Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-30
Albion, Rhodes, and Gilman
Hold Exercises in Memory
of Patriotic Dead
VAN LAW SPEAKS AT ALBION
Pays Tribute to Soldier Dead in An
nuaI Observance in That Town-Rev.
c. w. Mccord at Rhodes-state Gen.
ter Also Observes Day With Appro-
pirate Exercises.

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Memorial Day with exercises appropri
ate to the occasion. C.. H. Van Law, o
this city, was the speaker at Albion
where exercises were held In the after
noon. At Rhodes Rev. C. W. McCord
of this city, was the speaker. Rev. M
H. Smith, pastor of the Methods
church at Gilman, delivered the ad.
dress at that place, and James Brom-
we'll, of Marion, spoke at State Cen
ter.
AT Albion the band was engaged tc
play martial music, and following thu
exercises Of the afternoon will give
concert this evening. Rev. S. S. Wyan6
offered the invocation, the glee club
sang, and Principal f. H. Figert. OF
the Albion schools, read the roll call
Misses Jessie Leonard and Lois
Blanchard gave readings, and Rev. Mr.
Redearus pronounced the benediction
after the audience sang America
A Mr.. Van Laws address was an appeal
for the proper observance of the day
instilling the thoughts of patriotism
| into the young thru the home. He paid
a glowing tribute to the patriot dead,
and spoke in part as follows:
1.-TWO score and ten years have
passed since the gathering war cloud
threatened this union Of states with
smembernient. The years that have
come and gore have marked the strug-
gle and the triumph Of patriot men and
| no less patriot women. This republic
lives stronger for their sacriice-more
durable for their suffering. The raw
ages of war and of time have thinned
the ranks Of that patriot band, and
year by year the march of loyal, CRATE
full civilians in their memorial pilgrim
age to the graWeside of our soldier
heroes, finds added mounds to await
| floral tribute in memory Of a pat
riots devotion.
"Shall our people ever forget =
shall this nation ever cease to cher
ish the memory Of those who, in that
hour Of national struggle, threw their
lives against the legions OF rebellion
Like pestilence, war settled down
upon this land Of ours-like a scourge
it tore from every fireside the strong
est manhood and seized upon innocent
boyhood. From hamlet and country
side, from market and work shop and
farm, there was called forth that tide
Of human life to assuage the ravages
Of war. The historian records the
fact that this was a struggle for lib
erty-a test of the durance Of free
institutions. The heroism of centur-
les passed, wrought for the victory
that was to pass until coming gen.
erations, a more perfect union, sealed
by the blood of millions.
1--WE whose lives are lingering in the
morning Of our days, we who daily look
out upon a rising sun, should not fall
ter or fail as the years go by to
faithfully cherish this legacy of time
this bequest of patriotic genera
ton. If we would not waste in riot
Gus living-if we would not trample
under foot that cherished object Of
human quest thru the ages passed, it
will be because we live into our lives
the virtues Of that sturdy race Of men
that here or. this continent brought
forth that legacy of free institutions,
liberty and equality before the law.
1T Is not for me here to tell these
veterans Of campaigns past, it is not
for me to tell these patriot women
Of that day of the loneliness Of the
fireside, bereft of its manhood by the
call to arms in defense of this union,
but rather, would turn to the men
and women OF my own generation-to
the youth Of the land, to urge the
claims of the obligation we owe to
these heroes CT the past, and the duty
that confrontsi us in the discharge Of
that obligation.
stamped upon every feature Of our
institutions in the struggle of our an
cestors, as the race has bought it's
way from oppression to liberty, and as
a heritage there comes to us the fruits
of that struggle. M
''The awakening desire for Individual
liberty, the resentment of oppression,
the conquest Of self for the common
veal, mark the progress of people
from barbarism to civilization-from
mob to a self-governed society.
= am not one who is won't to scan
Ill0 S1S VI IllS LILIES LUZ SVtuSI1CeS OIL
ruin. With the halo of a
great historic past about US to light
the pathway of our future, I believe
this nation is to go forward in it's
great work until mankind over the
earth shall be made to rejoice at the
rising star of this great republicans
til the emblem of our union shall be
hailed in the uttermost parts of the
earth as the harbinger of a better day
But If it shall so be, it must come, be-
cause there is kept alive in the heart
Of this people the great purposes that
the life of our Washington
and his compatriots when this nation
was brought forth, and, that strength
ened and sustained our immortal Lin
coln and his supporters in preserving
it from the devastations of rebellion
ut is not the problem of today alone,
but the problem of every tomorrow
until time shall be no more, that con-
Fronts each generation with the de- |
nand of patriots duty. 1t is not for |
is in this land of plenty to sit down |
beneath the assurances which past |
over rebellion gives, and feel |
hat the battle is over and that these |
states and this nation are forever Sc
,ure against dissolution and decay.
The greed of gain. the debauchery OF
very virtue are impending evils, which
,ver threaten the life of a nation.
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