Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-08-06
BILL NYE'S GRAFTON.
lie speaks to Americans 81 Their Fourth
of July Privileges.

lie speaks Ia Americans 81 Their Fourth
of July Privileges.
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FE LOW CITIZENS: Oue hundred and nine
year. have now passed sin,e our forefathers
declared all men 10 he Tree and equal and
began 10 hold out ildt.,eneIt> for the op-
pressed Of other climes 10 come here aud
help us Kill of the Indian,
II Ina, been great success. u has been
thoroughly demonstrated to a dying world
that all men are fully "a ial To all other
men, il not more 81. We point with pride
to-day 10 our broad lands our luxuriant
if;eios.al debt and our steadily increasing
Mornions We have only a few more
Indians to wipe odg, and then the oppressed
foreigner will have it all his own way.
Tht men Who declared themselves free
and indep nd,nt lo9 years ago are now no
more. Nield ng To the great nervous strain
incident To 4 rsd-ho campaign, they finally
pined away and died. As foreiathers We
can never successfully supply their places,
and their untimely death has cast pail
over this ,t.erwise jo ous occasion.
To-day from ocean To ocean America r.
ioices. From the humid Atlantic To the
mois. Pacific th- mighty cannon thunders
forth nations exultation, and the smaller
cannon j. gathering IA IL harvest ot
thumbs. This H. an annual holiday and
great national thumb carnival.
We rejoice that the idea of freedom sug-
gestei it-elf to our forefathers. Otherwise
we woald all be in Canada to-day. Now
only u part uf u a.e there.
Let us no; speak lghdy Of Canada, for
some oi our largest moneyed men are there.
While we would not care To be part of
Canada. il i a GOO! province To smuggle into
or smuggle Out of IL is good place "a
stroll into after banking hours. while the
Beard Of Directors are IN session.
one hundred and nine wears ago the Hing
of Great Britain made the great mistake o
his life. | only regret that he did not NV,
To see il a. We zee i, to-day. Had he beef
! les overbearing toward the infant colony
+ the Young men Ot Amei lea would have beeI
+ drinking alkali wafer in Egypt to-day. w
T could have Tough; the heathen all over th'
4 globe and left our shoulder blaleS 10 bleacl
+ in any cline which We might select. HaC
I the roval tyrant Softenel little toward th'
struggling settlements in America one Lun
+ drcd and nine years ago, he could have bor
i rowed our navy to-day il he would agres 4
take good care Of the worms end return
them in a good order as he found them.
but he decided L. do differently. ami to
day lie must take the bitter consequence
Kings are 10: ALWAYS right. They fre
auently get lrit. Oi all tue many king
whom | have known personally, and viii
whom have been thrown more or less, th-r
are only four or tive upon whose judgmen
/ cculd rely during a great crisis.
That j, rhc asoE very rarely 90 to
crowned head when ! am in trouble
seek out some tender-hearted and ul
selfish pawnbroker aud tell him all.
There is one cloud, fellow-citizens, whic
Isee with my prophetic eve, Just climbing
the distant horizon of our national exist
ence. Sooner OF later it will darken tn
brightest day for US. l. il the leprou
Chinaman or the great unlaundriet 10,
monf hear you ask l. it the sDoils syster
under wilich one-hal: of our people viii a
ways be happy and the other half accursed
l. it the kin-dried, fire and burglar prooi
wormle,s American dried apple pie which
now invading our happy homes. Is II th
baleful simeon breath Of New England run
which would eat out the vital> of IA ston
quarry and go back the next day 10 irquir
Tor the old nitro--lycerine cansi
Ahi no. fellow-citizens: thousand time
nav. IL i this: II our republican form {
government holds together for ninety on
wears more. We will nave To celebrate aga
and il makes NV head ache TO think Of i
IL the feeling of remorse which shows itSe
on the succeeding day after centenni;
celebration becomes intensified with eac
succeeding century, / hope that on the d
day OF July. 1876. shall be ont of town.
Z cannot close this brief Grafton. fellow
citizens. without an earnest appeal TO yo
all To be nobler and better men. OF cours
. if you are women this will not be expecte,
but we can all be good citizens by that tim
PERHAPS. aud | earnestly exhort all tho,
: within the sound CT my voice TO be low
; and law-abiding Bv all means be indu
trious Do not wait for me. but form ha
it OF industry at once which will cling
8 YOU through life 7 am convinced by VIII
1 have seen of its effects that IL Is a goo
thing Rise early and go about your duti
[ joyously. and when the morning meal
prepared and all are gathered about the f.
e tive board. come and rap gently, ahd in
: low tone of voice ybn the door of my 10
doir BILL NYE.
HUDSON, Wis, July !