The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-31
MIR. Duffy's address follows:

Mr.. Duffy's address follows:
We are met today to pay tribute to
those who during Jour long years of
civil strife gave their full measure of
devotion that this nation under God
might have a new lease of life. 1t is
we'll that we should pay tribute to all
those noble men who risked their
served. to the living and to the dead.
But above all the day should be set
apart to those who lie in nameless
graves to those whose altar of sac
ri1ce was a bloody battlefield of the
south. to those whose sepulchre is
far from loving hands. to the UNI
known dead. Where lie those I'M
known martyrs to the cause Of hui
man liberty? Their bodies are strewn
dust is mingled with the soil of Get
tysburg field where with a matchless
courage they met the onward charges
of a foe worthy of their steel, their
bones lie buried in the wilderness
about Richmond where with their
faces turned ever toward the object
of their struggle. they died by thou
sands from battle and exposure. they
lie beside the mighty path cut by
Sherman. on his march to the sea.
They lie beneath a thousand battle
fields, battlefields made crimson with
their blood, made sacred with their
dust.
But while We pay tribute to their
memory. no human hand will lay Il
wreath of flowers on their grave, no
tears will fall on their sepulchre, no
monument will mark the earthly
home of the unknown dead. But in
a larger sense. their graves are not
unmarked. Nature has thrown a suit
able blanket of flowers over the final
resting place Of her noble the
skies tonight will battle their biers in
dew. the tear drops of the heavens.
their monument is far more splen-
did than any shaft Of granite or
marble, far more lofty than any tower
ever erected by the hand of man. far
more beautiful than the noblest work
of a Phidias or PraXiteles. Their
monument is a grateful and mighty
nation whose soil their blood made
to sacred for a slave to trod. whose
air, their dying breath made too pure
for a serf to breathe.
No event recorded in the annals of
history can surpass the noble sacrifice
of the unknown dead. They died not
for glory. not for love of conquest,
not for personal ambition. they gave
their lives for a principle in which
they believed for a country which
they loved.
All honor to the generals and lead
ers of the war. but they knew that
they would merit a personal reward.
But is not their greatness. their de-
votion surpassed by hat of the un-
known dead. They knew hat their
praises would never be sung by the
multitude. they knew that their
names would be lost to their friendsI
and kindred much less immortaIized
in the histories of their nation. They
knew that their only reward would be
the knowledge that a sacred trust
had bee nreposed in them and that
they had done their duty like men
and noblemen.
Nought that we can say today will
ado to the glory of those men. A re-
cital of their deeds is not to laud their
present generation the noble example
that has been Set for them.
What a powerful appeal those un-
known dead make to the unknown
living. the common people of the
present day. Their spirit is needed
throughout the land. Chattel slavery
is gone but industrial serfdom has
taken Its place. The rich and the
poor are being forced farther and
are filled with toiling women. the
tenements are swarming with chill
dren robbed Of natures freedom and
a mothers love. the factories resound
to the means and groans OF boys and
girls wearing away body. mind and
soul. all tributes to the greatest in
dustrial progress ever known. all
sacrifices to the money god.
Those conditions must be met, for
just SO surely as was every drop Of
blood drawn by the lash repaid by
n drawn by the sword, just SO
surely will the oppression Of the
weak bring down the vengence of an
offended providence.
We have our leaders in this bat
not free. They are looking for per-
sonal glory. to policy as we'll as prin-
ciple. The bulk of the task must fail
upon the voters. the common people.
May they meet it with the same
courage the same fervor. the same
devotion to duty. the same love Of
country that immortalized the UNI.
known dead Of the civil war.