The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-07-11

more candid searching of the very
springs Of right.
Look around you upon the field OF
Gettysburg. Picture the array, the
fierce hosts and agony of battle, col
umn hurled against column, battery
believing to battery! Nalor? Yes.
Greater no man shall see in war; and
self-sacrifice, and loss 10 the utter
most; the high recklessness of exalt-
ed devotion which does not count the
cost. We are made by these tragic
epic things to know what it costs to
make nation-the blood and sacrl-
| flee of multitudes of unknown men
lifted to great stature in the view OF
all generations by knowing no limit to
their manly willingness to serve. In
armies thus marsheled from the ranks
of free men you will see, as it were, a
nation embattfed, the leaders and the
led, and may know, if you will, how
| little except in form it's action differs
in days of peace from its action in
days of war.
May we break camp now and be at
ease? Are the forces that fight for
the nations 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
wickedness in high places. Are we
content to lie still? Does our union
mean sympathy, our peace content
our vigor right action, our maturity
self-comprehension and clear con-
science in choosing what we shall do!
War fitted us for action, and action
never ceases.
81 have been chosen the leader OF
the nation. l can not justify the
choice by any qualities of my own
but so it has come about and here
stand. Whom do / command? The
ghostly hosts who fought upon these
battlefields long ago and are gone
These gallant gentlemen stricken in
years whose fighting days are over
their glory won? What are the orders
for them, and who rallies them?
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 o.
our great nation. That host is the
people themselves, the great and the
small, without class or difference OF
kind or race or origin; and undivided
in interest, if we have but the vision
to guide and direct them and order
their lives Alright in what we do. Oul
constitutions are their articles of en-
listment. The orders Of the day are
the laws upon our statute books. What
we strive for is their freedom, theil
right to lift themselves from day tC
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 re-
cruits are the little children crowdins
in. The quartermaster's stores are in
the mines and forests and fields, in
the shops and factories. Every day
something must be done to push the
campaign forward; and it must be
done by plan and with an eye to some
great destiny.
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 great
day gone by. Here is the nation God
has builded by our hands. What shall
we do with it? Who stands ready tC
act again and always in the spirit OF
this day of reunion and hope and pa
triotic fervor? The day of our coun-
try's life has but broadened into morn
ing. Do not put uniforms by. Put the
harness of the present on. Lift your
eyes to the great tracts of life yet to
be conquered in the interest of right
eous peace, of that prosperity which
lies in peoples hearts and outlasts
all wars and errors of men. Come, let
us be comrades and soldiers yet to
serve our fellow men in quiet coun-
Gil, where the blare of trumpets is
neither heard nor needed and where
the things are done which make bless
ed the nations of the world in peace