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virtues, when love of the nation and 8
desire for its glory ceased to be the frs,
and most consuming passion, when they
failed to welcome the morning and bic
farewell to the evening sun with an in.
vocation to the deity in whose temple is
kept the precious jewel of national love
and devotion, the hand of the DESTROYER
was already upon them. The chroniclel
tells you that it was an invasion of bar.
barians, or change in the stream of com.
merce, or an increase of internal corrup.
ton, or love of ostentation and riches
or carelessness of wrong and suffering
that struck the fatal blow. These thing:
are but symbols. AS long as men love
their country with love above all 9th
ers, as long as her sacredness is their re-
ligion, as long as they think first of hel
glory and her advancement, so long arr
they secure against the assaults of time
although they have no clothing but the
skins of wild beasts and no weapons bu1
the sharpened flint. Give of your tirs1
and your best to the nation and you viii
not have given in vain.
believe that no better use can be
made of this day of memories and of re-
joicing than to make it the starting
point for US all of new devotion to the
national idea. The people are athirst fo1
draughts of the elixir of life that made
their fathers great. Speak where you
will to-day to Americans as Americans,
appeal to their love for our common
country, and you touch chord that vi
brates throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Our public men are too
dead to this note. this noble choid in the
peoples life. The opportunities of min
istering to the spirit of nationalism are
not closed to us. The mission of this
Republic to the world is not closed; it
has but barely begun. The American
flag is wide enough to cover with its
folds the peoples Of the earth.
We want men and policies that will
carry the gospel of Americanlsm from
lands end to lands end, as the High
lander carried his blazing cross when the
clans were to be called to arms. Let us
have policies at home and abroad such
as will minister to the true glory of the
American name.
Is there a people down t1odden and
weary with the trappings of
ready to cast in their lot with
the grea. republic, in Gods name extend
to them the hand of welcome. Is there
a question on which the world is divided
let America lead the way. Is there a
domestic policy which will set the Unit
ed States above her peers and shed glory
on the American name, in Gods name
give it Roadway, be Its consequences
what they may.
This country was ordained to live that
it might blaze the way for human pro-
gress and human liberty. 1t will not do
that by timorously crawling along the
path where others have gone down to
their shame. 1t was meant t. be lead
7r; and anything less than leadership is
lishonor. Let it match it's peerless re-
sources and its irresistible power and its
intelligence with policies that
will impress the humblest man who
claims citizenship within it with the ma
tional idea. Thus helping and saving 9TH
ers,it will help and save itself. 1t will es-
cape the dull decline Of the commonplace
and the dry rot of Journalism and the ia
tai blight under which the governments
OF the Ola world, which have Outllved
their usefulness, are fastening to obliv-
ion.
By the memory of this great day that
saw a nation born, let 1t live true to it.
self and to the high purposes of which
alone nation has right to live. With
all that this memory implies, let US give
ourselves wholly to the cause of Amer.
canism, and pledgeto it, with the solemn
devotion that brought our country into
being, our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor.
At Turner Hall Park.
Turner Hall attracted quite a share Of