The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-23
SPRING OF PATRIOTISM
Continued from First Page.


from the Granddaughter to the Ural mount
aims, there came 70 900 sons of other lands.
making total foreign legion of nearly
400 COO, almost twice large the army
that read a meaning into the Declaration
of Independence that all the world could
understand. The countrymen of Pulaski,
of Steuben, Of D'Estang and Lafayette
were the comrades to the countrymen of
Washington and Jefferson. In the blue bat
talions that made wall from the Atlantic
to the Missouri there stood a million men.
the scions of families that had been trans
planted to America within a few genera
lions. but no recruiting sergeant raised the
objection that their family trees had hard
ly struck root in American soil. All were
adopted as sons of this great country, and
were baptized at the bloody affairs of bat
tie.
1t is our pride that we have no laws
of primogeniture to disinherit all but one
an accident of birth. 1t is our custom that
the adopted child shall share alike with
the others. 1t should be glory that
our inheritance is the inheritance of all
within our borders.
We claim right-and 1t is the noblest
trait in human nature-to share in the good
and great of every age and land. We must
in turn claim no exclusive right in mem
cries of our own. but be proud that they
are the richest in patriotism and power
full to stir the best impulses of the human
heart. We who are here tonight are but
adopted sons of this great commonwealth
but its history is our history its fame
is our fame. When the First Minnesota
reached down among the bayonets of Get
tysburg and plucked from the thorns of bat
tie the crimson rose of fadeless glory it's
valor became legacy. not alone to the
children in whose veins flows its blood
not alone to the adopted sons of this great
state, not alone to the loyal legions that
swept out of the sparsely settled West to
maintain the integrity OF the government
but to every heart in this broad land that
thrills in recognition of a glorious duty
heroically performed.
When the next trial comes to this ma
ton the sons of every civilized country
on the globe will be standing by the side
of the descendants of the Puritans The
heart of conflict will weld their hearts
in Irresistible unity. But such fusion
should not await the flames of war. The
patriotic societies of the land should form
a catholic confederation. sharing their
memories of the past with all who find
their creed in the constitution and nav
ing the most patriotic tribute to the
heroes of the past by securing the per
petuity of their work In the future They
should lead in the unification of the ma
ton until it recognizes its protective re-
sponsibility to the little struggling repub
lies of the Western hemisphere, the chill
dren OF its own example; until 1t realizes
that, II the American republic stands for
anything different than other nations. it
Is to see that justice, not of the law but
of equity, is done at least on this CONT
nent, by moral suasion If possible, by
IL AcSSSSdIy ludL ABOVE the law
Of nations stands the law of humanity:
that. when women and children are butch
cred within hearing of our shores. we are
false to the principles we profess, we dis
honor the assistance given us when we
were struggling for existence.
The patriotic societies should lead to
the formation of the grandest patriotic So
ciety on the earth, whose members should
number seventy-f1ve millions of people Its
badge should be the beloved banner that
floats over us; whose white stripes tell of
equal opportunities for all who dwell under
it's folds; whose red bars speak in living
lines of the blood that was shed that this
nation might exist; whose blue field sy=m-
bolizes the possibilities of the future, as
limitless as the blue field that reaches from
us to the confines of eternity; whose stars
are the hopes and inspirations of all lib