The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-07-09
Delivered by DR.. E. R. Hutchins, of
DeS MOineS, Iowa.
Patriotism and Pride of Country in Every
Line. Valuable Suggestions for Better
Citizenship and aGrander Country.

pies. the country rested, and the whole
world looked on it in b%ewildering adj
miration. After that wonderful Cen
tennial Exhibition, in which. without
q cavil, we proved that America in a
hundred years had become the most re-
markable country in the worlds history
in all patriotic and economic questions.
We again took up the line of march,
and about two decades and a half
passed, and now the same warm i'm
pulses OF a lofty patriotism which have
for more than a century for countless
miles wound their way through every
phase of human life. under pavements,
in crowded. death-giving cities. by the
side of vice and crime, through the
gratings of prison and dungeon, in the
midst of terrific riots and mobs, along
narrow streets, in great centers of vice,
out into beautiful valleys and hillsides
and prairies; into palaces of wealth and
splendor and into homes of luxury and
magniticence. into the poor mans
howell and down in the coal. copper.
silver and gold mines, on fields of car
mage and battle, and among every con-
ceivable condition of humanity, have
these impulses of patriotism gone. and
yet here today after all these years,
crowded full of marvellous history, this
very life-blood OF the nation comes to
us with the fire of youth, the zeal of
manhood and the full vigor of old age.
And as If this was not enough, in 1898
the world beheld another Mecca. This
was a thousand miles west of the one
In l776. Into this one was infused all
the typical qualities that so distinct
lively mark the growing west. Just
across our borders. in far-famed and
unequalled Chicago, the world again
laid her products at the feet of this
young Republic. No one who has been
familiar with the rapid developments
OF our country during the last quarter
OF a century ever doubted for a single
moment as to the success of that enter
prise.
The wild and woody vest believed
Chicago would do her full duty. No
one who visited it was disappointed.
American industry, American ingenui-
ty, American progressiveness, Ameri-
can pluck and American grit predomi-
mated over everything else. And I
want to say right here-and I say it
with a very great pride, which / am
sure every Iowan who visited that fair
white city by the lake will endorse
that in all the great galaxy of states
which made their splendid exhibits,
none OF them outstripped Iowa in all
that makes q state great, her people
happy and prosperous, and her homes
the emblems of faith and contentment.
lowa's building attracted more people
thansany other state building upon the
grounds, and more than that, people
saw more in it illustrative of brain and
heart and muscle of enlightened citis
zenship than they did in any other
building on all those vast acres. Hun
dreds OF times during the days l spent
upon those grounds did | find myself
exclaiming: "There is dear, young
Iowa; she speaks for herself; thank
God L live on her soil.n
When was a boy, my fellow citi-
zens, these Fourth of July days were
generally regarded as days solely for
fun and frolic. Such feeling concern
ing these historic days has happily
been buried in the shadows of the past.
L think am safe in saying that today
there are more genuine celebrations OF
the day than has occurred for twenty
five years. They are rapidly getting
to be days for lessons of patriotism and
devotion to country. Thank God for
the change. Let us, my fellow citizens.
gather from these commemorativedays
wholesome lessons, and first of all let
it be to love our country more. Surely
that man is a strange perversion of
humanity who is not proud of thiSAand,
the land OF Patrick Henry, of eh-
ington and Jefferson, of Jackson! the
Adams, and Hamilton. A land that
from the eastern.most border sent the
bold Roger to congress. That same
East that made one of the ablest states
men the world ever saw out of the
little black DAM" who used to water
the transfers horses before his faith
er's door at Salisbury. That same part
OF the country that sends tt the world
the merry music of cotton spindles
that play to the tune of nearly two bill.
ion dollars a year. Step just this side
OF that same East and you bow in ST.
lence as they tell you of Fulton. with
his gigantic steam engine supplying
the world with creative thunder. And
OF a Morse, and a Field, and a Hoe and
a Collins. and speeding now with the
steam that America showed you how
to utilize, you come to Franklin. who