Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-31

hardship of war 100000 sleep on fields
which they helped to make famous
battlefields which we're made the alters
Of human sacrifice and by which were
purchased the safety of home, the
unity of our country and a richer in
heritance for succeeding generations.
! Our tender regard for the DEAD the
volleyS we fire, the flowers we StreW,
! the grateful words we utter react in
blessing upon the living We who live
1 today are The ones who are benefited;
/ we who move III glorious era Of united
feeling which would have moved those
| sleeping eyes into joy to have seen. We
! remember the dead that we may in
! culcate and cherish in the hearts of
the boys and girls-the youth and the
strong manhood of our nation a CRATE
full and patriotic spirit for all their
fathers purchased with their own
/ blood. can see no truth which
brought to our attention today would
be so rich in blessing as the great law
of sacrifice exemplified in all the trying
period of our nations life A law
which reignS in the home, society, in
the state and the church; a law which
received it's sublinist vindication on
/ Calvary-the supreme sacrifice of all
! time. That law is, we must deny our
selves and suffer that others may be
blessed. One generation lives, suffers
and dies and another enters into the
4 blessings of their toll and sacrifice.
Quoting the words OF another: one
1'u
! pleasure. One mans craft strikes a
rock and goes to the bottom; his death
lifts signal over the spot and saves
/ whole fleets. One family mistaking
poison for food perishes; afterwards
j the generations avoid the deadly night
! shade. Each free institution cost So
/ ciety hundred battlcfields. Formerly
no deed, nor charter was valid without
I the kings seal. Now there is no. insti-
tuition that is not stamped with the
| blood of some patriot or martyr. ALI
social advancement is a history Of en-
durance and martyrdom, and often
without recognition. Thus civilization
grows rich through age on age OF
suffering and sacrifice. Review the
years of the worlds history and can
you find any years crowded more tull
of costly, unselfish sacrifice as the
years from 61 to 65? Some gave their
most precious gift-their own life.
"'Three hundred thousand men,
The brave and good and true,
! In tangled wood and mountain glen
On battle plain, in prison pen
Lie dead for me and you.
Three hundred thousand of the brave
Have made our ranSomed soil their
grave
| For me and you"
1.-THE Civil war was a refining fire
which burned the dross from our ma
tional life and welded us together into
| union, forever one and inSeparable.
Today, north and south, east and west
are united under one flag, inspired by
love for the country, and engaged in
| developing the almost boundless re-
| sources of our great land. Before the
| Civil war we were an obscure, almost
| a hermit nation, scarcely second
II class power Today we acknowledge no
superior, are known and respected in
| every land and on every sea, consulted
in the council and courts of all the
world.
$50 magnificent, so worldwide has
| become our dominion, that the Golden
Gate no longer marks our western bor-
| der, but even it has become 1000 miles
east of the center of our territorial
| Jurisdiction.
"Veterans, how much of this prom
inence and power is attributable to
| the valor of your dead comrades and
| to those who are halting almost at
| life's last bivouac, of which you form a
| part, we shall leave for history to de-
eide.
"Since the Civil war time history
| has made tremendous changes for our
country and the world. All Of this is
| more or less present to your minds
We all are familiar with the events OF
the World war and the changes it
wrought, especially in Europe. Perhaps
in no one thing has there been a
greater change in the last so years
than in the method of Warfare-the
| implements of warfare. Sherman OF
the Civil war said War is He'll How
then shall we describe some OF the
methods used in the last war, and even
more so, where shall we find terms tc
properly indict the next war should
there be another?
ITO fight with the gigantic parapher-
MALTA of modern science; to make wal
in our intimately inter-related and
delicately balanced modern world
where our moA indispensable means OF
how