The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-06-22
MOULDING TWO FLAGS INTO ONE

ed from the Monticello (Ind.) Herald
an article in which the editor said
that in travelling through the south he
was faced with much chagrin to gaze
upon monuments erected to the he
roes of the, Confederacy. and about
those monuments to see the flag of
the Confederacy in evidence.
The editor of the Herald took the
ground that these things should not
be permitted by the federal govern
ment
In reply to that editorial this paper
took the ground that this very fact
bore evidence that we stood as re
united nation; that Il it were other
wise that if a prohibition were placed
upon these exhibitions that the old
scars could never be healed and it
would forever be impossible to clasp
hands across the "bloody chasm"-
that the nation could never become
lone and inseparable."
We stated that the remnants of
Confederates that were left intended
holding their next annual reunion at
the capital of the nation and the last
drama in proclaiming that the past
was but a memory would be the COM
mingling of the folds of the two flags
from the dome of the capitol, the one
swallowed up in the other, and the
blending of the blue and the gray in
their march from the capitol to the
White House.
All this was done.
We encamped under the very shad-
Ow of the capitol, and the Confeder-
ate flag was everywhere in evidence,
and if it did not float from the dome
of the capitol it was because the boys
in gray were too feeble to climb to
such a giddy height.
That gathering was the triumph
and the climax of unificatiOn.
England never became truly united
until the colors of the red and the
white rose blended into one.
We are reminded that this is the
true and only theory of genuine uni
fication by a speech recently deliver
ed by Lieut. Gen. SHUTS, of the Boer
army, at banquet given in the Royal
Gallery of the house of lords in Lon
don.
At this banquet Lord French pre-
sided. In the Boer war they were
upon opposing sides:
The Boer general said:
Those were difficult and strenuous
days-days in which one learned
many valuable lessons, good for all
ones life. One of the lessons l learn
ed was that under the stress of great
difficulties such as we were then pass
ing through, the only things which
survived were the simple human feel
ings. feelings of loyalty to your fell
lows, and feelings of comradeship and
patriotism which carried you through
difficulty and privataiOn. We soldiers
know the extreme value of these sim
pie feelings We know how far they
can go, and that they can bear the
whole weight of civilization on them
selves. When you think that, in adj
dition to this, you have the circum
stances which you have referred to
namely, that the war was carried on
by both sides in a sportsmanlike spir-
it and in clean way-then you can
see how out of that calamity has been
produced the state of affairs in South
Africa today. You can see how these
simple human feelings and loyalty
and respect for your opponent on both
sides have led to new basis on
which to build the larger South Afri
ca we have today
On opposing sides in the recent
Boer war, they are now fighting side
by side, one as loyal to their govern
ment as the other, and both receiving
the same need of praise.
So it is with us The north and the
south are rallying to the flag with the
same measure of devotion, and when
they confront the common enemy in
France both will be inspired by the
same fidelity to the one flag.
AT the meeting in Washington this
fealty was promised and that promise
will not be broken.
Except for its hallowed memories the
past is forgotten and absorbed in the
present momentous crisis in which all
sections with single patriotic i'm
pulse will place their all upon their
cOuntry's altar
GLENN TERRELL GETS A FAT