURE.
cutler Delivers Address Fa-
,orIus Pensions for Veterans
COL. squircs Follows.

,r.,. veterans OF the olu ihuiat
II rn" nah and more than a hundred
4 NA s.,r friends gathered in Armory hall
ol N ,,,ht 10 hold a reunion. A feature
las. ratherlng was the singing of a
=. .,nsrs song entitled. I'm Our Leaky
ea'" We Sit" and a number of other
, a, songs. which created much hi
,Vl,,, and we're followed by a selection
), h,ood curdling Indian yells.
rpE GOVERNORS ADDRESS.
GOV. Cutler said:
THE little shall say to you tonight
.,-u no along the line indicated by part
:, the second inaugural address OF
uroslaent Lincoln. 1t was delivered
-, March 4, 1865 about month before
-. ,srible civil war ended. After
Speaking Of the policy of the govern
So, in carving on the war. and indi-
n,tn his belief that the conflict was
oi,nost over, he outlined the aims and
,..rnoses of the government In relation
. - he losses ocoasioned by the strife.
Among these purposes he set forth the
si,, III the government to care for him
,sbo shall have borne the battle, and
FOR hls widow, and his orphan out of
iris noble sentiment, expressed as only
Lincoln could express it, has been per-
fected the splendid pension system or
the United states, the most liberal, ex-
,ensive and humane in the history or
the world.
~ am In favor OF the pension system.
am convinced that no better use can
he made Of a portion of the nations
revenue than to apply 1t to the support
OF the old veterans and the helpless
ones they have left behind. Lincoln
could see that thousands upon thou
sands of the heroes who had done serv-
ice In the Civil war would be helpless
and penniless at its close. Wounds and
sickness and exposure and pf1vation
had done their work; and many a man
who left home In the strength and
prime of manhood came limping back
from the war, to pass the remainder of
his days In helpless poverty and hope
less sickness. And Lincoln further
knew that OF the hundreds OF thou
sands who had fallen on the field of
battle, there were very few but had
left dependent mothers or wives or
children. 1t was to care for such that
the pension system was originated and
built up.
WAR NOT NATURAL.
War in a nation like ours Is not
part OF the natural order of things. II
arises from unexpected and unwished-
for circumstances. Citizens OF such a
government go into war reluctantly,
and then only when forced to do so by
horoi or necessity. In nearly every
case war in the United States has had
as It's object the preservation of the
nation from external or internal foes.
II has never been-and | hope 1t never
will be-for the oppression of the weak.
And wars of the kind referred TO are
forced upon a nation, not sought by it.
BATTLE OF THE WEST.
While the armies of the Union were
fighting to save from division and de-
struction the country already won from
the wilderness, bands of men equally
brave and devoted We're rescuing from
a savage foe the plains and valleys
Of the west, which have since done so
much and will yet do much more in
adding to the wealth and the strength
n the nation. In each case the peril
was great and the war was reluct-
anily waged. And IL there was any
difference between the bravery OF the
men who faced on the battlefield their
brethren Of the south and of those who
fought the savages, l can not see 1t.
And II seems to me that they are
equally worthy of reward.
Your work, my honored friends. was
as devoted and as self-sacrihcing as
that of the Union soldiers. il wa.
Just as much for the preservation of
NE nation The republic could not
nave survived but for their devotion;
y could not have expanded to the
shores OF the Pacific and out across the
%ean, but for yours. They saved n
country already made; you both made
and saved one, II 1t had not been for
your bravery and devotion in meeting
ana overcoming the many savage perlls
which threatened the westward eXpan-
son Of our nation, the triumphant
eHlllzlng OF the west might have been
long delayed. Discouragement at THAI
uine would have meant, in all probable
ny, a fatal interruption of our west
em progress
SHOULD REAP BENEFIT.
"Because, therefore. you did so much
" ala IN the saving and the growth
VI our country, ] can not see why you
,,uoulu not be made partakers of the
rhehts OF the pension system. /
ululk you ought to be. and what is
ilote, | think you win be. You have
aouotess heard of the efforts OF Sena-
W. nlnoot In your behalf. Knowing
tuat ne u Interesting himself In secur-
i sns Tor you the benefits of the pension
aNs, l wrote to him about ten days
se9 ana asked him rs to the progress
O'lhg made in the matter of securing