The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-31
REMEMBERED DEAD
SOLDIERS
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vice-service on the battlefield in de-
| Tending the flag; service at the polls
| in voting for the right man for Of
fee regardless of party affiliations;
service in the state legislature where
it is so essential that men set aside
their own private interests in order
that the best interests of the COM
monwealth may be subserved; service
in the halls of congress, where wise,
discriminating and ethical laws
should be entered upon the statute
books of the nation.
''It will thus be seen that the dem
onstration of the virtues of patriotism
| is not confined to times of war, to
fields of carnage and amid battle
smoke, but it's virtues can be well
exemplified in the days of peace.
Patriotism calls for service, and
if it does it is opposed to selfishness;
for selfishness and selfish man never
serves. A selfish man may do some
thing for hire and as such is an hire
ling, but working for hire is not rem
jering service.
Opposed to patriotism is treason.
A patriot is one who defends his coun-
try. A traitor is one who betrays his
country or betrays any confidence or
trust placed in him by his country.
Through all time patriotism has
been a force-a powerful force
awakening dormant men, stirring
them into action; causing them to for
get self; causing them to ignore or
modify their own interests; urging
them to do and be and if need be die
| for their country. Sir Walter Scott,
that intense Scottish patriot, has put
! the whole matter into verse as fol-
| lows:
'Breathes there a man with soul so
| dead
Who never to himself has said:
| This is my own, my native land,
Whose heart has n'er within him
burned
AS home his footsteps he has turned
From wandering on foreign strand?
| If such there breathe,
Go mark him we'll;
! For him no ancient MINISTRIES swell;
High though his title; proud his
name;
Countless his wealth as wish could
claim,
Despite these honors, power and pelf
The wretch concentrated all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renown,
And doubly dying shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he come,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.'
but you, oh soldiers of the repub-
lie, have done your duty, too. AS /
cannot emblazon the stars nor add
lustre to the sun, so I cannot add to
your glory today, nor to the glory of
luC VI Tic uCdu upOA d IAOu-
sand battlefields-the dead many of
whose bones lie even to this day
bleaching in the southern sun. A
great question was then answered.
great problem was then solvei-the
perpetuity of the republic was in dan
ger and when the call came you res
ponded, brave, unselfish men that you
were. Over two million of you gave
up home, loved ones, opportunity to
advance your own private interests;
Iswore away the right to eat what and
when you choose; to retire and arise
when it pleased you; even gave ur
the right to select the color and the
cut of the clothes you wore and Of
fered up your life, your all on the
altar of patriotism in order that a
government of the people, by the PEG.
pie and for the people might not per-
ish from the earth
ga short time ago set of ques.
of the leading churches Of the land
One of the questions was: Now that
you have been in the ministry for a
number of years, would you, If the
choice were given you, again choose
the ministry Eighty-seven per cent
of them gave an unqualified affirma
tive. This is most remarkable. But
soldiers of the republic, we believes
in you; we believe that If an oppor
tunity was again given to defend this
old flag-old Glory-and you had The
strength, that you would rise as one
man and say, as did the prophet re
corded in sacred writ, Here am I
send me-
Friends, we are gathered here
this afternoon to do three things