The Prescott daily news., 1910-08-31
JOHN BROWN PARK
 GIVEN ID KANSAS
Address by Theo'0Te Roosevelt
 Closes the Ceremonies.
GREAT DAY FOR OSAWATOMlE
Standing Where Battle of Osawatomie Was Fought, Ex-President Gives His Ideas of Freedom and
 Good Government.

Osawatomie, Kan, Aug. 31.-This was Osawatomies great day, for which the citizens have been prepar- ing for months-the closing day of the dedication ceremonies at John Brown park. Today the park of 22 acres, on the site of the battle of Osawato- mic, fought on Aug 30, 1856, was for mally presented to the state, and the dedicatory oration was delivered by Theodore Roosevelt.
 Preliminary exercises were held yesterday. and the program was re- 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 parade by the soldiery, the Grand Army Woman's Relief corps and civic so- cieties and another band concert. Then, after vocal solo by Miss Eliz- abeth Uhls and an invocation, tho president of the board of trustees, Cora M. 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 J. B. Remington. introduced the distin- guished 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 country's history; first when 1t was formed. and then again when 1t was per petuated. The formative period included not merely the Revolutionary war but the creation and adoption ot the Consti- 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 Of terrible struggle upon ehe issue of which depended the Justification of all that we had done earlier, and which marked the second great period of growth and development within. The name of John Brown will be forever associated with this second period of the Nations history; and Kansas was tho theater upon which the first act of the second of our great National life dramas was play ed. It was the result o< the struggle in Kansas which determined that our coun- try should be in decd as as well as in name devoted to both union and freedom that the SreHt experiment of democratic governnltHt on a National scale should succeed and not fail It was a heroic struggle, o-d, as is inevitable with all rur.ics. it a11 also a dark and terrible side Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and. as was inevitable ia such a period of revolution often the same man ii3 both good and evil For our great good fortune as a Nation. we. tte people of the United States as a whole can now afford to for get the evil. or at least to remember it without bitterness. and to fix our eyes with pride on the good that was accom- plshed. Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a 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 disinterestedness and the love of the right as to each 1t was 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-devotion shown alike by the men who were the blue and the men who wore the gray. and our sadness that such men should have had to fight one another is tenn cred by the glad knowledge that ever hereafter their descendants shall be found nghting side by side. struggling in peace as well as in war for the uplft of their common country, all alike resolute to raise to the highest pitch of honor ana 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 as Is paid to no other citizens of the Republic: for to them the Republic owes Its all for to them 1t owes Its very existence
 Application of the Lesson.
 do not speak of this struggle of the past merely from the historic standpoant. Our. interest Is primarily in the appltca- ton today of the lessons taught hy the contest of half century ago. It 10 of little use for us to pay lip ioyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sin- ceresE enAesyor tc acc,y to The rrohl.-,s