The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-05-30
Nc.tos Calls TO Mind Lessons
CT Civil War and Manner in
Which the Men of the South
Who Fought in the War
Buried Their Emnity and
Rallied Round the One Flag
of the Nation

Mandan, N. d., May 3O.--Amer-
leans should pause to consider the
lessons of the past in honoring her
soldier dead on Memorial Day, Gov
crnor r. A. Ncstos said in deliver
ing Il Memorial Day address here
today. The Governor said in part:
Whenever Il war has been waged
to destroy tyranny and oppression
and to promote justice and human
ity and has contributed to the
growth Of mankind in freedom, it is
our duty and privilege to celebrate
and to honor the memories of those
who fought in the war.
BY these celebrations, however,
we can in no way profit them; they
have done their noble work and
passed on. Many of them did not
live to reap any of the fruits of
their victories and to see the re-
suits of their labors and rejoiced
only to know that theirs had been
the privilege of suffering and dying
for the cause in which they be-
lieved. Rightly and indeIibly arc
their names and deeds recorded up
on the pages of history and en-
graved in the hearts of all true
patriots.
But though We may not benefit
them, we need such memorial SER
vices for our own sake and for the
sake of our children and our chill
drens children, that We may catch
the spirit of the patriots of old and
consecrate ourselves and dedicate
our names to the task of carrying
on the work they have no nobly
begun. Not only to preserve what
by their suffering or death they
have gained for us but that faithful
to our trust and mindful of our
opportunities We may return to the
race, that which we have received
with interest and so contribute our
share of the worlds growth in free
dom. We should not only rejoice
over what these men have accom-
plished but profiting by their devo-
tion. their courage and their patri-
otism we shall be inspired to more
Jealous work for the greater social,
economic and political freedom. For
not only is eternal vigilance the
price of liberty but the eternal
struggle for more liberty is ever
the lot of him who does not shirk
but seeks manfully to contribute his
share toward the happiness and
greater prosperity of the race.
1T is because as Americans we
were and are imbued with this spirit
that the south while defeated was
not disgraced and while conquered
was not broken in spirit.
Inspiring Sentiments
With these sentiments inspiring
The American people the rancor and
bitterness of the great Civil War
were sure to disappear and to be
'upplanted by common loyalty to
our common country, which has so
splcndidly manifested itself in the
Spanish American War and in the
World War. And SO we find that
It was but few decades after the
great war had closed that one of
the Confederate soldiers rccited at
A &. A. X. convention the following
stanza, expressive of the new senti-
mcnts, hopes and prayers of re-
united people:
Il clasp the hand that made by scars,
cheer the flag my focmcn bore,
shout with Joy to see the stars
All on common field once more"
This also should be our senti-
mcnt and our ideal for a united
country bending it's every energy to
promote the greater freedom of the
race, laboring to strike whatever
;hackles enslavc our citizenship"