The Detroit times., 1908-11-24
He Star Of Empire
Is a Fixed Star
Takes Its Way Westward No More,
Dot Shines Over the Scene
Of psmocracy's Last
Stand.

stand coast assl years ago :
glorious in the light its spendio heri'as
mankind at time nothing short OF falling oae
before bigoted gor English govenmen-the second "
treat since the evacuation of Scrooby.
they will cepict to you with DC
solemnv an you historic bat
efed upon tables that mark the successive yea
ngs the force till they rallied at their last STAND ana '0us
4 It there and then glorious finish
Before tyranny and intolerance backed by the power 'ne
sovereign Pilgrims fell back and yet again 'ha
they might glorious stand for civil and religious liberty
1t a retreat, but a mastery one
In speech concentrating landing OF the Pilgrims in 1902
John Quincy Adams used these words
Nearly century ago. Of those rare minds to whon
given discern future in its seminal principles
IN vein of poetic inspiration Westward the of empire
takes its way Let us unite in ardent a , 10 he e
prophecy may unfolding into hstoryhat the
hopes of the human not be IN
disappointment and that the last may prove the nooes ~
The star of western empire has before
Pilgrims and rested the cradle OF democracy as the star
guided the Bethlehem manger where the
Prince humby graded And then the shining soy
stood still in the heavens of the west says and
The PRAYERS to and Builder Of Worlds
awaited much What prophecy hundred and more
years ago continued its unfolding into history
hopes of the human have not been ex
q tinguished in disappointment Not yet.
The is surely empire of me-tha is, time
thus far
question fighting the star OF empire
sentinel the land where the
the Pgmsh retreang facilities at their disposal
with and shores to ny to- with no unchaeo WI"
asylum the representative been making
their last stand for true democracy.
We consider undiscovered
the of pgmages because there no
ungoverned land for the conformss and sepaa OF the
present age fly
develops FIBRE schools patience gives
time fall to let the Speede
MayAowr fall pieces from disuse their moorngs while
under the fixed OF democracy
RACES fercely times and the shouting and tut
are something deafening
Sometimes the aaton of factionas goes through
national motto Bless the Land of the Pilgrims
mnorties felt the morning after the recent
you think they would have taken their chances
the with the dangers OF famine and disease
unknown pes of ackless forests they could have had
the going somewhere and putting their rejected civil
programs into efecta
But-alas for the limitations of geographic
az no pilgrim from Scrooby another
The world Pilgrim Rocks for who would
established order for conscience
victions sakel
So been harder respects descendants than
for had and face the music
saveoding emulate the example of the
union wouldn't stand for separation We fought
The non-conorm with reference legalzed saloon,
felt times without number doubtless they like
established dry domain in somewhere But they
stood ground these forty fifty fighting
d country
and how should be permitted
poygamy fought equal suffrage fighting
the meantime shore how strong
temptation of the suragettes to set of in some SPeede
avAoer foundation of future celebration
.of the "Alghting of the Pigrms!"
fighting between plutocracy andf
this line the boodess battle continue
determined whether the last be the noblest empire
Of time.
effort check putocray will prevail or
having been tried and found wantngwe
the doctrine with which the Pilgrims began
polcthat of goods and labor for which
something million Americans voted in the late
John Quincy Adams the Pilgrims dropped the philosophy
finally because the of material rewards should
be O the of aspiration and effort
this progresses where aspiration and
effort of the many fail of reward, what then?