The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-14

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! Dear country, the star of the valiant and freel
Thy exiles afar are dreaming OF thee
No fields of the earth so enehantinely shine,
/ No air breathes such incense, such music as
! thine.
Humanity's home thy sheltering 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 worth is the watchword TO noble degree,
And manhood is mighty where manhood is
| free.
J q 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
| " 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 miuds-an army Of 100000
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
I cry of America by Columbus, whose ship fired
I gun 400 years ago this morning. to signal that
/ he then first saw the new world.
/ Yes-the New World. For that discovery
/ added more than a new continent ID the other
continents. II changed the prospects OF man
kind: it opened broad lands to their labor; it
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 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 n government by the people for the
people
He saw before him this America, where 49,
900. 900 of US pupils OF the common schools are
Columbus forth, and who moved our fore
fathers to make this land of freedom law and
schools.
All that our forefathers did we receive 1t was
done for US: 10 is given TO us freely. So upon US
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 to-day 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 TO make our school a better
school, when we try to make our games fair
games, we begin to 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
TO govern the towns and cities, build the schools
ana make the laws. Whatever we shall do that
makes all lne people happier Will mdhe 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 America shall forever mean an equal
chance 10 every citizen and love TO all the world
Then follows a magnificent ode
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is as follows and concludes the uniform
exercises:
COLUMBIA BANNER
"God helping me- cried Columbus, though
fair or foul the breeze,
will sail and sail till find the land beyond the
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
And into the vast and void abyss he followed
the setting sun;
Nor gufs nor gales could fright his sails till the
wCndrous 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 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
begun
We are the heirs OF the mariners whose voyage
that morn was done.
Measureless lands Columbus gave and rivers
through zones that roll,
But his rarest noblest bounty was new world
for the soul,
For he sailed from the past with its sitting
walls 10 the futures open sky,
And the ghosts Of gloom and fear were laid as
the breath Of heaven went by,
And the pedant's pride and the lordling's scorn
were lost, in that vital air,
As fogs are lost when sun and wind sweep
ocean blue and bare.
And freedom and larger knowledge daWned
clear the sky to span,
TIE birthright. no. OF priest or king, but Of
every child Of man,
Cpi.ft the new worlds banner 10 greet the ex-
ultant sun,
Let its rosy CLEANS still follow its beams as
swift 10 west they rUa,
Till the wide air rings with shout and hymn 10
welcome II shining high,
And our eagle from lone katahdin 70 Shasta's
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