The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-11

Just so It Is now. After the greatest
war that the world has known, the
really brave n true men of both
sides have laid aside all feeling of
hatred and have come to recognize
the noble lives and sacriicial death Of
b soldiers of each army as the her.
itage of all our people.
War has served a purpose in the
development of the human race but
humanity has paid a dear price for
progress. 1t has cost the lives of so
many thousands n h happiness of
so many thousands more and has rob-
bed the earth of SO much of its treas
ure. But war a come n brave
men have left all and have laid down
their lives as a part of the price of
~humanity's advancement toward its
final goal. 1t is fitting that we should
remember with appropriate honor
their heroiSm and their supreme sac
rifce. Cowper has fittingly said:
Patriots have TOLD, and in their
country's aus
Bled nobly, and their deeds, as they
deserve,
Received proud recompense. We give
in charge
Their names to the sweet Tyre. The
historic muse,
Proud of the treasure, marches with
it down BE- ~
To the latest times; and sculpture, in
her turn,
Gives bond in stone and ever during
To guard them, and to immortalize
her trust"
And a southern poet has said:
Great men to come will bless the
brave;
The soldier, bronzed in wars career,
Shall weave a chaplet DER his grave,
While mem'ry drops the glist'ning
tear.
Though envy wag her scorpion tongue,
The march of Time shall find his
fame;
Where Bravery's loved and Glory's
sung,
There children's lips shall lisp his
name"
1 believe hat every true American
regrets today that there was ever war
between the sections of our country.
l am sure that the survivors of the
Confederate army are glad that our
country is not divided and hat hui
man slavery 10 longer exists. l am
assured also, that they recognize the
fact that the soldiers on the other side
of that unfortunate conflict were
brave and worthy men and that the
men of the Union army recognize in
the Confederate soldier a foeman wor-
thy and patriotic. The man who goes
about now and tries to stir up pre-
judice n party feeling on account
of the war has a mighty small follow
ing and he ought to have.
The American people have come
to claim the record of daring hero
ism of the oldiers North and South
as the glory of a reunited country
and to own the losses and the sor-
rows inflicted by the war as the mis-
fortune of our whole nation.
AS David had the people pause and
mourn over the misfortunes and loss
es and sorrows of Israel on account
of their civil war;, sc l would that
today we might remember for a lit
tie while what our soldiers and our
country suffered on account of the
most terrible war ever waged by man.
On both sides were men as brave as
ever bore the shock of battle. They
deserve all the glory that has been
ascribed to them. Their names will
justly be handed down from gener-
dtlOn 10 SeneraIlOn as men worthy OF
all honor. The memory of their he
roic deeds and sacrifcial deaths will
be preserved to future ages in build
ings and statuary and will be embalmed
in story and in song. And 1 would
have it even so.
But while we are building monu-
ments, and erecting statues, and
writing stories and songs to perpet-
uate and glorify the memory of the
heroes of war, we must be careful not
to glorify war. We must hemem-
Der the untold losses and the I'M
speakable sorrows OF u country be-
cause of the mighty men of our ma
ton that are persisted in battle.
The war between the states was a
mighty blow to the industries of a
young and growing country. 1t tool
about three million men out of fac
tories, offices, shops and off farms.