Arizona republican., 1916-05-31
Decoration Day

The years that have elapsed since the Grand Army of the Republic organized, the years that have passed since Decoration Day instituted, have illustrated plainly the shortness of the span of hpman life. In the first Memorial Day parades the men who marched to the cemeteries to lay flowers upon the graves of their fallen comrades or to rnemorate gallantry and sacrifice of those who lay buried battlefelds alert. bright of eye and many even youthful They const- tuted the flower of American manhood There virilitX in their ranks that existed in other fonization or group of private citizens.
 The years steadily encroached upon their alertness and numbers until now, in the short space of time that has flown, all aged and decrepit. Yet these men who hsltinsly participated in the exercises Of yesterday of the of those who sustained ihe union only a short half century ago-a mighty that called upon the bravest and the
 There were, too the gray clad the other side who battled vaantly for their the in blue battIed for the nation, and them the rights of the sacred the integrity of 1he nation to the men of the north. Their need of glory lacked only success They nobly offered themselves for and it is disparasement to them that it d lost
 It will be but few more years until the last of the men blue and men in gray are gone-only the memory of them will But what a ofy, One which will never die. And Decoration Day will die 1T the government of the United States j., worthy to survive. If the people who the lion should forget the of the Sixties the nation will have become unworthy exist and will become the natural and rishufu prey of more virle nations which still cherish the deeds of those who gave their lives for them
 We are bound more closely together by the travail which times has overtaken the country The horn in the and held the colonists together The of rebel lion rocked il again and when passed it left people closely united and with increased of their dependence upon another. Out of this came the marvellous industrial development of the immediately succeeding years.
 If the nation had been born in peace and if that peace had never been disturbed, may doubt whether would have achieved those things that have been recorded in the intervals between storms We should have had less co-operatlon because the need of would not have been felt
 There may never be another war. We hope there may be none and that the nation may keep alive it's military spirit by holding in perpetual mem the glorious deeds of the who established the union in 7e and those who maintained it in the sos that though may be peace loving, we may never become mad ready sacrifice all has been bought by blood in the Revolutionary the Civil wars for iGnobie peace.
 Of the deeds of Nisus and Euryalus. vergiI sang Waited Times broad pinions yours is fame Ages ages shall your fate admire
 No future day shall see your names expire
 While stands the Capitol, immortal dome
 And yanqushed millions hail the Empress Rome
 The Capitol longer stands and Rome is no longer the mistress of the world. Rome forgot the the vri Romae who carved out and extended The empire. So, will the spirit which has made our nation great pass when shall come to regard Deportation Day a negligible event, or a day re- garded by extreme pacifists filled with un, worthy remembrances.