Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-30
THE NEW AMERICA AND AMERICAN.


Our memorial day was born out Of
a fratrlcidai war in "a divided country. |
1t was a thought of the sorrow and the |
returning kindness that mutual suffer-
ing and loss favors and establishes.
When the women of the north deco
rated the graves of the sons of south
ern mothers who fell fighting their
own sons the friendship and sisterhood
was born anew between sections that
had Redeemed the mantle Of freedom
with the blood of brethren. A common
sorrow made them kin. And so In the
language of the blossoms Of the spring
the north and the south spoke kindly
each to each again.
Then came another war when sons
of fathers who had stood against each
other In battle marched side by side
and shoulder to shoulder in common
cause. The old spirit Of hatred had
lived until then. 1t died when an
American army stormed Ell Caney and
when an American navy blotted out
the Spanish fleet at Santiago.
| And now arrives another Memorial
Day following the most desperate and
| bloody war Of history. A war wherein
Iowa and Alabama fought together
against wrong in the full unity Of
American brotherhood; when Virginia
and Massachusetts, cavalier and Puri-
tan, Pilgrim and redemptioner, the
seed of the Endicotts and the descend
ants Of the tobacco purchased serving
! women waited together for the zero
| hour and the onset, wnen all past
prejudice and difference faded and was
| not in the present splendor Of COM
mon Americanism, Memorial Day of
Memorial Days in its tenderness and
pride, an American day without a
shadow upon it's Americanism from the
lakes to the Rio Graude and from
ocean to ocean.
Memorial Day, 1919, marks a new
epoch of the republic. We are become
nation 'one and indivisible' and the
flag is the one flag carrying all the
hopes and fealty Of united America.
| Today the United States is the premier
country of the world, it's mentor, it's
friend, its purveyor, the elder brother
Of all countries on the globe, made
mighty by the power and the splendor
of the men We have bred from the
mingled stock Of the selected courage
and thrift and intelligence Of all lands.
If there is an overruling thought to-
day outside the sorrowful sweetness Of
memory it Is that we have been fused
Americanism; that to wise and ignor-
ant, grave and frivolous, the words
e.iis lu4.euo VIZ. a.. differences oe -
and color and selfish aims subordin-
ated to the common good of America.
Proclaim liberty turnout all the
world to the inhabitants thereof. The
prophecy lived to fulfllment though
, the bell failed. We have written the
declaration Of independence across the
face of an unhappy hemisphere with
the steel Of our bayonets and sealed
the assertion there that all men are
created equal and endowed with GER
tain inalienable rights. From theil
graves they counsel and command thai
the righteousness they died for Is FOL
| the living to maintain.
The new America and the new
American have been born in the ira.
vail of world. It's leadership is I'm,
questioned. It's responsibility il not t,
be denied. It's future rests upon thu
living. II the mighty memories OF tn
dead who died for human liberty sine
the blood OF massacre Redeemed tn
) pavements OF Boston shall no
strengthen and decide our nationa
righteousness then indeed are we fore
sworn.