The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-06-05

Music Orchestra,
Introductory Address,. r. Hatch |
cr, Post Commander.
Reading Of liacola's Gettysburg
Address Rev. 8 j. Malone.
Music School Children.
Grafton Geo. w Clarke,
Masic--Schooi Children, aecompan.
led by the Orchestra
Governor Clarke offered a splendid
address, He was cheered repeatedly
and at other times moved many OF
his hearers TO tears, The address IN
full was as follows
Governor Ciaeke's Address.
The governor said in part
Nations are proud of the extent of
their territory, The morning reveille
Iof the Briton Is heard round the
world and that the sun never sets ON
the British Empire has been the
proud boast of Englishmens Nations
boast of natural resources, their riy.
ers and lakes, their forests and mines,
their mountains and valleys, the
fields and fruits. the extent OF their
commerce, their railways and all that
wealth and prosperity This Ia all
stitute the true riches of a great re
people and cannot make a people
great
The great things of life are ideal
The things that have real value are
invisible. Visible things are hut gym
bols OF value, Your gold dollar Is OF
no value to you in your hand. II but
Isymbolizes the comfort, or Joy, or
pleasure II may bring you, The beat.
Ity of the poem does not lie upon the
printed page. The beauty and sweet
ness and harmony lie in you and the
poem Is to discover them. to touch
the strings that sttune you to inefta.
bile beauty and harmony, the inyisi,
BILE The music Is not In the sheet,
the song Is not there, Nor il the
singer the song. II Is the invisible,
the ideal.
Association often gives things I'M.
measurable value. But there. too. the
value lies not In the thing but In the
ideals and memories that cluster
round II. The sweetest, tenderest
things of life gather themselves round
some memory OF the past None of
you are without experience In this
particular. There are memories In
your home that have priceless value.
There Is a sound of little voices IN
tho air, you hear little songs. you feel
the warm pressure of little hand
upon the finger. the warmth of q liz
tie cheek against your own, and II all
comes down the years from away back
yonder. The heart and not the purse
Ia the receptacle OF real value. Take
away these and you are poor ald desc
late indeed. Out of the ashes, out of
the tears. out of the suiferings of the
past spring the riches Of the present
and the hope and the treasures Of the
future.
The real home of Liberty is In the
United States here in America. Here
she first established her throne.
! Here she first held aloft her torch
propriate thought and placed the
statue of Liberty Ehllghening the
World in New York harbor, where
for this country she first gfeets the
dawn and where, rs the foreigner APP
lproaches our shofes and enters the
gateway OF the new world she pro
claims 10 him the vital principles
beating in the mighty heart of the
mighty nation that lies beyond.
A few centuries ago the Anglo-Sax-
on. tired of the false estimates Of
values and with the true conception
there Of swelling his heart and ami
mating his hopes and purposes. set
out across the stormy Atlantic. Lib
erty and Freedom of thought and
speech are of the very essence Of
Professionalism and it was but natural
that the spirit Of Liberty and indie
pendeace should have so rapidly de-
IveIoped as to resist British aggres-
sion in after years.
| Two civilizations, however, con
Ifronted each other, two antagonistiC
principles as represented on the one
Inaad by the Massachusetts colony
and on the other by the Virginia col
lony. The end was Inevitable from
! the beginning, but was not clearly
Eforeseen by statesmen u8til later
period. Finally these principles con
tended for the mastery in the might
Test battles by the mightiest armies
1.-THE world ever saw and it is IN mem
| DRY of the men who fell on those
fields and who participated ia that
war, making Liberty and Union, now
and forever, one and indiVisible, their
battle cry, that we have assembled
here today We may we'll stre~ their
graves with flowers We may we'll
speak of their patriotism and their
paIor. We may we'll praise, IN VA
stinted measure their devotion to the
cause Of human rights and to the old
flag We may we'll do these things
for them For the first time in the
history Of the race was humanity set
firmly on its feet and founded and
grounded upon the everlasting rock
of liberty, equal rights to all men and
the Anglo.SaSon In America started
tout to as the world leader and ia to.
day at the head OF the procession of
the nations OF both 0ccident and Orr.
emit A new nag and a new power
has appeared in the Central Pacific
and also on the Orient as an object
lesson to- stimulate the anciens gov
Iernments. II is the Anglo. Saxon so
far on his way from Appamatos and
up to this time wherever he has
planted his standard, it has remained,
and the flag that aoated over the ar
mics OF the union has never knowa
defeat Liberty is lighting her fires
near the ancient home of the race
and they viii flame, centuries upon
centuries lighting up the long be.
nighted Asiatic lands.
Great material resources, we said,