The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
Memorial Day Observed Throughout the Land
With the Strewing Of Garlands and the
Soft Words Of Eulogy.
FLAGS ON $4,000 GRAVES At ARLINGTON
Washington, Lincoln, Archie Butt, Victims Of
the Maine and Others are Remembered
BY Sorrowing People.

town was packed with more than TO-
900 visitors today, brought by scores
Of excursion trains.
Speaking at the cemetery. Roosevelt
said
The veterans OF the civil war not
only left US reunited country, unit
ed forever, and not only left US the
priceless heritage of the memories of
yalorous self-sacrifice shown in the
civil war, but also by their careers
and their whole attitude in the war
and after the war. have taught us
lessons which we should apply to our
selves in civil life.''
During the civil war, they showed
that mixture Of intense and lofty
idealism was sound, practical common
sense, which is as essential to ma
tions' success in peace as in war. The
war could only have been fought by a
people imbued with capacity for the
highest idealism. and yet 1t could only
have been fought by people which
only possessed sound common sense.
$50 in civil. life at this moment, the
prime necessities OF this nation are
that our people shall chow both a
lofty idealism In insisting on the rule
Of Justice and hardheaded practical
common sense In recognizing that we
must secure material prosperity, ana
that SO far from there being any
necessary antagonism between JUS
tice and material prosperity, neither
can be given its full development un-
less the development Of both goes
hand in hand.
The true test Of a mans worth
and of the respect in which he should
be held by his fellows is not the posi-
ton which he holds, but the way in
| which he does his duty in that posi-
| ition.
Every man In the army" he con.
ltinued, would have recognized as
every man in civ.s life ought to recog-
nize that equality of reward where
there is an utter inequality OF sery.
| ice is itself very gross form of in
1 justice. But no soldier Bears patient
ly the sight of reward coming to q
general. not because Of service. but
| because of political or financial In
trigue, and no soldier was patient
with the giving of reward where a
service had not been rendered. In
just the same way, in civil life. nc
good citizen should withhold his
hearty praise from those who succeed
in business or any other career, az
4 the result of honest exercise OF su
perior ability.
Success which comes as the re
suit of service rendered to the com
munity with exceptional ability should
Itself meet with exceptional reward
4 Our protest must be merely agains
4 utter inequality of reward, agains
reward that comes to privilege instead
4 of service, and, of course, especiall!
against all reward that comes to an,
man because of conduct that amounts
to wrong doing that is in violation o
the eternal laws that sunder righ
from wrong.
Moreover, we in civil life mus
practically supply the great lesson o
comradeship taught us by the veter
ans, the lesson that all of us must, II
good faith. think not only each of hi
own rights, but each of his own du
:, ties and the rights OF others. AM
above all, there at Gettysburg, mad
immortal not only by the blood of tn
scores of thousands of gallant me-
who fought here, but by the words 0
never dying wisdom proiVrnced her
,.lby Abraham Lincoln, we should aney
consecrate ourselves toward try,n
practically to apply to the issues Q
today the spirit of lofty idealism an
homely common sense in which Abri
n ham Lincoln worked.
IF we refuse to face the fact tha
Z there are great existing evils an
+ that we must work with all our heai
9 and soul and mind to solve then
: then we shall prepare disaster to ou
! selves If we fail - work with Lii
coins broad kindliness of spirit Il
ward all our fellow citizens, wit
malice toward none, with charity
{ fiall,' striving resolutely to accompIis
I our ends, but frowning on all vindi
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