The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-31
Memorial Day Services
We're Largely Attended
Large Crowd Gathered at Grand Theatre Yesterday Afternoon
to Hear Address to Old Soldiers by Rev. w. ]. Hutchinson
Park Meeting Was Well Attended
Continued From Page One.

mortal day. Not many months after
he issued hat order, I was in the Gem
etery at Washington and stood be-
side his tomb, looked upon the casket
almost buried beneath a bank of
beautiful flowers. On these were the
words, I'VE miss you in Illinois" l
said, land we miss you in all these
United States"
We should teach loyalty, devotion
and patriotism. In Washington now
they are making laws and adjusting
h tariff. A law we need more is a
law that will restrict the immigration
to this country. I allow no one to be
more loyal in devotion to the foreigner
who ONES here to live and make this
his home. I count among some Of my
very dearest and best friends those
who were born across the sea. But,
comrades. when they come to teach
anarchy and treason it is time to- stop
some Of them, and we may just as we'll
realize that there is danger that the
next war will be one Of riot and an
archy, with the bomb and death and
ruin everywhere. When some are al
lowed, as a woman was not long ago,
to cross u country and her thought
and sentiment expressed nearly every
where was ito hell with the govern
ment". This means ruin to our free
institutions, death to our government.
Let US scatter u flowers today up
ON the unknown grave. My father
lies somewhere in one of these. Re-
member they were your comrades. The
day will come when these will change.
In Arlington there is a shaft that
marks the spot where lie the remains
of ALL of these unknown dead. These
marble stones must pass away and a
mighty army of the resurrected shall
come forth n march to the battle
fields where they shall pitch their tent
n stack their arms in the kingdom
of Him who is the God of all right
~eousness. I nave wondered sometimes
h heaven is but | know not. 1 care
not for gate of pearl or the golden
street if l can only meet my father,
who now lies in an unknown grave,
there, IT | can see my baby sister who
died so many years ago, if I can only
take again in my arms my own baby
girl who died so near here and before
her baby lips had learned to lisp Our
Father who art in heaven. If I can
only meet the loved ones and my
friends and be with my Savior and my
God.
g Comrades mine, scatter your flowers
today on the unknown grave for there
lies a hero n a brother who died for
your. liberty and mine.
Cn the park platform was an i'm
provised slab which represented the
graves of the unknown dead. Upon
this every veteran, member Of the Re
lief orp and school child in attend
ance filed past and dropped a flower on
the grave. DR.. Hill her gave orders
to salute the dead.
Captain Sorenson ordered a salute
of three guns after which DIR. Putnam
OF the A. C. band sounded Taps.
The day was one of the most perfect
in its arrangements that has ever been
conducted by the John F. Reynolds
post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie and many compliments are being
showered OF DR.. Hill and others in
charge for its great success.
~ Hutchinson's Speech. -
In his address on4A Merited Tribute
Rev. Mr.. Hutchinson said in part, at
the Grand theatre:
A Merited Tribute.
We are gathered here today to pay
a merited tribute to the Grand Army
of the Republic. To those who are
gone by going to the public cemeteries
and private garden corners and run
ming streams and casting our hands
full of fragrant blossoms on the greer
and growing sod and moving waters
that seal their last resting place. TIC
those who remain, by gathering to-
gether in our churches and halls anC
1oS III L1S LllSlIl VI our appreciation Oh
their services, of our devotion to then
as the bringers of a new freedom
and a new republic, and to certify tc
them our loyalty to the union which
they, through the civil war, presented
to the American people.
We take our flowers and cast then
on the graves Of those who are sleep.
ing. because a flower is hat upor
which nature has expended the mos
pains, because a flower is the EN-
blem of all that is beautiful ant
pure even as a weed is the type o.
all that is corrupt and impure. Be.
cause a flower coming on the worlt
outside as it does after the storm!
and cold of winter is a preiguremen
of the resurrection.
Is Ethiopia stretching put her hand!
to God? 1t is only because a host r.
British soldiers the bravery of whor
Las been incorporated and in~carnate,
in General Gordon, have been willin.
that the white sands of the SCUBA,
should take the hues of sunset from
the filling of their veins.
Are the islands of the sea bein.
circled With a belt of praise tina
trembles amid a cataract of flowers
It means that American youth hav,
eagerly gone forth and willingly open
ed their veins that cast iron dogma
might be shattered; that superstition
might be banished and that schoo
house, church and law court nigh
be established, and that under thei
shadow there might grow up a ma
ton of men.
The shed blood how much we ow
to it! What is history? Only the max
ing of manhood in progress. What i
1t made up of? Just blood sheddins
Voyagers have gone out into the vas
unknown and given III their lives OF
sea and on land that prosperity nigh
have a larger world to live in, Liv.
explored Africa.
understood when we have a correc
knowledge Of the condition of things
as they then existed. All glory Il
measured by the odds overcome. TIL,
glory Of education can only be prop
erly measured by the obstacles over.
come in acquiring it. The glory .
commercial prosperity can only b,
rightly estimated when we have /
true conception of the difficulties en-,
countered The glory of the civil wa
is not in the uniforms worn, the ban
ners that were flung proudly to til,
freeze, or brought home riddled will
shot and shell. not In the number
slain, or in the territories conquered
not In the exaItation given to success
fus generalsy o. to regiments mad,
famous by deeds of daring. This ii
the side too often gazed upon. Thii
is the side Of which the historian
writes and the poets tell iasIines mad
musical BY genius. This is the sid
which appeals more or less to- us ali