The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-05-29

to wonder how it was, when that in.
augural was spoken, that the men a.
round Mr.. Lincoln who had thought
his election was mistake, did not
realize that in his uncouth form the
master spirit of them all was dis
guised; why, when beyond the sea
that inaugural was read the men of
England did not stop to say: "What
is this that we have been told, that
the Unsolicited President of the I'm
tied States in clown and buffoon?
Why, in all our literature, of which
we are so proud, there Is not para
graph comparable with that-so high,
so deep, so pathetic, so strong, so
set 10 celestial music!
But. returning to our theme 1t was
little over fifty years ago that
that those words were spoken Have
the better angels of our nature" at
last asserted themselves and forced
aside all the dark thoughts of the past
until we can realize at last that what
happened then had to be, and that the
men who struggled then were each |
but acting his role as Fate called the |
mighty acts of that tremendous ira
gedy?
If we have, then we can, with all APP
propriateness go out and dress the
soldiers grave with flowers. Twenty
five years ago there were not many
graves to decorate save the graves
of those that went down under the
canopy Of battle, and the steps of the
veterans who marched to perform that
duty had much of the old elastic
spring Of the marchers of the immor-
tai four years of war Today they
are well-nigh all gone, and it is with .
hating and feeble steps that those /,
who remain struggle on to perform
that labor Of love. But the hands that
are held down to them from above,
have grown to host, and we may not |.
shake off the belief that on Decora- J
ton day they are not Indifferent to 7
what is done here; that the shining Z
ranks are all filed; with the old COM
manders at their head; the old flags =
cleansed of every stain are above them
that silver bugles are sounding the
calls, mingled with the roll of muf- g
fled phantom drums; for the spectacle t'
OF great nation stopping to strew III
fiowers upon the graves of their her. -
oic dead is splendid enough to arrest =
the attention of the universe.
Our nationtwa but second-class
nation until those men went out and
lied. They hallowed its soil. Their :
acts were witness to the world of
What they could do when divided, The 2
world contemplating the spectacle
aid: What would they do united,
should the call Gomez" And since
hen there has a halo gathered over
he Stars on the old flag. A
Since then the two thousand miles 90
f wilderness that divided the east of II
ur country from the west, has van
shed away, great many new states !.
ave rounded into form; the work per -
ormed has been Titanic, but every 1t
ne Of those new states has been IN
nade sacred by graves of those vet !
rams, and tomorrow they all will be Ar
'reathed in flowers.
The desert touched by the tears of a.
eviction to them has awakened to !.
fe the seeds planted under her robes A
serge and which have lain dormant FIJI
nee the dawn of. creation, and she A.
rings forth the flowers for deeora- Hu
on. The elements are all in har v
lony. So should be the hearts of II
zen on Decoration day: eve are not an
lemies, but friends" And 1.-THE mys-
c chords of memory, stretched from
very battlefield and patriot grave to
'ery living heart and hearthstone. ms
louid be touched by the better an
els of our nature" and only loving -
'reweiis be given our dead and only oie'
rayers to preserve us a free and
ave nation should be spoken. I