The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-29

tho city.
eralship and common patriotism, the
American character lowered very Won
1t is all remembered gratefully here as
| the gift of his wonderful providence.
whose love-comPelling fingers were
| thrusting the gift OF the common free
dom back into the nerveless hand OF
divided democracy.
But beyond all the gifts OF that time.
| save Lincoln the Incompatible the in
domitabe. the patriotism of the common
American citizen is the object OF our
admiration and praise
| Answering the appeal and the necea-
| sity OF the union. assailed and torn by
| Interests unjust and selfish. they went
| from city and hamlet. from office and
farm. from factory and college, from every
station and avocation. thrilling TO one
| emotion. love Of land and vision OF the
unions need.
The grown men from the virile TWEEN
| ties on TO ripe maturity. then the youths
breaking into manhood, then the lads.
| lying without shame OF the number of
| their years. followed each other to be a
part OF that great army that moved like
weaving the tapestry of liberty and union
| that hangs behind the altar of our ma
tion's life thing imperishable
For your toll and sacrifice, your
duranee and heroism, your unquestion-
| ing love and devotion, your grim per-
| sistence in the bloody task that left
10 her as a people. We give you love this
morning. and would lay a chaplet on
your brows OF bay unfading. We re-
member too. today, the love that gave
as well as that which wrought, and for
those women with the moist eyes and
| the breaking hearts who sent you out
tience the sad stress of 1t all: for the
bravery that was as marked in the
! double burden of the home as in the
flaming service of the Battlefield we
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In the agony of the battlefield in the
'ons days of hospital and prison, in the
days and nights OF hivouac and contest.
in the service that robbed you of limb
and strength and health. In the long
| lanes of trench that opened to receive the
quiet. torn bodies of the dead. In the
victories bought at awful price, you
wrote more than the greatness Of your
| military prowess.
Part of Eternal Purpose.
Your hands set on plnacle beyond
the, reach Of olgnrchic greed or mon
| archie hatred the flag OF the world S
free people. Your lives wrote a story
of patriotism unsurpassed In the rec
ords OF the great achievements OF his
tory. You were part OF the eternal
which should have been written in the
golden letters Of peace, the pact OF ra-
mon heritage, And that you wrought
| cannot die. The mighty breakers that
| tear here and there bit Of cliff and
sand, do so to spume the burden else,
wider service The lichens and the
frosts that cut with gentle fingers the
mountain tops into enrichlng the dust,
leave nature not poorer but richer.
The seeming indifference OF a part of
the times life to your glory OF sacri-
flee and achievement is nothing.
or the sun and frost of the seasons
touch your work. you may know that
all they take from you will be but to
enrich and bless the floor OF the age
When you join the choir invisible. il
Will be but 10 find Immortality In full
ness AS you live unendingly in the
united in the passion OF your devotion,
alive because in splendid service un-
death.
When you sleep beneath the sod, holy
in the baptism OF your spent blood. the
nation will more and more turn to the
memory of you, and,
I'm deeds Of stirring rectitude. In scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the
night Ike stars.
And I'm their mild persistence urge mans
search
To vaster issues" live its life.
Gift Of Liberty.
Thanking God for the rich sacrifice
that strained an empire with the stream
of patriotic love. for the love OF free
dom that sowed the mountains and val
leys with the dust of men who died to
prove that Gods dream in the heart of
man was not a lie. We pledge you and
all the sleeping hosts OF the brave our
neartS devotion 10 country, that In
peace or in war We will so follow your
footsteps that in the language OF the
immortal Lincoln. Government OF the
people. for the people and by the peo-
pie shall not perish from the earth"
So on the recurring memorial days
will come the generations To- stand upon
the high peak Of your achievement and
find Ia the outspread landscape OF our
American land the memorial of your
lives. your patriotism. your sacrifice
and the gift Of unity and peace will be
. the sweater with the rolling years. as
We move on n ever wider service to the
T earth. service that we may give be-