The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

Mrs. Mary f. Wood, Mrs Eliza Shepard.
Mrs. Gertrude Goldsby and Mrs. Helen
w. Eustice.
APPLIES WAR LESSONS
The applicability Of the lessons taught
by the civil war TO the political prob
lens of the present day, particularly
those OF civic corruption, was strikingly
portrayed by Rev. Homer J. Vosburgh,
pastor of the First Baptist church, who
delivered the main Grafton at the exer-
cises held in the lower G. A. r. plat in
Mountain View by the veterans of
Lookout Mountain. Joe Hooker and APP
pomattox posts. After eulogizing the
nations dead and the principles for
which they died, he said
But we cannot allow this day to pass
simply with references to the past. We
would be disloyal to the spirit of this
hour If we did not glance around us
New occasions teach new duties.
I'VE have among us the widespread
diffusion of lawlessness. Our great cor
porations have SO long led US In the dis
paragement OF law and in clever de-
vices for avoiding the clear provisions
of constitutions and statutes that all
classes are joining in the contempt for
ordered liberty. We do not have to
leave our community to find lurid in
stance of what I mean. The bomb OF
the anarchist has twice been thrown in
our city in a manner that for meanness
and atrocity cannot be surpassed. To
attack the life of a private American
citizen is as heinous an offense as to at
tack the life of European sovereign.
L am amazed ar the apathy OF many
Of our citizens and of many of our pa
pers, and the apparent lack of zeal
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happens among US that for violence to
American ideals of justice is more Of
fensive to the spirit of freedom than
the Dred Scott decision OF a former
/ generation. You fought for liberty
guarded and defended the law, and
there is need of continuing.
Then we have before US the great
problem of securing in some way for
our people the benefits of a press intel
ligent and moral, free from the domin-
ion of narrow partisanship and of
sordid commercialism. The press is
the strongest influence in our land
The newspaper enters every home and
! has a power no other force can rival
But II this power is to be exercised in
/ righteousness our press must be pre-
sided over by wisdom and conscience
HONEST PRESS NEEDED
J w c al pRO4u VI lilt ttdulIlOnS Oh
the American press. We honor the
memory of Greeley and Jones and Ray
mond and Medill and many others
These men made priceless contributions
to the political knowledge and mora
/ insight of our people. We need a press
that will exercise the function of mora
! leadership today. Some papers are
purchased outright by the great cor
porations; others are bribed into ST
lence.
Many pander to the basest appetites
OF the vicious element. Sensationalisn
and desire for large profits have leo
many journals to violate the finest
traditions of their order
Veterans, be careful of the papers
you patronize; help to create a vigil
liant and high minded press that car
lead our country into a greater future
Il want to close as / began with
words of appreciation for you who
had given US this glad day. You viii
scatter flowers over the graves of your
dead, and would hand a few flowers
to you. 1t is not your fault that you
are alive. You did your best to die II
is only through some slight choice tha,
you are not lying in a nameless grave
on some far battlefield"
A feature of the exercises was sthe
drum song by Veterans S. L. Chapman
Frederick Dietzmann and Cyrus K
Ellis. DR.. Chapman and Dietzmanr
played on drums which they had car.
ried throughout the civil war;
! T. J. Young acted as master of cere.
monies and Rev. c. E. Thurston pro-
nounced the invocation over the dead
Charles L. Pierce, past commander oi
the Sons of Veterans, read Lincoln's
Gettysburg address.
At Evergreen cemetery east OF
| Fruitvale, 4.700 children from seven
suburban schools marched to the SOL
| diers' plat, where they decorated the
graves with flowers and listened to an
eloquent Memorial day oration by VIII
| liam r. Davis, former mayor of Oak
| land In the course OF his remarks
Davis said:
"I trust that the god of battles may
never again, by means OF strife be-
tween Americans, exhibit to the world
the quality OF American valor. Side
by side they stood at Bunker Hill; side
at Chapultepec; face to face, alas. al
/ Gettysburg; but side by side again al
Manila and Santiago--and may Amer
| ica's sons never stand face to face
again, but forever side by side march
/ on to the fulfillment OF the destiny OF
/ the republic.
I'VE are again a united people. Not
I
only, but eighty-three millions united
and as united inevitable. Let insurrec-
ton but raise its head or the foot of a
foreign foe be planted upon American
soil. and the magnetism of loyalty in
| the stars and stripes will gather tc
itself and assemble from north and
south. from continent TO sea, an in
Vulnerable host invincible to the as
saults of any earthly power
Colonel John ii. Smith, F. F. G.
was grand marshal of the parade anc
Major D. A. Valentine. o. of D., acted
as chief of staff Rev. Burton M
Palmer, pastor Of Fruitvale Congrega'
tional church, offered the Invocation
and James A. Colquhoun, p r. G. de-
livered the Introductory ADDRESS or
Memorial Day"
brakes Address to the Flag was
recited by Prof. T. o. Crawford ane
1 William n. Van de mark, department
chaplain. H. A r.. recited Lincoln's ad'
dress at Gettysburg.
The ceremonies were interspersee
with patriotic songs by the scnoo
children. accompanied by the LOCK
wood schoolboys' band. and were con
cluded with salute fired by detail
from Camp Liscom. Spanish war vet
far