Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-25

the English hosts and mak 5s Frau
 and Frances future secure. HkIlEt n
 at that time there seems to ltl1rst up
 the world tremendous glorY of mos
 ing The dark ages ave gone. p
 these splendid ideas have rule The
 is John Wyckliffe, who has lranslat
 the Bible. There in the heayez1a isl John Huss, who has died for. that lii ble. There also by his side is John Gutenberg, who will print tIiat Bible. There is the leader (Martin LtlJh|efA of. a great reformation, and at idst here is Christopher Columbus. .wlsa es,ssfesI and gives to the principles of ts1 ass B;- ble new world for their parpe EuaI erl1 E pire. Applause. 3ssi as's v Y
 There were other contssfsg 4s 561' know, ladies and gentlemelsf; but sWsl must see this background of history to understand the leader of the American Republic. In England, for example, af,er King Alfred, these great thoughts grew and developed with every day and night until at last on the throne of England sat James the First, a Stuart, man of tremendous egotism and of colossal political ignorance-a man who did not understand at all the fact that every man has right to himself-a man who did not see at all the new principle that man was more valuable than institutions, and that thrones and kings and scepters and rules existed for man, and man did not exist for them. At last Charles the I irst sat upon that throne, bring ing all the fearful inheritance of his father to the solution of that problem, and in 1920 there was born out of the revolution, which was brought about by the rebellion of Parliament against the king, the movement which brought the Pilgrim Fathers to America. In 1920 they landed upon our shores. They carried in that Mayfower the very same political principles for which Hempden and Cromwell and John Elliott had fought and fought. They brought these conceptions to our land, because it was impossible that they sould succeed in England. Eng land was entirely too small an island for such large ideas. Applause. It took vast continent, that stretched from ocean to ocean, to take in the splendid conceptions that were on Cromwell s sword. And you know that after the fight of Cromwell with the King the commonwealth was established in England, but Cromwell was no Wash ington and the commonwealth went to pieces at the death of Cromwell, for you know, my friends, how in the century and half between the time of Cromwell and I775 there awoke in this country this new spirit conscious of its great purpose. All the way through our political life there were blowing great breezes from the North and from the West and from the South It was impossible for boy born on a great continent like this to have little ideas of political right. Every breath that touched him had the breadth of a continent in it. He saw in these splendid mountains tho types of the great political ideas that should rule the future. He saw in these rich val leys some suggestions of the rich thoughts that should control in years to come. He saw in these mighty rivers, that run through tremendous currents south and east and west, the great force that should bind States to- gether for generation after generation It was impossible for a boy to hold within his brain these experiences with out having large conception of politi- cal destiny.
 Who, in all this great history, we may say, shall incarnate these great ideas? Look down there in Virginia There is boy sitting by his mother; knee, and he has within his soul g | tremendous vision. That vision i, the vision of his own imperious con science. He begins his life, and ht has outside of his life another vision a vision of the imperial opportunity in America. Deep within the boy calls to the deep outside of the boy The sublime within the soul of tht boy speaks to the sublime in nature outside of him. He stands and feels the march of these two visions-tht vision of duty on the inside and thC vision of opportunity on the outside of his soul. He sees and he asks, wha a mighty stage does man require, a. he looks at the mountains and see. the rivers and views the valleys as { young Virginia surveyor. He look into his own conscience, and he says what d tremendous platform does { man require, as he sees the imperia responsibilities of his life and stand
 face to face with his own ideas in thi country. It is that vision of duty or the inside and opportunity on the out side which has made every statesman that the world has seen. It is tha
 march of the feeling how great a mar is, and how great his opportunity is which has given us the large-heartet and large-brained leaders of mankind
 In 1175 England, who had neglec ted to use our Cromwell as her leader who mad hung the head of Olive
 Cromwell upon her chief gate o political thought and aspiration, haC no conception of that spirit whicl walked amidst these forests and ling | the shadows of these mountains. Tn, Prime Minister of England was con servative these colonies were liberal The King of the English throne was reminiscence of the past; these colo nies were hopes of the future. H.
 who ruled the destiny of Englisl
 thought in philosophy had no sucl scope of idea as to invite these colo
 nieS into the realm of his conception
 no, not even Edmund Burke no
 Lord Chatham understood the great
 ness of this spirit. On this day wha
 star flashed her glory across the oceal
 to the court of the King? Who wa
 to incarnate this new idea? For
 century and half It had been work
 ing amongst these people; it ha'
 gathered together the remembrance l hi lihprtu from Qvorv country NO,