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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1915)
TU KONUK HIS CUMKAUES PEACE AND REUNION Practically Every Country Hai Day Set Apart tor Solemn Ubservances. I» tfìemorìam 191$ e» rBCOcuiCa K Mese* Otad: Bo mort a »mfit illnme» the »act Do mort ta their aconto«^ pu it ©ill they apocar Our comrade» dear» Cbcir mortal clay ©•II soon decay Our friend» art dead. Dead! h canset be tbeir frailry fiat put on immoruitty Bad with the tea Bs age* run Ob’ biened tbougbt. By ]c»a» bought, C bey lire they llvei la this tlx prtteat age Our rrzycn and hopes prewge Chur master» welcome cck« ©ill Did them all refckc. Proclaim the victory wo« find to them wy ‘©ell dcwL" Chou hero 'twill u»ti Cha utio« grind wtl be from »titn of »uvery fret. Bnd to the watching worm ©uh flag of peace unfurled ©til register the day Chat o'er the»e form* ct clay Che sounding bugle stirred. “Tight» cat’ was beard, la Up* €>» done Cbv »erranti. Cord, obey Chv call While we or earth do pray “tbv will be done ’ Hnd may the King th7 Son. Be near us when we say. H» we lay the fonn» away Chat on the»« neune» of clay may mend» »weet Bower» »prav On each tT.emonai Day GERM OF IMMORTAL ADDRESS Proof Th3t Lincoln Long Had In Mind Right Idea of What the War Meant. Hay referred to Browning’s BUg- gestion that the North should sub- jugate the South, exterminate the whites, set up a black republic. and protect the negroes “while they raised our cotton." “Some of our Northerners seem be wildered and dazzled by the excite ment of the hour," Lincoln replied. "Doolittle seems inclined to think that this war is to result in the entire abolition of slavery. Old Colonel Ham ilton, a venerable and most respect able gentleman, Impress upon me most earnestly the propriety of en listing the slaves in our army.” (1 told him his daily mail was thickly Interspersed with such suggestions.) “For my own part ’’ be said, "I con sider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is not an absurdity. We must settle this question now, whether in a free^overn- ment the minority have the right to break up the government whenever they choose. If we fail, we will go tar to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves. There may be one consideration used in stay ot such final Judgment, but that is not for us to use in advance: That is that there exists in our case an Instance ot a vast and far-reaching disturbing clement which the history of no other free nation will probably ever present. That, however, is not for us to say at present. Taking the government as we found it, we will see if the ma jority can preserve it" This statement spoken offhand to his secretary, reveals the foundation of Lincoln’s Judgment on the Civil war; there was at stake something more precious than the preservation ot the Union, something more urgent than the abolition of slavery—and that -was democracy. Two years and a half later, in his address at Gettysburg, he put into one imperishable sentence the thought of which thia was th« germ.—From the Diary of John Hay, edited by William Roscoe Thayer for Harper’s Magazine LOVE AND DEVOTION Writer Thinks He Has Not Been Accorded His Proper Place by Historians. Ceremonies ot Memorial Day Re mind Youth ot Then Duty to Their Country. Again the thirtieth of May with Its HE custom ot strewing flowers on flood of memories both sweet and «ad the graves of the soldiers orlg Our national memorial day! Inated in the South Even before Who can fully grasp all that the day the Civil war was over the women l.eans to our population ot 100,000, In the South w here skies are warmer 000? and temperaments more poetic than Though no umy have scanned the fu in the practical North, formed the ture with a view to divine what would habit of scattering flowers on the result from .e plan he promulgated graves of the dead for Memorial day ceremonies through bays set apart for festivals tn nonor the order Issued forty seven years ago Ot the dead are found among all na there la reason to doubt that Gen John tions. The Chinese, Japanese, and A Logan, then the third to nold the even our druidical ancestors had or office ot comtnandei in chiet of the have such days Grand Army ot the Republic, nud an The Remans commemorated a simi adequate appreciation of what the re lar occasion and called It "Parentalla.