Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-21
FITTING EXERCISES
in HONOR OF FLAGS
PATRIOTIC MUSIC SINGING ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY
ATTORNEY CAREY VAN FLEET-FLAGs TAKEN TO ELY
THEY PLACED

would have humbled us, Sir this
means war;" and there is the treaty
at Appomattox, the binding up of the
nations wounds, the gathering togeth-
er of those who had wandered far in
civil strife and there is the consti
tuition of the United States. And in
its ample folds you see all the glitter
ing faces of the brave soldiers who
died in the liberation war of human.
jty. You see the face of William of
when he lived he was the guiding
star of whole brave people and when
he died, the little children cried IN
the streets. You see the face of Ab-a-
and Abraham Lincoln of the ages.
You see the face of him who taught
the first lessons OF democracy on a
hill overlooking the sea of Galilee and
paid for it with his life on the igno-
niinious cross. You see the star of
Bethlehem and you see the blazing
white light of the twentieth century,
under whose rays no false system of
logic or conduct can long exist and
stand unrevealed.
More beautiful thou art than the
the golden lilies of the Bourbon kings
Or the white plume of Navarro or
the golden Ms of the first emperor
Of the French or the Star and Cres-
cent of the Mohammedan hordes or
the Rising Sun of Japan or the Drag.
on flag of China or all the battle
flags of the nations unfurled on the
fields of death. Stronger thou art
and loftier of mien and more piercing
of eye than the Roman eagles which
were sent to the uttermost parts of
the earth to conquer, rule and crush.
For thou dust but crush the vice
which tears at thy breast thou dost
hut conquer ignorance and oppression
and thy rule Is the rule of the prince
of peace. Symbol of a government
which was born of an expression of
Montesquien that a government alone
can be perfect which keeps separate
the executive, judicial and Legislative
departments, its white stripes typify
to me the broad columns of the courts
Of justice which stand between the
rule of the mob on the one hand and
the orderly rule of representative gov.
ernment OIL the other. Likewise those
columns stand between the abuse of
H. l,A 10 iiun
branches of the government and the
rights of the people on the other.
Those white columns neither the un.
dertow of muckracking calumny or
from their firm bases. And around
their fluted capitals appear the grave
and august faces of the great judges
from John Marshall to Edward White
looking serenely down upon their
handlwork, for 1t was they who gave
flesh to the constitution and made
this q land Of liberty under the law.
The flag typifles to me land where
we strive to educate every boy and
every girl and then leave them free
| to go from any schoolhouse to any
church. It typihes to me land where
education is so diversified that in a
world where the call to arms resounds
and nothing Is safe fro mthe ruth.
| lessness of war and the injunction
that thou art thy brothers. keeper is
forgotten we are the only people who
calmly pursue the arts of piece. I
do not deny that some wars may be
necessity, according to the times
aud advance in thought of the people
who go through them. Such war
was the war of the sixties. There
we're issues dividing the country which
no legislation of the time, no govern.
/ ment of the time, no DEGREES of the
| courts of the time could settle. This
Is as far as II is necessary to go.
| When the contest was ended II elm.
mated from our national life every
element of strife and welded us to.
| gether in a bond which nought can
| sever. Thou art that bond, old flag;
| thou hast rested from civil strife
these fifty years and civil strife shall
never again turn thy stripes to tears
OF blood or loose star from thy heay.
en- Of blue. Now what remains? All,
so much remains that can never die
There are the sons of Northern sold.
iers here, there are the sons Of
Southern soldiers here. We need the
memories OF the great war that
hand clasped In hand we may go
through the crises OF our nation. We
need the poetry and eloquence of the
great war to bring us to a sense OF
honor and duty and as Lincoln says