Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-22
NATION REVERES FIGHTERS
Vice President Sherman Talks at I'm.
yelling.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SHAFT
Considerable Number of Military
Take Part In Exercises at
Syracuse. N. Yin
Honor OF Veterans.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, June n.--At the dedi-
cation OF the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
ment OF Onondaga county today and ad-
dress was made by Vice President James S.
Sherman and Judge Frank II. Hiscock Of
the court Of appeals made the speech Of ae-
eeptance in behalf Of the county.
An ode composed for the occasion by DR..
Ernest Held, contemporary OF Carl
Schurs, was sung by 1000 school children,
Major General Samuel s. Summer, U, S. A.
(retired), was grand marshal of the parade,
in which marched besides the 1900 veterans
from all parts of the state, $50 bluejackets
from United States battleships, three COM
panies of naval reserves six companies of
the Twenty-fourth infantry, United states
army, and the entire Third regiment of
National Guard.
AS he looked upon the fresh granite and
newly nodded bronze of the impressive
monument just unveiled, the vice president
pronounced 1t to be a fitting recognition
of the passionate patriotism which held
together the states of the union.
This is but one form of testimonial to
the boys in blue" said the vice president,
"and it's value and meaning are multiplied
and intensified because there is not lack
ing other forms Of expression of the peo-
For the veterans still living. he pointed
out that nearly fifty soldiers homes Of
fered care and comfort to nearly 10000
MANNED and infirm who have suffered
| from the wounds and hardships OF war. A
| generous government with lavish hand had
made provision, he said, to aid the living
and help or succor the dear survivors of
the hero dead by pensions.
Neither the monuments we dedicate
said he, nor the soldier homes and pen
sions the nation provides Is q charity. AL
are acknowledgements of Just debts, the
payment Of sacred obligations, They are
| decorations, badges of heToism, more nobly
earned than the ribbon OF the French Lee
gion OF Honor, or the garter OF British
| knighthood.
THE people Of today have no fear of
too generous treatment to the soldiers OF
the sixties, Their just merits are to be
measured by the grandeur of the nation
which they preserved, by what it was. by
what It is, by what In all the years to come
1t will be.
THE greatest, the most beautiful, the
most perfect monument that could be raised
to our soldiers" he said, they themselves
builded in the union they saved,
with the constitution as its cornerstone
the states as its buttresses and its orna-
ments, law and order inscribed on either
side and wingless liberty sublime on Its
summit, awe and reverence dedicate it to
these most worthy among mankind.
"All monuments. the republic itself, point
not alone to the past; they rest in the pres
ent and are prophets and teachers to the
millions Of sons and daughters, heirs Of the
priceless inheritance secured for them by
the men OF 81 to '65.
mot by sloth and neglect can we lay claim
to the great estate. Virtue, uprightness
self-sacrifiee and devotion to the public
veal, heroic purpose, practical effort for
the purest and highest ideals must be the
title deed to share in this precious patri-
mony. WIFI dare add a WORD to such
anthem Surely spirits Of heroes rise from
the dead to urge anew the appeals OF their
own lives that We all should walk in the
path OF patriotic duty and each do well his
full share Of the labor of mind and soul
and body to preserve and hand to posterity
the legacy we have enjoyed.