The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-04

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of all generations by knowing no
limit to their manly willingness to
serve. In armies thus marshaled
from the ranks of free men you will
see, as it were, a nation embattled,
the leaders and the led and may
know, ii you will, how little except In
! form Its action differs in days OF
peace from It's action in days of war.
May we break camp now and be at
ease? Are the forces that fight for
| the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone
| to their homes forgetful of the COM
mon cause? Are our forces disorgan-
! lied, without constituted leaders and
the might OF men consciously united
| because we contend, not with armies.
but with principalities and powers
and wickedress in high places. Are
we content to lie still? Does our
union mean sympathy, our peace con-
! tentment, our vigour right action, our
maturity self-comprehension and a
clear confidence in choosing what we
shall do? War fitted US for action.
and action never ceases.
have been chosen the leader OF
1 the nation. ! can not justify the
/ choice by any qualities of my own,
| but SO 1t has come about. and here |
| stand. Whom do command? These
gallant gentlemen stricken in years
whose fighting days are over, their
glory won? What are the orders for
them, and who rallies them? I have
in my mind another host, whom these
/ set free of civil strife in order that
! they might work out in days Of peace
and settled order the life of a great
: nation. That host is the people them
selves, the great and the small, with
out class or difference of kind or
race or origin; and undivided in In
terest, if we have but the vision to
3. guide and direct them and order their
i lives Alright in what we do. Our con-
stitutions are their articles of enlist
ment. The orders of the day are the
laws upon our statute books. What
1 we strive for is their freedom, their
! right to lift themselves from day to
day and behold the things they have
/, hoped for, and SO make way for still
better days for those whom they love
! who are to come after them. The
i recruits are the little children crowd
\ ing In. The quartermaster's stores
/, are in the mines and forests and
I fields, In the shops and factories
/ Every day something must be done
to push the campaign forward; and
4 1t must be done by plan and with an
eye to some great destiny.
l How shall we hold such thoughts in
our hearts and not be moved?
would not have you live even today
wholly in the past, but would wish to
stand with you in the light that
streams upon us now out Of that
I great day gone by. Here is the nation
!, God has builded by our hands What
shall we do with 1T? Who stands
ready to act again and always in the
. spirit of this day of reunion and hope
| and patriotic feryor? The day Of oul
country's life has but broadened into
! morning. lJO llot put uiiiioi lhS ~
J, Put the harness Of the present on
Lift your eyes to the great tracts o.
life yet to be conquered in the inter
} est of righteous peace, Of that pros
! perity which lies In peoples hearts
and outlasts all wars and errors o.
t men. Come let us be comrades ant
J, soldiers yet to serve our fellow meT
Z In quiet counsel, where the blare @
J, trumpets is neither heard nor heedet
i and where the things are done which
| make blessed the nations of the world
/. in peace and righteousness and love
) The Last Great Reunion.
! GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 4.-The
2 president of the United States IL
!. person honored the veterans of the
/ civil war today. Incidentally for the
) first time southern born executive
: mingled with the warriors OF half
) century ago on the Gettysburg battle
y field and talked to them of what tht
, cnrg''-t IN which they rarticipatee
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