The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-06-14

the sentiment is created, then there
will be no difficulty in enforcing it in
that community more than in any
other community in the state.
And so, kind friends, we ought to
stop and think how this country came
to be the land Of the free and the
home of the brave. One of the young
ladies said in her grafton tonight that
it was necessary, to be a patriot, to go
upon the battle field to fight. No, my
friends,
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: Every man who respects the =
: laws of the land, every man :
: who obeys them, is a patriot; /"
: and every man who violates ::
: them knowingly and willingly :
= is a traitor, I don't care how :
: high a position he holds. I :
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:. ates the laws of the land which F.:
:. were made for the preserva- ::
!: ton of society and the pro- :
lection Of life, he is a traitor. "
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But how did this country come to
be the land of the free and the home
Of the brave? All the members Of
this graduating class here could tell
you how. They know how it came.
! Why, it was because the people who
came to this country in the early days
came here because they didn't enjoy
in the old world the freedom that they
felt in their hearts. They came here
to establish an asylum where all men
might come and worship their God
according to the dictates of their own
hearts and their own conscience; and
coming here with such a feeling as
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while they tasted freedom. After
they had had a taste of it, it isn't
strange that they wanted a little more
and it isn't strange at all that those
men who would dare the storms of
the seas to come here for freedom-it
isn't strange at all that they would be
opposed to taxation without repres-
entation. The soldiers of the revolu-
tion-not soldiers of fortune-were
unused to the hardships of the long,
weary marches, and the long sleep
less, starless nights upon the cold,
damp ground or the malarial swamp.
Nor We're they hardened to bloodshed
and slaughter. No, they were farm
ers. They came from behind the
bank counters, from behind the coun-
tiers in the stores; from the pulpit
Every walk in life opened up and gave
to the cause of liberty its patriots;
and these were the men that wrested
from the soldiers of fortune of the old
world that were fighting for glory,
pleasure, the Joy of battle, wrested
from them the freedom and the indie
pendence that they transmitted to us
as a heritage.
This is not all. The liberties which
we enjoy here cost us o than that
more than the blood that flowed at
Bunker Hill and upon all the CORY
He too came from the farm, from the
pulpit, from the schoolhouse, from the
hanker's counter, from the store.
gain every walk in life opened IN
and gave it's patriots to the cause of
the Union. They too were not used
to hardship in life. They too, had
never ben trained to endure the priva-
lions of the long, weary marches.
They were not soldiers, but civilians.
And why was it that they left the
farms? Why was it that they left
the banks?. Why was it that they
left the ~schoolhouse and went out
to fight? Why?
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= part of the government. They ::
I" were not seeking glory; they /:
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: eminent. .
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And because they were a part OF
the government, they went forth to
preserve it and to p%erpetuate this gov
eminent that was transmitted to them
, by the revolutionary fathers. They
were not soldiers, but at the same time
no greater war has ever been fought
M hro1,or mon aver went forth to do