The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-10-13
Genuine Iniperi lisn..

Imperialism as name is much like :,
trust 1t has its good side. When
Fourth of July orators have expatiated
on the granduer of the domain of the
American Republic ana have calico 1t
"imperial" many an American has felt
thrill If pride, and not one, by the
description, has felt any fear of losing
his liberties. AS one glances over the
fields golden with wheat, enough t.
feed a hungry world; or the cotton
fields with white blooms enough u
clothe world, he takes off his hat an.
says with an honest pride, "How im-
perial is the domain which is ours, how
imperial is the work of the millions o.
my countrymen" If he enters ano' he.
domain and sees where the miners
underground, all the way between tn
with the rushing waters, with the swell
ing clay and the consuming heat to
bring forth the coal, the iron, the lea g,
the copper, the silver, the gold and al.
the manifold metals and minerals, lie
says in astonishment, "Why, here is al
army more imperial than were bot
those that struggled at Waterloo.
making its assault on the great worlds
treasure chaml er;."
If he watches the great rushing train.
that are clouds by day and pillars
fire by night to mark the trails over
which commerce and trade send their
argosies all over the continent and ali
the way between the seas he is con-
strained to say, -Yenice was the home
OF merchant princes, Tyre was nIelrup-
oils Of the ancient commercial woric,
but no Tyre, 40 Venice ever nude A.,
such imperial showing is this" Fily
he listens TO the iiapasoE Of tho .ou.G.
Rn3 the thnuier roll of the iron mis-
he says, 'Uaier this imperial cllnLoi
tue ring OF Vulcan's anvil would be
lost, the thunder of Thor's hammer
would not be heard, for there is an i'm |
perial majesty about this work which |
has no counterpart in this world, which |
has no counterpart since the worln
began" Up on thu great northern.
lakes there is work going on which III
the character of the ships which ar,
being used and in the cargoes carrie,
is enough to make old ocean roar With
envy along all its sounding shores, for
its proportions every way are imperial.
Where our ships and our armies have
been tried, off Manila, off Santiago, in
the swamps of Luzon, everywhere, as
the reports have come back, the world
has said: "Only imperial souls coul,
fill that lofty role; these deeds take Oh
a language of their own and they rea..
ike the latest edic.s OF lestiny that is
imperial" Rome's imperial eagles have
been the worlds wonder for two thous-
and years, but by comparison Rome
was but the confused light of the dawn
Of approaching civilization while our
country is in the full imperial Llaze of
1oon day.
Under the imperial majority of our
lag slavery has melteI away from
Brazil, from Russia, the slave hunter is
living up his work on shore, the slave !
hip has disappeared from the sea. |
The imperial free school has sprung l.
nto life and the songs of the children d
make music all the way between the .
cas-. The oppressed of the earth d
tretch their arms toward the imperial =;
nsign, which is more glorious and o
ODDS infinitely more hopes in its folds II
Or the worlds poor than ever did the b
old-embroidered banner of India or all
ie flags which led the hosts to the
escue of the holy sepnlchre. =.
This is not a good time to he preach
ig dishonor to tho flag; not good =
me to be discounting the mission of
lis Republic, for it is imperial in all II
$ presentations, but it is that i'm
sridlism whi-h attends as a body !
lard of the liberties of this people.
I'd which marches in the van to give
1erty as an answer to prayer to other
'ople who aave become our wards
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