The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-02

have come Saxon and Celt, Teuton and
Norsemen, and you have come to stay.
Under the roof trees of your adopted
home your children and your children's
children have gathered, and when your
earthly tasks are ended you will find
your last resting place in this soil and
under these skies. You have burned
the bridges behind you and have
thrown off any allegiance to any foreign
power. But how shall you fulfill the
obligations which rest upon US today
The fact of foreign birth is no barrier to
the highest type of American citizen
ship. Thank God there are multi
tudes of men of foreign birth who are
as true Americans as any born under
the flag. On the other hand, there are
those who can trace their ancestry
back to colonial times who ape the
manners of rotten foreign aristoc-
racy and sell their daughters like sheep
at the shambles for foreign titles to
titled tricksters and rascals with long
names and lists of gambling debts still
longer,
These are Americans by birth and in
name only, but are false to the highest
ideal of American citizenship. The
hope of the republic is in the great
body of the people who own the land
and till the soil of the country. Here is
the stable and conservative element
who do their own thinking and who
cannot be reached by the wiles of the
corrupt demagogue. The newspapers
their forum and during the long even
ings of winter days they have time to
consider carefully and intelligently the
vital issues of the hour
And to you, young men and women
of the third and fourth generations, per-
nit me to remind you that in the forty
or fifty years of probable life before you
you will be privileged to live in the
most marvellous era that the world has
yet seen. Man has never before sub
dued and utilized the forces of nature
as now and harnessed them to the
chariot of progress. Our natural re-
sources, so prodigally bestowed upon
us by nature, and which have as yet
been only touched will be opened up
and developed and by the aid of scien
tiic discoveries and mans wonderful
inventions will bring about a golden
period of material prosperity. But
with prosperity comes danger and that
danger can only be averted by the ex
ercise of the principles of truth, justice
and righteousness. To you and such as
you, will soon be committed The destiny
of your country, with all it's vast posi-
bilities, and some time you will be
called upon to answer how the great
task committed to you has been per-
formed.
A comic recitation was rendered in
excellent style by Munson Paddock,
Jr., after which Judge E. 0. Hand, of
Racine, was introduced. The judge
had great many pretty things to say
about Kenosha county and it's pioneers.
He referred il a sweeping way to the
growth of the state and country, their
expanse of territory, their material
prosperity, the growth of invention and
all and based them upon the early work.
of the pioneer. He pointed out the
necessity for patriotism in perpetuating
our magnificent institutions founded by
them. He urged that if we love our
country we show it and continually
talk about it. He saw no reason why
we should hide our pride in the institu-
lions the pioneers founded, though he
acknowledged that there were evils
growing up we must meet and down.
He dwelt on the tramp problem and
urged repressiye measures. Contempt
of law, he said, was growing and
pointed out the fact that many of our
officials are elected sometimes under
promise that certain laws will
not be enforced. This has terrible
tendency toward anarchy.
He denounced the maudlin senti-
mentality so frequently displayed now
a-days over criminals and thought it
an incentive to crime.
His protest against the dumping OF
foreign criminals on our shores was