The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-02

her dead, the world over, and always
the same story. Tablets to the mem
Dry of young men, gentlemen's sons
from Elton and Rugby and Winchester
and Harrow; scholars from Oxford
and Cambridge, from Manchester and
Birmingham and Liverpool, who have
given up their lives in some petty
war in some far off country. Their
bodies rest in India, Zululand, i n
Cambodia, the Gold Coast, the Trans
vaal. In England only are they re-
membered, men who should have been
the makers of empire.
cot is only my dead that count"
She said, n she a today:
1T isn't my fleet and it isn't my guns
That will sweep Trafalgar Bay."'
These names are recorded by the
score in every parish church, by the
thousand in every cathedral, and the
churches are numbered by the hun
dred thousand. The statement that IN
every parish church such tablets may
be found might be questioned. AS a
test not long ago 1 chose a solitary
church standing almost alone on a
bleak plain in Hertfordshire, Whit
church, once celebrated because it
employed the young Handel as it's or
ganist. On opening the door I saw
o IobiCIS oaCl GU W lllS IIlGIlOTy OIL
Thomas Henry, eldest son of Thomas
Hall Plumer, esq, of this Parish, and
lieutenant in the 49th regiment of
Bengal infantry. He died in camp
while serving at the siege of Moulten,
on Dec. IA, 1S48, in the 9th year of
his age. His Sepoys for the love of
him bore his body to the grave. This
tablet was erected by his brother Of
ficers.'
Where is the country squire of
English life and English history?
Where are his rosy-cheeked and
strong-limbed daughters? Where, in
time-honored cartoon? Why is it that
three or four-some say eleyen-mil-
lions of Englishmen are unable to
earn a decent living, or any living at
all, in England today? Why is it that
these same unemployed are found UNI
employable in Canada, in Australia,
or wherever you go? Why is it that
the tendency in all average physical
standards is downward, while the
standards Of the best are growing
always higher. The answer lies in
the reversed selection of war.
What of Our Country?
What shall we say of our own
country, with her years of peace, and
her two great civil wars, the struggle
of children with their parents, of
brothers with brothers?
1T may be that war is sometimes
justified. 1t is sometimes inevitable,
whether necessary or not. 1t has hap
pened once in our history, that every
drop of blood drawn by the lash must
be draWn again by the sword
1T cost us $50, 900 lives of young
men to get rid of slavery. / saw not
lone ago in Maryland $50 acres of these
young men. There are some 10000
acres filed with them on the fields Of
the south. And this number. almost
1000, 900, north and south, was the best
that the nation could bring. North and
south alike, the men were in dead
earnest, each believing that his view
or state rights and Of national au-
thor1ty was founded on a solid rock
OF Righteousness and fair play. North
and south, the nation was impover-
ished by the loss. The gaps they
left are filed to all appearances. There
are relatively few of us left today
In whose hearts the scars OF forty
years ago are still unhealed. But a. new
generation has grown up of men and
women born since the war. They
have taken the nations problems into
their hands; but theirs are hands not
so strong or SO clean as though the.
men that are stood shoulder to shoul-
der with the men that might have;
been. Then men that died iii the
weary time had better stuff in them
than the father OF the average men
of today