The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30


flag. We unfurl the flag of nation which
has never wronged any other people, and
Will submit to wrong from none- We un-
furl that flag which has called from an
American poet this splendid burst of i'm
agery:
Flag of the free hearts hope and home;
BY angel hands to valor given;
Thy stars have lit the welken dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
What we do here is an object lesson.
It's no holiday but the practical teaching
tant is this-that next to ones duty to God
and his neighbor, every man owes unques-
tloning loyalty to his country. Not merely
loyalty Of the lips. That is easy; but that
kind of loyalty of which l shall now speak,
crowned if necessary by the same sacrifice
made by the MANNED and SCARED and gray
haired veterans whose feet will hallow the
streets of St. Paul next week, when the
test came to them. Not alone they, but
those hundreds of thousands who on fame s
eternal camping ground sleep the sleep that
shall know no reveile until the arch angel s
trumpet shall call the dead to rise.
desire to impress upon the young men
here the full significance of that flag. 1t con-
tains a most beautiful trinity of color-but
1t symbolzes another trinity absolutely es-
sential to good citizenship. Do not imagine
that patriotism, like rife. is only necessary
in times of war or public peril. Real patri-
otism, like the true service of Cod is a
living. ever-present daily duty. And it is
duty which cannot be delegated. Each
citizen must do his duty individually.
That flag symbolizes justice; 1t symbolizes
liberty under the law: 1t symbolizes power.
When l say justice, do not mean particular
ly to refer to the moral precept to do unto
others as we would have others do to our
selves but by political justice, / mean that
sturdy patriotism that accords to every citi-
zen the full measure of his rights under
the law, and insists upon the weak as well
as the strong having those rights secured.
By liberty under the law, l mean to dis
tinguish liberty from license. For the law
in the republic is but the compact made by
the citizens in their aggregate capacity with
each individual in his private capacity, by
which the relations of the state towards the
citizens and the citizens towards the state
and each other are defined and regulated. So
that it is mark and a duty of good citi-
zenship to obey the laws oneself and strength
en- the arms of your servants who administer
it. The true American is willing to live for
the flag and all it symbolizes, as we'll as to
die for 1t If necessary. And strange as 1t may
seem, it is harder to live for it than to die
for it.
Remember we'll in this land there should
not be-there must not be, if the republic is
to continue-any class to be favored or any
class to be warred upon. No color of skin to
bar the worthy man woman; no religious
creeds to be outlawed All men here are
great that the law cannot reach him. No
one so humble that its shield will not cover
his weakness.
the streets of Boston between the people and
the soldiers of King George III. The king 9
people called it a riot; Boston called ii a
massacre. 1t was really the prelude-the
bugle call-of the Revolution Five citizens
were killed, and singular to relate, they rep
resented four races of men. The sweetest
poet OF my race, who proved his fitness for
American citizenship by going down through
the shadow of the valley of death for lib
erty In his own land, has told this story in
such exquisite verse that 1 know you will
thank me for this quotation:
When the bullets leaped from the British
guns no chance decreed their a m;
Men see what the royal hirelings saw-a null
titude and fame
But beyond the flame, a mystery; FIVE dying
men In the street
While the streams of the severed races in the
well of nation meet.
Oh, blood of the people! changeless tide,
through century, creed and race!
Still one as the sweet salt sea is one though
tempered by sun and space.
The same in the ocean currents, the same in
the sheltered seas.
Forever the fountain of common hopes and
kindly sympathies
Indian and negro, Saxon and Celt, Teuton
and Latin and Gaul-
Mere surface shadow and sunshine-while the
sounding unihes ALL
One love, one hope one duty-theirsi No
matter the time or ken,
There never was separate heartbeat in all
the races of men,
In this l am teaching true democracy or
true republicanism; for these words mean
the same Not in a shallow party sense; we
know no parties here, but an Americanism
as broad as our land and as grand as its
constitution.
I teach individual manhood and individual
responsibility. l measure men by what they
are and what they do, not by what their
fathers or grandfathers may have BEEN. The
real test Of American citizenship is individual
well doing.
Honor and state from no conditions rise,
Act we'll your part, there all the honor lies. -
And 1 may add, there too lies the safety OF
the republic.
have briefly referred to our flag as sym.
bolizng justice and liberty; it also symbol
ICES power. 1t tells the story how our fathers
won freedom from a king, and wrote its
charter as an everlasting covenant for the
children OF men. 1t tells the story how In
1Sl2 they preserved both from the same power
1t tells of all our struggles and triumphs
on sea and land, with foreign foes; until from
the vista OF the near past rises up the last
great struggles with ourselves For at las
the supreme test came when in 1876 we con.
quered our own
You know the story How in April 1861
the challenge of madness from a cannon's
mouth at Charleston shores crashed agains
the granite walls of Sumter. 1t was spoken
IN anger, 1t was answered in sorrow and in
love- 1t was spoken in the mistaken AFRO
gance OF power; it was answered in an humble
trust in freedoms God.
COO bless the men that answered it. Goo
rest the souls of those who died that the
nation might live. God bless and preserve
and make happy the declining years of thai
Grand Army that still survives
Grant turned from Richmond at the CITY,.
gate, TOO magnanimous to unnecessarily
humble gallant people. That he was right
tlme has demonstrated. That flag can count
today, If necessary to its defense, in thu
hearts blood of the veterans in gray who
fought with Lee
1t is thirty-one years ago since the las
gun was fired at Appomattox court house
men of the South-laid down his sword .,
the feet of Grant-matchless among tn,
matchless men of the world. But not K
Ulysses S. Grant was this surrender made
not to his heroic soldiery; not to Abraham
Lincoln so soon to step with the MARTYR,
crown up to the great white throne; not Il
lne people then or now; but to God and free
dom. To God and freedom because when
from HIS Almighty hand this earth was poised
In space and this wondrous land rose lilx,
venus from the sea, He SO traced It's water,
ana set It's mountain barriers that he wrot,
| thereon. this is freedoms home forever
Our Union is ocean, lake, river and skv.
Man breaks not the medal when God cuts tn,
die. S s
Other speakers on the nroo.ra r,n,e
were Capt. w. H. Harries. the Rev
Mr.. Avison. of Clinton avenue M r
church; Rev l.. G. Arnett, of Bethan,
congregational, John V. I. Dodd anc
Rev. Mr.. Hitler, pastor of the Germa
Lutheran church. A notice was e-iver
at the close of the programme of J
camp fire meeting Tuesday night al
| Paul Martins opera house to which
all are cordially invited.
To Savings DepOsitors and Others
The next interest term of the Saw.
ings Bank of ST. Paul will commence
Sept. L, 1896 Money in sums of IS Ol
or more deposited before Sept. g. 1885,
will draw months interest Jan. 1. 1897
One dollar deposits received. Fifth
and Jackson streets.