“ sult would be—of the rich ana •bun With them tt lasted eight days But the dant fruit the tree would yield Romans loved holidays They finally Certain it is that the many thou- accumulated so many in the course of sands of young men in 1868 fresh the year that the law was forced to re from service to their country in the strict the number. great war. who tormed in a thousand Mass of Brilliant Color«. reo to st S'lt'.-'S and villages and march- d to There is a strong contrast in the T rank cemeteries to lay floral tributes upon wav this day Is observed tn different the graves of their comrade«, had no countries. In France the "Jour des thought that May 30 would become the Morts,* Day ot the Dead, as it is ration’s most notable day for opening called, is a pathetic and beautiful oc memory's book and recounting deeds casion. For two or three weeks be of the past, for placing a higher and fore the day arrives the shop windows are laden with wreaths of immortelles, Then o'er the green mound, where com y . higher value upon the results ot the great war whose many battles bad some In their natural color and some rade« rest. to be fought In order that the nation ■ We «catter love-» emblem, fair. dyed blue. pink, or purple. When the day arrives the people stream to the And dream of the day when Death's life might be preserved. Float svrr. droop never, forever, old flag’ blighting .way While we still pay distinctive trib Though the armed world assail you. what cemeteries. 1« banished from ««Khtforv’er. coward would lag ute to the soldier dead, a custom that Thousands of people, thousands of should never be abandoned. Memorial To rise In defense of our beautiful flag? wreaths! The cemeteries are one Peace treads today a!! the sunlit aisles. For our fathrrs have taught Where the fla< of Freedom waves. day does more than that In these days, That our Ilves are as naught mass of brilliant color, of moving O’er each dreamless head of the martyr and It will, let us hope, continue to do When cow pa red with your safety. O glo throngs, for not even the remotest dead. rious n«<! more as time passes. Each recurring part of the potter’s field is neglected In their flower-strewn peaceful graves. Walter O. Doty. In National Magnsln«. Memorial dny adds to love for and de In Naples this day. celebrated there votion to country that Is essential. as All Saints' day. is regarded as a There never can be an oversupply of holiday, and the visit of the families such love and devotion. Efforts in that to the churchyard becomes a pleasure one direction have paid a million times party Metal garlands are chiefly over for all of the trouble and expense used, and though they are more dur of Memorial day ceremonies th* last able, they do not possess the charm Surely Runaway Youngster’s 47 years; the cost of the parades, the Pica Is Made That Memorial Ob of real flowers. millions ujton millions of wreaths and In some of the villages tn southern Footsteps Were Guided by a potted plants, the addresses and songs, servance Be Made Gen Italy the grotesqueness and realism of the planting of Rugs at graves, the Special Providence. the observance is painful. Ravello, a eral Throughout Country. patriotic services In thousands ot mountain village overlooking the sea. churches the Sunday before the day of ILLY had been promised that he and one of the most beautiful spots tn ORTY-SEVEN year« ago tender and should be taken to the cemetery. memories, the tens of thousands of pa the world, has a unique and revolt patriotic hearts first consecrated The blue-coated troops, the boom triotic demonstrations and addresses ing custom. A wax figure represent one day to the tear and to the ing Death, dressed in the court cos ing of the cannon and the grave dec- in public and other schools. About the fondest hope that the sur laurel. The grass on the graves ol tume of some previous century, with orations united In forming a most fas the blue and the gray had shown green red stockings ana pointed shoes, is cinating occasion for Billy as each vivors of the war have upon theldown- but two seasons sfter the close of the brought into the church during the Memorial day returned with Its sacred hill Journey of life is that all of these great Civil war when the mournful patriotic customs will continue. associations. Needless to say, he services. The beauty and peace ot Another beautiful and Impressive duty of decking the last resting place Ravello's wonderful surroundings do pouted and fretted, and was not at all of the departed brave formally began not find outward expression In their an Ideal Billy when grandma said her custom has become notable, and Is Since that time the beautiful me moving in harmony with the Grand head