The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-05

was unnecessary for him to assume to
state to the audience the appropriate-
ness of the reading of the Declara-
| ton of Independence, introduced Dr.
| NJ M. Marshall, rector of Christ
church, who read the document i'm
pressively and with good voice.
At the conclusion of the reading the
choir, numbering some fifty or sixty
voices, admirably conducted by Prof.
Wade r. Brown, and accompanied on
the piano by Miss Daisy Young, san"
the star Spangled Banner, while the
large audience stood with bowed
heads, the "od vets in the front seats
unconsciously assuming the military
attitude of attention"
I'm introducing DR.. Winston, MI.
Thompson said felicitously: IF the
country west of Raleigh be broad
enough, and the life of Doctor Win
ston be long enough, we will have the
greatest Agricultural and Mechanical
College in the world"
patriotism" by DR.. Winston.
DR.. Winston's address was spoken
extemporaneously and abounded in
epigram and short antithesis. He was
repeatedly cheered. Lasting but a few
minutes, it was wonderful conden-
santion of broad subject that less
able man might have Numbered at for
hours with but a 1.-THE of the effect
brought from it by the speaker. In
art. caught AS it necessarily was in
fragments, Dr. Winston said:
To-day the music of the Star
Spangled Banner floats entirely around
the world; in one hour more it will
be heard in Cincinnati, one hour later
in st. Louis, in one hour more in Salt
Lake, still another hour more and its
Strains will be heard over tho waters
Of the Golden Gate at San Francisco,
and it will arouse everywhere the
came emotions, will stir the same
patriotic chords that it touches here
in this hall. At sunset here it will
have drifted over the waters of the
Pacific to Hawaii, where at high noon
there, hats will be lifted and the peo-
pie will be standing with bowed heads
as here today in Raleigh. a midnight,
in the Philippines, again high noon,
the flag will be floating to the salute
of guns and bands, and there, too. the
people will be standing at attention to
DO it honor. Passing furtEer--ir Rms
STA, where the sentiments that it
arouseS are little understood, ever.
there the Americans and the Euro
peans will gather to sing 1T and to do
reverence to the spirit of the air-even
in Russia it must in time spread ana
grow and strengthen until even the
people OF that absolute monarchy
shall come to read and to understand
the message that IT brings.
We do we'll to celebrate the 4th of
July, the Declaration of Mdepend-
tnce, to sing the Star Spangled Ban
ner. 1t j. well for patriots to cele-
bratp, fer what is life without liberty /!
What the Sermon on the Mount
meant for morality the Declaration of
Independence meant to Eberty-liberty
for all persons for all men of all ages,
IF all conditions, for all nations, for
all the worl1,
Show me the nation that has not felt
the sting of the great spirit that lives
in this document; show ne the peo-
pie who have heard it read who have
caught the meaning of The message
who have not gore on to better things!
The sermon on the mount had in i.
the simple, all-embracing law of NOR
ais; the Declaration, the law of
liberty.
1t was high act of patriotism
worldwide in its influence. Here we
have a nation devoted to liberty re-
strained by law; TO the north of us is
Canada, equally free, though nomi-
nally under a different form Of gov
eminent; England, the parent nation
taught by the child, is equally free,
the result of the declaration; in Eu
rope, France from a monarchy has
become a republic; Russia is unable
to cope with little Japan because of
unrest at home, because she has dis
regarded the vital spirit that lies be-
meath those burning words. To the
south of us, the countries of Central
and South America are uniting for the
to be free-still waiting by
reason of lack of culture, and the
prevalence of vice and the want of ed
ucation. If in time the Star Spangled
Banner shall come to float over them,
to give them civilization, to bring or
der out of Chaos, to educate them,
we'll and good. But be assured that
if it be raised in those lands for con-
quest, for tyranny, for the purposes of
establishing for Venal ends a tributary
country, there will be unrest ana tyr
amy at home as well.
No man is good enough to rule
another man without his consent; and
no man who has the love of freedom
In his breast will desire to do so.
Patriotism is not merely to cele-
brate, but to achieve liberty. How
glorious is the life of those who have
died in achieving it! The soldier, how
the world loves him, Not because he
Kills; the eNecutioner kills, the aSsas-
SIN k1lls-not for that is he loved and
admired, but because he stands ready
to be killed. Rightly does the world
put the soldier on a pedestal of glory.
because he has taken his life in his
hands for the high purpose of achiev-
ing liberty! No less q patriot is the
wife at home, with her helpless babe
her husband at the wars, relieved not
even of the constant suspense ever
seeing the father dead upon the bat
tlefieid. That requires ten fold the
more patriotism than to fight a hattle
The ragged and barefoot soldier
that followed "Marse Robert through
the wilderness; the devoted women,
silently suffering at home bore ten
thousand times the burden-they were
patriots-the grandest in history!
The patriots of 20 fought to
achieve liberty: it takes even more
courage to preserve than it does to
achieve it. The preservation of lib
erty is the hardest task. the celebra-
ton the easiest of a patriotic people
Even those who enjoy it not, cele-,
brate it. Those who did not achieve
1t celebrate 1.-THE negro, the Mex
1can-the last in country where +;
is not known. Celebration is easy
achievement difficult, preservation
most difficult. The proper liberty is
made up of proportiOnate parts of
freedom and restraint.
The Greeks had an individual free
dOm-freedom in the family.-the