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And war is not all loss. What would waged a war with our own people united. mankind have been without its heroes? In the war with Spain there was not an What would history have been without American citizen in any part of the globe its heroism, heroic lives and heroic —there was not anywhere a Christian deaths? Peace has its dangers as great lover of liberty, who did not earnestly To mean devices tor a sordid end, as those of war. It is in times of peace labor and pray, and who was not willing Courage an independent spark from Heaven's 1 that festering corruption has reached na to strive and sacrifice, for the success of bright throne. sapped national the American arms and the triumph of By which tlie soul stands raised, triumphant, tional hearts and liigh, alone. strength. In peace, too often the hero the flag. The wounds produced by the Courag-, the mighty attribute of powers above, ’ who excites envy and inspires emulation civil war were deep ami lasting. The Tlie spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from is he who by the suppression of every time needed to heal them seemed all too fear." manly instinct, and the development of long. The bitterness that divided the I admre a fighting soldier. I think the girls endorse this sentiment. If every These men and their thousand com cruel, heartless cunning, has become the different classes of our people seemed too man here was a candidate for matrimony rades in a few months of war have possessor of ill gotten wealth, wrung from great to be removed. The attack of a In times of foreign enemy, the insult to the flag, the and the marriageable girls only equaled achieved more for their state, more for the sweat of others’ brows. i:i numbers the returned soldiers, the their country and its advancement and peace, mammon is king, and his wor destruction of American lives by a treach boys would all be happily wedded and future greatness, have made more and shipers emulate his example and copy erous people was miraculous in its effects all the rest of us doomed to wear out our grander history,have written their names his vices. In times of peace, greed too udoii our divided countrymen. It healed days in lonely bachelorhood. If kissing higher and more legibly upon the scroll often reigns supreme, dominates the na every wound of the civil war, it brushed goes by favor, civilian lips will be un of lame than the 100,000 men who re tional will and saps the national strength. aside every cause of estrangement and sweetened for some time. Sweet smiles, mained at home in a lifetime of peaceful In times of peace, to acquire wealth, ease, welded our divided country into a more glances of bright eyes, and the pressure occupation. The gratitude of their coun luxury, exemption from toil, becomes the perfect and lasting union. Sectional of warm, soft hands will become a part try will lie theirs for all time. Their ruling passion. War destroys these idols, lines were obliterated. The bitterness of military equipments for some time to memories will be cherished as long as dashes them to the ground and enthrones that had lingered so long was effaced come This is right; asofold 'the brave youth loves life. Their examples will for our admiration and example the man Old hatreds have been forgotten, and deserve the fair,” “the bravest are the be a treasure, and an inheritance of in of courage, of nerve,of action, who defies now confederate and federal, the blue tenderest,” “the loving are the true.” estimable value to generations yet un danger, who shrinks not from suffering anti the gray, the men who made and or death, whose heart beats for others, those who repulsed the immortal Pick When I meet a soldier who has fought born. for the flag, I defer to him as my supe This generation will not see the end of who gives to the world more than he re ett’s charge, are united as one man, un rior. How men of words dwarf before wars. They will diminish, but will not ceives, and who is ready to yield wealth der one flag, in defense of one country. men of action! The present universal disappear in our day. Whatever aiivan- and life when needed that his country They have no contention except as to outburst of enthusiasm upon the return cesnational arbitiation may make, it will may live—just such men as compose the who can render most valiant service to a of the boys from the Philippine islands not embrace all questions of national dis Second Oregon. In times of war, love of common country and do most honor to proves that this feeling is as universal ns putes. The nation that expects to main country displaces love of wealth; patriot the flag we all cherish. In the language mankind. The true hero is kin to all tain its honor unsullied, and its territori ism dethrones greed, courage counts for of a distinguished southern senator, we humanity. His glorious deeds are the al and national integrity unimpaired, more than craft or cunning, manhood have no north, no south, one country and h ntage of his race. ’1 hey shame the must in the future, as m the pas', be pre reigns supreme, and one hero, be he gen one flag. Ah, if the martyred Lincoln How coward; they disarm treachery; they in pared to defend them with its own right eral or admiral, ora private in the ranks, could nave lived to see this day! spire the soul of heroism in all lands and arm. Its weapons of wariare are the in the hearts of the people outweighs a his great heait would have been filled in all ages. Whatever we may think of fists by which