The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-06-06
may meet and talk Of common interests as
they cannot il church or saloon apart from

stands for that enterprise acknowledged
to be pre-eminently the leading trait Of the
man who loves to call this dag his own.
Righteousness" and Tolerance" may
well be symbolized by the next two stripes
Without these there can be no true liberty
] Because we love the Righteousness and toier-
| ance that lie hidden in these sacred threads
we permitted the election of Roberts and
Clark, but then sent them back'to Utah and
Montana from the steps of the capitol to tell
the world, as well as their constituency tina,
| we must have clean men to make our laws.
And these the
| Light of knowledge. burning in the lamp OF
| Industry creating
| 8rotherhoods, char acterized by
Energy.
| Righteousness and
Tolerance constitute this typical
Yankee as the people of other nations call
us all.
| While these red stripes may fifty be- made
| to spell out Liberty bought at the price
of our fathers blood. the white bars must
represent the Purity" with which we hope
to retain the legacy so grandly bequeathed
| to US.
These six white bars shall represent that
! thought RITY. Purity in public and
private life. Universal purity. Purity in
the workshop and in the home, in the count
ing house and in the drawing ROOM on the
| mart and in the market, anywhere and
everywhere, constant purity is the price that
| must be paid for the continuance of this
dearly bought liberty.
Nowhere is liberty more needed than in
this third white bar, religious purity. We
So
worship God in religious purity, the fathers
of this nation crossed the sea and founded
an asylum in this vast wilderness which has
become the home of the purest type of
spiritual religion on the earth. Nor should
we forget that this has resulted on account
of the American doctrine of absolute separa-
ton of church and state, which is the dis
tinctive cardinal feature of our republic.
No dominneering of church over state can
be tolerated. The church must mind her
own business and allow the state to do the
same. No interference, directly or Indirect
ly, by the dignitaries OF any church in affairs
of state. such as has gone on during our late
war and since, will be tolerated by the peo-
pie of the flag, because it is jepardizing our
free institutions. It was the purity of the
religion of the bible and of the protestant
right to read and interpret it for ourselves
that made possible advance in every other
line. Purity in religion that quickens the
intelligence and makes men temperate as
well as tolerant is the only religion that will
give perpetual youth and satisfy the con-
slant yearning of the nation and thus con-
serve the liberties we have inherited in the
purity of onr lives. Purity that is
Public as we'll as private,
Universal as to place as well as to person,
Religion that leaves the state alone but
guides the
Intelligent and
Temperate
Youth Alright is the only safeguard for the
perpetuity of our liberty.
And thus is woven the tri-colored flag
which the three angels of individual liberty,
international communion and industrial
freedom are now unfurling over many lands,
while their trumpets resound with the
music of peace on earth. among men of
good will
The angel of individual liberty, clad in the
blood red of many battle fields. blew his
trumpet and nation was born in day.
The United States burst from the shell of the
united colonies. In the new world began the
new lfe-the life of liberty. We are walk
ing as man who had been bound for years
might walk after having obtained his free
dom. The spring of a new joy is in our leap,
and yet the cramping of limbs long unused
gives uncertainty to our gait. But the angel
has blown his trumpetand will never call
retreat. In the liberty of thought and ac-
ton new ideas have been born, and all
things are made new. Nothing is as it was
two centuries ago. The grave clothes of
antique custom are being laid aside and the
living man is walking forth. Loose him
and lethim gos" ) y. IL
The angel of international communion,
clad in white. has blown his trumpet The
lightning has fallen from the sky and
clasped the earth in a belt of electric speech.
It's fiery cords have Numbered war and
death, but his silver threads shall yet
whisper in every ear the messages of life
and peace.
When through the Christian teacher the
sunlight of universal truth shall lift the
fogs of ignorance and doubt jealousy and
envy shall fee away as does the darkness
before the light, and each and every man
and nation shall recognize brother in the
other and the common veal shall be the
common search of all.
The angel of inter national communion
now stands on sea and land weaving with |
electric threads, in the loom of humanity's|
need, the web of universal language,
whose background shall bear the message
of common origin, purpose and destiny, on
which shall shine in letters of glowing fame
the Christ call to unite our common forces
against our common foes of falsehood and
greed. With this new web the servants of
the Nazarene shall bind up the broken
hearted and sin and sorrow shall be no
more.
The angel of industrial freedom, clad in
blue, has blown his note, which started the
iron horse into stampede and set a thous
and bells to changing. He is creature of
wonderous power. His forehead is bathed
with the cool mists that kiss the mountain
top, while his feet are planted in the ocean
and laved with the flow of many waters.
Strength is in the muscles of his brawny
arm. while purpose flashes In his eye, and
resolution sits proudly on His well pressed
lips, as he issues a new note and calls his
children to his side, bidding his elder son
of labor and his younger son of capital sit
together on his knees and enjoy the fruit
their hands have Dlucked from natures