Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-07-05

peculiar to no nation and is most
especially acceptable to our own still let
us accept the letter and spirit of the con-
struction placed upon American soldiery by
the father of his country, and teach our
youths that to be the noblest of soldiers, is
but to be the most subordinate of citizens.
and he who is the most worthy member of
society in our own civil walks, may become
the most valorous of soldiers, in neither
case losing his identity, but possessing an
idea original with America but foreign to
other countries. A Soldier Civilian. not
lost on the one hand, in arrogance, nor
pampered with the state and paraphernalia
of the field and camp to the detriment of
his fellows in civil walks, nor as citizen, is
he cowed by peace and rendered affete by
the moderatives of tranquility, but in either
case is he ready for the change from
one condition to the other, donning the &C.
coutrements of the soldier and, with equal
ease and alacrity, returning to the more
peaceful habiliments of the citizen, Then
on this glorious 4th of July, the centennial
anniversary of our independence, while our
cities and villages are alive with the stirring
fife and the enlivening drum, while thou
sands of bayonets glisten in the sunlight of
an American sky, while the tramp and
heard passing in review, let us not on so
inspiring an occasion yield to the enthusi-
asm of moment and forget those gallant
men are citizens, but glory in the fact, that
the pomp and circumstances of to-day yield
to the claims of our industries tomorrow
Impressed with this thought, we may well
realize we are great and wise people, a
people who can assume the soldier, and not
lay aside the citizen
CIVIL SERVICE.
The soldier is a part of the great civil service
Of the land, and although we pay homage on
this day of heroic memories to the herOism
of the past and offer our national anthems
of praise, next to God, to those whose lives
were gilded in the panoply of war, let us
remember with equal emotion of reverence,
the sterling civilians, whose lives were ex-
hibits of offerings Of purse and intellect to
the great cause they espoused with their in
huence, their pen, and their talents 1t is
also to be considered and stand among the
treasures of our recollections that the civil
service was equally as potent in securing
our liberties as were the right and left arms
of the country the Army and Navy. If we
had Washington and Perry, we had a
Franklin and Jefferson. If we had an
Allen Wayne, Decatur, and a Jno Paul
Jones' we had Madison, Hancock, a
Hamilton and an Adams-and it is to the
merItorious in the integrity of the civil
service that our people should turn their
attention. 1t is proper and discreet that g
modified form of military organization
should be fostered in this country. but, it is
equally as important, that our youth should
be instructed in the belief that the military
is subordinate branch Of the government,
and that matters at issue, relative to iuris-
diction, or of the rights of each, the civil
no he
courts for a solution of their difficulties
rather than the questions involved should
be determined by the dread arbritrament oil
war, the sword and the red handed antagon-
ism, which is conclusion of force not Of
reason, result of passion, not of judgment
and the most uncertain the most unsatis-
factory, and the most goddess of all the de.
crees of an umpire which alone takes the
field of thought, when common sense and
human feeling ceases to rule in the councils
of moral beligerants. 1t is to the civil ser.
vice, to the formers of constructive peace
our people are to look for q future of hap
piness and national prosperity, not to the
glittering bayonet nor to the baying cannon
it is 20 the peacemakers in state our arms
and voices should be lifted in aid to, not
to the satrap, hence it is fitting in this re.
markable occasion that we should render
praise to our gallant military and naval
heroes, but, at the same time remember that
the citizen in his form of civil service is the
master spirit that controls the present, and
is to determine the future destiny OF
America.
THE POWER OF THE PRESS.
In connection with the Developments OF
our beloved country, it is but proper in this
day of devotion to the memories of the past
and the glorious attitudes of the present, tc
mention the varid influences that are to dc
so much to sustain prestige secured by the
results of century of effort Among the
most distinguished of these valuable auxil
liaries is the g Fourth Estate, !" that mighty
power SO invulnerable when welded by the
forces of energy and worth, and so formid
able for good when waving It's wand in the
cause Of civil and religious liberty The
press of America, through it's representatives
has mission to fulfil; it is their province to
stimulate the right and to depress the wrong
1t is to this gigantic part of our moral force
that our people are to turn for guidance in
their yearnings for instruction in political
economy, and how necessary it is that there
should be an individualism in the press, a
management of moral force inftlsing life
and power into the workings of this intel
lectual motor. The Journalist, on this day
of our great national reunion, should re-
member that to him is given the expression
of the American idea, and in his acceptance
of the trust a responsibility is assumed,
fraught with results of vitpl significance;
hence how careful should the mentor be OF
the instruction given; how zealously guarded
OF his motive, its genius and design. If
true, he is indeed behefactor; if false, he is
of all men the most dangerous. The Amer
lean Journalist, ike.aN other patriots, as he
gathers around the shrines of to-day. will
promise that from this anniversary of the
enfranchisement of a great people, his pen
shall be magnet, whose attractions will be
to the worship at the altar of American liber-
ty.
CHURCH AND STATE.
Of all the virtues within the scope of the
American Republican idea, none have re-
ceived more marked recognition of inter
national society, with the commendation of
the liberal and virtuous of all lands, than
the latitude given as a guarantee under
the constitution of freedom of religious
thought, based upon the distinct separation
of church and state. Although what may
be meritorious in the. church temporal con-
structiop, is not obsolete in the body polite,
but Is attuned to the moral discipline of the
state, without controlling the issue of sects
or the peculiar modes of individuals The
Shaman,i or the Sintaist, the Fatinlist. the
Omiade, or the Abasside, Greek, Jew or Gen
tile has within the area of American free
dom, full play for the powers Of his indie