ached too badly to take him. feeling toward their dead. Why did she uave to have a headache Army custom of strewing flowers upon mortal plan baa expanded until now, Forecast of Coming Deaths. the graves of Its patriot dead. Multi on the day of the annual remembrance, Tn Austria It is the faith of the on Memorial day? Why couldn't tudes, now, who did not use to do so, hundred« of thousand« of the living Sarah get dressed and take him ’ peasantry that on All Soul'a eve at But go to cemeteries to visit the graves of place flower« on the hallowed mounds midnight anyone viglting the cemetery Why couldn’t he go alone? their dead, and leave blossoms to of hundreds of thousands of dead. grandma was obdurate, and three will see a procession of the dead draw But ft Is a melancholy fact that show that they, too, have been re- hours of nursery and toys were pre ing after them those who are to die while the reverent custom ha« con scribed for Billy Instead of bright membered. during the coming year. stantly spread in observance, section A gloomy drama founded on this is green stretches of marvelous bur is I allsm has attended the yearly remcm ground, thundering of cannon and acted every year in the People’s thea brance, 1« the comment of Richard G. ter in Vienna. The miller has a beau crowds of wonderful brass-buttoned Conover. Not in the way of narrow- tiful daughter, the daughter a lover; soldiers. nos« of observance, for both tn the For an hour Billy engaged In guid the miller opposes the marriage. After North and the South the grave» of for ing his tin soldiers to a hastily made some years of waiting the desperate mer enemies have not been forgotten youth goes to the churchyard and sees cemetery, where they shot Imaginary in tho local decoration. Blue nnd gray the spectral train and, following it, the guns off over Impromptu graves dec alike have received their equal quota orated with paper flags. Suddenly a miller. of roapect. It Is In the deliberate set The drama might have closed here solemn roar penetrated the sunny ting apart of different memorial days room. Billy's heart bounded. Five with marriage bells, but It would not that the traces of sectionalism re minutes later a chubby figure In gray be right to let the Austrian youth main. A country united lor half a count on the death of a parent, how coat and cap, barehanded, hte gloves century has not yet fixed a day of being dropped In hte haste, let himself ever cruel, so the lover looks again common tribute to brave men who at the spectral company and behind quietly out of the front door and made died for n principle. hte way to the spot from which tho the miller he sees himself. In the Time Ripe to Unite on Day. glorious sound had emanated. course of the year the unfortunate girl With tho coming of tho northern He passed in the gates unnoticed, loses both her father and her lover. Memorial day of 1915 there nlso comes and was soon in the heart of action. When one observes these customs from veterans and patriotic men and How splendid It was. Hundreds of ft Is easy to understand that among women a deslro to unite in one great pretty flags and some that were not many people the belief still survives national holiday every year the task so pretty. Billy heard a man say that that the dead have some power over of honoring the Federal and Confed the holes in them had been made by the living, which is often exerted in erate fighting men who have Joined powder and bullets. So many soldiers! evil the great majority. So many flowers! Down the perspective of the years That tho time is ripe for the accom He stood on a grassy mound, a pic The purple mists transform the past; plishment of such a fitting project was ture of profound attention, brow n curls The path along war ’ « blood-red meres. TELLING THE STORY Blooms bright with fragrant flowers at evidenced at the half century reunion flying In the wind, eyes fastened on last. of the blue and gray on the battlefield the enchanting scene. Suddenly an The echoes ot the battle’s roat of Gettysburg. There whero they had old gentleman In uniform steppod up Are heard no more— frantically sought to shed each other s and, pinching hte cheek, said: “And Are heard no more; But In their «lead, the birds o'erhead your name, little man?” blood fifty years before the grizzled A re singing requiems for out de«d— “Billy Martin.” veterans, many on both sides clad In Requiem, and praise« for our dead! the same uniforms, embraced, drank The old gentleman echoed the name slowly, shaking as though he had the from the same canteen and reposed nt The flight oi year» Ilan quenched our tears. palsy. “And do you know nny of the night, shoulder to shoulder, under the And given us love ami hope for tear»! soldiers?” same tent. Any differences there might have “No, but grandpa fell at Apple Mad- No more our lan<l 1« rent with strife; No more does passion blind our eye«; docks, and grandma and I always come been remaining between the living to celebrate, but she's Bick, so I came No more we seek our brother’« life. Federate and Confederates were then No more his valor we despise alone.’’ and there forever bnntehod. On the We hold him at hl« real worth— same day North and South met to pay Flower of the earth— Apple Maddocks was rapidly trans Flower of the earth! tribute to valor. In tho same way it lated In the old man's mind to Appo And hand clasps band through our Innd; Is proposed now to have tho blue and mattox. Brothers united now we Stand- gray, all over the country, mourned “And your father?" Brothers forever more we stand. annually on the same day. "Haven’t any. Haven't any mother The flight of years —only grandma.” Tn th-lr country's wondrous story Has quenched our tears. Learned they of the greater glory People passing wondered to see And given us love and hope, for fears! Their Example Will Live. Tet to be; tears raining down the cheeks of the It wan faith tn the great things of And this faith, all else transcending. Marching together, let 11« bring old soldier and wondered still more Bore th-m onward to the ending— yfo that Inspired the soldiers of the Fair wreath« of victory for our d»adv when, after a few words with one of Placing them gently aa we sing Victory. nation In the Mexlcun and Civil warn, hte comrades, he grasped tightly the Their virtue«, o’er each sleeper*« head. and the story of their heroism will be Shall thin faith And all fruition? hands of the boy, and they passed out What matter whether Blue or flrayT Had these souls a holy mission told when their last encampment Is a We’re one today— together. Billy was an adept at an To unfold? We’re one today! thing of the long ago. And so, while Are the people bravely keeping swering questions. A little later an Old Olory stream« In beauteou» gleams the veterans disband and their asso All their heritage, or sleeping excited child broke Into the sanctity Above the nation of our drenm»— ciations cease to exist, the Inspiration As of old? of grandma’s room with a startling an One flag, one country—fondest dream« I of their example will live and be nouncement The flight of years among the most precfmia possessions Appreciated and Honored. "There’s a soldier downstairs says Ila. quenched nur tenni. of the nation. And a people which Among the many acts which the he knows you, grandma; wants yon to And given us love and hope, for fear«! Ilves up to such examples need not —William Anwyl Jonoa. Grand Army of the Republic has com come right down." Grandma, all In a fear for the perpetuity or solidity of mitted in Its half century of organiza flutter, made a hasty toilet and de American Institutions. tion, none have been more purely in scended. Day 8hould Always Be Cherished. The Constitution for which those spired by patriotism and high senti “Will!” ment than this annual testimonial to Would Make for Perfect Accord. "Yes, it is indeed I, Margaret A brave men fought was dearer to them those who served their country in its year in a southern hospital a shat than their lives It has done more for At no place or spot Is the human time of need The service of the men tered memory, which only returned the amelioration of the conditions of heart more touched than when bend who saved the Union was a stern and after many years; then a weary search living than any other political system ing over a grave If a spirit of good hard one. It cost many thousands of made almost hopeless on account of that ever was established on earth. It will and forgiveness Is generated at a lives, another myriad of losses of your later marriage But it has ended la right that Memorial day should be hallowed spot Its Influence Is far- limbs, and years of severe and patri happily!” cherished not only by the dwindling reaching. If animosities are recalled otic services. For the half-century Billy danced around in a maze of membership of the Grand Army of the at the grave, the bitterness Is apt to since the war closed the country has Joy. He had a new grandfather, grand Republic, but by citizens In general— Increase. A uniting all over the land annually testified