Arizona republican., 1915-06-01


 stOop to apologize for any of those deeds of our fallen comrades. Today, under the Sheltering pro-
 tec-ion of the stars and stripes, mind ful of the lessons of the. past, we seek. each in his own way, to teach to present and to future generations
 the loftiest ideals of our reunited icoul.try, knowing that when the time
 comes for the great COmmander-in- chief to order the sounding of taps for the last of the Blue, the last of the Gray. our great mission will jb- accomplished, so that America,
 holding us ever in grateful remem-
 brancc, will move serenely on her
 destined course. with malice toward
 none, with charity toward all. seek
 ing ever to do right God gives
 her to see the right that truth, li-
 bcrty and justice for all mankind shall not perish from this earth
 Captain Bates address was ire quently interrupted with bursts of ap- plause. At it's close Comrade An
 drew Downing, the poet laureate of Arizona, read the Memorial Day poem printed in this mornings Re publican He was given an enrhu- siastic reception.
 The principal address of the day was delivered by William E. Lock
 ard. veteran ot the civil war of i the EightX-siXth Ohio. After the ! war he engaged in educational work and was head of the faculty of Mount Morris College near Chicago, now Evanston Academy. MT. Lock / ard has been a resident of the valley for three years.
 I've do not come" he said, "to
 
 their graves nor to eXult over the defeat of 2 fallen foe" Following an eloquent opening MT. Lockard said The soldier who fell on the ] field of battle. in some respects has a brighter fame and lives in the memory of his comrades with a brighter glow than those who sur vive. An old soldier at one of our memorial services or at q grand en- campment meets another old soldier who was q member of the regiment his company. or perhaps was his messmate, whom he has not seen since the war. He meets but knows him not The frosts of many win ters have settled on his hair His eve is dimmed and his form is bent his voice is shaken. They compare notes and finally clasp hands as old comrades and recount their services together. But they are not the same. | These are not the bright boys who stood shoulder to shoulder and re- ceiVed the charge of the enemy These are not the same light hearted boys who so long ago shared their tent and confidences. It is a stran- ger who now claims the place in the heart of each, once filled by the bright, handsome boy who shared with him the joys and sorrows of army life and there is a feeling of disappointment in both their breasts. They do not now and they cannot. renew the intimaces of their youth. !
 But the comrade who died on the field of battle and was laid to rest in the bloom Of youth. still lives in the hearts of his surviving com rades in all his glorious youth and manly beauty. Every expression of his face-the smallest details of his gallant bearing-are remembered and he lives in perennial youth in the | hearts of his comrades and thus has l sort of immortality denied to the. living"
 An interesting feature of the ad- ! dress was comparison of Grant ' and Lee invidious to neither of | those great men. The speaker ad- ] vOcated disarmament as necessary to | peace. declaring. Let everybody join | in the cry for peace and peace will | come. Choose ye this day whom ye | will serve-Christ or Krupp''
 The speaker, in a reference to Lincoln, said: Patient sorrowful. 1 kind, his sad eyes always fixed on i ha nf hi people. even those of them who were t in arms against his country; toiling. persistent faithful. with no thought of self. he toiled on and on and up far up-beyond the eternal snow line of human ambition until he stood on the sun-crowned mountain tops Of human life and from radiant heights | looked down as one who stood mid way between the mortal and the divine, until he stood on that round of the ladder of creation where God placed man at. the first-just a little lower than the angels and within speaking distance of His throne"
 The address closed with this in vocation:
 God of the nations enthroned in glory. who from eternity ruleth over all, guide now, protect and keep us a nation whose precepts and counsel shall be eVermore for peace and the coming of Thy kingdom on the earth. Ever since the blood of Abel cried to Thee from the ground. this earth of Thine hath been stained with the blood of man. shed by his brothers hand, and the cries of Thy children grow hoarser with anguish as the ages roll Ever the pride of kings and the cOvetousness of the strong have driven peaceable nations to slaughter. Ever the martial song and the pomp of war have inflamed the passions of the people. Our spirit cries out to thee in revolt against this Break Thou the spell of vainSlory that makes the nations drunk with the lust of battle and causes their people to become the