Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08

.LY 3, 1902.
steady working out of those principles
in the daily life of the citizen that are
and have been the one great factor in
our national advancement.
Early America.
"The action of the colonists in refus-
| ing to pay a tax upon tea with it's ac-
compartment of the first and greatest
Boston tea party, did not arise from
any unwillingness to pay the trifling
additional cost of tea nor from any I'M
willingness to contribute their share
toward the public revenues but be-
| cause they were taxed without hear
ing and without a voice in the adjust
ment of the taxes. 1t was inherently
wrong. No taxation without repre-
sentation is fixed American principle
as is the other principle that taxation
must be equal in order to be just. Prin-
ciples such as these every child born
In America from it's discovery until to-
| day has breathed in with his every
breath and it is because these princi-
| pies have by constitutional enactment
| become firmly fixed in the political life
of America, that the men and women
| who have grown up under them have
developed and broadened in their men,
tai grasp beyond those who have lived
In a more restricted atmosphere. The
air of America has always been mimi
cal to the old world ideas of humble
submission to the powers that seek to
control. They do not thrive in its at
mosphere.
Land of the Free.
"It is not merely happy combina-
ton of words that America should be
known as the land of the free and the
| home of the brave 1t is eternally
true because the land of the free must
always be the home of the brave.
| There is that in freedom, in the con-
slant exercise of mans individuality
that makes him grow to regard hun
ger and privation as of no account and
personal sacrifice of little moment
when that freedom is assailed.
at is only in a land dedicated to
freedom that men reach to that height
of patriotism which developed the
American spirit and which made
Lexington and Bunker Hill, Valley
Forge and Yorktown possible.
And it is that same spirit that in
the war of 1872 made it possible to
repeal every invasion by land and
when set at large upon the mighty
waters, made the nation whose proud
est boast was that she was mistress
of the seas, strike her colors times
without lumber at the command of a
foe inferior in armament and dis
cipline but animated by courage and
daring which knew no odds and never
counted the cost of possible defeat.
The Civil War.
ut was this spirit again which,
marking it's advance by the cadence
OF millions of tramping feet of the
boys in blue and the boys in grey,
made of our Civil war the highest
struggle of armed men the civilized
world has ever known. Animated by
different principles, yet each believing
in his own, they marched and fought
and died, each for what they thought
was right.
And it was this same spirit and
principle which made it possible for
these two vast armies to drop their
swords, furl the flags of battle and
unite once more in the great march
of progress of the American nation. 1t
was in the spirit that our great com.
mander. General Grant, said after the
surrender of Appamatox when the de
feated and discouraged southern hosts
We're preparing to return to their
4 wrecked and ruined homes Return
their horses to them, they will need
them for the spring blowing" 1t
was again this spirit that moved the
great captain of the southern forces
to say, when asked by young officer
if he should take the oath and accept
the terms of final surrender, Accept
them young man, take the oath and
thank Almighty God that you have an
! opportunity to do So"
Cuba Freed.
st was this same American spirit
which hearkened to the voice of op-
Il pressed Cuba and hearing the groans
of suffering mothers and the cries of
starving children, resolved that liberty
should not be for ourselves alone, but
that the last vestiges of tyrannical
savagery should be banished from our
4 shores and that the blessings of free.
dom, the order and concord of civiliz.
ed society should be extended to all
the American continent Having
thus highly resolved, it was the Ameri-
can spirit which caused our great and
now greatly lamented President to is.
sue his call for volunteers to carry this
resolve into immediate execution; and