The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-07-02
THE WHITE PINE NEWS.
Saturday, July 2, 1898.
FOREVER.


Many are the days in the history OF
this fair land of ours to which the peo-
pie can look back with just and honor
able pride, days that have witnessed
Industrial. social and military triumphs
such as no other nation on the face OF
the globe can boast Of. But there are
three DAYS that above all others are
notable as landmarks in the progress OF
liberty. The first, the 4th of July, l776;
the second, the 22nd of September,
1862: and the last, the 18th day of April
of this present year. On those three
DAYS all that is best in the hearts OF the
people found expression in words which
we have maintained on the battlefield,
and from the seeds of patriotism that
we're sown and watered with the blood
OF the flower of our young manhood
has sprung a nation, the mightiest in
the world, because its people are free.
Next Monday we will celebrate the
I92nd anniversary of the first of these
three days, the one which above all
others is dear to the hearts of all true
Americans. 1t was the birthday OF
Liberty, when a little knot of deter
mined men, representing a people goad-
ed beyond endurance by the injustice
and oppression of a t%yrannous king,
framed and signed hat document that
remains unique in the history of the
world, the Declaration of Independence
of the American people. With an as
surance born of conviction, these men
declared truths to be self-evident which
II universally accepted, would have
re~volutionized the society of Europe
and would have swept away the foun-
dations beneath her thrones.
THAT all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain u~nalienable rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness, - who is there who would
deny it in these latter days of the 10th
century? The doubter need only to
compare the condition of the common
people here with that of the aristocracy
ridden peasantry OF Europe. On the
one hand he will find education, thrift
and happy homes, on the other ig-
norance, poverty and squalor.
Yet so strong is the power of preiu-
dice and custom, that it took eighty
six years for the people of this country
to learn to apply impartially the princi-
pies which their fathers stated so clear
". Beside the mansion of the master
was the cabin of the slave. Liberty
and Slavery grew up side by side until
the cry of misery arising from the South
became more than the conscience of the
North could bear. The struggle came
and above the din of battle the voice of
Abraham Lincoln was heard from one
end of the land to the other, proclaim
ing that freedom is for all men, black
as well as white. The Emancipation
Proclamation did more than free the
slaves, it freed the country from a
wrong which well nigh tore it asunder.
The seed Of dissention has been destroy
ed and North, South, East and West,
the heat of the battle forgotten, hand
In hand have advanced with mighty
strides to a condition of prosperity that
is the wonder OF the world.
And now We have reached a new
stage in our Development. The bless
ings of liberty which we enjoy at home
we have taken up arms to carry abroad.
The American people, aroused to right
eous anger by the crying of starving
children, the shrieks of outraged wom-
en-, and the groans of dying men, which
have reached our ears from the shores
of bleeding Cuba, have said to Spain,
Glands off!' What all the Powers of
Europe dared not say to the unspeaka-
BILE Turk, we have said to the proud
Castilian. The lesson which neither
policy or humanity has been able to
teach him, we viii enforce atthe mouth
OF our amor The flower OF our youth
is sailing to the ends of the world to en-
force our mandate, battles have already
been fought and victories won. Yet If
a CLEAN from the lamp of the Goddess
of Liberty, which shines so ~gloriously
in our W enlightened land, can be
made to penetrate the night OF oppres-
sion which has so long enshrouded the
the shores of the Spanish possessions,
who viii count the loss of blood and
treasurer Let our battle-cry be Lib
erty forever, for ourselves, our neigh
bors and all the world"
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