, 1896-07-06

Pennsylvania. the statue of Liberty en-
Tightening the world would illuminate
the Golden Gate. New England would
be undiscovered and the moccasined
Indian would be hunting zeal on the
site OF Wall Street. Prosperity is in
dependence. The east has stood at that
pie counter for just 100 years; has
grown rich, fat. dyspeptic; don't like
pie. The west is here, the great and
growing west. with ar appetite like a
hired man. Wants hat pie passed
round. Wont you give me the core
to that apple?" Young fellow, there
amt going to be no core" The west
was signed, but the west is here now.
that declarations child, with a filial
love as steadfast as her mountains, as
broad as are her far flung plains. Here
to claim her inheritance in the price
less legacy Of the past and to guard
that legacy from spendthrift hands.
Here to say to those who would make
Americas monetary policy the tail to a
foreign kite that scars while the world
sinks. what Washington said to the
captured Tories at Yorktown. go
home! England's your country And
they went. Here to say what in ITO
Philadelphia said to the reclacitrant
merchants of New York. those mer-
chants who. after entering into a COM
pact to enforce a colonial policy by the
non-importation Of English goods, and
then broke that compact for gain,-
Send us you liberty pole. You ap.
pear to have no further use for it,"
Here to say that if this country could
make that declaration then, she is rich
enough. and big enough n brave
enough to make it now. She knows
no good but the common good. no lines
but u common frontier.
l stood the other day in the door Of a
ranchman's cabin that nestles at the
foot of yonder range. 1t was built of
logs and knew no paint or plaster, but
in the best room in it a large official
map Of the United States, the gift Of a
generous government, had been tackled
up by reverent hands to make the cell
ing. 1t was just the right size. The
room framed the map. and the first
thing the children saw when they
opened their eyes in the morning was
a map of the whole United States, ev,
cry acre in it. That's Wyoming pa
trietism, a vision not bounded by a
barbed wire fence.
The west is here. Here to say we
want no int~erlineations written in that
document in the red ink of Lombard
street. Amend the 10 commandments,
improve upon the multiplication ia,
BILE, but let the Declaration Of hide.
pendence stand! 1t is good enough.
Good enough to raise the American
flag in a cloudless sky and fill its am>
pie folds with the favoring winds of
fortune. Good enough to place within
the idle hand OF toll a key that will
unlock the wealth Of rock-ribbed hills.
Good enough to pour into the veins OF
PROSTATE trade a tide Of life that will
raise her to her feet. Good enough to
kindle the fires in %smoldering forgcs.
start the wheels in silent factories
give to the mechanic, work and its re-
something besides exercise: and to
capital as honest a dollar as ever fell
from a country's mint. Good enough
to whiten with cotton blossoms south
ern sun-lit fields, carpet the valleys OF
the north with golden grain, crown ev-
cry hilltop with an unmortgaged home
and cover the sea with the white wing
ed messengers of an American COM
merce. No land Is free that is the slave
Of fear. No community is independent
when the prices OF the necessities of
life r the %playthings Of trusts and
combines. No country has liberty
where willing industry is idle and Ia
Dor begs for a chance to work. But
that declaration solved the American
| pl OOlSIA tACh II H. q ooiNO II
American problem now Its glory and
it's gift are ours. Ever old and ever
young it bears the seeds of its own
Life. The political sophisms Of one age
are the political maxims Of the next.
The herasies Of today are the creeds
Of tomorrow. Political parties grasp
the reins OF power and drop them from
their %nerveless hands. One thing re-
mains; one pole star shine above the
shifting consultations. %humanity's
hope. American Independence.
At the conclusion of the exercises at
the park, a salute of As guns was fired
on the university grounds at precisely
IL o'clock, and then all repaired to
their homes or to the public places
where dinner had been prepared. after
ward ~congregating on Grand avenue to
witness the hose races, which began at
1:3O.
The judges selected for the event
were Messrs. w. E. Hiskey, T. ]. Day.
ton and James Hills, and the timers
Messrs. Jesse Converse, e. D. Carter
and Charles w. DeKay.
THE WET TEST.
For the wet test the companies drew
No. 3, No. 2, No. 4. No. 8 made a very
pretty run. but in unreeling the hose 1t
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