The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-08
SPLENDID PRAISE
FROM EDITORS LIPS
LATE Young of Des Moines
Lauds Americans and Amer
lean Institutions.
AT ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION
AT ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION
Louisiana Purchase Cost a Fraction
Over Two Cents an Acre-lt Makes
Country One of First
Rank.

LollSltiHl purchase liloilbiilSiIt.
Between . and 4 o'clock a spectacular
balloon race Will take place. the con-
testants being Mrs. Mary II. Myers and
Tracey A. Tisdell. The balloons will
start from the ~aeronautic Curse and
go to the opposite boundary of the fair
grounds.
Tonight the electric lights on the
cascades and the colonnade of states
will be extinguished to give place to a
spectacular Summation by the Paine
Iyro company.
Louisiana purchase achievements and
national patriotism We're discussed in a
strong address by LATE Young of Des
Moines. Ia, this afternoon. He said In
part:
Iowa Editors Address.
1t is fortunate that there is one day
when there is no politics.: no scctionalisin
no north. no south. no cast. no west-a
day when Uncle Sam reigns. when the
owner of the farm is on duty and not the
tenant.
1t IS fortunate also that W. are able
to celebrate on these grounds SO many
achievements, go many honors. and so
many glortes at one time in one place.
This Is the American day of days. and
this is the particular American locality Of
more appropriately hold this celebration.
Celebrations on our eastern coast might
recall some American achievements, but
a celebration here in this great valley can
celebrate old and new American achieve
ments. From this city Lewis and Clark
with their band of thirty started on their
Down your great river came the only mes
sages which the explorers We're able to
get back to civilization during the march
north and west. This city has been I'M
der three flags, that of Spain and France.
and finally reached home under Old Glory.
This is not a day for politics or fault
finding. Uncle Sam has his faults. but
they are of no consequence COMPARED
with his virtues. We Americans believe
that this Is the only country worth living
in or dying for: further that the man who
cannot prosper in these United States
could not prosper anywhere. We believe
our laws are just: we know our plan OF
government. is right: our continent was
discovered late in order tina. VIC might
have no prejudices and no inequalities.
II everything is not right In this republic
the responsibility is with us and we have
the power to reform or amend. In this
land we have but one plain duty and that
Is to stand by the law. No cause should
be considered SO supreme and necessary
that the law he d~isregarded IN its behalf.
The law should govern all alike-no man
so poor that ought not nave and does
nave Its protection: no man SO rich that
ne can claim immunity from any of its
provisions. If laws are not right the
people can change them.
Some Americans Too Rich.
No conspiracy of the rich can destroy or
even endanger the government; There
and no way has vet been discovered to
hinder their accumulations. The question
of managing the overrich is one for the
future. We do not know Its solution. but
We do know that we have solved all things
heretofore rightly, we will so determine
this. this question gu s and 1t win be without re.
sSra 1H ana of T tie or pve ens f9rS Icu,d Th be FIRST rsl
sented. The future Will point the way
for settlement; point the way to a nearer
approach to equality. In this country
turcrs from England, France, Spain and
all other countries and where originally
settlements We're established and govern
ments maintained by various people from
different countries and where the lapse
Of time and the working out OF events put
all these nations out either by war or pur-
chase: and in this land where slavery
persisted on the battle field and all the
mistakes and MISUNDERSTANDING OF the
laws of the first sixty years Of the repub-
which has stood all these tests and met
all these dangers there will be patriots
enough to deal with the dangers that
shall come from poverty or riches.
For one hundred and twenty-five years
the world has considered the American a
buffer. Blu during all that time the
or sea.
For more than a century the world has
considered the American the wild vest
perforMer; W wea aba , elothi IN o slmply ro as a
But during that time the American has
been harmonizing himself. stirring and as
preparatory TO finally turning out the
finished American product-the best man
alive.
The American. for a century and a quar-
ter. has gone into every contest under
estimated by everybody but himself. and
has come out with all the trophies of
victory.
The American has never gone into a
battle which he did not expect to win,
and which everybody else did not ex-
pect him to lose. He has never gone
he would win. but he has always believed
that he would win something.
His Self Assurance Justified.
The American has had occasion for be-
! n,,yh th In himself self $ j NO man y can accom- 4
himself. The tight rope walker and the
man who loops the loop would fail il he
did not have confidence in himself.
The American has succeeded so many
times where others have failed that he
no longer reckons on defeat. He de-
feated the greatest nation Of the world
thus early established has been growing.
History has told that story. and for more
than a century 1t has been an Inspiration
to the brave hearts of young Americans.
For a century the American has sought
no Quarrels. He has only insisted on
other nations attending to their own bust
ness. Now that he is strong. he has no
disposition to seek a quarrel with his in
%feriors. Being underestimate for a cen
fury, he has not received the respect
which has been his due. Now that his
proves Is no longer questioned he has no
occasion, either to assert or to demon
strate his courage, Now when our state
alien harbor to demand the release of an
American subject he Is released.
Has the American any warrant for the
faith he has had In himself? Has he not
slept on the ground and rested in the
snow and rain; has he not laid in the
trenches in the water and the heat; has
he not marched and suffered in the
cations With small arms and uncompiain-
inGly; did he not go up Bunker Hill twice
and would he not be going up yet had not
his powder been exhausted; hasn't he
gone into conflict with foes on the sea
and the best soldiery on land; has lie not
continued TO go toward the enemy re-
not fought more in the open than any
fighting, rs Napoleon said. ON bright
fields where every helmet caught a ray
OF the glory The American does not
shoot from the hip nor in volleys: he
shoots from the eye 10 get the enemy. lie