Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-01
Commanders Of North and.
South All Great Men Declares
Territorial Chief III Stirring.
Memorial Day Address
rsr-,g., p,.pai,s 10 ID. Sorrlur Iaurasll

santa Ee, 81 a. May 81 Not in
gears have the peopio ~ saata It lla-
tened q 50 stirring 3 patfleuc ad-
dress as that delivered at the Memo
rial day exercises hers fesferdav b.
Governor WILLIAM } Ntiis IN ule Ma
tiouai cemetery The governor ADJ
dress Was a 1tttn~ ciimaA - 3 teaNu-
ful Memorial 94y prPgran Nhth rH8
attended bY hgpd cis 0f sneuie efh-
ar addresses wer, delttsfsa As JUdEc
John Il. McF1e. Judge Morrison and
others. an heartily in sympathy with
the spirit ~ the day. AS imposing
PROGRESSION. headed by tire governor
M Mayer sena with mauv miifarr.
patriotic and ciFil organizations in
lire wended It's way % the cemetery
where the exercises took place
In his address fhe governor paid @
glowing tribute o. the soldiers who
wore both the blue and the gray and
accorded the need of praise % each
impaTtiaily.
Governor M1is speech was in part
rs foiiows
Veterans ~ the GRIND Army ~ tho
Republic q Ladies' and Gentle
tlemeu.
zone year has rolled rs since tile
post ~ the Grand Army ~ the Re-
public which is situated 8t Santa Pc.
n the many other camps ~ yetc-
rams, which are scattered over the
broad hosnm Of the United States.
have turned out rs ORGANIZATIONS to
lay flowers pnon the graves ~ their
deceased comrades the unknown
dead, ard ~ jig 3 tribute a. the
memory Of their drparfrd ones.
Each year the ranks of the Grand
Army grow thinner and thinner. and
each year fewer men whe served lu
the army or navy during The civil
war. turn out 10 march in the pafadca
which II is customary 10 have on Me-
mortal day. These ieHseuiHg numbers
arc not oceasi9ned by degerfiou or ~
s%traEgiing. They only arise because
each year the grim destroyer wleids
his srythe n ruils from the fast de-
pietinR ranks Of the survivors OF tho
great war. those whose time has
come; those who cannot answer the
ron call. and who have crossed tho
great divide to be- Judged by the an
wise Providence. the Creator of AN
things.
Each year every living survivor ,
who fought ~ thar. the Kgsateai 90
all modern wHrs, must realize tIat
death may claim him as IT'S next vice
tim. for the war ended As years ago
and no matter how young one mas
have been. no matter how tender were
his years when the dove of peace set
tied over our common country. he
must have now nearly arrived al the
biblical aEn allotted u the life uf
man, to-wit. three score years and
ten, and though ho mas llee beyond
that time. atill his life viii be but
travail n pain 80 d event not
many more years OF life can be cX-
pccted bY him.
Although only q boy M the begin
ming Of the war, / well remember the
thru which went through the country
az the time Fort Sumptrr was nrcd
upon Well do / recall She patriotic
fervor which sped iikc an electric
current through the north through
every city. town and hamlet aud thc
hearty ana quick Response which WIS
given 20 the call of the president for
20. 090 volunteers. To be enlisted FOR
three months, for in the beginning not
thought that the war would last
longer than that time,
In "a very few weeks however. The
dclusion that the duration of The war
would be short wees dispoiied for
on tho field of battle the north
ern and the southcrn soldiers met.
foemen worthy OF their Steel. and that
the conflict was 10 be- a contest ~
"A test of endurance and re-
sources. and not O. mere holiday pa
rude. such as had been expected
MANY q widowed mother went
when perhaps her oniy son, possibly
a boy Of only eighteen or twenty
years of age, announced chat duty
him. and that he WIS going 10
enlist and go 10 tho ron TO fight
While the mother Wcpt and while her
heart WIS nearly broken, she know
he boy was right, d like the
Roman matron she hoped that ne .
might return L. victor ur NOT return
alive IA ait She 9rnt with him ~
tho recruiting ufficc wished hlm
Godspecd, u saw Him write bic
name upon tie enlistment roll and be-
come thenceforth one OF ihe boss boz
blue.
Many II sou perhaps had "a life
like this boy. / might try go puint %
word picture of his lifc white in tho
service, but ns NJ would be hut "a rp-
production 81 tho experiences 0f mauN
of YOU ! shall NOT do 80.
when most ot Auu enlisted sou
first sent Co some camp to h,
drilled and taught Co Doe a soldier
Joined sou there. and all CO.,
you raw recruits soon were divided
into companies and regiments. ana
moulded into shape. 80 that sou might
be ft to De integral parts useful cons
IN e great fighting machine which
Nas made 90 10 battle aH the Hrrat
Army of the Republic.
"rhe regiments to which 2ou he-
.onEcd when whipped into shape were
sent to the front some perhaps goo
ing 10 the army of virginia. some Co
.he armies operating Goa that part of
ne country south of the great middle
pnd the rest of you 60 h Nari-
pus other posts armies of the ;