Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-07-17
TAFT LAUDS e. A. R.
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT their
Washington DEDICATION.
Grand Army of the Republic Is Form
ing Strong Bond of Union in the
United States-Presiden Taft Made
Great Speech at dwelling of the
Memorial to Founder of the G. A. R.

Washington, July 3.-Declaring that,
unlike the Pretorian guard of Rome,
the men who made up the union forces
during the civil war were in favor of
free institutions, that they fought for
them to anything else, President Taft
taoday, as the principal speaker at the
unwilling of "a memorial to DIR. Benja-
min Franklin Stepheson, founder of the
G. A. r., paid glowing tribute to that
organization.
Congress having contributed to the
cost of the memorial President Taft
said be was present in his official capa-
city. The president spoke as follows:
Pride Of Patriotism.
1--WE are met to dedicate a memorial
to a union soldier, who served four
years as a surgeon in the civil war and
who also builded an institution by which
there has been united in the bonds of
fellowship all the sweet association, all
the pride Of patriotism that such a civil
war as that could arouse in millions Of
hearts.
"When men at the formative period
of life-from is to % years-are asso-
ciated in any work, whether il be in
college, in society or otherwise, they
carry with them afterward the fond
est memories and associations for each
other because they have passed through
a common mold.
80 can conceive no bond Of union
stronger than that which unites the men
who fought from 1861 to 1865 in the
Grand Army, and il was to the credit Of
the founder Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic that he saw the solid basis up
on which such a structure as that great
society could be erected.
Evil Phrophecies Failed
" You will recolleet that there were
phrophets Of evil with respect to the
fate Of the United States after the war
should cease, after the ends should be
accomplished for which the north was
fighting and an aggregation Of q mil
Lion men IN arms threatened our free
institutions. But al those phrephecies
faded into n0tbingness The men who
composed that million were men Ia IA
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for them and did not intend 10 sac.
rflee them 20 anything else. There
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