El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-31

fought here; those who living, gave much
! and those who dying, gave ALL
'On this quiet sabbath morning. Sab
bath alike of the nation ond Of the re
I ligion OF this people, we are gathered TO
! honor and lay the flowers Of loving memory
/ on the graves Of those who. in the wars Of
I the union have paid the last full measure
I OF devotion; who. having fought the good
/ fight, having kept the faith. now rest
one day from out the crowded year.
] To Ioftiest faith we give;
! It is the day the dying pause,
I To honor those who live
! THE good vicar Of Wakefield tells US
that though IL may bet he lot Of thes older
TO fan far from home and loved ones. there
are no tears so precious as those with which
| nature bedews the inquired head OF sol
der.
quotes Lincoln.
an the apt words Of Mr. Lincoln. we
| cannot dedicate. we cannot consecrate. We
cannot hallow' their graves The lives and
! deaths OF those the nation today covers with
! its garlands have already consecrated them
/ beyond our power TO aid 10 or take from.
] but IL has often seemed TO me. no similar
/ service is 50 well calculated to direct the
] consideration Of the citizen to the duty Of
/ the citizen to the government and its recip-
rocal obligation to him.
! The love Of country is undoubtedly the
/ strongest OF all human sentiments Il fires
| man with the spirit 10 those deeds Of hero
! ism and selfsacrifice that make mortals
1 worthy Of Immortality. It makes women
! lay upon the affairs OF their country the
] children they have borne in suffering
! sacrifice that finds no counterpart in the
/ heroisms Of the battlefield 1t is the thing
I that today. on the sodden fields OF Europe
IS porting out the best blood Of those sorely
| stricken countries
ION this day the consideration OF other
] peoples and other lands may well fiji our
! hearts with thankfulness that We are
/ Americans
Wartorn Europe.
when we turn from q contemplation Of
I the state Of Europe, its peoples embattIed.
] its industries paralyzed. its accumulated
wealth vanishing ike mist before the sun
I Its national debts increasing 50 the grand
! from contemplation OF those things TO
children Of those who made the war will
not see those debts paid, when we turn from
a contemplation Of those things TO a consid-
Grafton Of our own fortunate country. its
men occupied in their vacations. its women
cOntentsd in their homes, its children happy
in their schools. peace within its borders
and plenty within its gamers in the heart
Of every American should be a deeper dsvo-
uon 10 his country and a tlrmer resolve to
make and keep it worthy OF its blessings
and more steadfast in the path OF its high
destiny.
Proud Of Our Country.
I've havet he right TO feel a Just pride
in our country, great not only IN its broad
prairies. its fertile fields its TEEN
ING cities and towns filled with their monu-
ments TO mans intelligence and industry.
but truly great because while battling with
nature, while opening Up the highways
spanning the rivers. tilling the soil. taking
tribute from the mountains It has estab-
lished institutions under which people can
live, who, while demanding individual lib
erty hold themselves in unalterable oppo-
sition to international outlawry.
1T is this very spirit Of the people that
brought TO the president as with one voice.
the approval Of this people for his recent
letter TO Germany. Il was this same spirit
that caused this people TO accept his Phila-
deiphia speech only in the narrower sense
in which ne must have meant IT,
No Disresp-ct.
No words Of mine shall ever. with my
consent be construed counseling disre-
spect for unlVaful authority. With you.
above all men. who wear a nations uni
form, who. in the last analysis, enforce its ]
laws and make its majesty articulate
respect for authority is not only an obIiEa- 4
ton Of honor but in every way an impera- !
tive duty
But while We look to the president for 4
wise counsel. fori aspiration TO lofty think I
ink and patriotic service. we need not. nay.
ne must not, forget that he holds his high /
commission and draws the authority with !
which he speaks from a right INTERPRETATION
Of the thought and feeling OF the American /
people. and We have the right to say TO him /
that we accept and approve as true the !
views expressed in his Philadelphia speech I
in the narrower sense here indicated and i
not in the broader sense the language is /
Patience with Weak.
"a man. when dealing with one much 1
weaker than himself. might feel justified
in declining to resent an offensive epithet- {
No man. however great his strength. could 4
ever be justified in standing idly by when
another. whatever his weakness, was taking
the lives OF his children
4 trust the day will never come when
this country viii wage war OF conquest
but I trust the day is equally far distant 4
when II viii submit to acts Of oppression. in
justice 1nhumanity 10 its people, whether
the offender be earth's weakest or its
est The submission by a strong man to
continuous or repeated intentional wrongs
FrnH r 10
The submission to such q strong one be-
comes cowardly.
Nations Are Men in Aggregate.
Nations are only men in the aggregate.
and I respectfully submit that to sacrifice
the right TO protect its citizens because they
have made 1t strong and great is the IN
UNSUITABLE surrender OF something valuable. |
yea priceless, that people pays for in
inteintelligence. in industry. in thrift, in l
obedience to law and in loyal service.
zone Of the greatest tributes ever paid TO
a country's flag, has been paid by one Of
the women poets OF England to its national 1
ensign, when she said;
There is flag that floats Ger every
And waves in every air.
And to treat it as aught but the flag OF the
Is more than the bravest dare.
For hearts OF oak have borne It
Ger many a storm-tossed wave.
1t has sunk with many a shottorn wreck.
But It never floats over slave.
Not Protected In Mexico.
''She might with equal truth have said
that except in the country just south Of
US and under circumstances not necessary
here to discuss, 1t had never failed to pro-
tect the hublest human being owing al
legiance to it when outraged in life liberty
or property anywhere within the utmost |
bounds OF civilization
That is the obligation the flag owes 10
The man whose reciprocal obligation IS TO I
uphold it with his life and any flag that /
becomes a mere tarpaulin to cover barrels
of produce and bales Of merchandise insults !
any air which it floats in
The KOztza Incident.
"On the I'd day Of July. 1859, In the har-
Dor Of Smyrna, the Austrian man-of-war. !
Husar, seized one Martin Kostza a naturaIf-
zed American citizen on the charge that he I
vas an offender against the laws OF Hun l
gary, Austria declining to recognize his
American citizenship. The American man J
II war St Louis. happened TO be in the har-
Dor and her captain, Duncan Nathanial In
graham by name, and Of the somewhat pug
lacious state Of South Carolina on the re-
usal Of the Austrian commander to deliver
Aostza 10 the American consul general no
flied the Austrian that If Kostza was not I
delivered by p m Of that day. he was
going to take him by main force.
A Smaller ship.
The St Louis was much thes mailer ship
II the two, but Capt. Ingraham prepared it
or action and just before D. m when the