Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-06-06
Hall Game Sends Message to the Mothers
Of America.
(st. Louis Giobe-Democrat.)

To THE MOTHERS OF AMERICA:
You will not take 1t amiss that | am
responding to . request that | should
address these words to you.
This IL the first anniversary OF your
Memorial Day since America entered
actively into the a And while you
are gathering in reverent and aifec-
tionate remembrance about the
graves Of your fathers and brothers
who gave their lives that your nation
might live, the mother hearts OF
many Of you, who have lately lost your
sons, r lowering above the battle
fields of France, each with its silent
but searching cry, where is he? Over
there, do they know where he lies?
Or il he lost among the innumerable
multitudes who have fallen in the
war;
Mothers Of America, l am charged
with the duty OF bringing that last
dear comfort to the mother heart by
telling you that we know where your
sons are laid, that their graves shall
never 60 unregarded, and that when
the war Ia over, and the battlefields
are being healed with the sweet OBJ
livion of flowers, we shall lay some Of
these, in your names, year by year,
on the places Of their rest.
When you sent your sons across
the oceaD to fight side by side with
ours, against the kingdom of the devil
and he'll, having no quarrel OF your
own or theirs, no object but to right
the wronged, to defend the weak, and
to see to it that justice and mercy
should not be wiped out Of the world,
YOU entered into a great sisterhood
with the mothers CT Britain, and the
mothers of France, whereby yours he.
came ours, and ours became yours
And now that you are there, and we
are here, shall we not charge u
selves with the care of tho graves OF
your dear ones, since they are ouI
graves also, the graves OF the trotheri
of your sons?
ii sons are,what their mothers make
them we know what the mothers OF
America must be by the flower OF
American manhood who have already
fallen in France. May every Ameri'
can mother who has lost a % in the
war find comfort in the thought tina
her loss is the worlds gain; that it !!
the first fruit of the seed her country
has sown towards the great harves
of the worlds peace; and, through tn
darkest hour OF her bereavement, ma,
she feel that her sorrow hasits recon
pense as night has its stars.
Mothers of America, your sons ma.
have fallen, but they are not there
fore dead. Their heroism has passe'
into the soul Of the comrades who re
main to finish the work to which the
dedicated their lives. And now it
for you to keep your hearts alive Il
this time of sorrow and loss, to con
secrate yourselves with %increasin
devotion to the sacred cause for whlc
they fell, SO that when the day 9
deliyerance comes, and your victorl
Gus armies return home, and you Sc
them passing down your streets wit
the torn, but triumphant flag OF you
country, you may know OF o certalnt
that with the living have come bacl
the dead, and your dear ones ar
there as surely as If they were owner
YOU have often dreamed they Woull
bel within the cirle of their mother
arms.
Meantime, how peaceful and ho'
powerful are their graves out ther
on the fringes of the battletields q
France! Silent sentinels OF the arm
Of humanity before the eyes OF 10
and man!