The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-06-29

humanity. America has cause to blush for none
to apologize for nome to feel regret for none
So why should not the Fourth Of July be in pert
devoted to nation-worship and to remembrance
of the deeds of the heroes who kept the Flag
victorious from the Philippines to France In
appreciation of our national history it Is not
necessary TO acclaim or TO defy the fight
ing man. Hand in hand with appreciation Of
Americas valor in go an appreciation of the
evils of war and an appreciation of the lessons
Of war
The Fourth of July is surely the day of days on
which to salute the Flag, remember the heroes who
have died for it, applaud the living who have
fought for it and declare again. with the poet:
In spite of rock and tempest's roar
In spite of false lights the Shore
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea;
Our hearts and hopes are all with thee;
Our hearts, our hopes our prayers our tears,
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
Are all with these, and all with thee.
SO first a thought of reverent praise for the
five immortals who drew up the Declaration of In
Observation-Disclosures, John Adams, Franklin,
Sherman and Livingston. And then a thought Of
the many heroes of '76, from the villagers
who fired the first shot at Concord to Washing
ton, the leader of our armies, not forgetting such
leaders as Marion and Wayne and Stark and John
Paul Jones, or such patriots the three militia
men whom Major Andres gold could not corrupt;
Hale, the martyr, and Molly Pitcher the heroine
of Monmouth.
Next, remembrance for Hull, Branbridge and
Decatur and the Constitution and United States
they beat the Mistress of the Seas" at her
own game, put the American navy on the Seven
Seas and kept the Flag flying. The War of 1912
was won the ocean. And don't forget Jackson
at New Orleans-he won for the United States
the mouth Of the Mississippi. None of the 1912
heroes is now alive; 40 of their widows still live.
In 1916 once more the bugle bares and the
drum bp0tS-thiS
thought for Scott and Taylor-and Kearney and
the heroes who fought their way from Vera Cruz
to Chapultepec. OF these heroes 70 still live All
honor to them!
The foe himself recoiled aghast,
When, striking where he strongest lay
We swooped his fanking batteries past,
And Drawing full their murderous blast,
Stormed home the towers Of Monterey.
We not many-we who pressed
But who of us have not confessed
Beside the brave who fell that day;
He'd rather share their warrior Eest,
Than not have been at Monterrey
And then came real fghting-Amercan against
American! Christendom stood astounded at the
vigor of the struggle and the spirit of the com.
batants But that Is over now.
No more shall the war cry sever
or the winding rivers be red;
They Danish anger forever
When they laurel the graves OF our dead:
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day.
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
A statue Of Stonewall Jackson was recently I'M
yelled at Charlottesville, Va. Senator Pat Hnr.
pison Of Mississippi, the orator Of the day, said
In part
"a nation torn by fratricdal strife, when re-
united Is, like welded iron, given increased
strength and durability
From the gulf that separated the sections in
sixty-one has come understanding making for
the progress of each and the common welfare Of
both. This could not have been but for the cour-
age conviction, and ideals Of whole people
"The sharp battles revealed In its leaders mill
tary genius unsurpassed, and In its men and wom-
en- courage and forttude that reflected credit on