The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-05-14
VERA CRUZ DEAD
HONORED IN GOTHAM
President. Congress and Nation
Pay Tribute to Heroes.
SERVICES HELD AT NAVY YARD
Wilson Delivers Address-Seventee en-
Bodies Are Drawn on Calssons
Through Streets to
Brooklyn.

New York, May ll.-Highest tribute
to the nineteen boys who gave up
their lives for their flag at Vera Cruz
was paid by President Wilson in a
remarkable address in which he ex-
pressed envy for the heroes who died
and clearly indicated if need be that
the nation is ready to make further
sacrifices in the same cause. All of
us are performing our duty and
though, he said, he had never been
under fire or in action, he is perform
ing his duty as an enlisted man.
War, gentlemen, is only sort OF
dramatic representation" said the
president. "A sort of dramatic sym.
Dol of a thousand forms of duty. 1
never went into battle. never was
under fire, but fancy there are some
things just as hard to 40 as TO go
under fire. | fancy that it is just as
hard to do your duty when men are
sneering at you as when men are
shooting at you. When men shoot at
you they can only take your natural
life, but when they sheer at you they
wound your heart and men who can
| go about their duty not minding the
Kisses or cheers, and as Rudyard Kip
| ling says in one OF his books, Meet
with triumph and disaster and treat
those two imposters just the same,
are men for nation TO be proud Of
| Cheers OF men are not what men
ought TO think about, but the verdict
of their own conscience and the con
sciences of mankind"
| New York, April ll.-President VIII
| son, congress ana the nation paid
| tribute today to the memories Of the
seventeen brave American sailors and
marines who lost their lives in the
| fighting that attended the taking of
Vera Cruz and whose bodies were
| brought back home on the armored
! cruiser for burial.
The Montana arrived in New York
| harbor yesterday afternoon, having
| been met Saturday off the Virginia
capes by Secretary Daniels and a par
ty OF navy department officials aboard
the presidential yacht Mayhower
President Wilson came up from Wash
ingLon last night, and the congress
sional delegation arrived early this
morning.
Cortese Moves Through City.
When the Montana; an chored off the
Battery yesterday the bodies of the
dead bluejackets and marines were
landed at once and placed on caissons
which were parked on the south side
| of the plaza in the Battery and
guarded by detachment from the
! cruiser.
At 9 o'clock this morning the order
was given for the funeral cOrtege TO
move. 1t was a solemn and imposing
procession, with detCChments from
the battleships Wyoming and Texas
the New York naval militia, the Span
ish war veterans and nurcmOus civ
ilian bodies in line
President the Only Speaker.
The funeral services were held at
the Brooklyn navy yard. President
Wilson was the only speaker, and his
address was an eloquent and touching
tribute TO the bravery and patriotism
of the dead. and a consoIing of their
| bereaved relatives.
|
the members of congress named to at
| tend the services. The committee from
the senate comprised Senator Robin
son, Salisbury, O'Gorman, Vardaman,
Galliger, Kenyon and Brady.
The house delegation consisted OF
Representatives Fitzgerald Calder and
Maher of Brooklyn and these repre-
sentatives from the home districts OF
the dead men: Greene, Vermont; Diet
rick and Thatcher, Massachusetts
Donohoe and Logue. Pennsylvania:
Dale, Dooling, Goldfogle and Griffin
New York; Stevens. New Hampshire;
Wilson, Florida; Walsh, New Jersey;
SABBATH, Illinois; Slemp, Virginia;
Bartlett or Walker, Georgia; Dupre.
Louisiana, and Witherspoon, Misss.
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