Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-06-28
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
Some Of the Reasons Why We Should
Honor the DAY.

Some Of the Reasons Why We Should
Honor the Day.
We should not deserve our country
and our liberty if we did not honor the
day which declared our independence
one hundred and seventeen years ago.
We should not be thankful to God as
we ought if we did not believe that
ours is the best and the happiest coun-
try the sun ever shone upon.
Is it conceit to think so, a foolish,
ignorant arrogance of which we ought
to be ashamed? Let us consider mo-,
ment.
We live in the end of the ages, thus
far reached. We have better chances
than any ancient people ever had If
there has been progress, if there have
been discoveries in the arts of life and
government, we are heirs Of them all.
Other nations of the present time may
have these same opportunities, but
none of those that have passed away.
We need compare our own privileges
and blessings only with those nations
now existing.
When we make this comparison we
may begin with physical advantages.
In this respect we ask in vain what
other country can surpass our own.
We have everything desirable in cli-
mate, soil, scenery, oceans, rivers,
lakes, mountains, plains, forests, quar-
ries, mines or skies that any other ma
ton can claim-all that continent
one can boast as much?
Then we have liberty. Ours was the
great nation in the world which en-
tirely removed every vestige Of mon
archy. We govern ourselves absolute
lY just as we wish, and there is no in
herited sovereignty. Our liberty is
settled and assured. France has it's
imperialists and royalists, and still
fears revolution. Brazil is great
republic, but it has not passed the rev.
dictionary stage. We have no royal
lists or revolutionists. There is no gov
eminent on the globe which better
protects the equal rights and just lib
critics of it's citizens.
Then we have intelligence. Nowhere
in the world is education more diffused
than it is over the larger part of our
country: Everyone reads. Schools
and colleges are everywhere, and as a
result every new continuance for the
comfort of man is. either originated or
Immediately applied among us.
Then we have no. fear of war. We
have no standing army to burden US.
Our taxes are light. Our earnings are
our own. Our young men are not
forced into barracks, nor are our
women left to till our fields. It is a
country of comfortable homes, where
the men and the women have each
their proper place of service.
Then we have a good race of men to
inhabit our land. They have come to
us. from England, Scotland, ireland,
Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy.
France, Spain and Africa. They are a
strong, active people, enterprising,
glad to work, happy mixture of vigor
and blood. No country can claim a
better stock. slsEf n
Then we have history of which to
be proud, short but noble. The United
States sets the example to the world
in the methods and the points of lib
erty and self government To us more
than to- any. other land have those
sc0me who wished to seek, what would
give them the, best privileges and OPP
portunities the world had anywhere to
give. They are all the most enthusi-
:astic Americans. iss1s
!. j Now let our. readers look over the
map Of the world and see what other
country has equal variety and wealth
OF climate, soil and product, and equal
.ly diffused education, and equal free.
dom from the burdens and the appre-
hension of war, and an equally worthy
history of the achievements of free
dom. Is it Russia, or Turkey, or China,
or FRANCE, or Germany, or, even Great
Britain? We have reason on our an
,nua1 Independence day to thank God
for our glorious country and to join in
;the celabra tian Of the glorious Fourth.
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