The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-30
DECORATION DAY
DULY OBSERVED
OFFICES CLOSE ANO MEMORIAL
SERVICES HELD AT ROSE HILL
CEMETERY.

by the closing OF the publ e. Offices aud
a general cessation from work by the
officials.
This afternoon members of the
Grand Army Post met a Taliaierro's
store and went to Rose Hill cemetery
where they conducted memorial exer-
cises in accordance with the general
custom OF the day and decorated the
graves VI the comrades who lie buried
there.
\ memorial address was delivered
10y J.. :. Dolman of which the following
Is a synopsis:
It Is fitting that congress In a spirit
OF patriotism should cause us pause
once each year and contemplate what
an empty and useless thing is life
" thout some sacrifice To others. with.
out some loftier purpose than our own
selfish aggrand cement.
How much better 1t is TO meet here
one a year upon this common ground
and do homage to those who In de
Tense OF a principle gave their lives.
Meet here 10 acknowledge The debt
and the remnant hat soon mus fol
low. The debt OF gratitude Ia those
who preserved the nation that Wash
ington wrested from English tyranny.
jefferson moulded into a united dem
ocracy and Marshall welded into
nation inseparable forever.
II was not for gain. nor yet for love
of strife. for life Is sweet to every
man. that you went into that cruel
fratricital war. The call was not for
lust nor loot and those Of you who
answered It deserve a place among
the patriots. and small indeed must
be the spirit of the man who would In
lahoma and all that fair southland
would be a race Of negroes. creolcs
and g%reasers.
Primitive man settled his contra
verses by mortal combat and sancti
. fled the decision with the inter mingl.
= ed blool OF the c%onqueror and the con
quered.
a As civilization advanced contro
yersies were first settled by a join
e commission OF the adversaries with ;
o d~isinterested third To cast the dec'siy,
II ,.t. ,....ytn, b,v,.,.. n lat ,a.,r
" the mortal combat.
Today we have tribunals callet
courts, whose decision Is sought. bu'
still reserying as a last resort, the
n mortal combat.
So II has been since the world begaI
e am SO it will continue until the en-,
II of time.
4" Arbitration, law, and mortal combat
but the decision that is fnal IS th'
' one that is sanctihed by the blood o
% both %conQuerer and conquered. From
! this decision there Is no appeal.
J. \ failure OF amicable settlement o
! DEGREES of court. TO settle a contro
e ycrsy has many times in the histor.
II Of the world caused a call TO arms.
81 The most decisive settlements ~ ~.
! worlds disputes have been by 70;
of arms. sometimes leaving in its wax,
g rancor and hatred but most general,
& among the nor enlightened. by &C
y Quiesencc and obedience to the man
D. dates of the conQuerors.
II In the early history OF America, u
% today. We had our great statesmen
Il mental and physical giants. who's,
" counsels shaped the policies of IN.
d. government.
j Then. ms now. they parted an,
" thrust with the skin of gladiators fl
~ the great debates in the halls of cor
gress. Then as now. these sam,
statesmen lacked IN the moral courag.
to force the issue squarely and soly.
m the problems that were agitatiug In.
30 government and the people. Half wa.
'e measures We're adopted to appease Ia,
people for the present and the futur,
was left 10 take care OF itself.
&C. Had the three great giants Of in
t%cllect. Webster, Clay ami Calhoun
that dominated congress in the earl,
In hftIes. stood out boldly for what the
II thought was right the great ciyil wa
might have been amicably settled, bu
A. they compromised and made Of tn,
Kansas and Nebraska Act a burning
fuse that lighted the flames of rebel
lion that very near consumed the ma
~ ton.
We w. 10 Greece ani Rome on
models of strength and beauty. but IN,
r. halls of fame OF America are file,