Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-06-22

thirst tor blood, 1t has pu-ged the
heart of hate; in crowded cities
heaving with thirsty lust and greed
for gold; in the waste places of the
earth; in the glory of the mornings
kiss, in the mellowing shadows Of
the purple twilight; at home,
aboad, in places familiar to the feet
Of man. and in the distant islands
of sun-kissed seas, we hear it, and
always and everywhere the eyes
grow misty in the shade OF unshed
te ars and the heart beats strong
and true, responsive to the con
scious call of home.
So it is fitting that to-day, wnen
joyous whole-souled welcome
makes glad the pulsing hearts Of
countless thousands, there should
be here unveiled in tardy but de
voted justice Statue to the mem
DRY of Stephen Collins Foster.
Peace and plenty smile upon a
happy, a contented and prosper
Gus people. Science has harness
ed nature to the service of humani
ty; art has been led captive to hu-
man comfort; material blessings
have been showered upon us;
thought receives its recompcnse
and labor has its honest wage; in
telllgence is multiplied: education
is universal, and thus with peace
prevalent, the law supreme; and
liberty regnant, in the conscious
courage of a deathless hope. we
journey to a future beyond the
reach of vision, saying to one an
Rother, as simply and as truly as it
was said more than three thousand
years ago, in that far-off meadow
by the margin of a mystic sea.
whittier thou goest, l will go,
and where thou todgest. l will
lodge; thy people shall be my peo-
pie and thy God shall be my God. y
Whilst all of this is true, in some
strange way, the Kentuckian has
always preserved his individuality,
has never lost his identity. and we
love to look upon him as a Saul
among his brethren, so marked by
physical. racial and temperamental
characteristics that you may mark
among thousand. There must
be reason for it, and l think that
in his history we will find the
causes that dlfferentiate him from
the most OF men
To day, we'll across the threshold
OF century, for the sweep of
whose enlarging visions the past
affords no measure, this Common
wealth, founded in faith and build
ed in courage, faces a rediant
morning, big with promise, bright
with hope. 1t is a very precious
privilege to be called to the king
dom for such time-to be privi-
legged to participate in the great
movements that make for a broad
er and nObler material development
more Astounding and abiding des-
tiny, richer impulse and a deeper
patriotic purpose, for loftier stand
ards OIL public and of private life,
for sterner tests of personal and
corporate honesty, for civic right
eousness and truth and justice,
regnant and supreme.
And here to-day. in the hallowed
associations of these happy scenes.
recalling radiant days ahead, as we
gather from the corners of the
earth in loving communion in
place that will>always be to all of
us, somehow, a common home. the
Kentuckian at home gives you this
pledge, that, burying all the bitter
ness and ranCor of the older days,
bitterness and rancor there has
been forgetting all that-has been
unjust, forgiving all that has been
unjust, forgiving all that has been
unkind. if any such has been; not
i'll anger nor in strife, not in dis
cord nor confusion. freed of faction
and purged Of selfish purpose, in
spirit of high devotion, with deep
and unfaltering faith,
looking always uppand never down,
constructing, not destroying, in
love and friendship and fraternity.
we lay the honest and unselhsh
service of loyal and devoted hearts
and lives on the common altar OF
our common faith, as we set the
New Kentucky forward on her end
less journey along luminous high
way, leading to destiny beyond
the reach of vision, within the
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