a nation defends itself from thousand owners of illgotten millions. with happiness to realize that at last, war, it calls out the Lest “ye breed, “and insult and aggression. Should these be What is the value of life unless accompa “we are not enemies, but friends ” That t le highest qualities of manhood. The removed or laid aside, and their use for nied with the power of achievement? “Though passion may have strained, it ideal soldier is the ideal man. War is ever discarded, it will be the victim The death of the brave has sometimes has not broken our bonds of affection.” action—grand, sub.line, tn ignificent ac of every bullying braggart that crosses achieved more for humanity than the That “The mystic cords of memory, tion. What a destroyer of shams! How its path. The positions of the nations of lives of ten thousand cowards. To die stretching from every battlefield and pat cowards and weaklings shrink to the the earth, now, as heretofore, are deter well,bravely, gloriously and for the rigl t riot grave, to every loving heart and rear, end manliness steps to the front! mined bv the numbers and strength and is infinitely better than life with dis hearthstone all over this broad land” has How it stir» tile blood and elevates the genius of their armies, the excellence of honor. Better war, than that manhood at last swelled the chorus of the union, national life. The grandest thing hu tl.eir military equipments, and the fight should decay, or craft and cowardice when again touched as they now have manity can do is to offer li!e for others ing qualities of their citizens. Questions place fetters upon the hands of justice been "by the better angels of our na True manhood ture.” This welding together of the This every member of t-if Second Oregon of profit and loss, barter and trade, dol and manly courage. has done, and some, alas, have complet lars and cents, will be properly the sub covets equally a glorious, fruitful life and American people, tnis cementing of a ed this great sacrifice. The greatest ject of arbitration, but the issues between a glorious and beneficent death. Wars more perfect union, will more than repay treasure any nation can have is its heroes contending nations that thoroughly ab have done much for our own nation. the cost of blood and treasure entailed by I :i these the present war nas made Ore sorb men’s passions, possess their souls Victorious armies both gave and preserv tile late war. We shall now continue gon more than rich. Summer.», Case, and control their natures, will be settled ed national life, liberty, independence and complete the work heretofore begun. ... the future _____ _ as _____ j ........... they have been in the and national existence, an elevated po Our revolutionary sires procure 1 the Thornton, Harrington, O'Neal, High, in Lyons. Marshal, Smith and Chaplain I ast, bv the wage of battle, The soldier sition among the nations of the earth, blessings of lib .Tty for themselves and Gilbert, are only a lew of the names that will still continue to be the soldier and and fu nished the territory needed for their descendants The veterans of the Oregon "ill hold more sacred than its defender of his country, The milestones our expansion and gro'.vtli and develop civil war shattered every fetter from the snowcapped mountains, fertile valleys or of the world's progress have been well ment. The war now upon us will not be stars and stripes, wove into the fabric of fought battles. Every conquest, every less fruitful in glorious results. In the this government the immortal truths of in igni.iccnt rivers. l or Clark, Perry, Miller, Hibbs, Odell, concession that liberty has won from ty extension of our western frontiers, in the the Declaration of Independence, and i.l.at shall 1 say? They haie performed ranny or oppression has teen won by the acquisition of needed coaling and naval firmly established in every part of the the noblest and sublinitst act it is given swor I. Tne most efficient agent of civ stations, in the opportunities to extend republic, t'.ie reign of liberty now, and to 1 unuimty to achieve. Ti.ey have given ilization has been the victorious army. our trade and commerce, our civilization as we hope ami trust forever In the late their lives for their country Theirs was The banners of progress have been the and liberties westward, one hour of war, co idiot we taught old wirld monarchs flags of victorious generals The greatest and Dewey and the Secon 1 Oregon, has contributions that men have given for done more for us than centuries of dip humanity have been manly courage and lomacy and peace. The threads of our manly devotion, and a mnnlv death. The fate and the shaping of our destiny are most sacred heritage of any nation is the controlled by him who holds the nation blood of its heroes. These will not be in the hollow of his hand. He has ever come obsolete. National liberty, nation converted the very difficulties that be-et al integrity, like a few shekels of silver, our pathway into stepping stones for will not be determined by skillful phras greater progress and greater national de es and musty precedents. For long years velopment No war ever begun by any to come, as in the past, national armies nation in the world's history was inspir will be the ultimate tribunals for the de ed by so little of selfish interests, or so termination of great overshadowing na much by the noblest impulses as the one tional questions. No quibbling technic against Spain. None has furnished to a alities control tl.eir verdicts, and from contending