Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-31

all over the land in memory of those who fought and bled and died. It must be a great satisfaction to the surviving war veterans to realize the result of this sacrifice. When the Civil war began the United States was second rate power. Great Britain not only snubbed us but openly sympa thized with the Rebellion and at one time came nearly to an open clash. We had no credit in the money markets of Europe, and the wise states men of the Old World were predicting the speedy downfall of this experiment in democracy.
 Now we were rash enough to upset these these sage predictions as a mat ter of fact we didn't fall Quite the con- trary we forged ahead by leaps and bounds in every branch of activity to the utter amazement of the world, and un- psralleled in the history of mankind. The growth of some of our cities which were | hamlets in 13cs. like Detroit. have now reached the million mark. The develop
 ment of our natural resources, the cuti- vation of vast areas of primitive wilder ness. the great floods of immigrants that
 have joined the ranks Of manual labor,
 the marvellous increase in our educational facilities and the increase of all branches
 of our industrial life have made us the | leading creditor nation of the world. All | this greatness dates back to the moral rebirth of the nation when slavery was abolished.
 ! This greatness was brought to a test in l 1898 when Spain attempted some of her media eval pgActices in little Cuba. But Uncle Sam said, I've have no use for Torquemada or Awe or even Weyler on this continent" In the clash that fol- lowed it was shown that Spain's ships
 were as rotten as her old civilization. and I.es place in the future sisterhoods of nations
 it was dissipated in Spain's inglorious
 defeat.
 Once again, within painful memory
 America has been forced into war. thi.
 time not to drive slavery out of her owr
 life, but to save the world either iron
 assassination or slavery. It is eviden
 that without the presence of our youn:
 men on the feld of Flanders and else
 where. the allies would have failed ant
 Germany cold. hard. cruel and selhsl would have dominated the world and tn
 tyranny of the old Roman mpire woult
 have been reestablished.
 And thus. Members of the Grand Arm,
 and Fellow Citizens, it is evident that tn
 United States is on the may, and it i
 up to us to see that it stays on the mag occupying the exalted place which ha been bought by the combined sacrifice c Gettysburg. San Juan and the Argonn | Forest. We must deal severely with ev erything that would rob the people o their liberty We must insist that tn South give up it's abominabie system C peonaee. We must put stop sto tn spread of bolshevism in the north. W
 have a right to demand that all peopl natives as well as foreigners. shall obedient to the law. We must use a our influence to make future war impo' sible This must be done it the sacre | things preserved to us by the Civil ws u shall not perish from the earth Il At the conclusion of Rev. MT. Rick cit : address Taps was blown by Lou 0 SchwartzburG. L. s. N, after which Il : military and other units fell in for eveI u ing parade. which was carried out in = very commendable manner under the q d rection of Major Charles A Hagberg. wi n Lieut.. Earl Herrick acting as adjutant. e After the evening parade. the Iii = started down Broadway, marching e Main street. where the parade was r O viewed in front of the Wauregan house II His Honor Mayor Herbert M. Lerou al e the members of the court of comm, l. council.