The Dolores star., 1922-06-30
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humanity America has cause to blush for none.
to apologize for none To feel regret for none.
So why should not the Fourth of July be in part
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 to defy the fight
ing man. Hand in hand with appreciation Of
Americas vaor in go 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
nave died for it, applaud the living who have
fought for it and declare again, with the poet:
In spite rock and teinpesrs roar
In spite of false lights the shore,
Sail on. nor fear to breast the sea-
Our hearts and hopes all with thee;
Our hearts. our hopes. prayers. tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.
Are all with these, and all with thee.
So first 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 n thought of
the many heroes of '7G 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 as 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, Bralnbridge and
decatur ana 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 on the ocean. And don't forget Jackson
at New Orleans-he for the United States
the mouth of the Mississippi. None of the 1872
heroes Is now alive 40 of their widows still live
In 1916 once more the bugIe blares and the
drum beats-this time against Mexico Have n
thought for Scott and Tayor-anl Kearnev oud
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 ashas,
When, striking where he strongest low
We swooped his thanking batteries past
And Drawing full their murderous blast
Stormed home the towers of Monterev
We We're not many-we who pressed
But who of US havo confessed
Beside the brave who that dav.
He'd rather share their warrior rest
Than not have been at Monterey?
And then real tghtng-American oc,,,s,
American! Christendom stood astounded at the
vgor of the struggle and the spirit of the com,
batants. But that is now
No more shall the war cry s.ve-
Or the winding rivers be red
They banish our 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 Gray
statue of Stonewnll Jackson was recep,,v ~,
yelled at Charlottesville, Va. Senator Pat uar.
rison of Mississippi, the orator of the dav cot,
in part:
"a nation torn by fratricidal strife who,
united, Is, like welded iron, given Increased
strength and durability.
"From the gulf that separated the sections in
sixty-one has come an understanding making for
the progress of each and the common wefore n,
both. This could not have been hut for the corrl
age. conviction, and ideals of whole people
"The sharp battles revealed IN its lenders u,,,-
tary genius unsurpassed and In lis Dien and won.
en- courage and fortitude that . ipc,ed credit an