Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-07-19

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perceived that the flag had been
shot away by the enemy, exclaim-
ed" Don't let slight without a flag,
Colonel" "But what, can you do,
the staff is broken?" "Ill fix it to
a halberd and place it on the mer-
lon of the bastion next to the en-
emy," and quick as thought, to act,
leaping thro' an embrasure, brav-
ing the thickest of the deadly fire
from the ships, sliced the flag, re-
turns in safety, and as he promised,
planted it on the summit of the
merton. Doesn't that act breathe
of a devotion, unsurpassed in
Greek or Scottish song?
We would impress upon the ris-
ing generation, why the radiant
folds Of our flag envelope the dead
soldier as we layhis wounded body
in trench or tomb. Why it floats
from every staff and steeple, and
from where it waves it's silent
|"good bye' to our boys as they
went out to battle for the starving
and down trodden, for God and
the right. Telling them that it is
because this flag is the symbol of
our liberty, to gain what cost eight
long years of brave fighting and
GLORIOUS dignity. And we intend
TO hem the rising generation in
patriotism. The children Of such
ancestors as fought with starva-
ton, treachery and death. thro'
that long winter at Valley Forge,
and marched with sherman from
Atlanta to the sea''-that are fight
ing and dying today under the tor
rid skies Of the Philippines, as
those intrepid soldiers that scaled
the heights Of San Juan, planting
our flag upon Spanish soil, while.
the God of battles signaled to the
starving mother: wherever this
flag floats, there is enough and to
spare" and she closer .clasped the
little bundle of bones that was
vainly clinging to her breast.
Yes, the lantern that Paul Re-
we're hung in the old North Church
tower in Boston, still sends its
beacon rays adown the century
flooding the Moro Castle in Cuba,
and lighting up the dungeon walls
Of, the Preside in our Manila,
while Spanish shackles and letters
melt in it's flaming heat.
Let. avery. foreign adult and
child that comes to dwell among
us, understand why the Stars and
Stripes now aoatoyer every school
building in our country, wherein
the. children are taught, that, it
is the only scepter before which
they are to bow in loyal allegiance
and heartfelt, reverence. Yes. dear
friends, to every daughter of the
American Reyolgti9n, our flag
means this and more-blood-wash
ed,yet studded with its radiant
stars. it knows no night, in an IN,
sceasing round, the refufgent sun
Tight Of day kisses its blushiiinnlgg
folds, as it proclaimsEto the nations
of the world, freedom from oppres-
sion tho bought with a price.
The Daughters Of the American
Revolution are today a standing
army of $1,000 women, with the
same heroic blood that surged in
veins of Washington, Montgomery,
Putnam and Warren, marching in
solid phalanx, marshaled under
the Stars and Stripes, from the At
Hantic to the Pacific, from North
Dakota to to the Gulf. Can you
estimate the power Of such a loyal
legion?
Should war devastate or a for
feign foe call the strength of our
nation to battle you would find the
daughters Of the heroes Of '76
again on the field, at the front, in
the hospital, at the bedside of the
dying soldier, and With their pray
ersE and teachings lgirding on the
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