The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-10
BOND PRAISES
AMERICAN|SM
OF ROOSEVELT
Large Audience Attends Me-
mortal Service at Murray
Theatre.

Idiu ny JuuSS bOHu Oh Tue ClrCulJ
court at q memorial service in the
Murray theatre Sunday afternoon.
Frank Holland led the audience in
singing America"
Towering above everything else
was his love for the red, white and
blue, the emblem OF our country
which Roosevelt loved above all
other emblems,' said Judge Bond.
Whatever may be said of him in 9TH
ed or doubted his loyalty as an AM
erican citizen, and to the flag, the
emblem Of our country.
Under whatsoever circumstances
he has been placed and wherever his
ways honored and revered the flag of
his country as the only emblem to
which he owed allegiance, and perhaps
no words OF mis- have made a deeper
or more profound impression upon the
people of this great country and will
dip farther into the future than those
which come almost from his grave,
wherein he said, We have room for
have room for but one loyalty and
thol 40 tAo ios oiIy W lAc <aucilSdu
people,
Loss Is Felt.
Sad indeed, Is the thought that at
the present time we should lose the
assistance and help of such a genius.
whose only thought was to aid in the
advancement, assistance and better
ment of mankind but sad as this
thought may be, still perhaps we may
hA 1n1 wit f,,rt nht
that there never would come a time
in the history of this country when
We would be willing to say that we
do not need the services of such
man.
Nothing that can be said can add
lustre to his name, or even assist
in protecting it through the years
10 come, but his deeds, his acts, and
what he was will live in the immortal
pages Of future history, and his name
ington and Lincoln as the purest and
noblest type of Americanism during
the early part of the twentieth Gen.
fury.
Loved His Country.
1t is very difficult to determine
what was his predominating charac-
that he loved his country better than
himself and better than his own flesh
and blood. In the recent great war
his sons went forth in the thickest
Of the battle. They sought no easy
places, but desired to be where the
bullets and shrapnel were thickest.
One Of them was permanently injured,
and the youngest one now lies buried
nm CiU fo
in the cause of human liberty. And
in all of the public utterances of
Theodore Roosevelt since the death of
his son, not one word of murmur or
regret has ever escaped his lips.
Where is there another such a
man? He was willing, if need be, to
give his four sons in the cause of hui
man liberty, and to give them with
out murmur or a word of regret, and
how sad is the contemplation to think
that he was never able even to visit
the burial place of his youngest son
whose life was given while fighting
for his country.
Knew no Fear.
His own history as soldier indi-
Gates the metal out of which his sons
must have been made, for he, as
colonel of the Rough Riders. in the
Spanish-American war, while charging
up San Juan Hill, did not say Go on,
boys but rather he was in the lead,
commanding them to follow him. He
knew no fear. His courage was SUI
preme, and Of that kind which never
trembles but consistently presses for
ward for the accomplishment of the
task at hand.
HE was a man of great faith: one
who had hope and knowledge of i'm
mortality: Christian gentleman of
the highest class, and unaffraid to
die, and as he passed into that deep
eternal sleep, we have every reason
to believe that 1t was sweet and
peaceful to him. and that upon the
morning he did awaken 10 the joys
of eternal life.
A True American.
IF one trait greater than another
could be attributed to him. it surely
must be his supreme Americanism
his love Of fellowman. and love and
faith in the country in which and the
flag under which he lived He be-
lieved that the principles of Ameri-
canism were destined to rule the
world, and that nothing could turn
backward the onward march of the
principles of liberty which are the
very cornerstone OF our government,
and thus believing he had a sacred re-
gard for the flag of this great country,
the red. white and blue. And it can
honestly be said that he agreed with
the poet of old concerning our flag
that.
Flag of the free hearts hope and home
BY angels hands to valor given,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome
And all their hues are born in
heaven
Forever wave that standard sheet
Where breathese the foe but falls
before us
Where breathes the foe but falls
And Freedoms banner waving DER
u.s."
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