Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-10-13

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Dear country. the star Of the valiant and free
Thy exilcs afar are dreaming OF thee.
No fields Of the earth so onchantinFly shine,
No air hrenthcs such incense, such music rs
thine.
Humanity's home thy sheltering brcau
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 faircst estate the lowly may hold
Thy poor may grow great, Thy feeble grow
bold
For worth is the watchword to noble degree.
And manhood is mighty where manhood is
free
o union Of states, and union Of souls
Thy promise awaits thy future uufolds,
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 II in condensed form as follows:
We, who are here met together, are now real
ly In company with 13.OOl,OlO pupils Of the
tbs day, which stirs our hearts
Though our eyes do not see all these. we can
rec them with our mlnds-an army OF i8OJ0000
boys and girls gathered In sehoohouses great
and schoolhouses little, throughout the land
and all with the nag 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 10 celebrate the diseov-
cry Of America by Columbus, whose ship fired
gun 400 years ago this morning, 20 signal that
he then FIRST saw the world.
Yes-the New World. For that discovery
added more than new continent to the other
continents. II changed the prospects OF man
kind; Il opened broad lands 10 their labor; It
gave them great new hopes, and 40 made the
world new.
Lave rhoso hopes been Disappointed No.
That there are iS0O.6)0 American children 10
free school rooms this morning Is the best evi-
dence that those hopes have been more than
fulnlled
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 nghting for kings and mobiles. He left
b,hind him q world where the most OF the
people were common people, and where com
m n people were treated as having few human
rights
He saw before him a new world, where those
common people, set free 10 do their own will,
were BY and by 10 establish the same rights
Ter everybody, free education for all the chill
dren and government by the people for the
people
He saw before him this America, where 49,.
10000 Of Us pupils Of the common schools are
this day met in thaukfulness 10 God who sent
Columbus forth, and who moved our fore
athers TO make this land Of freedom, law and
schools.
All that our forefathers did we receive Itwas
done for u.s. It is given to US freely. SO upon us
is laid mighty trust Upon us Is laid the duty
10 be patriots, like those who made our land
the glad place it is. The people 10 day have
made the school children all over the land the
leaders IN this Columbus day celebration. 50 as
IN give TO us lesson in patriotism which we
never shall forget
We can begin 10 be patriots now. We are
patriots soon we love our country and It's
nag When we try 10 make our school better
school, when we try 10 make our games fair
games, we begin 10 be patriotic citizens
And then, we, the boys and girls Of America
to-day, are going TO be the men and women OF
America before long. Very soon we will have
10 govern the towns and cities, build the schools
and make the laws Whatever we shall do that
makes all the people happier will make our
country's flag brighter But II we should vote
when we grow up for things that are wrong that
would stain the flag.
So, let Us promise that the flag OF our dear
land, which, so proud and bright, flies over our
heads to-day, shall never be stained by our
fault Let US pledge ourselves that the great
name AuletlcA snail forever mean an equal
chance 10 every citizen and love TO all the world.
Then follows magnificent ode
written by Edna Dean Proctor This
is as follows and concludes the uniform
exercises:
COLUMBIA BANNER
"God helping me" cried Columbus. Though
fair or foul the breeze,
viii sail and sail TIN find the land beyond the
western seas"
so an eagle might leave It's eyrie, bent, though
the blue should bar,
To fold it's wings on the loftlest peak Of an un.
discovered star
And into the vast and void abyss he followed
the setting sun;
Nor gulf gales could fright hts sails I'LL the
wondrous quest was done.
But oh, the weary vigils, the murmurng, tor.
turing days,
Till the Plnta gun and the shout Of land"
set the black night ablaze
Tin the shore lay fair as paradise I'm mornings
balm and gold
And a world was won from the conquered deep
and the tale OF the ages told
Uplift the starry banner. The best age Is
beRuni
We are the heirs Of the mariners whose voyage
that morn was done
heasureless lands Columbus gave and rivers
through zones that roll,
But his rarest noblest bounty was a new world
for the soul
For he sailed from the past with its suhing
walls 10 the futures open sky,
And the ghosts Of gloom and fear we're laid as
the breath Of heaven went by,
And the pcdsnt's pride and the lordling's scorn
were lost IN thAs vital air,
A. fogs are lost when sun and wind sweep
ocean blue and bare
And freedom and larger knowledge dawned
clear, the sky 10 span,
Tbs birthright not OF priest or king, but OF
every child Of man
Urlift the new worlds banner 10 greet the ex-
ultani sun
Ltt iis rosy CLEANS stnl follow lis beams as
swift TO west they run,
TIL the wide air rings with shout ana hymn 70
welcome Il shining high,
And our eagle from lone Katahdin 10 Shasta's
anow can ny
In the light Of rs stars a. fold on fold Is nung
10 the autumn sky
upliit u, youths and maideus, with songs and
loving cheers
Through Irlumphs' raptures II has waved,
through agonics ana tears.
colunnio looks from sea 10 sea and thrills with
Hsr rlgrlsd sons, as one would leap to shield it
from foci
And YOU who soou VIII be the state, and shape
each great decree,
on, fo~ 70 live aud die Tor H. n glorious death
must be-
The eof ali ne eensurlea gone this starry
naN have wrought.
In dnugpnns dim, of gory lflds lis light ana
lencc were pQaati
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