The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-31
MONUMENT TO HEROES AT
GETTYSBURG UNVEILED
BY HELEN TAFT
Memories of Those Who Died Fought Famous Battlefield Pepet
uaed Granite the Bloody Ange-Presiden Taft Delivers
Grafton Secretary Of War Pays Glorious Tribute to Patriotism
OF Men Who Participated in Great Struggle

Gettysburg, Pa, MAY 31.-President
Taft, delivering the principal speech
at the unveiling here today of a
splendid granite monument erected
by congress to the memory of the
men OF the regular army who fell in
the hrec-days fighting that turned
back the rising tide of the confeder-
scy. paid a high tribute TO the reg
ulars. and declared the necessity of
maintaining always standing army
II appreciable size to serve as the
nucleus for a greater armed force in
imc Of need. The President asserted
hat the present standing army is
barely commensurate with the in.
srease in population of the country
rom the early days of the republic
ind should by no means be decreas-
I'd
Arriving here this morning shortly
before 10 o'clock, from Pittsburg, the
President was joined by his daugh-
tcr, Miss Helen II. Taft, who pulled
The Sillscn cord releasing the flags
draped about the monument. The
day was ideal.
Standing on the battlefield wnere
virtually was decided the san
culinary conflict between the North
and South, Secretary OF War ia
cob NJ. Dickinson, southern
man by birth, today turned over
10 the Gettysburg Natinal Park com
missioner, on behalf of the people of
the United States, the handsome mon
ument erected here by congress 10
commemorate heroic services on the
Union soldiers. who surrendered their
lives on this spot that tle Union might
be preserved.
THE overthrow Of the South, as
alwayS, occurs after a fierce war
when the defeated are helpless and the
more conservative of the vlctcrs are
Tor while dominated by the fiercest
and most aggressive leaders" said
Mr.. Dickinson, was Immediately fol
lowed by sufferinGs and humiliations
that for long time admitted Of moth
ing but lamentation over a result that
could bring such woe Keen and bit
Ter as they were. time, and a manifeS-
tation of a more generous sentiment,
clearer vision Of the tremendous evils
TO all the states which would certain
ly and Immediately nave followed up
on the establishment of the southern
confederacy.
Its very cornerstone was Of lam
inae pre-ordaincd to disintegration.
Commercial and other conditions
would, as sure as fate, have brought
about a dissolying Confederacy What
would have come from this, We can
only conjecture, but it is well with
in the bounds Of reason to assert that
the good would have been dwarfed In
comparison with the evil
There would have been a hate and
rivalry between north and south as
intense as that between France and
Germany. with border line far more
extended, people less amenable to con
troll and causes for friction more nu-
merous. A Gordon of forts would n9ye
stretched from the Atlantic to the
western border of Texas and army
and naval establishments would have
dcyoured the substance of the people
and militarism would have dominated
civil government. The civilization of
all the states would have developed
on different and more critical lines. IL
may be that in the logic Of events the
war had to come-that it was the
fierce, cruel and inevitable crucible
which was to fulfill a destiny-that of
making us as 1t did, stronger and
harmonious people united with a solid
front to meet the great problems that
now confront our race.
''We are no wiser nor more patriotic
tnan were the men who were con-
spicuous in that great drama As we
look backward, our vision is not OBJ
scure0 by the tempeStuous atmosphere
which surrounded them and we stand
upon INHERENT pinnacle in the march
of history. They passed through the
valley OF the shadow OF death, and we,
by their trials, have attained to a
mount of wider Vision than was per-
mitted to them
God grant that in the great nation.
al drama which. act by act, a blent Of
mirth and Sadness mixture OF COM
cdy and tragedy. is always in prog
ress. developing day by day those
things which will shape the destiny OF
our country. VIC may enact our part
with the grandeur, neroism and pa.
triotism which they illustrated.
"At this day. there are but few. if
any dispassicnate thinkers In the
North. VINO question the patriotism of
those Of the South. who, on this strick-
en- field, gave an example of American
yalor that will forever thrill the minds
and hearts Of mankind in all coun-
tries and in all ages. And, at tlis
day. there are in the South but few, if
any, who would not turn swiftly with
sentiment OF adherence from any
suggestion tnat il would have been
better for the South If it had succeed
cd in establishing an Independent gov
crnment And this is true even OF the
survivors of those who on this very
ground. 'sf
'|6a. gray gigantic ghost.
Reccding through the battle cloud.
And heard across the tempest loud,
The death cry OF nation"
with one mind and heart the peo-
pie OF this great country, said Mr.
Dickinson In conclusion, "lcolsins 10
the future with no rivslry, but in gen
srouE patriotism. and cherishing no
hate, but only the glorious memories