power such opportunities as their rude deci .ions there nr - ,.o appeals. this to us to increase its _ prestige and The Um-rican people i id never permit glory and power and prosperity. In this their national lien r or national integrity one very material particular In the to become the subject of intrigue for old war is unique in our history. world monarchs through international war of the rebellion there were tories at boards of arbitration The courage and home to give aid and comfort to the en skill of our armies will continue to form emies ot their country. In the war of the best guardian of our national life and 1812 there we.e men of intelligence and national.honor, and our position among influence and patriotism, who would have the nations of the earth. So long as the turned American arms against France, Altieri -in people maintain the high stan to whom we owhd so much, rather than _ dard of manly courage and heroic devo against England. In the Mexican war, tion sh own by our armies in the past many patriots, pure and upright, feared RALPH A. ODELL wars, and by the boys of the Second Or that victory would be followed by the Died in Manila .lune 1899. Aged 21 years. LIEUT. J A. YOUNG egon in this, no international tribunal extension and perpetuity of slavery In can cloud the honor of the stars and the civil war, tlie most terrible and crut that throughout all the sphere of our in n it a life nearing its close, worn out with stripes, or lower them from the proud of all. our enemies were wholly of otir fluence, wherever the piercing eye of the countrymen. Heretofore we have never American eagle can scan the horizon, dissipation, broken with toil, devoid of emin« nee they now occupy. might does not make right, tyranny shall hope, its cup of happiness drained to the not -prevail, cru -lty shall not slaughter dregs and nothing left wortli living for. innccince, governments shall not bind, It was ii lire at ns beginning, unspent, i-.npris n and starve those to whom they e.i. . thing to ope,everything to achieve, owe protection; wars of extermination every li.mg io live lor Before the prime shall not be waged against women and oi manhood had been reached, theirlife’s children; the erv ot those imprisoned work has been done, and well done. and slain for freedom’s sake shall no lon Their rest will be eternal, their fame se ger be heard upon the shores of the new- cure For you w ho have returned full of world; that tyr.tnny and usurpation must hope and lull ol honor, life holds ineuv be banished from the western hemis tetti] tations and many dangers. The rest phere, ami peace and liberty and hu- ami happiness you crave may not be manity must and shall prevail; that the yours Hope mav be turned to disap blessings of liberty which we have secur pointment The honors of which vour ed for ourselves an 1 children shall be friends are now so prou 1. mav be bull ed come the heritage of all upon this west T ie gran u e due from your country ern continent. And now that through may be forieited or withheld, and lite the victories of our army and navy we bring only unrequited toll and bitter dis have driven tyranny from the western appointment We hope and pray not continent and given the blessings of lib But the limit and honor of no mail is safe erty to a downtrodden and oppressed this side of tlie grave Their tame is st people, we have enhanced its value, and cure Their honor will be forever un established it more firmly for ourselves. sullied. Their memory will be like sweet Onr own nation has received a new bap perfume. They have earned and are tism of freedom, we have acquired new wearing their crown, and no power on heroism and new heroes for future and e irt.i or in heaven w ill pluck it from their higher inspirations. YVe have placed brows patriotism above husiness and valued *0n fame’* eternal i-snipiiig ground riu-ir »lien I tint* lire «pr< < I. liberty more than wealth. Tlie hearts tail »lory gimr.la with . mu round of poet and orator have been touched 'I he bivouac of the dend.” with a holier fire. We have learned di With Y’oung, I'ngenua-i, Thompson. viner songs, instinct with national spirit, Snyder, Mellinger, Heath, Crampton, and that thrill and throb through every Rommel, McGrath, and others wounded heart, east and west, north and south. m battle, no cowardly traitor can ever Now more than ever, we are one people, hold fellowship, or claim kinship. Thev having one language and one law, and stand npart from their fellows, tried, test under one flag. And among those who ed and true, every scar a badge of honor, have contributed to this glorious result, CAPT. H. I.. HEATH. attesting their courage, their manhood in the first rank, second to none, stands and their patriotism, and more glorious the Second Oregon. Their deed« the pride of Oregon I “Whose heart ha« not within hint burned, As home their footsteps they have turned, Front wandering on a foreign strand? If such there be. go, mark him well, For him no minstrel raptures swell, iligli though his titles, proud his name, Boundless bis wealth a» wish can claim; Despite those titles, power ami pelf, Tlte wretch concentered all in self, Living, «hull forfeit lair renown, An<l doubly dying shall go down To the vili dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unlionored and unsung.” than the lives of ten thousand cowards. These men have proved to all the world . that they possess a courage that “smiles ; at the drawn dagger and defies its point.” "Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to benil I