Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-05-30
TRIBUTE IS PAID
HONORFD DEADLY
MILES JOHNSON
Impressive Memorial Day
Exercises Are Held, With
North Idaho Man as Ora
tor of the Day.

With all other patriotic citizens Of
the nation, the residents of Boise
paused today for a brief period to join
with the veterans of the civil war in
paying tribute to those gallant soldiers
of 81 whose lives were given for their
country and the cause of freedom.
Fitting indeed was the tribute paid
to the memory of the soldier dead at
the Pinney theater this afternoon by
Miles S. Johnson of Lewiston, the
chief orator of the day at the memo
rial exercises. The theater building was
bountifully decorated with bunting and
flags, the stage setting being extreme
ly beautiful with a large picture of
Abraham Lincoln in the center, on
either side a stack of arms a huge flag
in the background with the speakers
and veterans of the war occupying
places of honor
Donald E. Kutnewsky, trumpeter of
company H, First Idaho infantry,
opened the exercises with a reveille
which was followed by the invocation
by Rev. Davis Errett, pastor Of the
Christian church. Adjutant George M.
Gets read the orders of the day. Mrs.
Clara Gish Work read, "Our Country's
Defenders" by William Mckinley. APP
propriate music was rendered by the
male quartet, after which Judge c. P.
Mccarthy made a few preliminary re-
marks, citing the address of Lincoln at
Gettysburg as the greatest gem in lit
erature. spoke of it's brevity and then
gave the address.
Little George Veach Williams re-
Io1it n IN Nv
Papas Grave" Edythe V. Bruce gave
a reading, Music in Camp" accom-
panied by Mrs Earl Adams, which was
one of the features of the excellent
program.
Address of the Day.
Miles S. Johnson, the orator Of the
day, gave his address, speaking in part
as follows:
NO nobler virtue warns the heart
of man than gratitude and 1t is there
fore meet and proper that day should
be set aside on which we can show our
gratitude, honor. reverence and respect
for those who have gone before that
are entitled to the gratitude of not
only nation but of every liberty loving
person that inhabits the globe; and we
therefore assemble on this day, and
this day is set apart, to decorate the
graves of those who at some period
either lost or risked their lives in be-
half of some great principle which
tended to elevate mankind. Bravery
has ever been recognized as a virtue,
even among the lowest type of men,
but personal courage accompanied by
a love of home, of country and of will
lingness to sacrifice life in behalf of a
great principle that win benefit man
kind rather than the individual pos
SCISSOR is indeed a virtue that should
command our worshipful admiration.
Our forefathers came to America
because they believed in the principle
of the right of the individual to wor-
ship God according to the dictates of
his own conscience. During the revo-
lutionary war they suffered untold
agonies and hardships for eight long
years in a life and death struggle, and
many lost their lives, that the princi-
pie of liberty might become a reality
instead of a dream. Ever since the
creation of man had liberty been
thought of, and speculated about but
not until the star -spangled banner
floated in the breeze was liberty caught
up in humanity's embrace and embod-
led In a grand and enduring nation, and
this being true, are the revolutionary
heroes not entitled to our gratitude
And should we not today, in solemn
reverence, thank our Heavenly Father
for implanting in the breasts of those
noble patriots a love of truth and the
courage to proclaim the truth to the
world in the immortal words that We
hold these truths to be self evident.
that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with