Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1908-06-06

conflict, have most kindly thoughts |
and much admiration for the men who |
wore the gray. They faced superior !
numbers of equal skill and daring and |
we're harrassed in the rear by want and |
Had lack of food clothing, |
and arms come to us, the end might |
have been different.
There are those who say that the |
question of State Rights" is not yet
settled. In minor matter that may be
true, but the right to 'secede" from
this union is settled for all time. I'VE
are one and inseperable" The logic of
history has answered that question, yet
superficial thinkers say why not let
them depart i'll peace ?" Confederacy is
not new under the sun and it has ever
been failure. Greece, one time the
seat of art and learning, went out like a
snuffed candle. While embued with the
national spirit Of unity, Greece triumphed
gloriously over the multitudes of Asia.
Then came the confederation and there
followed dissention, division, death.
The German Bund is a later illustration
of the same truth. Petty states and
municipalities assume the rights of
sovereignty and form a confederacy.
This Bund could neither protect the
people from domestic tyranny nor avert
fSN,- .
each of these states foated a foreign
flag boosted by German hands. After
long years of weakness and humiliation
came the National spirit and with it
came unity and freedom to Germany.
Look at the petty States and Republics
of Central and South America. A his
tory of weakness, revolution, instability.
Were it not for ''Old Glory and the
Monroe doctrine, foreign flags would be
today floating over all these. Con-
federacv has ever united to destroy.
Suppose we had saved these men
whom we cover over with flowers and
had saved the millions of treasure ex-
pended in the war by saying go in
peace.
l verify believe a greater destruction
of life and greater waste of treasure
would have resulted. We may think
ourselves of finer clay and more perfect
mould than others, yet are we human
Could we live more peacefully under
two flags than one? See the deadly
feuds in Kentucky at this time. Family
feuds, certainly, but now much more
bitter if you add boundary lines and
sectional spirit. Had we permitted them
to go, Mason and Dixon's line would
have bben dead line" all these years.
More. the Union once broken, other
sections would have had fancy griev-
ances or ambitions and there would have
been Pacific Confederacy" Rocky
Mountain Republic" North Central
Territory" and other divisions. TO pre-
vent these divisions blood must flow and
treasure be expended. Foreign aid
would be invoked by one or all of them
and there would be scramble for di-
vision of this land as spoils.
The possibility brings darkness over
my spirit Cover them deep with flowers!
From this lower deep of national deg
relation they saved us a nation. The
conflict between the Confederate and
National spirit is irrepressible. We
cover them over because they preserved
the Union and i'll so doing prevented a
larger waste of life and treasure. In
stead of this division and waste and par
tition we have more perfect Union and
a prosperity unparalleled in history. i do
not forget the graft and corruption, but
these are but sign of our greatness. A
corruption fund of half a million used
by one corporation shows the profit OF
that business and also the fact that others
were so engaged in business highly
satisfactory that they were neither
jealous nor watchful, Notwithstanding
these things we are on the up grade and
the motion is strong and steady. l be-
lieve most heartily in the United States
of America.
In 1886 Andrew Carnegie said; Here
is the record of one century:
/. The majority of the English-speak-
ing race under one republican flag in
peace.
2. The nation which contains the
smallest proportion of illiterates, and the
largest proportion of those who read and
write.
8. The nation which spends least i'll
war and most upon education.
4. The nation which provides most
generously during their lives for every
soldier and sailor injured in its cause,
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