The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-12-05

| intelligence and educational development
is demanded by healthy, so1Gd citizen
ship. With the great Joseph Cook We
believe, thai in the future eligibility to
the right of suffrage should be based on
intelligence. The reading test for al
voters this Will disfranchise those who
can not speak the Eaglish language; such
should not be permitted 10 vote. The
baleiul effects OF the illitcTacy necessarily
pouring in upon US from abroad are al.
ready plainly visible, and how appalling
the thought that the next fifty years will
double our population and "a large portion
of that viii be anything but Americana
cd. In the light of all these facts tho
Public School is national necessity; II
is the great assimilating organ of the
body polite. Children go into il English
Scotch, Irish, German, Danish, Nor
wegian, Italian, French, and all come out
American. TO give unity and homo
genousness to our population, the Public
School System is a necessity. This led
Congress as early in our nations history
as l7S7 10 order that schools and the
means OF education shall be forever
encouraged" and Washington, in his
first message, said-"Knowledge in
every country is the supreme basis of
public happiness" And in his farewell
message. he further adds-"PrOmote as
an object of primary importance, in
s;itGtions for the general diffusion of
knowledge" ''The Public school and "A
free Biblei These are the corner stones
of the Republic, and flour nation stands
at all, it must stand on these. 1t is our
sacred duty as American citizens 10 see to
it that our School System, that mighty
tower of strength, shall be maintained and
administered without interference or
dictation by any sect or hierarchy. Ii is
high time for our leaders in Church and
State to sound the alarm.
1.-The fox barks not when he would
steal the lamb"
This glorious system was organized by
the founders of this Republic, and it re-
mains for us, their children, TO perfect
and permanently establish what they so
nobly began. l am pleased with that
comparatively modern innovation which
displays the American flag from every
school-house in the land. Teach the chill
dren patriotism, and in the coming years
it will bear rich, ripe fruits. ''Breathes
there man with soul so dead who never
to himself has said: This is my own, my
native land?'' From the rock bound
shores of the Atlantic to the golden gates
of the Pacific and from the blue lakes TO
the sunny beach Of the gulf, let the Stars
ami Stripes fioat in majestic triumph over
every school building in the land.
''Shelter il foadIy from eneiny's hand,
And from al foes which may threaten cur
land.
Beautiful cOlors, oh, raise them on hight
Let Us fight for them, tho fighting We die.
Forty-four stars on the bright field Of blue;
Forty-four states-may they ever be true.
May each endeavoT To stand for the right;
May al together in friendship unite,
Then tho adveTSities round u may curl,
Let us our beautiful banner unfurl;
And may i; float from ocean 70 sea,
In THIS dear country, the land Of the frcc.''
). We ought to give thanks to God be-
va bAll Wv II tilAiA HAAfls~ AlitttAtS
Here we enjoy in the highest measure
freedom Of thought, freedom Of speech
and freedom Of the press. God speed the
American press! No longer fettcred with
the tyranny OF censorship as in many ma
tions Of the Old World, its power here is
supreme While the pulpit was once the
oracle of wisdom and the depository of
most of the learning in every communi-
~, the press Is Eow the bigh-priest in the
temple of knowledge. For al secular
lights and periections the press now
wears on her starry breastplate the Trim
and the Thummin. While the priesthood
of the sacred desk has in many respects
in large measure lost its grip on the
multitudes, this highpriesiess of the
world has captured the masses. She is
the John the Baptist 10 usher in the Christ
of every moral revolution. Whether in
the overthrow of municipal corruption,
or in the exposure of blind pools, or
bucket shops, or the scandal of lordly SUI
gar trusts, she is the advance courier in
every reform. Like the lone sentinel,
she never sleeps; away beyond the noon
of night when deep slumbers have fallen
upon men, she i wide awake that she
may herald the morn with her early edi-
ton. Everywhere she speeds on her way,
climbing the steps into the upper stories
of the workshop, descending to the un-
derground populations of our densely
crowded cities, finding her way to the
office of the lofty millionaire and to the
home of the humblest artisan. Now
thrown in the door of the brown-stone
mansion of the rich, and then placed in
the lowly cottage of the poor. All hail to
the American press! Long may she live
and may her shadow never grow less.
The pharos of the nation, may her light
never be extinguished,
As some tall eliG that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale and midway leaves the
storm,
Though IoInd its base the rolling clouds are
spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head"
Here oar religious liberties tower like
the Alps above every other people on the
face of the globe. Our motto is: Special
legislation for none and equal rights for
all. Here every man can worship God
according to the dictates OF his own con-
science, under his own vine and fig-tree,
none daring TO modest or make him
afraid.
"Columbla welcomes to her doors
The Gentle and the Jew.
And finds home upon her shores
For men Of every hue.
She asks not what th>ir crced may be,
Nor IL in prayer they fall;
Yet while She gives them liberty,
One iiag must cover all.
The Christian may enjoy his creed
Beneath the Strips ana Stars,
The heathen praise his wooden god,
And Juggernau. his cars.
All freely here may meet in peace
In Freedoms ample hail,
But all rebeIlious wars mus; cease;
One flag must cover all
Ursins Jottings.
Don't forget the institute at Confluence,
Friday evening and Saturday next.
Rev. Petrea will preach in tine Lutheran
church, Sunday, at 2;30.
Mr.. and Mrs. DR.. Kuhlman, Mrs. Sell