Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-01
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II is produced in the great manufacture
of daily duty. But duty is not easy
to determine Duty for nation is
made up of so many complicated cle-
ments that no man can determine it.
No group Of men without wide common
counsel can possibly determine wha,
the duty OF the day is. That is the
strength OF democracy. because there
daily rises in the great body of n
democracy the expression of an un-
trammeled opinion which seems to fill
the air with its suggestions of duty;
and those who stand at the head OF
affairs have 1t as their bounden duty to
endeaNor TO express in their own ac-
tions those things that seem TO rise out
of the conscience and hope and purpose
of the great body OF the people them
selves.
URGES RENEWAL IN DEVOTION
TO DUTY AND TO IDEALS
America l have said was reborn
by the struggle of the Civil War, but
America is reborn every day of her
life by the purposes We form. the con-
ceptions we entertain. the hopes that
we cherish We live in our visions
We live In the things that we see We
live, and hope abounds in us as we
Ave, in the things that We purpose.
Let US go away from this place re-
newed IN our devotion to daily duty
and TO those ideals which keen ma
ton young keep 1t noble keep il
rich in enterprise and achievement:
make II 10 lead the nations of the
world IN those things that make Tor
hope and for the benefit Of man
kind"
in the ampitheatcr of the cemetery
President Wilson witnessed the un-
yelling OF the Maine Memorial Monu-
ment The monument is the main mast
and lighting top 81 the Maine. set in
granite and marble base chisclcd in
the form of gun turrct.
Secretary Daniels. principal speaker
at this ceremony. raised a tribute TO
"Sacriacc.' saying il Mas thu. one at
tribute to which everybody paid HON
age.
The universe teens with stout
hearts said the secretary. Courage
is the commonest virtue among men.
If you once doubted this truth. the
abundant display OF il on land an
sea in the past few months has not
LEFT YOU a skcptic. The call Of country
and home in the day of danger browns
all the baser cries OF self or passions
OF araricc The love Of ones own
land stirs as no other affection. One
hour the free man stands in the as
sembies and declaims arr.,s
he believes the unjust policies Of his
government The next hour another
country is in arms against mis- mother
land. In the supreme passion Of being
true TO his own. opposition fades
away, and the scverest critic forre,s
he had ground for consure"
AS part Of the ceremony. Frank
Bagley Daniels and Jonathan Worth
Daniels. sons OF the secretary ana
nephews Of Ensign Worth Baclcv. the
first American officer Killed In the
Spanish War. raised an ensign 10 the
top OF the mast Fifty white uni
formed marines manned the rigging
Of the mast
SURFEITED WITH ACCOUNTS
OF THE WAR N EUROPE
Secretary Bryan vas the speaker AT
/ exercises held by the Spanish War
veterans AT the base OF the Spanish
/ War monument. He declared tina, for
( the past ten months tho people had
4 been surfeited with accounts of the
/ war in Europe.
I we are depressed and distressed nv
Z the reports OF battles ne said. "ot
] skies reddened by the glare OF guns
I and the soil crimsoued D. the blood
Y OF men: Of homes made desolate and
Z OF hospitals allied to oyerHowiur a.
i babies born fatnerless while .ires arc
4 burned like worthless s-ubblo i'm folds
/ over which the grim reaper has
/ passed.