The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-23
DEDICATE OURSELVES TO
PERPETUATION OF THEIR WORK
of Men Who
eSuprem n This Dedication
w Us % of Our Country
From Evil Besett

could deserve and mo- brave nation
would endure, and so we Went into
the war, not to gain anything for this
country at the cost of any other
nation, but for the maintenance OF
those ideals for which America has
ever stood, and for which she must
forever stand or lose it's soul.
The Most Glorious Epoch.
And then commenced the most
glorious epoch in American history.
The ocean was bridged with ships
"a trained army of more than two
million men landed in Europe in AN
inconceivably short period of time.
America gave the best of her man
hood. We sent them forth with every
blessing, with every absorption or
honor. They went forth upon great
mission; they went forth as soldiers
iof a great republic, whose people are
civilized They went forth to write
lit in history that humanity, mercy
and Justice have their place in war
as in peace.
They went, the upholders of
American ideals; Gods own aven.
gers of the unspeakable sufferings OF
the people OF Belgium, northern
France, Poland, Serbia, Armenia.
And with them went the heart, the
very soul of the American people.
! For they were the armed guards
of American honor, of the covenants
of Almighty God; and how marvellous
were their achievements
! They soon proved to the world
that this great republic is great not
only in material things, in its proud
cities, its factories, its far flung fields
OF golden grain, but great in the in
.effable things of the spirit, in the
courage Of its people, and its pur.
pose to fling far and wide the banner
of the best civilization ever created
by man.
Americans have always delighted
to render homage to those heroes,
who by their patriotic deeds have
illumined the history of our nation.
We think with reverence OF those
heroes of the revolution who fought
: at Bunker Hill, suffered at Valley
Forge and triumphed at York:Gwa;
those who trod the deck Of bon
Homme Richard with Paul Jones.
Tribute to All Americans.
I'VE pay loyal tribute to those true
Americans who shared the glory and
peril with Decatur at Tripoli, with
Perry on Lake Erie, and Old Hickey
at New Orleans. To those soia!ers
OF the Mexican war who fought with
Old Rough and Ready at Mon;eI
and Buena Vista; those who with
Scott marched from Vera Cruz TO
Mexico and stormed the heights Of
,Chapultepec.
! .l1ach Memorial day we honor cur
selves by admitting our obligations
to the soldiers and sailors Of the
civil war, those who fought with
Grant at Shiloh and Vicssburg, with
Curtis at Pea Ridge, and with Sherl
dan in the valley OF Shenandoah,
those who stormed the heights OF
Lookout mountain with. Hooker, stood
like a rock at Chickamaugua with
Thomas, stood invincible with Han
cock, the supreme, at Gettysburg, and
tramped with Sherman to the sea:
those, who with Porter bombarded
Fort Fisher, faced the deadly furnace
of shot and shell with Farragut at
New Orleans, manned the guns OF the
fleet with Foote at Donelson, and
persisted with the Cumberland at
Hampton Roads.
d I'VE gladly render our tribute to
the soldiers and sailors of the Span
ish-American war.
/ Those High Hearted Boys.
j IF to all these we yield our adj
miration, shall we not render our
heartfelt tribute to those high heart
ed boys who went forth to bleed and
do and die in war that was fought
under water, on the surface, and IL.
the air above.
rs "They faced the clouds of poison
Gus gas and the barrage of fire.
, Drawer men never lived or died
than they who pitted their American
wits, initiative and courage against
the servants of imperial ambition and
wrote the Marne, Chateau Thierry.
San Mihiel and the Argonne in un-
dying letters into the history OF
America.
,.rhal the United States performed
miracles, we have the word of Lloyd
George But few days ago he said:
81 will tell you how | feel about
America. 1t came into the war at a
time when the need for its coming
was most urgent. .-...s 49, *.
y cts coming was like an ava
lanche The world has never seen
anything like it.
Its great army of all ranks gave
service that no man in 1917 would
have believed possible.
, 1.-The efforts of it's navy was be-
You'd praise
i In recognition of their accomplish
men6 let us this day dedicate our
selves to the perpetuation of their
work and to the service of our
country.
Dedication Means Redemption.
This dedication will devote us to
the redemption of our country from
ignorance, injustice, oppression and
all the evil brood of hateful Unequal
ity. with the same self forgetting pas
sion that in times past supported the
patriot in the defense against foreign
foes of the ashes of his fathers and
the affairs of his Gods.
1--WE burn the sunshine of other