People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-14


Thy eXiles afar are dreaming Of thee
No fields Of the earth so enchantingly shine,
No air breathes such incense, such music a:
thine.
Humanitys home thy sheteriug breast
Gives welcome and room to strangers Op
pressed
Pale children OF hunger and 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;
For wOrthis the watchword to noble degree,
And manhood is mighty where manhood i:
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 the
story of the four centuries is told. We
give it in condensed form as follows:
We, who are here met together, are now real
ly in company with 100000 pupils of the
American public schools. That is the thought,
this day, which stirs our hearts.
Though our eyes do not see all these, We can
see them with our minds-an army of 1900 900
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 are assembled at 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
gun 100 years ago this morning, to signal that
he then first saw the new world.
Yes-the New World. For that discovery
added more than new continent to the other
continents It changed the prospects of man
kind; it opened broad lands to their labor; il
gave them great new hopes, and so made the
world new.
Have those hopes been disappointed: No.
That there are 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 a 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 all the chill
dren and government by the people for the
people
He saw before him this America, where b.,
100000 Of us pupils Of the common schools are
this day met in thankfulneSs TO God who sent
Columbus forth, and who moved our fore
fathers to make this land Of freedom, law ant
schools.
All that our forefathers did we receive. Itwa.
done for us: it is given 10 US freely. So upon u.
is laid mighty trust Upon US is laid the duty
TO be patriots, like those who made our land
the glad place it is. The people today have
made the school children all over the land the
leaders in this Columbus day celebration, so as
TO give TO US lesson in patriotism which We
never shall forget.
We can begin 10 be patriots now. We are
patriots as soon as we love our country and its
flag. When We try 10 make our school better
school, when we try TO make our games fail
games, We begin 10 be patriotic citizens.
And then, We, the boys and girls Of Americ,
to-day, are going to be the men and women o.
America before long. Very soon We viii have
10 govern the towns and cities, build the school.
and make the laws Whatever we shall do tina
makes all the people happier will make oul
country's flag brighter. But il We should vot'
when we grow up for things that are wrong tina
would stain the flag.
So, let us promise that the flag Of our deal
land, which, so proud and bright, flies over oul
heads today, shall never be stained by oul
fault Let US pledge ourselves that the grea'
name America shall forever mean an equa
chance to every citizen and love 10 all the world
Then follows a magnificent cd.
written by Edna Dean Proctor. Thi:
is as follows and concludes the uniform
exercises:
COLUMBIA BANNER
"God helping me-" cried Columbus, though
fair or foul the breeze,
Twill sail and sail till find the land beyond tn,
western seas!'
So an eagle might leave its eyrie, bent, though
the blue should bar,
To fold its wings on the loftiest peak OF an IN
discovered star.
And into the vast and void abyss he followed
the setting sun;
Nor gulfs nor gales could fright his sails till III,
wondrous quest was done.
But oh, the weary vigils, the murmuring tor
turing days,
Till the Pinta's gun and the shout Of Land
set the black night ablaze.
Till the shore lay fair as paradise in morning
balm and gold,
And world was won from the conquered dec
and the tale Of the ages told!
Upliit the starry banner! The best age il
begun
We are the heirs Of the mariners whose voyag
that morn was done
Measureless lands Columbus gave and river
through zones that roll,