Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-06-13
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
FALLEN HEROES


Mountain Home was the principa
speaker at the Memorial Day exer
, cises at Glenns Ferry, and we repro
duce in part his remarks:
These good and holy souls, the
most honorable ladies of the Wo-
mans Relief corps, honor the dead
patriots of this glorious republic
They do not alone decorate those
graves, but they also beautifully
help the living veterans in many
most thoughtful and generous ways.
Dear ladies of the Woman's Re
lief corps, you are honoring your
selves in honoring those who made
the supreme sacrifice, who gave their
lives that the nation might live
Dear people, l do not wish to
force my own religious OPINIONS up
on you. If / did l would be one
hundred percent un-American, but
do think l voice the sentiments of
all you good people when l say that
you are right in so lovingly deeorat-
ing the brave soldiers graves and in
respecting those remains, because
those dead bodies have once been
the temples of the Holy Ghost.
Where God the Father is, is also
the son and the Holy Ghost; through
their holy lives we saw that God
walked with them and they with
God They died for this country.
Their blood was the cement to make
this republic one and strong and
famed, so its power for good might
spread through the whole world.
with this memorial day you look
at those hallowed graves-can you
help thinking, how sad that in our
year of the Uord-1924-we have
not got further than that disputes of
nations should be decided by brutal
force, and millions of the choicest
and most virtuous suffer more cruel
deaths than most hardened and per-
verified criminals undergo?
And they died that the nation
might be built up strong. This re-
public you wanted to safeguard to
be the happy home of millions, where
each citizen gives the other the glad
and helping hand. And when you
look at tese graves and bring to your
mind the sacrifices these soldiers
made for that harmony and happi-
ness, can you help deploring that
1924 ~ in this cradle of liberty ~
here should be some people calling
themselves citizens who deny that
liberty to others because the latter
,ame from a different country than
hey or their ancestors came from, or
they worship Almighty God
n different way than they do?
such people mock the cross of Christ
When they proclaim it their emblem.
The Cross of Christ stands through a
he ages the embodiment of sweet 6
harity to all, excluding none. And
lie died on the cross to give his sweet /
i've for all and the chance of saliva a
ion for all immortal souls, whether o
hey be Protestant or Catholic, Jew
r colored. d
"And in raising the flag while t
heir hearts spread hatred between t
itizens on account of ways and re- p
we ought to be one t
heir actions are insults to the flag n
hat only should be touched by clean G
ands, that will let it wave in true e
reedom's breeze. Il
People like that do not enhance
he glory of the cradle of liberty, e.
ut they dig liberty's grave fl
How proud we are of America! Il
GU, dear souls of the Woman's Re- d
eff corps, you bless America when it
gu bless the soldiers gravesl And OF
cd bless you because America is the H
pple of Gods eye, and God blesses OF
lose who bles America. And those
no as individuals or organizations ST
,read discord and hatred or dis CT
animation and persecution on ac- de
'unt of ways or religion, who tear 81
,wn this republic that you and 1 W
We and that the soldiers died for tn
i'll have something to answer for ra
sfore the inevitable God judgment OF
at. May Go forgive them their w
lrrow minds and hearts. di
No reason there should be why I,
ho came from Denmark, and you, to
" who came from England, or ne
me other country-'why /, who am tn
itholic, and you, Presbyterian or in
or Methodist, should fat
t be the best of friends and help