The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE


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able. 1t is the achievements of the
citizen soldiery which will be cele-
brated on Memorial day. Though not
practiced in the arts of war, the arm
les of the Union earned the right to a
place in history by the side OF the
truest and the best. The old Guard
of the empire never made more gal
liant assault than those of Vicksburg,
Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor. Mar
shall Ney must share his title of the
bravest of the brave" with him who
rode to almost certain fate in the red
fields of Chantilly saluting death as
woman greets her lover. Horatius
at the bridge is a no more heroic inquire
than Hancock, the superb, at Gettys-
burg or fighting Joe Hooker above
the clouds at Lookout Mountain.
Murat never led a greater charge than
the Incompatible Sheridan headed at
Cedar Greek when his army, though
reinforced by a single man on horse
back, snatched victory from defeat
and drove Jubal Early like the light
ning's flash from Winchester to
Stroudsburg Won Moltke, great gen
eral and strategist that he was, can
point to no grander campaign than
that of Grant from the Wilderness to
Richmond.
What then IS the lesson which the
sublime herOism of these men teaches
what do the monuments erected to
their memory mean? By the subtle
chemistry which no man knows, all
the blood that was shed by our broth
ers, all the lives that were devoted, all
the grief that was felt at last crys-
inf bo nj I q
nation, rendered immortal the great
truth for which these men died. And
that's what memorial day means.
What does it teach? What will it
teach? Do you remember the story of
one of the old conquerOrs of Greece
who had travelled in his bOyhOOd over
the battle fields where Miltiades had
won his victories and set up his
trophies Returning he said: "These
trophies of Miltiades will not let me
sleep" Why? Something had
taught him a lesson from the chiselled
stone that he could not forget; and,
my friends. the silent shafts of granite
that rise all over this broad land in
memory of the numbered and un-num-
bered heroes who died that liberty
might live-these constantly recurring
memorial days-will teach the boys
of coming generations the lesson that
will not let them sleep when their
country calls them This is the lesson
of Memorial day. 1t is the lesson OF
endurance for what we believe; it is
the lesson of sacrifices for what we
think: the lesson of heroism for what
we mean to sustain and this lesson
cannot be lost upon a free people.
1t is not a lesson of revenge, it is
not a lesson of wrath, it is the grand
sweet, broad lesson of the Immortality
of the truth that we hope will sOor
conquer the whole world.
"In the beauty of the lilies Christ
was born across the sea
With a glory in his bosom that
transfigures you and me
AS he died to make men holy, let
us die to make men free
While God is marching on"
The soldiers of the Grand Arm.
face the problems of today with the
same answering loyalty to the cOun
try with the same mistaken confid
ence in its destiny as they did in thu
crisis that confronted the nation from
1861 to 1865 they believe
THAT Freedoms battle once begun
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to sol
Though baffled oft is ever won"
We believe that there is not room
enough for democracy and militar.
autocracy to live at peace in the SAM
world. Nor can anybody hug the idei
that all that is TO be fought out j
a political struggle between this ma
ton and that nation. Behind the
question of national flags lies the RICH
of the individual to personal liberty
Not a personal liberty settled upol
him by the majority, but a persona
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endanger the safety of the nation
nor transgress the obvious demand
of morality.-This is God given:
in the first morning of the world
the hand of God with might un-
furled
The flag of freedom over chaos,
And all its banded anarchs fled
Like vultures frighted from Emau
Before an earthquakes tread"
Mr.. Lincoln once said: "A hOus
divided against itself cannot stanC
1 do not mean to say that the hous
will fall hut this government cannC
exist one-half slave and the other hal
free" Monarchy and democracy car
not peacefully exist side by sid,
There is an irrepressible conflict be
tween democracy and military auto
cracy; between the so-called divin
right of kings and the divine Goo
bestowed liberty OF the sons an
daughters of God.
We cannot be apathetic, luke-warI
or Indifferent in the lurid light of thi
titanic struggle. We must take on
place in the armies of freedom TIL
interest of freedom anywhere is til
interest of free men everywhere.
A compromise with wrong is
craven purchase of present peace +;
the expense of the peace and Tranquil
ity OF the future. Mr.. Lincoln said
his immortal Gettysburg grafton: