Arizona republican., 1909-05-30
DECORATION
 DAY SERVICES
 --..-. -ir..a E1gas Program at Opera House During Afternoon GRAVES WERE DECORATED
 llu.aA Rev. C. Sidney Maddox in an Address on the Blue and the Gray Scores Uncle Toms Cabin.
GRAVES WERE DECORATED

There was rather a large crowd gathered yesterday afternoon for the purpose of doing honor to the dead heroes who have at some time in their lives offered their services to their country.
 The business houses generally closed their doors during a portion of the af- ternoon, while the services at the opera house were in progress. and the deco ration of the graves at the cemetery.
 The program. as has been announced in these columns, was carried out. Rev. A. L. Hawley, of the M E. church, de- livered an eloquent address on "The American Soldier"
 Dr. E. w. Wilbur. who was to be in charge of the exercises, has been serl- ously i'll for the past few days. and George s. Irwin presided. MT. Irwin has seen service in the Spanish-Amer- ican war. being stationed for a time at Manila, in the Philippines.
 Immediately after the exercises at the opera house, a procession was formed to the cemetery, where the graves of the dead soldiers were strewn with flowers.
 One of the features of the exercises was the elegant address of Rev. C.. Sidney Maddox Rev. Mir. Maddox is q southern man by birth and environ ment. but he is the product of the new south. Rev MT. Maddox said, in part:
 ..The water from the Lakes flows through a united country and empties into the Gulf The south borrows the spirit of commercialism from New England. and. in turn. the contented and happy Yankee watches his trade 90 southwark to the sweet and gentle notes of Way Down on the Shawnee Ribber'
 The south. wounded in body and destitute of raiment, lifting her head from the ruins of that unholy war counts herself exceedingly happy to in corporate into her sunny domain, where every lover is a hero, every marriage a romance. and every death a tragedy the prosaic business princi- ples of her active northern brethren Texas models her school systems af- ter New York, Chicago watched reform in Atlanta. the Mississippi planter spends his summers in New Hamp- shire. and republican president from Ohio, forgetting Morgan's raid, hioer- mates in Georgias capital.
 "The injury done a noble country by that over-zealous author of that ignoble misrepresentation, Uncle Toms Cabin has long ago been buried with others, and 'Dixie's' best sons have donned the blue and died under the star-spangled banner while their fathers. shrouded in gray. sleep with the blue at Shiloh and Cold Harbor.
 What prompted Joe Wheeler to fight with Shafter in Cuba? The same spirit that dared Hobson to go on his mission of death-love and honor. And, standing hand in hand. we shall re- main united people, as we have been for half century. citizens of the same country. members of the same govern ment united, all united now and for eVermore.
 soThe cavalier has forgotten his royal ancestors. and with the puritan stands at the helm of the ship of state. ready to do as much for the prosperity and welfare of the land. From the ashes sherman left in 1864, the south has raised a brave and beautiful city She has caught the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of her homes. and builded wherein there is not one ignoble preJu- dice or memory The wound is healed the rebel sword is sheathed forever. Today the rebel prisoners grave in the north will have a flower of remem- brance. while in the southland. the grave of the native dead will be hon ored.
 .. No more shall the war-cry sever,
 or the winding rivers be red; They. banish our anger forever
 When they laurel the graves of our
 dead,
 Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day,
 Love and tears for the blue.
 Tears and love for the gray.