The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-07-02

American advantage In the Pacific OF
the world be surrendered Americans
never retreat.
While he Is president no wrong-doer
in the service of the government will
go unwhipped of justice. Americans
demand honesty and honor. vigilant
and fearless.
While he Is president readjustment
of tariff schedules will be made only
In. harmony with the principle of pro-
lection. Americans have memories.
| While he is president peace with ev-
cry nation will be preserved at any
cost; excepting only the sacrifice of
American rights; and the vigor with
which he maintains these will be itself
guarantee of peace.
| The American people will elect him
because, in word, they know that he
does things the people want done; does
things, not merely discusses them
does things only after discussing them
but does things; and does only those
things the people would have him do.
This is Enthusiastically American;
for wherever he Is, the American Is
he who achieves.
On every question all men know
where he stands, Americans. frank
themselves, demand frankness in their
servants. Uncertainty Is the death of
! business. The people can always get
| along IL they know where they are and
whittier they are going.
His past is his proof. Every great
measure of his administration was so
wise that, enthusiastically sustained by
his own party, 1t won votes even from
| the opposition.
| And so the people trust him as a
statesman. Better than that, they love
| him as man. He wins admiration in
vain who wins not affection also In
the American home-that temple of
happiness and virtue, where dwell the
wives and mothers of the republic.
cherishing the beautifur IN life and
guarding the morality of the nation
in the American home the name of
Theodore Roosevelt Is not only honor
ed but beloved. And that is a greater
triumph than the victory of battle
| fields, greater credit than successful
craftsmanship, greater honor than the
| presidency itself would be without it.
Life holds no reward so noble as the
! confidence and love of the American
people. c.
The American people! The might
lest force for good the ages have
| oh ,nf
liberty. They believed in God and His
providence. They took truth and JUS
tice and tolerance as their eternal
ideals and marched fearlessly forward.
Wildernesses stretched before them
they subdued them. Mountains rose
they crossed them. Deserts INSTRUCTED
they passed them. Their faith failed
them not and continent was theirs.
From ocean to ocean cities rose, fields
blossomed, railroads ran; but every
where church and school were perma-
nent proof that the principles of their
origin were the life of their maturity
American methods changed, but
American character remained the
same. They outlived the stage coach
but not the Bible. They advanced, but
forgot not their fathers. They delved
in earth, but remembered higher
things. They made highways of oceans
but distance and climate altered not
their Americanism. They began as
children of liberty, and children of lib.
erty they remain. They began as ser.
wants Of the Father of Lights, and al
His servants they remain. And so into
their hands Is daily given more of pow.
er and opportunity that they may work
even larger righteousness in the world
and scatter over ever widening fields
the blessed seeds of human happiness
Wonderful beyond prophecy's fore
cast their progress; noble beyond the
vision Of desire their future. In 1901
Jefferson said: "The United States
(then) had room enough for our descend
ants to the thousandth and thousandth
generation" three generations behold
the oceans our boundaries. Washing
ton never dreamed of railways. To-day
electricity and steam make Maine and
California household neighbors. This
advance, which no seer could have fore
told, we made because we are Americans
because free people with unfettered
minds and uhquestioning belief joy
fully faced the universe of human pos
sibilities. These possibilities are not
exhausted; we have hardly passed their
boundaries. The American people are
not exhausted; we have only tested our
strength. Gods work for us in the
| world is not finished; His future mis-
sions for the American people will be
| grander than any He has given us
nobler than we now can comprehend
And these tasks as they come we will
accept and accomplish as our fathers
accomplished theirs. And when ouI
generation shall have passed and oul
children shall catch from our agins
hands the standard we have borne, II
will still be the old flag OF Yorktown ant
Appomattox and Manila bay; the music
to which they in their turn will ther
move onward will still be the strain!
that cheered the dying Warren on Bun.
ker Hill and inspired the men who an.
swered Lincoln's call; and the ideals
that will be in them triumphant as they
are in us, will still be the old ideals thai
| have made the American Deople creat