its appreciation and ma didn't have a headache and— young and old—as a day dedicated to on the one day In remembrance of the honor for the sacrifices of patriotic crown of delight«—he wasn't going to the memory of patriots and the revival brave dead starts at the grave the men in that struggle. be scolded for running away. of patriotism. holy work of perfect accord. BILLY’S GREAT DAV FOR NATIONAL DAY B F H)cn>opi<d D<no By J. A. WATROUS. Lieutenant Colonel U. H Army (>Cellr»<1>. His great achievements, towering military g«nlu«, «tvadfaaUies« ot purpose ami ill« natural and ac quired ability aucci-ssfully to handle va«t armies end win great battle«, never loalng a great buttle, placed General Grunt ut the lirud of tho long ll«t of military heroes developed in the Civil war. He will hold that rank tn hlatory for all time. But what of hte lieutenant«? it ha« como to bn common In «peaking of a few to give rank a« follow«: Sher man. Sheridan, Thomas and Meade. Other distinguished character« follow, but In thia paper their name« need not bo recalled. Were one to say that Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade should fol low the name of Grant In enumerating Important character« In the army one would endanger himself to a mob But would that bo «o fur out of the way? The greatest single victory won dur ing tho war was achieved under tho leaderelilp of Meade. Grant won no ■Ingle battle Glut would compare with Gettysburg In Importaneo and It« In fluence In «ettllng the mighty contest. Vicksburg, in it« Influence, renkod next to Gettysburg Evon Grant con ceded that tho battle of Gettysburg was of vaster Importance and had greater Influence In tho work of crush Ing tho Confederate« than that ot Vicksburg Sherman won no single victory equal to Gettysburg, yet he will always be recognized aa on« of the greatest general« of hl« age, and Hhrrl Justly stands next to Grant clan'« victories, even the grrste«t ol them, bear no comparison to Gettys burg. Thomas’ splendid conduot st Maj. Can. George G. Meada. Chlckamaugua and his great victory at Nashvlllo will always bo regarded aa proof of generalship of an exceed ingly high type. Yet they were not •uch victories as Mead« won at Getty« burg, under the most trying clrcutn ■tances—clrcumstanres as depressing almost an those under which Thoma« won his greatest battle, that of Nash vllle. No one would suggest that the roll bo called In thin way: Grant, Meade. Sherman. Sheridan and Thomas, or. an 1 thtnk It should have been called from the start: Grant. Sherman. Meade, Thomas and Sheridan. 1 am only saying thnt which I hope will have some bearing In the future to ward giving to M.-ade the high rank his superb service« entitled hlin to— tho credit that Is his due. Venerated and Exalted. Never before wns there a Memorial day when so few veterans of the great war needed the proofs given of the underlying loyalty, gratitude and de votion of their countrymen. But never was there a Memorial day when »o many Americans who never were sol dlers had need of paving this tribute to the men who risked everything and often lost nil that the nation might live in safety, power and glory and go on to wider service to the world, leading the march of mankind. So the balance holds true. The ranks of the heroes are thinned by time, but the millions who reap where they sowed and rejoice in the fruits of their devotion and valor are a mightier host than ever. And in another sense tl ere Is an unfailing adjustment of changing conditions. There are fewer survivors of the he roic and terrible four years’ struggle for the Union, but they are venerated and exnlted as they never were when their ranks were full and their num bers made them a great (tower in the affairs of the nation. THE GRAND ARMY. Hark to the stirring sound Of flfo and drum, A« slowly up the flag draped street« they come! Once more the day roll« round When, halting, weary, gray nnd glory- crowned. These heroes of an eplr grand. These men whose boards wore singed by cannon flame, Who fought the bravest foe men known to fome Until the glad truce came, Pass In revl- w before the land. Memories bitter sweet and deep Thrill through the veteran’s breast As, wind-caressed, The nation's banner waves Above the peaceful, flower-strewn graves Where comrndes sleep. Boon they must all b« tenting on on« ground. Before they go ’’Aero«« the river In the «had« to rest." ’Tl« well that we. their «on«, should let our «Ires know Row honored in our heart« they are and blessed. « •John E. Dolsen. in Nallnaal Magasiaa.