Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1899 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ARE HEROES ALL! MS LONG with the tears shed over the graves of those KB fallen there is mingled pride in the patriotic deeds and heroic achievements of both the dead and the living. Within the IVW|I P ast y ear liberty has spoken a new fiat. The note of the bugle and Ip fl roar °f th® cannon have been heard, and tyrannical snackles have been h stricken from a people long enslaved. To accomplish this American volunteered, and from shot, disease and weariness many died. Some of them sleep in Arlington and some in the family lot in the ■bH| little church yard, but there are others who lie buried on barren Cuban ' hillsides, and still others in the tropical jungles of the Philippines or EBIS r * n t^ie <^e p t^s sea * IhS 1 T I No matter what differences of opinion may exist as to the war policy of the UHJ I I Government, seventy-five millions of people are a unit in doing honor to the 8231 zA nation’s dead, wherever they lie, and in praising the courage and bravery of LSS American soldiers, whether they marched with Sherman or with Lee, stormed the B'Rb blockhouses at El Caney, worked the guns for Dewey or swam the alligator- LB3 infested rivers of Luzon. Sons of the veterans who faced each other on the H > terrible battlefields of the South have within a twelvemonth fought and fallen HmM '. side by side. Their blood has effectually wiped out the last vestige of sectional [■ A I lines, and the stars and stripes now have the same meaning the country over. aS I I I This year we crown Shiloh anew. We commemorate Chickamauga and Cor- S&w I inth, Antietam and Appomatox—all the historic spots where heroes fell and which RLm hW I sacred grief immortalizes. But there are now new graves—graves across two 3-Jn If oceans to be decorated. The aged widow of the soldier whose tomb has been a iu mecca for devotion these thirty odd years, in this month of budding flowers and KB II u J glorious greenery, shares tears and love with those of a later generation, who have II W reason to remember Santiago and San Juan, Manila and Malolos with sorrow. HBKR «\ America reverently honors the memory of her dead and eulogizes the patrir\ i otic heriosm of her living. Their deeds, will never be forgotten by a grateful 1 nat i° n - Heroes all-—the dead and the living; the mingled emotions of sorrow and HES »\ I pride that sway the great popular heart, like the brooding protecting wings . V\ of a cherishing presence, hover alike over the peaceful village cemetery and the \ grave in the island jungle. Garlands wither and flowers lose their fragrance, but H % Xlre 'I S lor y of the nation’s heroes shall bloom on forever. LBS _C -Ab--■I 'm m