Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-15

Dear country, the star OF the valiant and freei
Thy exiles afar are dreaming Of thee.
No fields OF the earth so enchantingly shine,
No air breathes such incense, such music -
thine.
Humanitys homei thy sheltering breast
Gives welcome and room TO strangers op'
pressed.
Pale children Of hunger ana hatred and wrong
Find life In thy freedom and Joy in thy song.
Thy fairest estate the lowly may hold,
Thy poor may grow great, thy feeble grow
bold:
And manhood is mighty where manhood 70
free.
o union OF states, and union Of souls
Thy promise awaits, thy future unfolds.
And earth from her twilight is hailing the sun,
That rises where people and rulers are one.
An address follows in which tho
story of the four centuries is told. We
give it in condensed form as follows:
We, who are here met together, arenow real
ly in company with 10000 900 pupils OF the
American public schools That Is the thought,
this day, which stirs our hearts.
Though our eyes do not see oil these, we CON
see them with our minds-an army OF l3OOO,OOO
boys and girls gathered in schoolhouses great
and schoolhouses little, throughout the land
and all with the flag OF our country floating
over them. All ore assembled 1T the request OF
the president Of the United States for one pur-
pose. That purpose is to celebrate the discov-
cry OF America by Columbus, whose ship fired
n gun 400 years ago this morning, 70 signal that
he then first saw the new world.
Yes-the New World For that discovery
added more than new continent 70 the other
continents. 1t changed the prospects OF man
kind: it opened broad lands to their labor; 1t
gave them great new hopes, and so made the
world new.
Have those hopes been disappointed No.
That there ore 100000 American children In
free school rooms this morning Is the best evil
dence that those hopes have been more than
fulfilled
Behind him, in old Europe, Columbus left our
own ancestors-men, women, girls and boys
without any better prospect than that OF toll
ing and fighting for kings and mobiles. He left
behind him world where the most Of the
people were common people, and where COM
mon people were treated as having few human
rights.
He saw before him o new world, where those
common people, set free TO do their own will,
were By and by to establish the same rights
for everybody. free education for oil the chill
dren and government by the people for the
people
He saw before him this America, where lS,-
OOOO 600 OF US pupils OF the common schools arc
this day met in thankfulness 10 God who sent
Columbus forth, and who moved our fore
fathers 10 make this land Of freedom, law and
schools.
All that our forefathers did we receive. TWAS
done for us: It is given TO US freely. So upon US
Is laid q mighty trust Upon US is laid the duty
70 be patriots, like those who made our land
the glad place Il is. The people today have
made the school children all over the land the
leaders in this Columbus day celebration, 20 ~
70 give TO US q, lesson in patriotism which we
never shall forget
We can begin 70 be patriots now We arc
uatriots as soon IS we love our country and its
dag. When We try 70 make our school better
school, when we try TO make our games fair
Rames we begin 70 be patriotic citizens
And then, we, the boys and girls Of America
TODAY are going TO be the men and women OF
America before long. Very soon We win have
70 govern the towns and cities, build the schools
and make the laws Whatever we shall 90 that
makes all the people happier win make our
country's nag brighter. Buth W should vote
when we grow for things that are wrong tnAt
would stain the nag.
So let us promise that the nag Of our dear
land, which, so proud and bright, fies over our
heads today, shall never be stained b our
fault Let US pledge ourselves that the great
name America shall forever mean an equal
chance 70 every citizen and love toa the world
Then follows . magnificent ode
written by Edna Dean Proctor. This
Is as follows and concludes the uniform
exercises:
COLUMBIA Q BANNEh
aGod helping me-" cried Columbus, enough
fair or foul the breeze,
win san and sail tn ind the land beyond the
western seas!"
tha blue should bar,