The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-09-08

ftViihs IiHt AhibHtJ 'tihhCiY VIZ eNJuhh
our hand of fellowship and goodwill.
To tine dur Ones, whose homes were
destroyed by the fire of the BATTLE
and who were left Homeless and
friendl s. we commend TO Him who
is no rsspector of Persons and ask
his great Blessings,
Soldiers of 81, a generation has
passed and you have reansd race
worthy of your blood. Heroes of
I'll Caney, Of San Juan, of San
Tiago and two-hundred4i thousand more
as brave as they, who waited in camp
with the agony of impatbsnce, the
call OF the battle. Ready to count the
hardsh;ps of the trenches the veru
sweets OF fate IL only they could
fight for thsir flag. For every tent
sd field was full Of Hobsons, Of
Roosevclts. Of WheeLsrs and thor
men. Fnn CT the kind of soldiers
that in regimerts of rags, starving
with bare feot in the SHOWS of the
winter, made Valley Forge immortal.
Fluff of the same kind of boys that
endured the hardships of the civil
war, drank from the filthy roadside
pools as they marched through
swamps of d ath, ate food alive with
w5evels and even corn picked from
the horses camps, slept in the blan-
loets of thu blast with sheets
for covering, brsalufalsted with dam
gsr and dined with death, for the
sake Of that flag which has never
known the humiliation of defsat that
it might float and wave cut over
the land and the sea as the proud
emblem of the mightiest nation ON
the earth. They faced death with
laugh and a shout and a song of
joy, proud of thir country and of
their flsg
This flag, proud memories of many
fields; svast memories alike of valor
and friendship; sad memories of fra
ternal strife; Tender memories of
our fallen Brothers and Sons, whose
dyeing eyes looked Last upon dts flam-
ing folds; Grand msmories of heroic
virtues, subduad by grief; Exhault-
ant memories of the great and final
victory of our country and of our
Union; Immortal memories with i'm
mortal honors Iblendsd, twine around
these splinSared stavcs, were them-
selves along the warf and the wool
of this familiar flag, war worn, be-
grimed and babtized in blood. Let
endured the hardships of the civil
the brave hsart, the doep urlfathona-
mortal eloquence, uttered through un-
expressed, speak the emotion of CRATE
full veneratlon for which these lips
of mine ana too fesble and unworthy.
The sentiment of this flag is pa
triotism. The men whom it hohors
Were soldiers, courageous to death,
but it is their cause which sets them
apart for just honors and commenda- |
tion among million who have laid
down their livJs on the battlefield. |
Patriotism such as thairs is the high
est of civic virtues, the noblsst form
Of heroism. Those who perilad their
lives in obedience to its prompting
Gould gain no more than those who
at home in inglorious ease;
Ind yet they lay aside their hopes of
comfort TO die for this glorious old
lag.
The most genial operation of its
reative spirit is when it appears as
still, mysterious, plastic Influence,
ilently and surely modifying the
'hol5 constitution of despotic So )
lety; Insulating itself into the ad-
of law, grating new
boots upon the decaying trunks of
Id institutions and insensibility build
lg up in the peoples minds, character
-rong enough to maintain rights
hitch are also customs. If it's more .
aneficial influence be seen in its :
radual organization of liberties, of
entiments rooted in facts, its most .
arren effect fer good is whan it
;atters abstracts opinions of freed
m, true to nothing existing in a
copies practical life. and scoring all Q
llianoes with manners of compro- {
Use with facts.
Although this flag may often> be u
assed as thing OF custom. although
10 things which 1t teaches, may y
,em TO be forgotten, Yet in the hour T"
the trial, il it is to come to others o
} it has come to many who are
ore today. it will be freshly rmSsm- "
cred. As in the Roman history Il
hich tells of Hannibal, the might S
st enemy Rome ever knew. 1t is a
'lated that his father, Hamilcar. n
lmself a chiefstain and a warrior. b
hose reknown has been eclipsed by p
lat of his greater son. brought him a