The Newtown bee., 1900-06-08

American type. If our citizens lose their love for our heroes, if they have no special regard for our institutions and doctrines and if the American type is destroyed this Republic must and will fall.
 But now we seem to be at crisis. In what does this crisis consist? It consists brie fly, in certain dangers arising from l. The incoming of such 8 multitude of foreigners ignorant even of our language. 3. The threatening of the American type arising from the presence of these for eigner. 3. The failure of American or- ganization, as such, to do their proper work. 4. Political corruption. 5. Dan. gers arising from labor agitators and labor troubles. 6. The threatened de- struction of the American Sabbath.
 WHAT SHALL WE DO TO PRESERVE THE
 AMERICAN TYPE?
 A people may be favored with all the conveniences of modern civilization: the arts sciences and trades may be eni ,yed
 yet if there appear on the pages of his-
 tory, no lllustrious names to cause the
 harp strings of reverence and patriotism
 to vibrate in sweet harmony, that people
 is insecure and liable to fall. And if this is true, we affirm it to be equally true that if this love for heroes dies out of
 nations heart, that nation cannot endure.
 If, through the incoming of those who
 are foreign in their ideas regarding citi- zenship, civil liberty and good govern ment; if, through the incoming of such. ! the d'stinctively American ideas are to be
 crowded aside, and the American type,
 with his love for American heroes and
 American principles of liberty, is to be
 lost, then our Republic must perish in
 time. The children of foreign born
 parents must attend our public schools,
 and there learn to love this country, it's
 heroes. and It's doctrines. The historv
 of American battles, and victories, the
 history of the lives and deeds of Ameri-
 can patriots must teach them to respect
 and honor all that "Old Glory" repre-
 sents. Let the Stars and Stripes wave
 over every schoolhouse from Maine to
 Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific. Our national holidays should be observed and their lessons should be im-
 pressed on all minds within our borders.
 In this does our safety largely consist.
 It is not sufficient to know how to restrict
 immigration, we must also understand how to make patriotic citizens of these who have already come from across the waters and of their children. Concerning the dangers and grave problems arising from political corruption and labor trou
 oles we have not time to speak this even. ing. Theseare matters, however, which should command our most serious thought and our most patriotic endeavors. The American Republic is not the only republic that has existed. Other repub- lies there have been, some of which have lived much longer than we have as yet. The so-called republics of Greece, Rome and Italy and two French republics have lived and perished. The republics Of South America and of Mexico are weak and insecure. The Republic of Athens was favored with srt, literature, sculpture and magnificent buildings. But these did not preserve Athens as a state. We may well take the lesson and not trust in these things too much our selves. The Roman republic was for generations the most powerful nation on earth. It had great system of juris- prudence, superb army, means of com. munication, wealth, public works, aque- ducts, baths, temples, and theatres. These did not give permanence to Rome. May such wealth and such advantages, however desirable in and of themselves, not totally blind our eyes to the real source of strength and permanence, and may they not so dazzle us as to BLIND US TO CERTAIN EXISTING DANGERS. There are in the American Republic, we are happy to say, certain clements of strength. The Constitution of the United States; public, universal education, uni versal suffrage; toleration in religion, 8 free public press; public libraries, mu- seums, and art galleries; the American l (may God preserve it) and what we might call national faith, that fig, a general faith in the true and living God as the Author of Liberty and the giver of every good and perfect gift. As we read on our coin, aIn God we Trust.'' l These are elements of strength the equiv | alents of which no other republic has ever had before us. If the power and principles embodied in these elements of | strength are guarded and developed dur ing all coming years, the American Re- public will endure. It is within the power of the citizens of this country to preserve our national life for centuries to come, and to make this great nation