The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-13

perpeIuate IulS prlnclple that crlmSOned
the brow of Lookout Mountain-deluged
the bloody angle and saturated the field of
Shiloh with the blood of American
heroes--it was in defense Of these princi-
pies that the stores, workshops and farms
emptled their occupants into the ranks OF
that grand army which hewed its way
from the Ohio to the gulf and bid the
Father OF Waters again go unvexed to the
sea- which paved the swamps and bayous
with the bones of the missing. Such
material was quarried, hewn and marked
by the Grand Master of the Universe and
fitted to become imperishable stones in
the temple of human progress.
Who has stood on Arlington Heights
beside the gathered bones of the uncof-
fined and unknown and not been solemnly
reminded of determination and bravery in
defending and solidifying the grand arch
of eternal justice, and, by their dumb elo-
quence, been inspired with spirit of I'M
dying loyalty to the right?
1t was those invincible ranks. i'm bued
which hurled back that terrible charge at
Gettysburg or were baptized in the fires of
hell at Fredericksburg, which gave hui
manity new life. 1t was the musket
bearer, weighted with the paraphernala
of war, bearing the burden and heat of the
day, who rolled away the stone from the
door of the sepulcher and loosed there
nun bWO WHltO oiiN
Liberty.
We claim, and no doubt our claim is
true that the governmental plan founded
by the fathers of this republic approaches
nearer perfection than any conceived by
man, yet no human government is so good
that it may not be better. We must not
stand at parade rest facing the dead past,
but breathing inspiration from the silent
tombs of fallen comrades, about face, act
the living present, touch elbows, keep
step to the music of advancing civiliZa-
ton, and weave into the web of constitu-
tional liberty the wool of healthy and
vigorous progress.
Never forget that the present is the
child and heir of the past, and inevitably
linked to the years as the guardian and
parent of the future--that in the lives of
all men as well as all nations, progression
should be the rule and retrogression the
eption-that life S length is not meas
ured by its hours and days but by that
which we have done therein for our coun
try and kind. We who have been permit
ted to watch our flag floating on
the crest of the bow of peace, as it
cleaned through the smoke of battle and
clouds of civil war, should remember that
while the bloody battles have been won.
our bloodlcss duties have but Just begun,
Standing in the presence of the graves of
those boys
lHB ~ slleHl ny HlBHI anu Dv Jay
Sleeping the years of their manhood away"
our hearts should be elevated to that sub
lime loyalty which would impel us to in
still into the rising generation that i'm
perishable devotion to patriotism which
will never permit our emblem of freedom
to float with a current of corruption and
misrule or our national craft to drift upon
the Scyla of anarchy or the Charybdis of
despotism.
1t is not enough for people to gain its
liberty--that is the natural God-given
right of man-it must defend it, With us
the keystone of the arch (of the temple of
liberty is fundamental law or constitu-
ton, and it is as much our duty to be
vigilant in its defense in peace as in war
never forgetting that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty
AS people let us not despise honest
poverty, ever remem bering that even now
there may be youth, clad in ragged
habiliments moulding mud forts with
American soil who, in the coming years,
may control the destinies of this nation;
direct it's armies and whose grave, future
generations may delight to wreathe with
flowers and revere as consecrated ground;
but strive to elevate the dignity of labor
and close the chasm between the toiler
and the arrogance of wealth, for toiling
hands are builders of a nations wealth
and fame and the
"Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket
May beclothe the golden ore,
Or the deepest thoughts and feeling
Satin vest can do no more"
Lock the gates of our ports against the
influx of an unassimilative, anarchistic
immigration. Permit none to enter Uncle
Sans domain except those of good re-
pute, coming we'll recommended. When
our gates swing back to admit others
from foreign shore, demand that then
and there they shall furl their flag, that
they shall be ADMITTED to full fellowship
only after strict trial, full examination
and found worthy and well qualified to
assume the duties and responsibilities of
American citizenship.
Before attempting with one fell swoop
to absorb into our body polite an ndi-
gestible, heterogeneous mass of people of
other lands, let us diagnose our own con-
dition and perhaps we may find traces of
poi SON lurking in our national system
which may require heroic treatment-an
application of powerful antdotes-a purg-
ing-a publication of the blood, before we
can fully eradicate the germs of threat
ened evils and properly administer to the
wants of seventy millions at home.
Be vigilant lest our asylum for the op-
pressed become the abode of the oppres-
sor and, in once honored home OF the
brave, the Goddess of Liberty be found
weeping at the sepulchre of the free.
w
mics of the people are found intrenched
behind the breastworks of illegal combi-
nations or ill-gotten gains, and are de-
Tended by those armed with briefly dele
gated authority, demand an "uncon-
ditional surrender and lombard them
with ballots as effectively as you once did
with bullets.
Encourage learning, for it is the great
artery through which flows the life blood
Of the nation-its hope, vitality and power.
Since time was, that people which nur-
tured it most stood the nearest to the
pinnacle of fame, justice and right. 1t
state in its undertaking course to the
realms of broadcast liberty. At its appear
ance Ignorance flies to the caves of dark
ness; and when ignorance makes way for
reason, anarchy and despotism, twin rel
les of barbarism, wither and perish.
Our school houses, with the merry
songs and ringing, rollicking laughter of
youthful America, are the Gibraltars OF
our country's perpetuity; stronger cita-
tels than Gordon of forts or all the iron
clad squadrons of the nations. Education.
properly directed, instills into the youths |
)f the land intense patriotism; that free
ION IS not anarchy and liberty is not
1nbridled license; it eleyates the standard |
IF citizenship to such degree that, in |
TACT rs well as in name, it will ever be |
hailed AZ the proudest exclamation of !
man, II am an American citizen"
Each year, while standing in the pres
ence of the fowerwreathed graves OF de- |
parted comrades, and breathing inspira. |
ion from their hallowed memories, let us
'egister VOW that the symbol OF our ma |
,ionality shall never become an unknown |
emblem on land or sea-. that no power
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