The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-10
ASBRiLLlANT AND INSPIRING AID.
DRESS DELiVERED BEFORE
LOCAL Y. M. c. A. sum
DAY sAFTERNOON
SOME EXCELLENT THOUGHTS
CLOTHED IN ELOQUENT
LANGUAGE.
cay Hon. u. M. showaIeer.)

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58 n have been requested to discuss
Il briefly Some Of the Assets of the
Community and when we enumerate
I the assets Of ascommunity we have
taken into the account those that are
{ to be found in the trial balance sheet
I of the Nation, for the Nation after all,
4 is only the aggregate community. And
u in this country as in no other coun-
try in the world, and at this time as
at no other period recorded in history,
IN the credit side OF that sheet stands
& out in bold relief bearing eloquent tes-
Il timony to the solvent condition of
Il this great community, to the peace
q and good order which universally pre-
walls, to the prosperity that is equally
4 distributed without discrimination
Throughout our land and to the sub
stantial increase in the item of intel
#lectual and moral force among our
4 people.
Descended as we are from ances-
" tors whose Independent spirits could
not longer brook the tyranny and OPP
preston of monarchial Europe, in
\; whose breasts there famed the flames
OF liberty and popular government;
who had the courage and the forti-
Il tude to brave the dangers of the sea
and the pitfalls OF the forest who es-
Is tablished nation founded upon lib
#z erty as a home for their children. and
III aShayen for the oppressed of every
NJ cline; and then baptized it in the
richest blood that ever flowed from
the breasts of patriots; we, as their
descendants, to-day are visited with
\ priceless inheritance and enjoy the
richest blessings that have ever fall
en- to the lot Of the children OF men.
What are some of the assets of
n our community? The riches of the
forests are ours, the bountiful treas
ures Of the mountains have been bid
/. den to come forth from their hiding
D places; the products of fertile plains
4 and valleys fill our store houses; sci
ence, mechanical genius and invention
v have effaced distances, and put the
II whole world into immc1iata commune
Il cation, constantly interchanginS the
" commerce of one community with
u that of another, until the comforts
4 and rarest Injuries Of life are within
{ the easy grasp of the lowliest indl-
fvidual; wholesome laws are ours, not
those that Cypress, but laws which
!; help and protect and foster; institu-
tons are in our midst, and that to
Il bless; educational, charitable, philan-
thropic; and thus we might go on emu
II meraring our material resources ad
iibitun.
8ss But there is one asset upon which
iii u-irb which
bosted institutions would fall into de-
4 cay; our rich and fertile country be
converted into a tangled thicket of
thorns and worthless vegetation; and
y our liberty that has become the pride
4 and greatest triumph of Christian civ
ilization would be as hollow mockery;
our Declaration of independence with
all it's historic and patriotic signifi-
4 canoe, our written constitutions, our
y solemnly enacted laws, and the dignl-
3 5ty and majesty Of our courts would
be as so many palsed arms, if we
were not able to count among the as
sets of our community the strength
and power of vigorous, stalwart,
young, incompatible manhood de
cree was entered on the 9th day OF
LQG CINdllOu W W ulCii Lliio 1tlNN NsAS
indisputably established. For God
said LET US make man in our own
image, after our likeness: and let him
have dominion over the fish of the sea.
and over the fowls of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth and
over every creeping thing that creep
eth upon the earth. So God created
man in his own image, in the image
of God created He him.
Here then do we find the original
grant upon which our inheritance is
based; back to which man may trace
& a clear and indcfeaSible title to the
Z earth, together with it's appurtenan-
ces and all things therein contained,
for the use, benefit and enjoyment OF
him and his Successors foreve and
4 OF his dominion over every other liv-
3 ing creature upon the earth, in the air
above, and in the waters under the
4 earth.
i5s Did we say this title is indefeasible?
have not consulted the conmenta-
4 tors and the construction which
N give to this grant may not be Ortho,
y dox but I see in it one forfeiture
clause, one condition precedent, one