The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-13
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on the utmost heights of fame.
A handful of colonists. unskilled in
warfare. overcoming the might OF the
strongest Of nations is an unusual spec
tacle. 1t was because Great Britain was
involved in an European war at the time,
we nave heard 1t said. The French alii-
ance. or the distance across the seas
brought the victory, it has been again
asserted. This fortunate conjunction or
/ conditions was indeed OF vast assistance:
and America owes an ~unpayable debt or
gratitude to France: but it was some
thing else that wrought our in~depend-
ence. What was that? No military abil-
itv. That was an art of which the col
onist knew but little.
The Revolution was one of those great
! occasions in the history of the world
when the people think and act for them
selves. The preparation and organization
made by them had been inconsiderable
and had but little effect o nthe events
and result of the war. 1t was the peo-
Pile. their patriotism and perseverance
that carried them through the struggle.
1t was the people acting a natural part
In their sovereign capacity as citizens of
the soil on which they fought-fresh from
their horles and fields with a righteous
cause spread upon their banner.
Such an army needs not preparation,
or orders, or allies. 1t presents, too. a
spectacle of the highest moral sublimity,
when the soul of the cause makes IN Tol
the lack of everything else.
The efforts of the people struggling fos
their rights and fully resolved to be free.
are ultimately crowned with success. No
matter how unequal the contest; no
matter or hat soil the battle is fought;
no matter how many fall on the altar OF
freedom. there still lives In a patriots
breast a resource that will weaken the
arm of ~tyranny--a %our of resolute
opposition and heroic perseverance that
will deliver his native land from bond
age. The is hat raised our country
from vassalage: this is what made her
free.
When our ancestors emerged in triumph
from the Revolution they proceeded to
OF ganize the colonies and the liberty thai;
had been won into a representative form
of government. They embodied the pin
.cinles of the Declaration of Independence
in the Federal Constitution and elected
their beloved Washington chief magis
rate of the new Republic.
Then commenced the advance of tn
United States of America, and magical
indeed, has been her history. Genii mort
powerful than those conjured up by AIad
lin seem to have revealed Ger the best
part of the temperate zone on this West
ern Continent. To borrow the phrase OF
IN orator, the scanty strip of territory
which forms the original thirteen states
is now but a fringe upon our country's
mantle. Her civilization has advanced
from the Atlantic coast with firm ana
rapid strides until its footprints are i'm
pressed on the golden sands of the Pa
eific sea.
The land covered with primeval forests
md grassy prairies over which 1t passed,
exchanged that virgin beauty for fertile
elds and gorgeous cities now activs
With industrial life.
a little more than a entur has role
oy since the formation of the Union, anu
his country consists of forty-five states.
With a population of nearly eighty mil
ions. She has grown into a great power
n an Incredibly short period of time. Suci
apid national growth is unparalleled II
ne annals of the world.
The Constitution was adopted. territory
las expanded, states have been annexed.
l long line of Presidents nave been elect
"a and every function of free government
reformed In accordance with the voice
If The people.
With the exception of the Civil war tho
Republic has reached her present emil
.ence directed by popula will. withou
ne slightest friction of her political ma
hinery. That conflict was the supreme
est by which America convinced an III
Iedulous world that her representative
orm of government was indestructible
fhe Constitution. which holds these
states in union. has stood the strain o.
J foreign wars and civil strife, and demon
: strates that mankind can safely anu
wisely govern themselves. In construct.
ing the organic law of this nation, it has
Jeen said that our forefathers builde
,etter than they knew. They buitde
yell, and Ii better thar they thought, IL
vas because they had been destined by
! higher power as the "a chitects of a
government that was to redeem all men
rom desootic rule. Behold its early et
ects and Judge from that of it's future
! onquests.
| The Spanish possessions of the Western
| Continent have been emancipate
/ American influence. and the West India
islands lately freed by the proves OF
| american arms.
Every government of the New WorIG
is popular In form and the people of TIT
British possessions enjoy those rights ana
liberties for which our forefathefs con
tended at the beginning of the kevoiu
ton. But the influence of our example
is not confined to this hemisphere alone.
1t has crossed the ocean and made many
liberal innovations in the political sys
TENS on the other side of the globe.
france, the generous ally of America IL
her war for Independence, took inspira
ZION from the infant Republic which SAT
Defriended and adopted the principles foi
which they fought. Fronting by ner eA
perience in the Revolution and by the
success of this nation, England has pur.
sued a liberal policy towards her colonies
that bind them to her in close allegiance.
But let me not multiply examples.
The political condition of every coun-
try OF Europe, except that bar barous lii
ternational puppet, Turkey, has unde4-
gone a change that gives the people a
larger share in their own government.
SUCH has been the effect of the p~olltica,
reform set in motion by those wn.
wrought our independence and franso
our Constitution. In the meantime. white
the principle of equality was being
worked out and the territory of the
United States was e tpanding and he.
population increasing other develop
ments were rapidly going on. In spite
OF jealoGsies, wars, embargoes and pi
racies our commercial growth has been
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