Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-30
The program will close with song
by the choir.

The program will close with song
by the choir.
Yesterdays Services.
Yesterday forenoon at II o'clock
the members of the G. A. r., and the
w. r. G. and the Ladies Of the G. A..
r., attended services at the Metho-
dist church. The veterans were es-
oorted to the services from their hail
by Company M. o. N. c., the mem
bers of which were In blue dress uni
form.
Company NJ, after assembling at its
own quarters, marched to the post
hall, where the other organizations
had assembled, and in a body, with
Company M in the lead, they marched
to the Methodist church. Rev. Sell
leck delivered the sermon, and it was
thoroughly enjoyed by all. The day
was generally observed by Salem citi-
zens, and at all the churches special
services were held and were well at
tended.
Observed at SilvertOn.
Geo. H. Thomas Post G.. A. r. had
a fitting program at the cemetery
near the city where large crowd
assembled. The address was deliv-
cred by Col. q. Hofer, commander
of the Sons of Veterans of the Ore
gon division for two years. He
traced the growth of liberty from
the struggles of the revolution, pic
tured the characters of Washington,
Jefferson and La Fayette, described
their meeting at Monticello after
the laying of the cornerstone of
Bunker Hill monument. He said IN
part: eve should thank God for
every drop of soldier blood in the
veins of the American people. It
redeems us from being a race of
money-grabbers and makes us a race
of patriots and conquerors. Proud
er than all hereditary honors, or So.
cial distinctions, are those whose
fathers fought in the armies for the
preservation of the Union. Oregon
should honor herself by making pro-
vision in the next legislature for
erecting the statues of Col. Baker
and Col. Nesmith in the Memorial
Hall at Washington, where each
state remembers two men of patriot
blood and achievement. One laid
down his life on the battlefield, and
the other supported in the halls of
congress a president of opposite po-
litical faith for the cause of the
national life.
He traced the establishment of
slavery, the organization of the
abolition movement, and showed
how great causes are made possible
by small matters at first overlooked
Daniel Websters mother was saved
from an Indian massacre by having
a tub thrown over her when she was
child. Judge Pope had an amend
ment made to the act admitting the
territory of Illinois that added IA
counties on the north. Judge Pope
is forgotten but those IA counties
saved Illinois to the republican par
ty and made Lincoln possible. He
pictured Lincoln as the first repre-
sentative of the west--a typical
American. "He lived the life of the
West, walked in its sunlight across
its broad prairies, felt the beatings
of It's mighty heart, a child of the
West, with the patience, the power
of initiative and the boundless con-
fidence in its men and women that
is today the strongest characteristic
of the American people. OF him
Douglas said he was the most honest
man he ever knew. He was not
calling to strangers when he called
for the volunteers to put down the
rebellion against the stars and
stripes but called to men who had
mingled their blood in a common
sacrifice for the making of a greater
nation west OF the Alleghanies.
"The last days Of Lincoln were