Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-03

of three wars, and thous-
'i,Is s;tizaps observed Memorial
lsr The great majority OF
.-r Di business houses closed
- an in the morning, and ideal
D',s o.nspd Wausau citizens to
2 LIANT ( the Court House Square,
l. ~ scatter through the GEM
more perfect day has on
1,,..ons been enjoyed.
Concert First
the Tenth Infantry band
"a q concert which lasted
-', 1art Of the morning. Many
= Ia.T,srqd-to the appropriate sell
Ir the military organization,
.r . long time. has been aim
=. zach a standard that cannot
The day was warm and
-.1 and women appeared on the
I, SIMMER dress, straw hats
...amas . also being given a 1919
~ .,ozram at the Court House
has opened by a band selec-
hloTed BY prayer by Rev. VIM.
..rIor The Elks' quartet
IN Of George Vehlow, Max
Ira s. Parker and w. Del
an able group Of singers, en-
"A the crowd which assembled
,Fs north side of the Court
with several numbers and
sang at the cemetery. S.
|,sT superintendent of the Wau-
rBiic schools. read LincOln's Get
. Address with a ferVOr, which
mean more to every hearer.
| p. The recent war has intensified
|sriotism If the American people
| .r,ad them to deliberate on their
-r 50 the hearers also seemed to
greater and deeper significance
ba Gettysburg address as spok-
4 Yr Tobey. For all time it will
nssive and so the Pilot prints it.
Gettysburg Address
rscore and seven years ago our
brought forth on this cOntin-
5sW nation. conceived in liber-
nd dedicated to the proposition
/ ll men are created equal. Now
II engaged in a great civil war,
whether that nation, or any
50 conceived and so dedicated,
ng endure. We are met on a
battlefield Of the war. We have
70 dedicate a portion of that
Is a final resting place for those
aFe gave their lives that their
q might live. 1t is altogether
and proper that we should do
b in a larger sense, we cannot
lie W. cannot COnsecrate, we
halOw this ground. The brave
living and dead, who struggled
lave cOnSecrated it far above our
70 add or detract. The world
little note, nor long remember,
Ee say here, but it can never
what they did here. It is for
living, rather to be dedicated
1the unfinished work which they
1lght here have thus far so
liyanced. 1t is rather for us
lTe dedicated to the great task
lilg before us-that from these
d dead We take increased de-
10 that cause for which they
15 last full measure of devotion
We here highly resolve that
a5ad shall not have died in vain
this nation, under God, shall
anew birth of freedom-and that
11ent of the people, by the peo-
the people, shall not perish
he earth"
-Sllg this. Karl Mathie spoke.
stn it one of the greatest hon
ny lie to have been invited by
M. Var Veterans of Cutler
make the address on this the
ArnOrial Day since the end of
SaI War which shook the very
-lonS OF the world" Mr.. Mathie
50 at the start.
before, some years ago, when
.l-AS' We're not as thin as they
way you conferred a similar
.soa ME. but how little | then
What the honor meant.
aaaS Of the Civil War! We
-'ayS proud Of you and your
= military record, but never
. as We are now. for we did
--5fSIand what you sacrificed
Precious the Union was to
y. Knew what it meant, but
lO' But e know it now
y, y UOl [ have to ask us. Was
y while 10 save the Union I?
~ HOW that saving the union
sung America! And saving
vas saving Gods most sue
1peFlment in expressing His
S0yernment."
start OF The civil war, when