The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-06-09


write, or an equivalent, before cit
izenship was conferred.
The service which the Grand Army
gave in the field andtheir mothers,
wives, sisters and sweethearts gave
at home, resulted in reunited
country, which has forged forward
to the front rank among the nations.
! read of the negotiations among the
rulers of Europe in the years be-
tween 1S6l-5, whether they should
recognize the Southern Confederacy,
and SO disrupt the United States;
| and | read how England, France and
| Spain united in what was then deris-
| lively called the "Unholy Alliance"
to establish an empire in Mexico, and
placed the Austrian Macmillan on its
throne; taking advantage of our
war to defy what is called the Mon
roe Doctrine" which for short is,
that no European nation shall med
die with the internal affairs of the
republics on the American continent
i1hSo iuhu "uo oooh ttSHdIlltu vi ltl
part, and withdrew from the com
pact An when our victorious arm
les rested from the strift with our
southern brethren, a significant nod
to Napolean III, otherwise called
'Napolean the Little" caused him
to hasten out of Mexico, protesting
the while that he didn't mean any
thing. From the day of the grand
review at Washington, when Grant
and Sherman marched their armies
thru the national capital, no other
nation has thought it best to NEEDLE
with American affairs. When Rich
ard Olney, Cleveland's secretary of
state, sent his blunt dispatch to
England about Venezuela, our Brit
ish cousins bristled up and made wry
faces, but John Bull knew too we'll
the mettle of his son Jonathan to
desire to tackle him, if he had really
wished to do SO; which in his hear
he did not; for really he is very
proud of his oldest son. Today the
American and his flag is everywhere
respected, Even" as Cicero says of
Romans, among barbarians in the
remotest parts of the earth" If we
were now just and only two nations,
the United States and the Confeder-
ate States, and each had grown in
proportion as we have as one ma
tinn 6OnC hat
one moment either of us would have
a 1.-THE of the influence that we now
have among nations of the earth?
Would great Russia and victorious
as they listened when our president
asked If the time had not come to
stop fighting?
Ours is great nation, and it is
a great honor to be a citizen of it.
Laws enacted by our representatives
and our regularly instituted govern
ment, are our bulwark and safety,
and must be upheld at any price
He who tritles with them is an en-
envy of his country, and of our homes
and is unworthy of his citizenship.
We hope the coming generation will
have no such problem to settle as we
old soldiers did in 1861 to 1865.
But If such vexed problem is
brought to them | do not fear but
what the descendants of the old Amer
lean stock, with the descendants of
the newcomers from the four quar-
ters of the earth, will rise up and
settle it once for all. Nevertheless,
comrades and fellow-citizens, we
have task before us to make the
conditions right for such a citizen
ship and public sentiment. The rep
resentatiyes of foreign nations that
had come to us before the war be-
tween the states were few compared
with those coming now. And those
of that earlier day were mostly from
northern and western Europe, with
titude for f-government; now they
are from all parts of the world; and
to speak the truth, with some of
them liberty simply means license,
and all governments they count an
enemy. | left New England in 1887,
at which time the French Canadians
We're coming to us by the thousands,
but after a few years most of them
returned to Canada; and few Ital-
ians and Armenians had come; after
eleven years out | went back. and
10. there was almost IA new New Eng
land; great portion of the old
Yankee stock had wisely come west
and of what was left the births in
some of the New England states did
yearly equal the number of deaths,
and the French Canadians who had
once been there had come back