Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-06-04

more favorable than it was last Mon
day, when Wauseon's people cele-
brated the day which has come to
stand first in the list of national hol-
idays. All the exercises of the day
passed off smoothly and were very
impressive. Members of the G. A. R.
who were able to attend the services
in the morning and afternoon were
expressing themselves as being well
pleased and as having enjoyed the
day.
The services at the cemetery in the
morning were fine in every sense of
the word.
"Never," said one old soldier, "has
the music made by the school chill
drn sounded better"
The Camp Fire Girls were on duty
to decorate the graves of the soldiers
dead, but not forgotten by their COM
rades living. The address at the GEM
etery given by Bryan Heise was
highly appreciated by those who
heard. It stirred the hearts of the
veterans and helped them to feel
that their efforts and their sacrifices
had not been in vain, and it awak-.
ened pride in the hearts of citizens
in the boy who has been gifted in
oratory and who gives promise of a
patriotic, noble and useful citizen
ship.
The decorations on and in the
business places were never more
beautiful and worthy of more than
passing mention was the "Peace Win
dow in one of the stores on North
Fulton street. 1t was at once appro-
pirate and artistic. The exercises or
the afternoon were well attended,
and Mr.. Stahl's address was at once
eloquent, appropriate to the times
and practical.
The first part Of the discourse told
the reasons why we owed so much to
the veterans of the Civil War, it en-
phasized the fact that it was not be-
cause of what the soldiers were to-
day, old and infrm that Memorial
day was observed for them, but
what they had done and what they
had been in their early manhood and
when vitality of youth predominated
their faculties. That they fought
for and their comrades died, that a
nation of, for and by the people might
be perpetuated.
4 He then entered briefly into the
history Of the real cause of the civi
war, that although this country was
freed from British oppression by the
Revolution, yet it was as helpless il
its newly acquired freedom, as Nose!
in the rushes of the Nile. Tha
through the cold, gray morning o.
doubt dawned the solemn truth, alth'
the war of the Revolution was ended
, +! the war for the union remained to b
!, fought. He pictured the suffering
, of the soldiers and sacrifices of tn
: women during this war, and went Oh
to say that altho the civil war decid
. ed national supremacy over stat
right, yet it widened and deepene'
! the gulf of sectional feeling.
! That the Spanish-American wa
! served its purposes, when the sons o
! the blue and the gray volunteere
and marched side by side in the Gu
ban Campaign.
e Following with the incident of
a Sson of millionaire being killed, an
by his side was found the son of
e southern planter and cowboy fro1
e the western plains.
d That these heroes were wrappe
S and buried in the flag for which the
e gave their young lives and maxim
$. the inscription "E. Pluribus Unum
: one in reality.
i, That by and through these wal
IS and ages we had inherited heritag
n that based on the cornerstones {
) national Stability, Honesty Justic
X Liberty and Equality, and so long &
# we adhered to these, this natio
,r would continue gem in the cask,
1t of nations, to shine with increase
/ brilliancy, as the centuries flew {
If the winds of time.
He considered the paramount que
At ton for the solution of the America
of citizenship was the successful sol
IT ton of this proposition, that the Ia
n iff, labor and commercial question
le were insignificant in comparist
te with the real question of develo
y. ing the future citizens of this cou
try, saying the nations destiny Il
in the hands of the rising gener
ton, and as they sow, so they shs
er reap, he made plea for mothers al
in fathers to present to the count
a. more thoroughbred sons and daug
&C ters,
is is He held that heores were n