New Britain herald., 1915-04-16

LOUIS F. SHADE.
 Eha: in beautiful America
 The peoples all are free.
 Chorus.
 America we live for thee,
 ! America we die for thee,
 America. America, so beautiful and free;
 l This is the homeland,
 l Land of our birth,
 Where all is music,
 i Sunshine and mirth,
 ; May We this freedom
 ; Ne'er try to sever,
 Beautiful Beautiful America We love thee, yes love thee, forever.
 Keys of City Delivered.
 Mayor George A. Quigley delivered
 the address of welcome. He had
 been asked, he said, to present to the veterans the keys of the city, some thing he thought wholly unnecessary 1 For, as the soldiers knocked off the shackles of the slaves, the bars of this city and all other cities were let down.
 You have set for the world a new standard of attainment in that you
 did not fight for your own race, but you fought that all men of all races
 should be free and equal, I thus pre- sent you the keys of the city and assure you that for half a century you have possessed the key to our hearts, l Saying this Mayor Quigley present 1 ed to Commander Streeter a big wood en key. After the applause and
 laughter had died down, the com l mander thanked him on behalf of the veterans.
 Speech of Conmandcr-in-C Chief. "I assure you that I owe a good deal to the state of Connecticut, per- sonally, because they helped Iowa to secure the commander in-chief at the encampment at Detroit. Iowa fur nished about S0,000 troops and this is the first time she has had a com
 mander-in-chief." Con1mander-in-Chi David J. Pal mer of Des Moines, Ia., thus began his address to the veterans. He said he had given up the year to visiting the different posts in the United States. He did not care, however to visit the post in Mexico because he no longer cared for war. He said he found New Britain dec
 orated better than any city he had visited in his travels. Speaks of "Boy War;" Tt was a boy war;" he said, in speaking of the Civil War enlistment 1 II tell you, my fellow citizens, there ] was sufficient blood shed to make that ! flag free from the spot of slavery" | The purpose of the war was orig | finally not to liberate the slaves, he said. The soldiers proposed to save l the Union. He told of the visit of l ministers who came to urge Abraham Lincoln to liberate the slaves. Even l on this occasion the war president 1 was ready to jest. A number of 1 incidents of the war and G. A. R. ! encampments were related by the l speaker.
 To instill a respect and love for the 1 flag in the school boy is the duty of the G. A. R. and it's auxiliaries, he
 said. Boys and girls are certainly not as respectful, he said, as the boys of '61 who went into the service. 1T 1 tell you" he said, ''they were glad 1 to get letter from their sweetheart mothers. Some of the boys had no other sweethearts. They were too young when they enlisted to look a girl in the face. I see some who are only twelve years old looking 1 them in the face today" X Word For the Mothers. Every son and every grandson, he said, ought to see that every grand mother has a flower dropped on her grave on Memorial Day. The women of '61 did as much for the war of the rebellion as did the men. The speaker spoke stirringly of the position of
 mothers in the war and of the respect due them now. He told of the sad scenes of parting. We ought not to forget, he said, the people who bore bore the brunt of battle and this in- cludes the wives and mothers of that time.
 Country Unprepared For War;" Don't you ever thtnk,'' he said. that we are full of war. We have