New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-07-08
70 UI1d BROWN COUNTY a1INl. WEDNESDAY, july

er settled, and also that not one single
state Of this dazzling galaxy shall ever
have the right to secede. .t$
Fellow citizens, let us one and all on
this great day realize our great respon-
sibilities, and renew our vows Of fidelity
to our country. Let us stead lastly main
tain what the constitution declares and
the war determined, that this country
shall never be divided. That division
and secession shall not be tolerated.
May wesby our own daily voice and con-
duct infuse into all newcomers to our
shores that this government is steadfast,
enduring and fixed. That the basis of
good laws and good government is good
men, and that demagogues, parasites and
|agitators can find no comfort among us
Let us resolve that our future represen-
titives shall he men of broad minds and
broader sympathies. and above all men
who are thoroughly devoted to this
country and its welfare as I. whole, men
who will not look beyond this Union IN
search Of possibilities, men who are sat.
isfed that 10 this Union we owe our safe
.ty at home and our dignity and consi-
sdcration abroad. And may the time soon
come when loyalty and patriotism shall
be the crucible wherein our nations law
makers and rulers shall be tested.
We feel confident that our. citadel of
freedom is 50 firmly established on its
foundation. that treason cannot shake it.
Yet the wise and thoughtful men of this
generation should ever be alert for it can
hardly be expected that a ship should
forever sail upon summer sea.
It is favorite conceit that, because
the age in which we live has witnessed
such marvellous progress in lsti'...re and
art, that we arc further advanced in po-
lltical wisdom than our fathers; but
wonderful as has been our development
in wealth, prosperity and general intel
ligence, the student Of history must ad-
NIT that no age. prior or subsequent, has
produced such a galaxy of wise, patriot
ic and incorruptible statesmen as those
who laid the foundation Of this repub-
lie.
They were not, indeed, the authors of
human liberty nor the inventors of So,
cial and political science; but with mar.
velous prescience, they read the pages
of the future and forsaw alike the tri-
$umphs and trials of the years to come.
Scarcely a problem has confronted cur
social and political life which they did
mot consider, and the fact remains that
the constitution which they gave to the
new nation remains today, the highest
embodiment of human wisdom and the
chief hulwark of human liberty.
Another bulwar:l of liberty whose
maintenance is essential to the perpetu-
ity of our institutions, is free, fearless
and incorruptible press. No other agen-
cy is SO potent for good or evil in our
midst. Before it tyranny is powerless
;.pd vice a assembling fugitive. It is at
once the moulder and the oracle of pub
lie opinion, and while its warning voice
is sounded from the watch-towers of So
cicty the state is safe alike from outward
Iseige and internal plot.
Not less incumbent upon The patriotic
citizen is the duty of supporting the sys-
TEN of popular education. Foreign COM
mentators who are disposed, perhaps, 10
give 100 little credit to our form of gov
eminent, are accustomed to attribute
our prosperity chiefly to this feature of
our political aud social system. 1t is
not probable that we who have expert
senced its beneficial effect will ever be
Rdisposed to- underyalue this potent ele-
ment of our prosperity, but it is approp-
.riate on this occasion to suggest that its
usefulness from the standpoint of the
patriot might be enhanced if more atten-
tion were given to acquiring familiarity
with the institutions under which we
live and a lively interest IN all that a.
wakens and promotes patriotic zeal.
The rising generations should be infused
with the spirit of heroism from their
earliest years, and versed in the chroni-
cles Of gallant deeds that tower like
Rhenisll castles above the stream of time.
The man will not be deaf to duty's
call who in his rllildndod days is taught
the story ofs Leonidas and lis Spartan
band who held Thermopylae against tile
Persian hosts;sof Winkelried who gath
cred in his breast the Aus srian spears,
and through his death opened the way
Ito switzerland's independence Of Tells
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