The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-31
State Official Delivers Ad-
dress on Significance Of
Memorial Day.
PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES
Believes Spirit Of Past
Should Find Rebirth in
Present Com lict.

fitting the spirit OF the Times. 1Hc
CHIEF address was delivered by Lieu
tenant Governor w. w. Mcdowell be-
fore q. large crowd. He said in part:
Members OF the Grand Army Of the
Republic, Spanish War Veterans, La
dies OF the Grand Army. Daughters OF
the American Revolution, and citizens
Of Anaconda, consider 1t very high
honor and much desired privilege to
appear before you on this occasion.
The ladies Of patriotic societies de-
serve all the nice things which can be
said about them. for their efforts to
keep alive the memories of past sac
rifices and the heroic deeds of our SOL
diers in former wars, and for tanning
the flame of patriotism which is now
so brightly burning and swiftly sweep
ing our country from the pine clad
hills OF Maine on our Atlantic sea-
board. to the fragrant orange groves
OF southern California. where the wa
tiers Of the broad Pacific wash our
shores.
Have Ever Been inspiration.
From the earliest ages which our
historians chronicle, the good women
Of the world have ever been the IN
SEPARATION and the guiding star for the
soldier. In the golden days of chiv-
airy, as the knight went forth to bat
tie, he begged glove n ribbon or
other token from his lady love, and
when the conflict was over he would
proudly return to receive the words OF
consolidation from the woman he
loved, or else he would be found
wounded or dead upon the bloody bat
tie field. the cherished emblem. the
badge of his fealty, still pinned upon
his breast, and carefully guarded even
as death o'ertook him.
To the comparatively young men who
80 bravely bore our arms. and fought
beneath our banners. within the
tangled jungles OF the fever in tested.
far away Philippines, or upon the hills
and through the valleys of beautiful
and tropical Cuba or Porto Rico. and
who SO successfully drove the tyrant
Of Spain from the western hemisphere.
the country has nothing but words of
praise. They proved worthy sons Of
noble sires.
Greatest Homage to G. A. r.
But on this occasion, on Memorial
day. So years since the close of the
civil war. that fateful struggle be-
tween the states, on this day, May 30,
which was officially designated and set
apart by General John A. Logan In
1868, as a day fer the nation to pause
for u moment and pay due reverence
and respect to the memory of thOs:
brave men who offered their lives that
our Union might be preserved and per-
petuatcd. on this day our thoughts nat
urally turn to the gray-haired men,
now so ptifully few in numbers, who
through the fierce struggle between
brothers in the north and brothers in
the south, in the four years from 1861
to 1866. SO bravely bore the flag of on,
country from one stubbOrnly contested
battlefield to another, sometimes TO de.
feat, but more often to victory. l re-
fer to those splendid old men, thu
members of the Grand Army of thu
Republic.
Fifty-five or sc Years ago the boys
in blue marched forth to battle. Blu
they were opposed by foemeo worth,
OF their steel. Soldiers just us bolt
and fearless as themselves. BY mer
who. though they were wrong, yet be
lieved they We're right
admiration and reverence and respec
for 1.-THE valiant warriors and nobl,
men. who rallied around the standard.
of Sherman and of Sheridan and o
Grant. give thanks to the Lord tina
the boys In blue were victorious: tina
the Union Of our country was pre-
served and more firmly cemented to
gethcr: that slavery was forever ban
As,tN .,h
friends. my father. my mothers broth
er, my fathers brother were all in tn
southern army.
War Has Cone Again.
Gentlemen. we have been talking O
the wars of the past and of the gal
liant men who wrote such bright an
shining pages into the history Of tn
world. and the example of the heroe
of SO years ago stands as beaco
light for our country at the presen
time. for we are again at war. Not
war OF our own choosing. Not wa
of conquest nor ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, but
war which was forced upon us.
The American people are long SUI
fering, are not easily aroused. and ar
Lovers Of peace. But there are time
in the lives Of nations and peopl
when it is more honorable to figt
than it is to remain neutral. We a
want peace, but not peace withou
honor.
A well known senator. in the cours
of a speech In Washington last weel
made the astounding statement the
the submarines, belonging to the Gel
mans. had destroyed more ships in tn
month just past. than all the shir
yards Of the world could turn on. j
the year 1915. And assuming that h
statement was correct. We see this
unless something is done, and dor
soon. to combat this submarine mer
ace. all the available shipping OF II
world will be destroyed. Neither Eni
land nor France can produce near
enough food to support themselves. an
II sufficient ships cannot be had
transport. the supplies to them. the
they must OF necessity end the W;
to prevent starvation. On the 9th,
hand. II Russia concludes a separa
peace with GERMANY and Austria