Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-01-18

1u 70 any particular formula of laws
OF KIND OF government or type of admin.
istration.
ms question is deeper than any question
of tpaIieyo poilics; deeper than any question
on isoiateu pollcy OF our country even. deep.
er even than any question of CONSTITUTIONAL
Power. IL is elemental. 1t is racial God
n naS NOT m Deen preparing the English-speaking
anu Ieutonic peoples for thousand wears
i 1or hotning but vain and idle self contempla
tlon ana administration. No; he has
IL tnaue . US the master organizers of the world
10 establish system where chaos reigns He
mas given us the spirit of progress 70 over
Wheim the forces Of reaction throughout the
earth. He has made us adopts in govern.
ment that we may administer goyernmenr
among savage and senile peoples.
were lt not for such a force as this the
moila would relapse into barbarism and
night; and of all our race, he has marked
the American people as his chosen natioI,
TO nnaily lead in the regeneration of the
world This is the divine mission of Amer
glory, all the happiness possible to man
we are trustees of the worlds progress:
az fb OF ITS righteous peace The udg
been faithful over few things; will make
you ruler over many things"
What Shall History Say?
:, What shall history say of us? Shall it say
that we renowned that holy trust left the
to the reign of waste, deserted duty, aban-
doned glory, forgot sordid profit even
because we reared our strength and read the
charter. of our powers with the doubter's
eye and the quibbler's mind? Shall it say
that called by events to captain and com.
mand the proudest, ablest, purest race OF
clined that great commission? Our fathers
would not have had it so. No. They found
ed no paralytic government incapable of the
simplest acts of administration. They
planted no Suggard people, passive, while
the worlds work calls them. They estab
l1shed no reactionary nation. They unfurled
no retreating flag.
That flag has never paused in it's onward
march. Who dares halt it now-now when
historys largest events are carrying it for
ward now when we are at last one people,
though strong enough for any task, great
enough for any glory destiny can bestow:
How comes it that our first century closes
with the process of consolidating the Amer
lean people like unit just accomplished,
and quick upon the stroke of that great hour
presses upon us our world opportunity,
world duties and world glory which none but
a people welded into an indvisble nation
ca nachieve or perform? Blind, indeed, Is
he who sees not the hand of God in events 50
airy, indeed, is the mind that perceives not
that this vital people is the strongest of the
saving forces Of the world; that our place,
therefore, is at the head Of the constructing
and redeeming nations Of the earth; and
that to stand aside while events march on
is a surrender of our interests, a betrayal
indeed, is the heart that fears to perform
a work so golden and so noble; that dares
not win a glory so immortal.
Do you tell me that it Will cost us money!
When did Americans ever measure duty by
financial standards? Do you tell me Of the
tremendous toll required to overcome the
vast difficulties of our task? What mighty
work for the world, for humanity, even for
ourselves, has ever been done with ease?
Even our bread must we eat by the IS. sweat OF
such as no people ever knew, II we are not
to use 1t in a work such as no people ever
wrought? Who will dispute the divine means
Of the fable of the talents?
Must Sacrifice to Win.
Do you remind me of the precious blood
that must be shed, the lives that must be
given the broken hearts of loved ones for
price than all combined. And yet as
naticn every historic duty we have done,
every achievement we have accomplished,
has been by the sacrifice OF our noblest sons
Every memory that glorities the flag is OF
these heroes who have died that its onward
march might not be stayed. 1t Is the ma
tons dearest lives YIELDED f for the nag fnat
precious blood poured out for 1t that makes
it precious to us. That flag is woven OF
heroism and grief, of the bravery of men
and womens tears of righteousness and
battle of sacrifice and anguish, of triumph
and of glory. 1t is these which make our
Who would tear form that sacred banner
the glorious legend of a single battle where
it has waved on land or sea? What son OF
meath it on any field would surrender thar
proud record for the heraldry of a king?
In the cause of civilization, in the service
of the republic anywhere on earth, Ameri-
cans consider wounds the noblest decora-
lions man can win, and count the giving OF
their lives glad and precious duty Pray
God that spirit never fails Pray God the
time may never come when Mammon and
the love of ease shall so disease our blood
that we will fear to shed it for the flag and
it's imperial destiny. Pray God the time
may never come when American heroism Is
but a legend, like the story of the Cid:
dream dissolved and the glory of our
mighty race departed. =,
And that time will never come. We will
glorious deeds. We will exalt our reverence
for the flag by carrying 1t to a noble future
as we'll as by remembering its inefable
past. It's Immortality will not pass, because
and discharge the solemn responsibilities our
sacred flag in its deepest meaning put upon
us. And so, Senators, with reverent hearts,
where dwells the fear of God, the American
people move forward to the future Of their
hope and the doing of His work.
Concluding, the Senator said:
Mr.. President and Senators, adopt the res
olution offered that peace may quickly come
and that we may begin our saving, regen.
Grating and uplifting work Adopt 1t and
this bloodShed will cease when these deluded
children Of our islands learn that this is the
final action of the representatives of the
American people in Congress assembled.
Reject it, and the world, history and the
American people will know where to for
ever fix the awful responsibility for the con-
sequences that will surely follow such fail
ure to do manifest duty. How dare we
delay when our soldiers blood is flowing?
Why They Wer Divided.
ION one occasion" remarked the able
Journalist, Il was down in the noun