Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-30

Bloomfield Attorney. Who Delivered
| Mem orial Address at Soldiers Home.
that oversha downing thought left many
national problems unsolved. Seventy
/ three years of national life and eXper-
/ fence swept by. and every detail and
| horror of a divided country was dis
cussed. Volumes We're written. The anti
slavery press Numbered at the public
conscience. The pulpit and the plat
| form We're for federal unity On the
/ other hand palliating circumstances
! and conditions were plead. The lust
/! of commercial greatness and power
oversha dowed all other consideration
Flesh and blood was measured by the
standard of gold and silver. But above
the craftsmanship and the legal find
ings of the courts. there was the old
maxim in frey letters of human free
dom. the welfare of the people. A
funda mental law of civil and religious
liberty was being violated for lust and
money and the demand let the people
go was unheeded. The simple story of
Harriet Beecher Stowe had brought
tears. to a nations eyes. The burning
words of Wendell Phillips had found
a Judgment in the hearts of the north,
and there was no power to stay the
hand of civil war.
We might we'll pause and ask, from
whence sprung this power TO preserve
and protect this union of states, and
sweep away the armies of southern
cllivalry?' On the muster rolls of the
union army are the names of 100000
American youths Their veins fill
ed with patriotic blood their cheeks
rosy with the morning of life. clad in
the Drawn. muscle and brain of a new
civilization. To them was future lib
erry entrusted No breastworks eyer
stopped their charges. No line of
bayonets of the keeDest steel brought
fear 10 their hearts No bullet ever
retarded the cause for which they en-
listed. For four of the longest years
in our history they followed Old Glory
to victory and 10 death. An Arier-
can citizen robbed in the simple garb
of human liberty. believing in the
Righteousness of his cause. made it pos
sibie for the present generation to be-
hald the bursting glory of the TWEEN
stieth century, enshrouded in the flag of
our common country. You can not
separate human progress from Ameri-
can citizen robed in the simple garb
separate the spirit that inspired the
union army. from the future accom-
plishments of the world with its OPP
portunities.
Freedom Born Of Revolutionary Stock.
Il. was 373 years from the discovery
of this new world, until the first shell
of treason burst above the ramparts
of Fort Sumpter. During that time al
most every form of government had
been experim ented with on the shores
Of America But the pioneer blood re-
fused TO accept the divine idea Of kings
to rule The echoes of the flint lock
muskets of the revolutionary fathers
resounded down the years from Bunker
Hill 10 Yorktown. and the memory
awoke a patriotism in the northern
states that made victory sure at any
! cost No army has ever been mar
shaled on foreign soil that was strong
enough to destroy human freedom in
the hearts of American patriots. Eng
lands fleets and armies. backed by her
; gold met defeat at the hands of the
revolutionary soldiers, and her military
! genius that had received the plaudits OF
all Europe faded away before the ac-
curate fire of the sons Of free born
men The name of Washington is for
ever carved on the arch stone of the
centuries, and British gold found but
one Benedict Arnold. willing TO darken
and mar the escutcheon of our nationa
! loyalty.
Read Answer Alright.
"But in that hour of national accom-
plishment, 30,000,0o0 people found
themselves divided upon the question
Of constitutional construction and ma
tional perpetuity. This nation can no,
exist half slave and half free were tht
immortal words. Thirteen stars slip.
ped away from the flag. While the
southland was robed in her garrr ent!
of spring. and the sweet magnolia
bloom filled the atmosphere with thu
nectar Of life and joy, and the voice!
of her birds were never sweeter, there
lurked that gaunt. hungry demon o
treason. breathing his blightint
breath Of death and destruction to hu
man libery His poison seemed to have
perm Gated the Halls of legislation; an'
a craftsmanship of which any peopl
should have been proud turned tn
thand of state craft against our fathe
flag. The very pillars of this republic
tr6mDle as III the tlIIOeS u Silock "
earthquake power. This demon tore t.
shreads the fabric of civil government
in thirteen sister conmonwealths.
"'Shall the government of Washing
ton survive?' Was the question answer
ed while men of my age were beinl
born. 1 take some pride in my humble
way of paying. as / believe. deserv'
ing tribute to that generation. tina
dared to answer Alright. The answe
could not have been made at the ballo
box or in the hall of legislation. Blu
of necessity in the clash of bayonets
on bloody fields of battle in southern
prison pens. among the swamps an
camps of disease and death. Not TO
hire or to crafty personal ambition
but in a humble sacrifice that we Nigh
livetn united country.
, Flag of Treason FurIed Forever.
eve are reminded by the bronze but
] their country and it's flag. That kne7
5 the demand of public duty, and dare
to performit Not in the blazing light
:, of electricity and gas, surrounded b
all the luxurious of modern life, di
these men serve their country. Bu
haway down among the southern paral
l flels Of ATTITUDES, two brothers with com
| mon ties Of inheritance, with the dag