The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-06
NATIONS BIRTHDAY
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(Contlnued From tlfSt rage, | people and fail to appreciate the insti- | tutions under whose shadows they have sWelled to such proportions. We are re- | minded to-day that such institutions as ours are expensive, they cost men. ! This memory Is quckened by the ech- oes of the great Victorian jubilee, still looming across the water, as proud and mighty England halls the splendid wo- | man Who whether as ruler wife or mother has held the admiration or the world for sixty years, We gladly 1oln in this acclaim. the more as We remem- Der that, during these sixty years We l have not been dependent colony put | a free nation, winning the respect or l the mother-land and the regard or her | noble queen; and we rejoice in those conclusions which our fathers valor es- tablished some decades before this glo- riouts reign began. The perils, the | hardships, and heartaehes of the colo nial period. the splendid courage, the | dogged persistence, the immortal sacrl- fees of the revolutionary era, are made sublimely real and we perceive that | privileges like ours can only be bought l by mans devotion and woman's tears. | The men of the past are worthy or our homage, their spirit compels our ven- eration, their deeds are resplendent still,
 They founded deep and well
 Those danger chosen chiefs of men,
 They were not narrow little and te- dious men as the fiippant speech of l some would name them. Behind their I stern fronts they carried the broadest notions of human rights the world had yet received, their simple forms were the chaste ritual of great thoughts. | their rugged lives moved, step, by step, | in time with Gods eternal purposes. The Quaker minstrel saw them in true perspective when he sang of Columbia: | No lack was in thy primal stock, l No weakling founders builded here; Thine were the men of Plymouth Rock,
 The Hugenots and Cavalier.
 If we are men and Americans, If pros perity and the pride of life and a spuri- ous culture have not dried up the foun- tains of patriotism we must continue to reverence these men and celebrate their deeds. On this day at least let I the voice of criticism and detraction be l hushed, let the sneers of small-minded men who see only the hard creed and solemn lives of those days be met by an annual outburst of patriotic feeling (which shall declare the spirit of Lexing ton, of Valley Forge, and of Yorktown Is still regnant in our breasts and our appreciation of what our fathers wrought in patience, faith and prayer, and blood grows keener with the pass ing years.
 "The time for it has come: old names are becoming meaningless; old rallying cries are losing their inspiring power; the people are intent upon regaining their rights; they are determined to be obeyed; and God is back of the unrest guarding the truths He committed to our fathers. We are at the portals of a new century; we have united peo- pie standing with uncovered heads be- meath the same flag. Our land is throb- ping with the prophetic pulsings of the larger life that is to be; our cities are widening to the significance of munich pal problems, and withdrawing them- selves from the complications of parti- san politics; wise and high-minded men are perceiving the importance of civic duties and the honorableness of public trusts; social, industrial and economic questions of infinite magnitude are pressing for solution; in diplomacy, in literature, in scholarship, in commerce and manufacture. the brightest laurels this earth grows are waiting our brows.
 Let us announce it our New Declar- ation of Independence of everything that weakens, corrupts or degenerates, of everything that stands in the way of the holy federation of man and the kingdom of God. No longer let us cher ish that sentiment, dear to the heart, of God, America for man., the teacher of man, the leader of man, the cham pion of man, the generous fountain Of all that dignifies, exalts and blesses man, the land where man comes to his noblest stature and his divinest work. And the men of foreign birth, but kin dred to us in spirit, in love of liberty and hope for man-the German and l Scandinavian of the west, the Welsh and English from the mines and mills, the negro from the cotton fields, the Irish, and Hebrew, and Italian-the
 men of every color and creed who be-
 lieve in what the flag stands for, and
 love the land which gives them the
 protection of law and the rights of
 manhood, toiling beside the versatile
 Huguenot, the sturdy Dutchman and
 the thrifty New Englander of the orig
 inal stocks. and mingling with theirs } as pure blood, as lofty purposes, as
 strong a faith shall save the republic
 and make it the joy of the whole earth.
 "'So shall the northern pioneer go joy
 full on his way;
 ITO wed Penobscot's waters to San Francisco's bay,
 To make the rugged places smooth, and SOW the wales with grain And bear, with liberty and law, the Bi- ble in his train
 l The mighty west shall bless the east and sea shall answer sea, And mountain unto mountain call Praise God. for we are free" Fireworks on the Green. Fully twenty thousand assembled on the old green last evening to witness