The Newtown bee., 1900-06-08
it's heaven remain blue and it's sun con
 tinue to shine!

tinue to shine!
 "Let music swell the breeze,
 And ring from all the trees
 Sweet freedoms song;
 Let mortal tongues awake,
 Let all that breathes partake,
 Let rocks their silence break,
 The sound proIong.'
 It was of such ideas and of
 MATERIAL OF SUCH A LASTING QUALITY that the foundation stones of our republic were laid. We have all read in detail of the struggles that came in the carrying out of these principles. We remember the Stamp Act, the Mutiny Act, the Bos. ton Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the heated arguments, the bitter quarrels, and then the long war of the Revolution. We have read of the wild enthusiasm that attended the declaring of the American colonies free and independent. Then 8 new republic came into existence. How many times have we read of those heroes who nursed the new born nation and carried 1t safely through the storm! A government was established s'of the people. for the people, and by the people,"
 What has enabled the American re- public to endure and progress for nearly 8 century and quarter? Our republic has endured and progressed First, be- cause our citizens have studied, admired, loved and revered our heroes of other days. The children of our common wealths have read the lives of such men as Washington, Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, Webster, Sumner, Lincoln, Grant, Sher. man, Garfield, Blaine, and others. And to-day the children are inspired aud taught the lessons of patriotism by the living examples of such men as Mckinley and Dewey. By studying the lives, words and deeds of these heroes our youth are putting fuel on the nation's fires of patriotism. Yea, they are kin ding new fires that the light and heat may be far reaching. When the last gun of the Revolution had been fired, and it's echoes had died away o'er the distant hills; when the rattle of musketry in the Mexican war had ceased to beat upon the air; and when the last battle-cry of our great Civil war had been heard, those battles did not end. Ever since they were actually fought in the field they have been conquering new Americans. The deeds of our heroes and the notable achievements of America's great men have burned themselves into the hearts of our youth. We love our fathers and our heroes, and we love the principles for which they fought and suffered. And, moreover, we will defend and preserve at any cost THE GLORIOUS LEGACY OF AMERICAN
 LIBERTY WHICH IS OURS.
 The second reason for the continuance of the American republic down to the present time is that thus far the majority of our voting population has been truly American in it's ideas, sympathy and doc. trines. Our citizens have admired and believed in those grand institutions and doctrines peculiar to our republic. To truly appreciate a painting one must know something of the art and history of painting, and, also, he should have some understanding of the real or imag- mary subject which the picture is sup. posed to represent. And, likewise, we find the strongest and most enduring pa- triotism where there is, coupled with rev. erence for the nations great men, an i'm telligent understanding of the nations institutions and doctrines. Ours has been a government "of the people, for the peo- pie, and by the people," And the people who have preserved this Union have been patriotic In education, thought and sympathy.
 Akin to this second reason we might adduce third, viz, Thus far the Amer ican type has been preserved. Men who have been, as it were, part of our insti- tutions have made this government enduring. Men who have believed in clean politics, in the enforcement of law, in the doctrine of equality of all, and in justice to all, these men have been our preservers. The men of the true American type, who have not sought the qualification of personal and selfish desires, who have not sought personal but who have been ready to do anything, even to the giving up of their own lives, to preserve the Union, these men have been our guardians. Let us honor our defenders dead and living Tor they are deserving of honor. The three great stones, then, on which our Republic has rested for nearly century snd quarter are l. Love and rever- snce for our heroes; ?. Loyalty and de- votion to American institutions and doc- .riues and 3, The preservation of tha