The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-05-30
THIS MEMORIAL DAY
Nations Tribute to Its Heroic
Dead Has a New and Greater
Significance.
sy HERMAN hAcGooRN.
OF the VieiIantss.

TT IN NIFTY years now that the Ameri.
can people have every year laid
aside their tools for 4 day to re
member their noble dead.
This year they again lay aside their
tools. This year they again gather
roses and ulacs and apple blossoms
and cherry blossoms aad wander out
to the ccsaetcries to Decorate thoss old
but never forgottsn graves. This year
they decorate them with apprehsnsivs
hearth.
This year. as 10 other years. they re-
fresh In their memory tho hrroic deeds
and sscriaees Of their fsthers: hut
they do something beside. this Re-
calling those deeds aud those sacriarea
In the bright light cf new hrroism snn
the shadow Of. new Sacrifice they de,ii-
cate themselves. their hands. thrsr
Minds. aud their spirits. ts the new
struggle or which their couutry is en-
barked.
They remember American men WIN
died lighting on old hsttieneids. hat
thcy remember raore vIvidiy American
women aud children who died On the
Lusitapia.
They remember Gettysburg. and
chsuceiiorzyiiie. and Fredericksburg.
and C,ickswsnga. aud the wilderness !:
but the ySretDsn,ber more wildly what
hsppened in Belgium. and rrasce. and
Serbia. sad Armenia. and on the open
seas.
They remember the Lost Cause asa
the Cause that was victorious. With
high hearts they remember them. aud
With grateful hearts they remember
the men who fought and del defend
ing them. and the men who fonght and
lived and were great epongt. for the
xake Of q united nation. at last to fer
give and forget. They remember these
things. But more vivldiy they remem-
her that the nation which Washington
created and T.incoln preserved II face
10 face with the most siaister foe that
has yet threatened its liberty. They
remember that this foe. with sly and
Insifii"us cumming. sought to confuse.
corrupt and hamstring the energy and
moral will of the American people
even. while he sank their ships and
slaughtered their fellow citizens. They
remember that by the force OF his sr1us
this foe has beaten down great Russia.
Subjugstcd Serbia. Ronmanie. Rc4gtuin.
northern Italy and northern France.
They remember liberty, and they re-
member that where this foe has tYod,
liberty has died.
In the midst Of n great war. tbs
American people give day TO their
heroic dead. They honor them In
speeches aud rsrades. They honor
them with nowers and muhc. They
are doing them no more than justice
when they so honor them. -,.
Bui.t,sss honor thsrr b~st II With irm
viii and fearless hrart they resolve
that humsnity's foe shall dir; but that.
by The strength the courage. the en-
durnnce, the spirit Of devotion and sac
rifce not only of the men In khnki or
In bIue In rrnnce and Flanders and on
the see, but of the fathers aud moth
ers snd wives. the sisters. the sweet
hearts. the brothers. who work and
walt at home In the Great Republic Of
the West. democracy, shall triumph.
Right shat triumph. tni Liberty shall
live. bringing TO the wsrid q peace
that shalt endure. and to mea aad wom-.
en- everywhere = happiness that shall
have foundations.