Bisbee daily review., 1902-07-05
PATRIOTIC . SPEECH
DELIVERED BY REV. h. M. SHIELDS IN BissEE, JULY 4, 1902.

from Acting Governor White, of Fellow-AmericanS:
 In the chalice of our hearts love for our country we mingle stirring mem ories and honest pride and wholesome hope today.
 It is the natal day of the land and we rejoice with joy unspeakable.
 The nation is what its people are. Waters rise to their own level. The honor of heart and majesty of char acter and purity of life and might of right of the people, are the honor and majesty and purity and might of the nation.
 Ours is composite people. Upon the original tree have been grafted Teuton and Kelt and Slav and units from all the tribes of men.
 IL has been said that the Almighty paced up and down America, after its discovery, like stern sentry, hold ing of the nations for hundred years. In the fires of the latter half of the sixteenth century and fifty years to follow were forged those principles of liberty and equality which should dominate future America.
 Out of the same fires emerged the English and Scotch Puritans, whose courage met persecution and later i'm pelled them to seek a new cline and I new home. They must breathe the air of purer freeuom, where they might worship as they chose and work out their destiny.
 The germinant idea Of our American institutions was found in these brave hearts, laying their hearIh-stones and building their aitar-hres in a Newer England.
 Out of similar sorrows came those chastened souls from Holland, sturdy, of common sense, fearless in love of country and search after culture ana liberty, making their dwelling-place in the regions of the River Hudson.
 Out ot equally fierce nres emerged the Huguenots with nobility of heart and refined manhood and answering bravery. These, likewise, contributed to the beginnings of America, and from their Joins have sprung some oI our greatest statesmen.
 Sweden and Germany sent theirsrep resentatlves. 10 the growing colonies filled with the untilnchinS spirit Ol Gustavus AdoIphus and Melanchtnon
 Thus the Maker Of Nations b. foundations on which the exalted su perstructure or America should rise to beautify the wnoie earth and be . blessing to the cnIi0reu OI men.
 But people who had spanned tn. seas rom various sources would spar the lands beyond their welcoming snores. I
 New England was too small to hO!( swelling hearts whose ambitions passed to their children.
 Dear as became the bosom of tn, shining Hudson and tair as were ths uplifted Palisades beyond, the Outer uweIlers there looked deeper into Lh, inviting wilderness.
 The descendants of the Pennsylvan ian and Virginian and CarOlinan set tiers caught the lever of kindred minos and began drifting toward the setting sun. With these earnest souls wilhn; to follow the course Of empire, ns wonder an independent nation hat been porn amid the bangs of war, ant a composite but united people now en tered upon an undreamed conquest II the presence O, an interested world.
  peoples progress the waters of th' Mississippi were encountered. Ihes' must needs part as the waters O Jordan before Joshua and an cage nation pressing behind.
 When the steep ranges Of the Rock! Mountains called halt to advancln: mankind, the only answer was to selz' the gathered treasures of mine aaS forest and sweep on unwearied by tn effort.
 And when the waters Of the Paclh seas confronted her pathway, Amer ica, like One of old, wnose tootprinu fell on the lace of Lake Gaiilee, and Il His name, we trust, has gone onwar' to bless and De blessed.
 Thus the American people had thel origin and have made development and so the land of America has grow to hold her inhabitants.
 A mighty evolution! No empire antiquity can compare with our En pire of Liberty.
 To such a people we of sunlit Ari1 ona are happy to belong. To such land we pay our loyal tribute today Nor do we forget the emblem of shir ing stars in a neld ot blue and mingle stripes of red and white, that ha guided us to every victory and merit now as ever the defense of our hearti best blood.
 Beautiful it's history! The arms C the family of our iliustrious, work honored Washington-a shield covere with avepointed stars and broa stripestkAve the germ of our oanne
 And who forgets that the nag nrs felt the touch of . w0man's hand!
 Tho glory of American womanhoo and tAe glory of our peerless Wasl instou me3t and blsnA into tAs unAu