The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-09-02

a tract OF % 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 dedicstory 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 a
conce by the Thirteenth Regiment
band, followed by a 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 30
cieties and another band concert
Then, after a vocal solo by Miss Eliz-
abeth 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
Stubs 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 IL was
formed, and then again when IL was per-
pstusted The formative period Included
not merely the Revolutionary war, but
the creation and adoption OF the Consd-
under II. 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 the 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 win be forever associated
with this second period Of the Nations
history; and Kansas was the theater
upon which the first act Of the second Of
our great National life dramas was play
Cd. 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 10 both union and freedom,
mat the great experiment OF democratic
government On q National scale. should
succeed and not fail II was a heroic
struggle; and, as Is inevitable with all
such struggles. IL had also a lark and
terrible ode Very much was done OF
good, and much also OF evil; and, as was
Inevitable in such a period OF revolution.
often the same man did both rood and
evil For our great good fortune as a
Nation, we. the people OF the United
states as q whole, can now afford to for
get the evil or al least to remember II
without bitterness. and 20 fix our eyes
with pride on the good that was accom-
phshed- 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 IL clouded by
the murk OF furious popular passion. the
vision OF the best and tire 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 az TO each IL 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
VaIor, the sincerity, the self-devotion
shown alike by the men who wore the
blue and the men who wore the gray;
and our sadness that such men should
have had TO fight one another Is temp
cred by the glad knowledge that ever
hereafter their descendants sha be found
hghting side by side, struggling In peace
as well as In war for the uplift OF their
common country. all alike resolute to
rake to the highest pitch OF honor and
usefnlness the Nation to which they all
belong As for the veterans OF the Grand
Army ofSthe Republic, they deserve honor
and recognition such as Is paid TO no
other citizens OF the Republic: for to
them the Republic owes its ali. for TO
them It owes Its very existence.
Application Of the Lesson.
I do not speak of shis struggle OF the
past merely from the historic s~tandpoint
Our interest is primarily>in the applica-
ton today OF the lessons saught by the
contest of half a century ago, It 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 oual,ties
which in other crises enabled the men 81
that day TO meet those crises. 1t is half,
melancholy and half amusing. to see the
way In which well-meaning people gather
to do honor to the men who. IN company
with John Brown, and under the lead az
Abraham Lincoln, faced and solved the
great problems of the nineteenth CEN
fury, while at the same time these same
good people neryously shrink from Or
franttcally denounce those who are trv-
ing TO meet the problems OF the twentieth
In the spirit which was accountable FOR
the successful solution OF the problems Of
Lincoln's time.
or that generation OF men. to whom we
owe so much. the man to whom we owe
the most Is. OF course, Lincoln. part Of
our deb to him Is because he forecast
our present struggle and saw the way cur.
He said.
II hold that while man exists II Il
his duty to improve not only his own
coudition but 10 assist In amelioratine
mankind And again. Labor is prior
to sssdsBapdent OF capital: capital A.
only the fruit OF labor. and could never
have existed but for labor. Labor "a the
superior OF capital and deserves much ira
higher consolidation. CAPITAL has ite
rights which are as worthy OF protection
as any other rights. Nor sh~vAl shsz
seaa to a war upon the owners OF prop
erty. Property is the fruit OF labor: prop-
eFty ~ desirable. IN a positive good IN
the world. Let not him who a houselers
I pau down the house Or another Mi 80
: him WORK Iill~a~ki- - - ErA%t