The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-06-03
THE GLASGOW COURIER

an awful cost. Though you won the
greatest war the world has evern
seen, and you conquered the mightiest
hosts ever gathered in a hostile force
the cost stands clear in the graves that
dot the whole line of the enemv,s
front from the Alps to Belpuim,s
coast, and birds now sing sad songs
into the ears of peoples bowed in grief
for heroes dead.
"One OF your dead comrades was
to have been here today. His BODY
has been tenderly lifted from where he
slept in France to be laid finally at
rest up there on that hill in the peace
full city of departed souls. His name
was James L. Hines, and it was here
that he entered the service in June.
1918. Within three months he was at
the firing line and in another month
be had made the supreme socrifice. On
another occasion there will be fittinp,
services and a proper eulogy, for his
body will soon be here, but / feel if
is appropriate now to tell this audi
ence how an American soldier can die
for his country.
The Red Cross nurse who attended
him in his last hours wrote a beauti-
full letter to his parents telling elo-
quently of his self-denial and heroism
during his last hours. May his soul
rest in peace. We feel that if his
voiceless lips could but speak, he would
tell US that all is well and that the
victory is worth the cost.
"For that Flag has ever meant the
same to you all. We have seer Its
spirit through all the dark days of our
infant struggle-through starvation
and suffering-through privation and
peril, through disaster and defeat, un-
til the black midnight of Valley Forge
burst into the cloudless dawn at York
town. We have seer it wave in victory
over Perry at Lake Erie and above
the dauntless achievements of An
drew Jackson at New Orleans. We
have seen it triumph at Monterey,
at Ruena Vista and at Chapultepec.
We have seen it sway to and fro in
the mighty storm of the Civil war.
We saw it at the apex of that awful
struggle upon the field of Gettysburg,
where for three long days under the
burning sun of July, the brothers who
wore the blue and the brothers who
WIZ II gay, DdGleu against edCI
other, until they had proven to them
selves and to all the world, that they
were n in courage, one in race, and
one, thank God, in destiny. eW saw
it with Dewey at Manila Bay, and
with Schley and Sampson at Santiago
and it Eve returned in victory. 1t
never trailed the dust, and we gave it
over to you young heroes still pure
and unsullied, and you carried it, as we
hoped and prayed you would, in tri-
umph across the bleeding fields of
France and Belgium and planted it in
glorious victory above the last great
stronghold of autocratic government,
until it now virtually crowns the
world, the emblem of hope for all peo-
Piles who long for freedom and lib
erty."
After concluding the program at
the court house with some other vocal
numbers, the veterans accompanied by
many others proceeded to the cemetery
where veteran and other graves We're
decorated.
Word received by Commander Bailey
from Washington, Saturday night,
was to the effect that the remains of
Private Hines would not arrive in
Glasgow until later, when a military
funeral will be given him by the two
legion posts interested.