The state capital., 1892-10-15

4 YeS-the New World. For that discovery
| added more than new continent to the other
| continents 1t 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 aad 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 a government Ivy the people for the
| people.
He saw before him this America, where 49,
| 100000 of us pupils OF the common schools are
| this day met in thankfulness to God who sent
| Columbus forth, and who moved our Gore
fathers to make this u land of freedom, law and
| schools.
All that our forefathers did we receive. 1t was
done for u.s. II is given to US freely. So upon lis
| is laid mighty trust Upon us is laid the duty
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 TO be patriots now. We are
patriots as soon as we love our country and its
flag. When we try to make our school 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
and make the laws Whatever we shall do that
makes all the people happier will make our
country's flag brighter. But if 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 to every citizen and lave 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 CT foul the breeze,
will san and sail till find the land beyond the
western seas!'
So an eiglc might leave its eyrie, bent, though
the blue should bar,
To fold its wings On the loftieSt peak OF an un-
discovered start
And into the vast and void abyss he followed
the setting sun;
Nor CULTS nor gales could fright his sails till tho
wondrous quest was done.
But oh, the weary vigils, the murmuring tor
turing days,
Till tho Piafa,S and the Shout nj
set the black night ablaZe
Till the shore lay fair as paradise in morning
| balm and gold.
And world was won from the conquered deep
and the tale of the ages toldl
Uplift the starry banner! The best age is
begun
We arc 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 soull
For he sailed from the past with its sitting
walls to 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,
Al 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, not OF priest or king, but of
every child of man.
URlift the new woyld's banner to greet the ex-
ultant SUM-
Let its rosy CLEANS still follow its beams as
swift to west they run,
Till the wide air rings With shont and hymn to
welcopse IL shining high.
Add our eagle from lone katahdin to Shssts's
snow car ay