The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED
With APPROPRIATE EXERCISES
Following an Interesting Program at the Nixon Opera House
This Morning, Graves Of Nearly Forty Civil War
Veterans Are Stewn With Flowers

iantlc TO the r0lllng b1llOws OF the
sun-down seas, from the pure cool
waves Of the Northern Lakes to the
fervid and phosphoreseent Gulf, we
are now one people, willingly obeying
the same laws, reverencing the same
flag, proud of the same national des-
tiny.
All this was gained by our com
rades who bravely fought and died
on thousands of blood consecrated
fields, by our comrades who lived to
fight through to victory.
The loose iointed foundation stones,
laid by our forefathers, were cement
ed by the richest blood of the land,
by courage, toll and self sacrifice as
measureless as the sea, into an en-
during national edifce which has all
the glory that was Greece and all the
grandeur that was Rome.
Far beyond this shining material
prosperity we have given the whole
Z world a moral uplift reaching even
to the heather of the Isles and age
incrusted China. All mankind has
been raised up spiritually by our hav-
/ ing fought and won.
As we march with aging steps tow
ard life's setting sun there shines in
our faces the glory of having lived
and achieved the greatest that can
come to men.
s We have given to humanity the
best, the purest, the most righteous
government the world ever knew.
We have given to the wrold as its
pillar of fire to lead it ever onward
and upward, stainless flag, which
| we believe "with courage true and
faith sublime. will float until the
Eternal Morn pales with its glories
all the lights of time
Comrade Otis then delivered an ad-
dress of a statistical nature, illustrat-
ing the fact that war means de-
struction.
A recitation, ''The Blue and the
Grey was delivered by Miss Alice
J Wagner.
Comrade Pat O'Donnell, being call
ed on for remarks, responded briefly
1t was noticed that for the first time
on an occasion of this character, Com
rade O'Donnell carried cane. His
address dealt principally with his per-
sonal war experience, and in speaking
/ of Libby he summed up the horrors of
that notorious prison by significantly
remarking, "Why, man alive. when
they exchanged me from Libby, they
had to shear and dip me like a
sheep
Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address >
was read by Rev. P. H. Willis.
The recitation, "Converse with the
Slain,' by Howard Becker, was well
rendered and received with great ap-
plause by the audience.
/ Judge ]. A. Langwith then deliver
ed a brief address, during which he
eulogized the eountry's soldiers and
also the noble band of women who
nursed the wounded on the battle
fields of the Civil war.
The exercises were concluded by the
audience singing "Star Spangled
= Banner after which the procession
was formed which marched to the
cemeteries.
In the old cemetery 32 graves of
veterans were decorated by the Post.
six graves at the new cemetery were
decorated by citizens during the day.
Ingersoll's Memorial Address. /.
This day is sacred to the great
heroic host who kept this flag above
om heads-sacred to the living and
the dead-saered to the SCARED and
maimed-sacred to the wives who
gave their husband, to the mothers
who gave their sons.
Here in this peaceful land of ours
here where the sun shines, where flow
ers grow, millions of armed men bat
tied for the right and breasted on a
thousand fields the iron storms of
war. These brave, these ineompar-
able men founded the first Republic.
They fulfilled the prophecies, they
brought to pass the dreams they real
ized the hopes, that all the great and
good and wise and just have made
and had since man was man. But
what of those who fells There is no
Language to express the debt we owe,
the love we bear, to all the dead who
died for us. Words are but barren
sounds. We can but stand beside their
graves and in the hush and silence
feel what speech has never told-From
the Memorial day address, New York,
l1ss2, by Robert G. .Ingersoll.