The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-09-09

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ca, but in the entire world. Despite
the rain and a foot of mud 10000
people were at the depot when he ar
rived.
Osamattamie, Kas., Aug. 31--Af-
ter steaming through a terrific rain
storm ali night Col. Roosevelt's spec
ial pulled into Osawattamie today.
GOV. Stubbs and staff met the Roose-
welt special at Usage and came to Os-
awattomie. Congressman Murdoch
and Madison, who led the house in
%surgents in the last session, welcom-
ed Roosevelt to eastern Kansas and
helped pay tribute to John Brown,
the abolitionist. There were $4,000
visitors in the little town to honor
both John Brown and Roosevelt. At
ter luncheon Col. Roosevelt reviewed
the parade and thence went to the
John Brown battlefield. Tonight he
will be the guest of Gov. Stubs at
Ills uOulC III LdWICuC0.
OsaWatOmle, Kan, Aug. 31.-COl.
Roosevelt, speaking here today, said:
There have been two great crises
in our country's history; first when
it was formed, and then again when
it was perpetuated. The formative
period included not merely the Revo-
lutionasy a but the creation and
adoption of the Constitution and the
first dozen years Of work under it.
Then came sixty years during which
we spread cro the continent
years of vital growth, but of growth
without rather than growth within.
Then came the time of stress and
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
development within. The name OF
John Brown will be forever asso-
ciated with this second period Of the
Nations history; II Kansas was
the theater upon which the first act
of the second Of our great National
life dramas was played. 1t was the
result of the struggle in Kansas
which determined that u country
should be in deed as well as in name
devoted to both union and freedom,
that the great experiment Of demo-
cratic government on a National
scale should succeed n not fail.
1t was a 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 in
evitable in such a period of revolu-
ton, often the same man did both
good and evil. For our great good
fortune as a Nation, we, the people
of the United States as a whole, can
now afford to forget the evil, or at
least to remember it without bitter
ness, and to fix our eyes with pride
on the good that was accomplished.
Even in ordinary times there are
very few of us who do not see the
problems of life through a glass,
darkly; and when the glass is cloud
ed 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 dis
interestedness and the love OF the
right as to each it 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 de-
cided by the attitude of the West
We can admire the heroic valor, 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 shoulo
have had to fight n another is tenn.
pered by the glad knowledge that eV'
er hereafter their DESCENDANTS shall
be found fighting side by side, strug'
Cling in peace as we'll as in war to'
the uplife of their common country;
all alike resolute to raise to the high
est pitch of honor and usefulness
the Nation to which they belong. A:
for the veterans of the Grand Army
n..,h1;o +bnv docorva honor