Arizona republican., 1902-11-28

upon q common footing and drink at 2 common fountain. The school in which there are no rich and no poor. no high and no low. The school in which the helping hand of the state is reached out to the youth of the land without re- gard to race, color or previous condi- ton of servitude.
 D. Free from Sectionalsm.-The school in which no north no south, no east, TO west is known-in which all citizens are one common country of which every section. whether north or south. cast or west. is as much a part in loyalty as it is in geographical sit uation.
 AMERICAN LIBERTY.
 As Americans we are pleased to think that liberty means more here than it does anywhere else in the world. And in this opinion we are doubtless correct.
 The American idea of liberty is ab sOlute freedom from unnatural and un- lawful restraint. It is freedom from oppression at the hands of a foreign power national freedom. It is personal | liberty-the freedom of the individual 1 from physical, intellectual or spiritual ! bondage. It is freedom from bondage | to custom. Our true American is un- | conventional. He likes to put his in- | dividualIty into what he does. This ! disposition has made us a nation of in ventors. Enslave nation to customs and all progress is paralyZed. But the best aspect of American lib crty is the freedom of the individual, no matter how humble his birth, to as pire to the highest place in the gift of | the people. The liberty of the lowliest to wed any lady whose heart he can win: to fill any position for which he has talents and training to fit him, is the chiefest glory O. this glorious na ton.
 Many wonderful and beneficent dis coveries and inventions have been made by Americans; but the greatest discovery made by an American is the idea expressed by this sentence from Thomas Jenerson's immortal Declara- tion of Independence: All men are born free and equal" How sane it is. How beneficent the policy founded upon it has proven to be, How this wisdom has been justified of her children Along the shining pathway opened up by this great declaration, from the humble cabins hidden away in the for ests of the frontier, have come the feet of the lowly born but God-anointe1 men whose steady hands have steercd the ship of state OCT stormy seas, and | whose names shine like stars in the Armament of our nations glory God | grant that the luster of these grea names may ever be a sufficient vindi- cation of the wisdom of the American democracy and the American liberty that made this glory possible, God grant that the pathway opened up by ] the Declaration of Independence. from the door of the humblest cottage in the land to the threshold of the White House of the nation may never be closed nor obliterated. He is but half free whose bonds have been removed. At the raising of Lazarus Christ not only said, Loose him. but he added, Let him go." May this larger liberty ever be the heritage of the very least of our citizens.
 The most un-American thing possible is the American aristocraey that will put the accident of birth or the posses sion of wealth before intellectual and moral worth God save this country from an aristocracy to which intellect l ual and moral fitness shall not be q | sufficient badge of admission.
 A fifth and final blessing for which we should be thankful today is the blessing of