Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-24

rels. And did you know that on the pension rolls
Of grateful nation there are vet 50 names of vet
Grams of that war, though it closed rs years ago?
!
When Abraham Lincoln left his Illinois home for
the White House he said to his neighbors, assem-
bled to wish him Godspeed:
There has fallen upon a task such did not
rest upon The Father of Els Country, and so
feeling but turn and look for that support
without which it will be impossible to perform that
great task turn then, and look to the great
American people and to that God who has never
forsaken them.
He was true prophet. All Chrstendom stood
astounded at the magnitude of the struggle that
followed and the spirit of the combatants. It was
American against American. Nor did the Ameri-
can people fail Lincoln. Nor did God forsake the
American people The outstanding fact in Ameri-
can history is the hand of Providence in the affairs
of the nation
But the Civil war Is over now and it's wounds
are healed Recalling what were the issues of that
war and remembering that Appomattox settled
those issues right and for all time, we can streW
flowers alike for Grant and Lee, for Sherman and
jackson, for Sheridan and Stuart with:
Love and tears for the Blue.
Tears and love for the Gray.
AS for LincoIn-he stands beside Washington in
the hearts Of reunited people.
1t was this mighty struggle Of American against
American that give us Memorial day. And 1t was
Gen. John A. Logan who, as commander in chief
Of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1868, estab-
lished Memorial day. Logan has been in the tomb
for 81 years. And now his widow has gone to join
him. She was always his constant helpmeet and
inspiration; it is likely that she herself brought
about Memorial day. Flowers for her grave; the
memory Of her works will live
1t was only 25 years ago this year that the Maine
was blown up in Havana harbor. That meant war,
Of course The summer saw it begun, fought and
won. And it was an important war. It saw re-
united North and South again fighting under the
Stars and Stripes. 1t made the United States
world rover over night 1t showed the world that
America would fight for the cause of humanity and
could forego the fruits of victory. It was notice
TO the nations that the 1898 American was the
same old fighting on land and sea.
wouldn't you like to have been on Fighting
Roh" Evans Iowa at Santiago and seen the band
nerched on the forward turret, grimy and half
naked Just as they came from the guns, and heard
them blare out:
rherell be hot time in the old town tonightN
If seems only yesterday that the Lusitania went
down. And that meant war, too-America's en-
trance into the World war; the greatest Of all his
torv. Doubtless the quintessence of the nations
thought on Memorial day will be in the offerings
at the tomb Of our Unknown Dead" in Arlington.
Fitting indeed are these words of President Hard
inc suoken at the burial of this Unknown Soldier:
eve do not know the eminence of his birth. but
we do know the glory of his death. He died for
his country, and greater devotion hath man than
this He died unquestioning, accomplishing, with
faith in his heart and hope his lips, that his
country should triumph and its civilization survive
As 4 typical soldier Of this representative democ-
racy he fought and died. believing in the ind1s-
putable justice of his country's cause. We
gather him to the Nations breast, within the
shadow Of the capitol of the towering shaft that
honors Washington, the great father, and of the
exquisite monument to Lincoln, the martyred sa-
vior. Here the inspirations of yesterday and the
conscience of today forever unite to make the re-
public worthy of his death for flag and country"