The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-27
.nAGS' NEW HOME.

eContnueu from foke Ong.y -
ger tips with long departed youth.
ties. You are taking the story from
dying lips and engraving 1t on the un-
;eroding granite.
I'm many ways you haze felt the
merciful finger Of the Almighty; saved
from wound and battle, immuned from
in the grace and sweetness OF old age.
You are no longer OF common clay:
and here. holding those precious em-
blems of sacrifice you are invested with
the awe and mystery and love that hal
lows all sacred things
This magnificent state has erected
this proud edifice az a loving tribute to
her soldiery: to those who served In her
own organizations. to those who enlist
eols and fS oS the rv = ase
turrets of the Monitor. to those Of her
sons who trod the proud deck Of the
Kearsarge. to the gallant squad who
wrecked the Albemarle, and to those
where the hoarse and billowy
surge forever sounds for them an
undyfng dirge: to all her absent sons.
none missed and none forgotten.
Tho Soldiers and Sailors.
Participating in these exercises
are the soldiers and sailors going from
the state to the Spanish war. There
is no color line drawn. there IL none to
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has sacrifice a color. The state honors
its heroes in ebony or bronse as II they
were carved out of Parian marble.
Built Better Than She Knew.
THE state has builded better than
she knew: she has given of her bounty
as they gave her of their blood. The
state expected much. she could not have
been given more. Every one of
these flags was returned in honor.
This splendid Memorial Hall which
shall soon enclose these flags il
akin to the holy Of holes in the taber-
| nacle where rested the Ark of the
Covenant. 1t Is a shrine blessed with
| the JUNCTION Of an answered past. Here
shall We pilgrimage. 1t is L temple of
| sacrifice: and here, shall the smoke
from the affairs of patriotism forever
ascend. It 10 prayer sweet as a low
ing sorrow, unsu1lied ~ that first lisped
| at the mothers knee.
This is wholly a sacred service: the
last supper of the flags, the last sacra-
ment OF these devoted few, for liberty 10
| at all times a vice regent Of God, and
its followers. His worshipers. This
great audience must feel in their hearts
| that at this hour, the soldier il giving
his dying salutation to his flag.
The flag has already been conse.
Grated; each Of them has been baptised
| In woman's tears; blessed with her
smiles; with it in her heart she has
| bombarded heaven with her prayers:
| the pain of it has been a solace to her
agony; she has spread it on her secret
altaS. yelled from human sight and
| sympathy. az she wrestled with the
angels over her lost son. The loyal peo-
pie of this republic through the weary
years sweat blood in their own Gardens
Of Gethsemane. These flags have
Joined in the dirge; they have hung
mute and still in the dumbness of our
griefs: they, have. led the way of long
and tiresome campafgns they heard
| the bands play at the Grand Review
and they shuddered and cobbed and
cried that the great man Of all Of them
| had died.
"A thousand Jaunty, clean Tipped
youths Of Kansas followed each Of these
regimental flags, and a hundred or
more marched behind each one of these
guidons. Each Of these young fellows
gave unto the destiny OF these flags,
love. friends, hope. ambition, career.
desire. and length Of days. If we could
but see them today. untouched by time.
as they went out with the flags to do
| battle for this great people,"