The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-30

$50 in civil life at this moment tne
prime necessities of this nation are
that, our people shall show both lofty
idealism in insisting on the rule OF
justice and hard-headed practical com
mon sense in recognizing that we must
secure material prosperity and that sc
far from there being any necessary
antagonism between justice and mater
iaI prosperity neither can be given its
full development unless the develop
ment of both go hand in hand.
Every man in the army would have
recognized as every man in civil lie
ought to recognize. that equality OF re-
ward where there is an utter inequan-
ty of service is itself very gross form
of injustice. But no soldier bore patti
emily the sight of reward coming to q
general not by service but by political
or financial intrigue, and no soldier
was patient with the giving Of reward
where service had not been rendered.
Praise for Success.
I'm just the same way in civil life
| no good citizen should withhold his
| hearty praise from those who succeed
| in business or any other career as the
result of honest exercise of superior
| ability. Our protest must be merely
! against utter inequality of reward that
| comes to privilege instead of to service
| and of course especially against all re-
| ward that comes to any man because
| of conduct that amounts to wrong DO
! ing in violation of the eternal laws that
| sunder right from wrong.
eff we refuse to face the fact that
there are great existing evils and that
we must work with all our heart and
! soul and mind to solve them, then we
| shall prepare disaster to ourselves IN
| the future. We shall no less prepare
| disaster for ourselves If We fail to
work with Lincoln's broad kindliness
! of spirit toward all our fellow citi-
zens with malice toward none; with
charity to all; striving reSolutely to
accomplish our ends, but frowning on
all vindictiveness and doing everything
in our power to prevent the ranking
hatred, whether shown in the form OF
envy or of arrogance, and the dlsre-
gard for the rights of others Which
ments for the uplift and betterment
of mankind aside from the goal at
which they were aimed ana nave IN
calculab1y marred what would other-
wise have been achievements of the
more far-reaching good for all hu-
mainly
ocean Strewn With Flowers.
San Francisco, May 30.-While the
memory of the nations soldiers dead
was being honored at the NatfonG.
cemetery on the Preside military res
ervation today, the Pacific ocean just
outside the Golden Gate, was strewp
with thousands of flowers in honor Of
the dead sailors. The services on the
water were held on the deck of the
u. S. tug Slocum. Special services Were
held today at the unwilling of a bronze
tablet in memory of First Sergeant
Maurice Justice of company A, firsi
California volunteers who was the FIRST
man killed at Malta, July 81, 1898.
seattIe's Biggest Parade.
Seattle, May Slowing to the agi-
tation growing out of the Industrial
workers of the World red flag parade
iaI do rofi
in Seattle today was the largest evei
held here and display of the American
Aag and wearing of buttonhole flags
was general. Besides the Grand Army
nosts militia and Spanish war vet
Grams. there were in the procession boy
scouts school children, militia, con-
federate veterans and fraternal socle-
ties
FT.wers on Lake Michigan.
Chicago. May 3O-Flowers were
strewn on Lake Michigan today as a
tribute to men who persisted in the ma
TONS wars This picturesque observ
ance of Memorial day took place of
Grant park close to the business cen
ter of the city and the most conspicu-
o1s spot on the water front of Chi
cago. Crowds lined the shore to wit
ness the ceremony.
Later in the day hundreds of thous-
ands of spectators lined up in M1ch1-
gan and Jackson boulevard and cheer |
ed the survivors o. the Grand Army
who marched in review before Cover |
nor Derren and General Ramsey D.
Potts, T. S. A.
Big Parade at st Joe.
ST. Joseph, MAY 30.-With ideal |
weather. the observance of Memorial |
day here was mors general than ever |
before. Grand Army and Spanish war |
veterans. with many civic and fra
ternal societies in uniform, paraded |
the streets, and memorial addresses
were delivered at Lake Contrary.
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