Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-19

the racine. NOW we nave gone across the Ia
cifc to the distant Islands which wrested from
Spain, and there stand looking northward,
surprised, startled, at those other Islands to the
north where the little brown men with the almond
shaped eyes are today, like our fathers 1870 years
ago today, firing shots heard round the world
Not another nation but another race, has waken-
ed from the sleep of centuries, to dispute the mo-
nopoly of the white race upon the stage Of the
worlds history Canwefa face them without fearand
without distrust? Have we the courage of ourcon-
victions? Will we reearn the old fact Of
common brotherhood. based, not upon color or
cline, but upon character, that every child OF God
in whose veins flows the pure, wholesome, red
blood of true humanity, is brother, il he be
truly man?
"Oh East is East and West is West,
And never the two shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently
At Gods great Judgment Seat
But there is neither East nor West,
Border nor Breed nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
Tho they come from the end Of the earth"
This Spirit, which is the Spirit of the living
God, is saying to this generation, 81 wrote for
your ancestors the words Liberty and Equal
ity.' | broke all their chains, the Tyranny Of
long established custom, the pride Of aristocracy,
the folly of caste, and the curse Of kings placed
them here in this wide land fetter free, where the
majestic forests and the lofty mountains, and the
boundless prairies sang for them the divine music
of liberty. Now, will you preserve that liberty?"
1t is said that today in Russia, the common peo-
pie on the streets are singing song OF thoir
composition which may be rendered into English
with varying phrase but is substantially this:
1.-THE japanese demanded of our Tar, as the
al, lou ,,,,, hr.1 hc,,
beaten, two peasants who had not been starved,
two priests who were not drunkards And our
Tar answered Here are two Grand Dukes they
are all have And the japanese said, .We will
not have such carrion. -
The time may not be far distant when that Spirit
of the Law Inexorable which determines the fate
of nations may come to this land and say, "Give
the price of continued peace and prosperity,
people who, though too weak in intelligence or in-
huence to defend themselves, have never been
wronged, because protected by the whole nation;
people, however strong, who have never taken
unjustly from neghbor or nation; moral and re
ligious leaders truly worthy to lead. Sad in
deed will be the fate of this nation if compelled to
answer, 81 can give you such material prosperity
as the world has never known before; such highly
endowed colleges and universities as other ages
and other lands never dreamed Of: | can
give you man who began poor andis now worth
nearly billion. Take these but what you ask
cannot give" Should such time ever come, the
answer of Fate memorable will be, II will not ac-
cept these. II you have nothing better to OFFER
your gravestones shall be like those Of Corinth
and Ephesus, of Tyre and Babylon, Of Sodom
and Gomorrah'
But have faith to believe that time will never
come. When meet such Il company as this,
il,
of modern activity, remembering that these
the people with whom buy and sell and vote
and pray, and remember the stock from which
sprung, the deeds Of our fathers and grandfathers
as we'll as of our more distant forbears, then
faith becomes certainty. The blood Of true
courage still beats in our veins. This is Gods
land, and such it shall ever remain.
The Old Continental.