The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-09-02

Osawatomie, Kan, Aug. 31.-With
tract of 22 acres on the ground
where the battle OF Osawatomie was
fought "a years ago yesterday, was
dedicated today and presented to the
state of Kansas The elimination of
the affair was the dedicatory address,
which was delivered by Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Preliminary exercises were held
yesterday. and the program was re-
sumed at 1890 this morning with
concert by the Thirteenth Regiment
band, followed by drill by troops OF
the Kansas National guard and the
regular army Meanwhile Col. Roose-
velt's train had arrived and all the
thousands OF people assembled here
went to the station to greet him.
After dinner all gathered In the new
park, where there was a parade by
the soldiery, the Grand Army
Woman's Relief corps and civic so-
cleties and another band concert.
Then, after vocal solo by Miss Eliz-
aDeth Uhls and an invocation, the
president OF the board of trustees.
Cora NJ Deputy, formally presented
the park to the state on behalf Of the
Woman's Relief corps OF Kansas,
which bought the ground Governor
Stubbs responded gracefully for the
state, and then the chairman, ]. B.
Remington, introduced the distin-
gulshed orator OF the day, former
President Roosevelt
Grafton by Colonel Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt stood silent and smil-
ing until the storm Of applause had
died down, and then spoke as follows
There have been two great crises in
our countrys history; nrst when It was
formed. and then again when it was per
petuated. The formative period included
not merely the Revolutionary war but
the creation and adoption Of tho Const-
under 1t. Then came sixty years during
which we spread across the continent
years OF vital growth, but Of growth with
out rather than growth within Then
came the time OF stress and strain which
eliminated in the Civil war, the period
or terrible struggle upon the Issue OF
which depended the justification OF all
that we had done earlier, and which
IldIheu tHe second great period OF CROWN
and development within. The name OF
John Brown will be forever associated
with this second period Of the Nations
history; and Kansas the theater
upon which the first act Of tho second of
our great National life dramas was play
ed 1t was the result of the struggle in
Kansas which determined that our coun-
try should be In deed as as well as in
name devoted to both union and freedom
that the great experiment Of democratic
government On National scale should
succeed and not fall 1t was heroic
struggle; and, as Is inevitable with all
such struggles, it had also a dark and
terrible side. Very much was done OF
good and much also Of evil; and as was
inevitable in such period Of revolution
often the same man did both good and
evil. For our great good fortune as a
Nation, we, tho people Of tho United
States as whole, now afford to for
get the evil, or at least to remember 1t
without bitterness, and to AK our eyes
with pride on the good that was accom-
pl!shed. Even in ordinary times there
are very few OF US who do not see the
problems of life as through glass
darkly and when the glass is clouded by
the murk OF furious popular passion, the
vision of the best and the bravest is
dimmed Looking back, we are all Of US
now able to do Justice to the valor and
the disinterest tedness and the love Of the
right as to each 1t given to see the
right. shown both by the men OF the north
and the men OF the south in that contest
which was finally decided by the attitude
OF the west We can admire the heroic
valor, the sincerity, the self-dayotion
shown alike by the mon who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray
and our sadness that such men should
have had to fight ono another Is temp
cred by the glad knowledge that ever
hereafter their descendants shall be found
fighting side by side, struggling In peace
as well In war for the uplft of their
common country, all alike resolute to
raise to tho highest pitch of honor and
usefulness the Nation to which they all
belong. AS for the veterans Of the Grand
Army of the Republic. they deserve honor
and recognition such is paid to no
other citizens OF the Republic; for to
them the Republic owes it's ALL for to
them 1t owes It's very existence
Application Of the Lesson.
I do not speak OF this struggle Of tho
past merely from the. historic standpoint
Our interest Is primarily in the applica-
ton today of the lessons taught by tho
contest Of half century ago 1t is of
little use for us to pay lip loyalty to the
mighty men of the past unless we sim
cerely endeavor to apply to the problems
Of the present precisely the qualities
which in other crises enabled the men OF
that day to meet those crises It Ia half
melancholy and half amusing to see tho
way in which well-meaning people gather
to do honor to the men who in company
with John Brown. and under the lead Of
Abraham Lincoln, faced and solved the
great problems Of the nineteenth CEN
tury, while at the same time these same
good people nervousiy shrink from or
frantically denouncs those who are try
ing to meet the problems Of the twentieth
A. ~ t-tt v.tl,t tNA
rhe successful solution Of the problems Of
Lncolns time
OF that generation Of men, to whom we
owe much, the man to whom we owe
the most is, OF course, Lincoln Part Of
our debt to him is because he forecast
our present struggle and saw tho way cut.
He said:
II hold that while man exists II In