The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-30
RICHMOND PAYS
HONOR TO ITS
SOLDIER DEAD
March Of the Veterans Up
Main Street Impressive
Sight and Witnessed BY a
Very Large Crowd.


James N. Townsend, VIM. L. Thomas,
Mark Thompson, James Vanzant,
Christian Vossen, John Ward, Asa G.
Warner, L. NJ. White, Geo. l.. Weist,
VIM. w. Webb, Richard Williams,
Seth Watson. Samuel Wolf, JOHN f.
Wolfe, Daniel Woodhurst, Shipley s.
Wilson, Nathan S. Williams, James l..
Willis, VIM. X. Young and John A.
Yeargan.
At the coliseum this afternoon there
was quite a large crowd present, and
the placing of floral tributes to the
unknown dead was a very impressive
ceremony.
The principal address of the after
noon was delivered by the Hon. Wood
in part, is as follows:
when you read the history of the
past, as the years one by one slip by,
draw down the curtain and commune
with your own thoughts, and you will
be oftimes amazed why the rivers, the
mountains, the valleys and the plains
of our country should have witnessed
such scenes of devastation, loss Of
life and deadly conflicts, fought out
to the bitter end, among our own peo-
pie, bone of one bone, and flesh of
one flesh And yet you must remem-
Der that this was an epoch, an era in
our national life. We trace in these
lines how history is made, how maps
of the world are redrawn, and learn
how revolutions, peaceful and war
stained, are conceived, born, melted
and developed. First came the teach
ers, the ideas, the words; then came
the actors and actions. First came the
lowly Nazarene, born in obscurity and
reared in poverty, moving with humble
strides and sandaled feet, from ham,
let to town, from hillside to valley;
from the Sea of Galilee to the city of
Jerusalem and her temple, speaking
as never man spake,' and who, by
His matchless powers, lifted empires
off their hinges and changed the chan
nels of the centuries, followed by nine
teen hundred years of struggle for
truth, for humanity, and that struggle
Us still on for the uplift and the bet
torment of men and women every
where throughout the world.
First came Martin Luther and Me-
1anchthon, honest, courageous work
ers, with their eloquent tongues, thun-
dering from German pulpits; then fol-
lows the Reformation. First came Di-
derot, Rosseau and Voltaire, then the
French revolution, marking a new age
in freedoms cause. First came the
- %h~ E~J
Parker, Lovejoy and Garrison; and
then came Lincoln and Grant and
Sherman, Sheridan and Logan. Nc
Pherson and Thomas. Meade and How
ard, and the reconstruction of the
union with slavery left out. This is
the logic of ethics in history. 1t is the
sequel revealed; evolution developed
and demonstrated.
''As the years depart, the smoke of
the battle lifts and clears away and
the clouds recede, we behold with a
clearer vision the Herculean task per-
formed and the splendid work accom-
plished in the preservation of the re-
public, an unbroken union Of states,
a nation, if you please. without a
model and without a shadow"
WAR is brutal in it's effects, and too
often demoralizing in it's results; but
] submit the rebellion was worth all
that it cost, for it developed men and
revealed splendid characters. The
reckless young man from the city, the
bashful clerk from the country stores,
and the diffident boys from the farms
proved themselves heroes on the bat
tile field and wrote success across their