Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-07-10

Az o~s
wake OF his course followed the low
Italian and the Spaniard, the op-
pressor OF liberty and the exponent
OF cruelty and blood shed.
A century after the discovery by
Cabot, band of Englishmen and
Hollanders landed at Plymouth.
where they lay deep and broad the
foundation of a new and magnificent
career for Anglo-Saxon triumphs.
They shook from their hands the
seeds OF liberty, and the wings oftwo
centuries have famed them all over
this broad continent. These seeds
OF liberty, had taken root and bore
a harvest that took it's shape in the
Declaration OF independence, and in
the eventual creation of nation of
1900, 200 citizens.
In the year l776, the defendants
OF these pilgrims, a body of free men,
IN the wilderness OF the New World,
uttered these words: "We hold
these truths to be self-evident: that
all men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their creator with
certain inailenable rights among
which are life, liberty and the pur-
suit OF happiness; that to seizure
| these rights governments are insti-
tuted among men deriving their lust
powers from the consent Of the GOV
erned."
Those words flashed across the
western heavens like fame of fire.
Like a bolt OF lightning from the
hands OF Jove they we're hurled
across three thousand miles of ocean
against the thrones OF kings, the
citidels OF power, and the fortifca-
tions OF despotism. These words
were the death knell OF tyranny.
That declaration was the beginning
OF the American revolution that
ended in the establishment OF the
grandest Governmen on earth, the
/ United States of America.
1 We are here today to commemo-
rate the nations birthday, and the
beginning of our present freedom.
During the early history OF our coun-
try, It's location remote from the Old
World, it's comparative inexperience
and domestic problems, as we'll as
our principles OF government. all
combined in compelling us to avoid
World-councils and world-responsi-
bilities. But time has changed these
conditions. Our location is no long.
er remote from the Old World. Our
/ eastern coast is as near Europe as it
i to our own western coast. Liver
pool is as much the neighbor of New
1 York as is San Francisco. Our DOM
estic problems are no more compli-
Gated than those OF other nations.
And the history of the recent Span
ish-American war goes to prove be-
yOnd any doubt that the isolation of
the past is forever at an end, and
that for naval exploits and military
yalor, we are the peer of the most
formidable Old World monarchies.
Whether we accept the new duties
or not, the fact remains that the
clock of destiny has struck a new
hour. The United St. tes must hence
forth take its place OF leadership
among the other nations of the earth
and share with them the respon-
sibility OF the worlds development.
| believe that America has the cour-
age and the ability to act well her
part.
Ii the statue of Liberty in New
York harbor could speak, it would
continually utter one word for all
mankind oppressed. and that one
magical word is welcome On one
occasion Napoleon borrowed a phrase
from one of John Adams speeches
and called the English a Nation OF
Shopkeepers." It is the boast OF the
American people that it is a nation
OF the plain people, Aristocr acies,
titles OF nobility, and all old world
orders, are expressly renunclated at
the time Of naturalization. This ma
ton believes in the plain people, it is
the friend Of the plain people. From
the shores OF Germany, Scandinavia,
England, Scotland and Ireland the
plain people have crossed the broad
Atlantic to make here their homes,
and find here their fortunes. There
is room for all who come to live and
die loyal to all our free institutions,
but not one square inch for any man
woman or child who is not willing to
raise their hand and swear a death
less loyalty to Old Glory. We shall
never be successful over the dangers
that in common with other nations
confront us, we shall never achieve
true greatness, nor reach the lofty
ideal which the founders and preser-
vers OF our Republic have set before
us, unless we are Americans in heart
and soul, Americans in spirit and
purpose, Americans in language and
habits. The true citizen is keenly
alive to the responsibility implied in
the name American, and proud be-
yond measure OF the glorious privi-
lege of bearing it.
One may fall very far short of
treason and yet be a very undesir-