The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-07-08
Bill jenkins SAYINGS.


addressed the audience as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen; IL fee
that l owe you an explanation TO
standing in front of you and obstruct
ing your view of this beautiful noun
tain scenery, so I'll tell you how i
was. The committee intended t.
get regular prosperity" speaker
but as this is not campaign year they
couldn't get one for less than $40
and expenses and they couldn't at
ford it. They came to me at the
last moment and offered me fifty
cents to occupy the time for twenty
minutes. They said that my not
being prepared would not matter, as
the people would not pay any atten-
ton to what said anyway. AS
had been used to working for 125
cents an hour, | thought the offer
pretty good SO took it.
My ancestors did not come over In
the Maydower, but they got here
just the same and | am as proud OF
the spirit of rs as if they had come
over with the Norsemen.
The Declaration of Independence
threw a new light upon the rights of
men which the rulers of the world
have been slow to acknowledge, but
have been forced to accept. Tyranny
was not only overthrown in our own
nation but was lessened in every
country on the globe. The war for
American independence caused every
monarch in Europe to tremble on his
throne. For a handful of men to
declare themselves free from the
most powerful nation IN the world,
required great courage, wisdom and
resolution and thorough knowledge
OF the material of which Americans
we're made. Yet 1t was far easier to
declare independece than to win it.
10 win cost seven years longer strug-
gle, the lives of thousands of the
noblest patriots, and privations
which put the strongest to the test
A few thousand hungry, half-clad,
unframed patriots with nothing to
sustain them in their adversity but
their knowledge of their rights and
their determination to maintain them.
lighting against the flower of English
manhood, we'll fed, well clothed and
trained in the art of war, but who,
alas, had no cause to defend only
the supposed right of one people to
1old another in subjection. The
difference in the respective causes
or which they fought was enough to
,ffset the conditions under which
hey fought.
The patriots left their bloody
footprints on the frozen ground
heir ranks were thinned by famine
nd disease, they faced defeat after
lefeat, but the cause of liberty still
wed, which nothing could overcome
nut determination. At last their
forts were rewarded. The British
allied away from Yorktown. The
over of Britain was broken and the
asst important struggle was ended.
he clouds of war we're rifted and
be glad sunshine of peace streamed
trough to warm and bring to new
re the land made 50 dear by th e
lood of its patriots.
AS our flag, waved from the ram
arts of Yorktown that day, those t
tars for the first time looked down :
pom free people. But what /
ght 1t beheldl. 1t looked upon
ISOLATED land and upon the graves .
nd gaping wounds of its defenders a
beheld the tears and anguish of s
loows, mothers and orphans, ana !
ne broken hearts of lovers which a
My eternity can heal. 1t found a
ankrupt nation without settled =
orm of government. But with v
-merlcan vigor they took up peace p
al pursuits and went to repairing d
he ruins, and built up the grandest o
alton on tine face of the earth.
LIS IT any wonder then that we .