The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-02-03

Responding 10 lne TOAST 'OuT COuu-
try" Lieutenant Governor Warren G..
Harding spoke in part as follows at
the Mckinley club banquet:
Pulses are quickened, the vibrant
chord is struck, the emotions are STIR
red and hearts filled with the concord
of exultation and exaltation. This
love of country, inherent, unselfish,
and unfailing as mothers proud
devotion, alive with the warmth of a
suitor's yearning breast, is as undy-
ing as hope, the great unchanging
love, the solace and the inspiration OF
patriotism that exalts us. Cherished
possession and consoling thought
My country, thee! God pity the
wretch for whom No Minstrel rap
lures swell But thrice blessed is this
heavengiven love when worthily be-
slowed, when attainment and achieve
ment and advancement and accom-
plishment supplement it with righteous
pride, when conscience and hope and
strength are blended in the elevating
purposes of God-intended civilization.
VI ulSIONSly 1iu
development have followed, and our
own people of today, travelled as they
are, still fail in their conception. We
are so vast, so varied, so blessed with
Gods bounty and so enriched by ma
ture's seeming prodigality that human
knowledge has not grasped our mater
ial possibilities. Let one stand amid
the activities Of human employment
and gaze on the mightiness that man
has worked from earth and soil, and
| he marvels at human strength and the
| fertile genius of man. Commerce, ed
ucation and the inherent purpose of
man have turned into habitations and
| habiliaments and works and wonders
the materials which creation left for
human shaping and utility.
when one wearies Of this magnifi-
cent panorama, wrought by American
manhood, he can turn to the almost
measureless stretches of great and
boundless west, where nature thunder
ed it's derision of mans relative fee
bleness in an outburst of mightiness,
at tributes to God, wrote its acknowl-
edgement in the canyons and attuned
it's praises to the music of ripping
waters, then crowned its offering with
beauty indescribable. Stand as
stood, last summer, amid the awe-in-
spring wonders of Yellowstone park
drink its inspiration, and the breast
fills with emotions too eloquent fol
words. In the contrast of that Won
derland with the magic of industrial
development there grows on one of
new eagerness to realize the physical
incomparableness of this country OF
ours.
"The wholesome equality came with
the birth of American freedom. Nc
/, barriers of serfdom, no restrictions tc
peasantry lift their forms to cast
shadows in the sunlight of our free
citizenship. We reared new standards
Of freedom when the all-conquerinl
and unconquerable reyolutionists thun
dered their proclamation of liberty a.
Ieyington and Concord. The baptis
NAL VOWS were crimsoned with patri
otic blood, and, though the world little
needed then. a new epoch began. Th'
marshalled forces of liberty and civ
ilization lighted a new beacon OF
Bunker Hill, and guided by that light
the millions of eXiled and oppressed
have come to drink the waters of ouI
political life This haven, this asylum
Of the downtrodden, flung wide tn,
door of hope and there sprung up new
aspirations, new purposes and new re
solves.
Little wonder that an ambiguity IL
[ the constitution had to be effaced il
! blood. But the flag was born to world
echoing victory for national life ant