The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-05
INEW JOURNAL COURIER. TUESDAY.

they do not take kindly to "the gospel l ot your majesty's sacred person or to the enunciation "The State It is l." Parliament slowly gains it's power, loses it, gains 1t again, is corrupt, re- forms Itself, struggles to it's present | place against proclamations of divine
 right, against standing armies meant to l support despots on their thrones,
 against star chambers and courts of 1 high commission, against the absolutists I like the Stuarts, against the atroclous attempts of Spain, fitting out an arma-
 da with the money she had robbed from
 the New World, to crush English liber- l ties! But Providence is on the side of
 the people, Charles is beheaded, James | is dethroned, Drake overcomes the ar
 mada and makes the United States pos
 sible. That nation comes into possess
 sion of a continent, at one time mostly 1 held by Spain. Surely God has proven
 himself on the side of the common peo-
 pie and not with Charles ". or Philip | IT. or Louis XIV,
 | When the cause of freedom seemed 1 lost in the old world he sifted nation
 that he might have choice wheat to
 plant in the wilderness of the new
 The English speaking race has moulded
 the destinies of this continent and the Puritan element has been it's strongest | ingredient. The long forehnger of Cape Cod beclloned to them and they came.
 They left brave little Holland, to
 whom we are so greatly indebted for fundamental ideas in our government,
 At home they had been persecuted, but
 not annihilated. Their emigrants were the choicest of their suffering cham pions.
 They were not impelled by passion of
 discovery, nor greed of trade, nor pur- pose of conquest such as actuated other Spanish or English explorers. They
 dared all that men have ever dared, seeking only freedom to worship God. Their successors, the patriots of the Continental congress, seemed to Lord
 Chatham imposing beyond the law
 givers of Greece and Rome. George
 William Curtis confesses that the Pur-
 itans were full of hardness and preju-
 dice.
 Charles Stuart could bow more bland
 ly and dance more gracefully than John
 Milton. But though the Puritan might
 fine a man for kissing his wife on Sun
 day he could still enact religious liber-
 ty for the world. He saw through a
 glass larlly, but still he saw. There , was a grand harvest in the seed. We
 are to look at the seventy millions who
 fill this continent from sea to sea. As we are three centuries beyond them we ought to be somewhat wiser if not bet
 ter John Carver of the Mayfower be- | A r t,,a ,p Ai, I prairie. The local title of Yankee is , used abroad to designate all our people : as it was fastened to our soldiers in the
 civil war. As the Nile overhows to fer , tilize Egypt so the Puritans have gone everywhere-across Alleghenies anG
 Rockies and Cascades We are "the Universal Yankee Nation" Doubt less" says one, God might have made , better place to be born in than New { England, but doubtless too he never l did"
 And everywhere they have gone they have taken their magnificent Puritan } pluck. That pluck enabled them tC hang desperately on to a barren coast despite starvation, savages, disease, is olation, wild beasts. When I think ot all their forefathers went through l on longer wonder that New England. CTS eshould seem so solemn. Thei, forefatlYers did not have a very hilari. ous time picnicing out there by the sea , But they somehow got the grit of thai old Plymouth Rock into their blood ant t they put Into the corner stone of the l temple of liberty the sword of Miles , Standish and the Bible of Elder Brews 2 ter.
 5 This animated scene, on this pleasant
 park, is quite different from the sur roundihRs of the first clearing. Ant } they have infused that daring of theirs into their sons It survives in Yale bulldog tenacity and the spirit. tha- t win or lose, never gives up. It ha( e the courage of it's faith. It believed l and therefore dared. That was tn, [ faith of the men of the Maine. who 7 knowing what might await them iron :, treachery went to their posts and diet t as truly martyrs to liberty as if they Q fell in battle. The Puritan spirit wa, 8 shown in the grand self-restraint of ou Q people during all the investigation O I that disaster.
 l It shines out magnihcently in the in
 | 'SENi'NN'A'Ni 'NiA-1plltlOl anu power Jt
 guide of President Mckinley. It is dis Q played in the courage of a Winslow. tn, l dash of the Rough Riders, the daring O Sergeant Blue, the splendid audacity O Q "Parson" Hobson, the yount Q man of principle and prayer and Iov, t for his mother-and his eight immor Q ta1s l begin to think that those Puri 9 tans must have been something els, t than narrow bigots or santitmoniou, Q psalm sfngers
 : . It was such as these who gave shan, to our conception of liberty in this land
 Our liberty as we define it is liberty m V der lay-not separated from it; it i U never license; it is not barbarism, bu civilization. It is a liberty under con U stitution which makes sudden change impossible, which overrules the peoples
 whim by the peoples will, which pro
 tects from the tyranny of maiorities a V well as of kings, which provides tw
 houses to check each others legislatio S and a presidential veto over all, whic /, sets up supreme court of justice t
 try all measures by the fundamenta >' document. The discovery of the sys ' tenn of representative government :" great Frenchman declared was tn m greatest of the ages. That system frs
 came into vogue along the banks of tn ,, Connecticut and served as a model fo