The Newtown bee., 1903-06-05

but, in the days of '6l, you did not be- gin to understand the principles for which you fought as you understand them to-day). Then let us not be afraid that Memorial day as an insti- tuition will ever pass away. It does not depend upon ranks with every year falling so rapidly away as the leaves in autumn fall away from the bough. It does not depend on the preserving of tattered battle-fags or the keeping Of dingy muster-rolls: it depends on the survival of principles which shall last until the sun itself grows cold and this old world is dead.
 We are here this mornir9, friends, because we earnestly believe in the love of country, and because by our presence we wish to help on the revival of true patriotism which, like wave, is rolling over our land to-day. This is true love of country; it is not United Statessm; it is not Canadianism. The idea is spreading like wild-fire among us that as we some decades hitherto had country worth dying to save, to-day we have country worth living for in the humdrum pursuits of life. That shouting of the praises of the herOism that goes with uniform and a gun is all we'll enough once in while, but the battles of peace are far more trying than the harsh conflicts of war. Many a man who would walk without filnching to the cannOn'S mouth could not through years fight with a weak body to get himself bread. The Civil War raised our genuine pride in our country fifty per cent. A country that could stand such a shock and come out of it, a country that could show such heroism amid ball and smoke, never to be displayed again un- til again brother takes up arms against brother, may we'll challenge the admir- ation of the world. And so to-day when Uncle Sam comes into foreign courts, though he appear in blue jeans and striped trousers, the great of the world proceed to lift their hats.
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 HOW THIS COUNTRY HAS DEVELOPED since the war. What an army has in vaded it's borders! This army has stormed the ci itadels of the mountains and held them fast; like cavalry charge it has swept over the prairies but not to leave them marred by the hot blight of war. Still this army is coming. l look over the leagues o1 the sea, and see the troops coming from beyond the horizons crest. ShiK after ship deposits her human cargo at our wharves; and as bees men g( sWarming over our acres to sip oul sweets, to join in the work of thi! busy hive. The blood of the Anglo Saxon is yet predominant in our veins how will it be thirty years hence wher this heroic band that in the crisis O threatened disruption have all fallel asleep? Here is the blood of the anti Semitic Russian: will it mingle witt the red corpuscles and make a health. flow? There is the blood of the ignor ant Slav: will it readily go into tn, forming of an enlightened race? Oh I have no use for these prefixes tha are used before the name which deS ignates this fair land of our. When man comes here as an Irish-Americar and emphasizes that fact, he is gener ally apt to emphasize the fact by being a dynamiter too: when a man comes t, this country as German-Americal and wishes to emphasize that fact, h, is generally apt to emphasize the fac by being an anarchist too. l have n, use, say, for these meaningless pre- fixes before the name that designate this fair land of ours; and 1 have cer tainly no use for the flags of othe lands entwlned with the folds of ou l flag in celebrating our glorious achieve mentS. This is our supreme duty, tt join no party that does not raise tn, American flag and to ally ourselves with no movement that does not keel step with the music of the Union. w want to Americanize every foreigner and Americanize every foreign thing Let the Irishman come, let the Ger man! come, let sthe Lithunian come and how proudly, men of '61, do you | look back to-day to recall thai no braver men stood by your side in the trenches, on the cannon-swept l field than those who had come to