Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-07-08

and in the after education, the
youth of this country are taught
that the implements of labor are
more honorable than swords and
scepters; and that it is not work
which is disgraceful, but idleness;
that the heir of millions, if he be
not engaged in some honest occupa-
ton, is simply upon the industrial
and moral level of the tramp. The
patent of nobility in this country
is the right and the ability to earn
an honest living in some useful and
honorable employment; not the
worthless titles OF a degenerate old
world aristocracy for which SO
many good American millions are
annually wasted.
These are the principles that a
study of the past shows have made
us what we are; they are the prin-
ciples to which we must cling in
the years to come. New occasions
will arise, new duties will be laid
upon US, new light will be re-
quired. But the past can never be
ignored. Surely the more we study
it, the more shall we feel the i'm
pulse to meet the new occasions in
the spirit Of those who have gone
before US, and to discharge the new
duties so as to perpetuate and pre-
serve their work. To that work
we may add. To that structure we
may contribute new grace and
strength. But other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid
laid on the village green at Lexing-
ton, laid by the running stream at
Concord, laid on the heights of
Bunker Hill, laid in the halls of the
Continental Congress, laid in the
councils of the Constitutional Con-
vention.
l remember how one Fourth of
July, years ago, l stood for the first
time upon historic ground. Old
Trinity church in New York stands
at the head of Wall street, on
Broadway. In the churchyard
there is a monument erected to GER
tain patriots who, during the Revo-
lutionary War, had been imprisoned
in that city for their patriotism.
Graves of the memorable dead were
all around. A tablet to Montgom-
cry was in the wall of the chapel.
A memorial to Thomas Adds En-
met, who had found here refuge
from the lash Of oppression, lifted
its modest shaft near at hand. I
stood under the monument to those
dead patriots at the hour of noon,
when from the tower of Old Trim
ity the chimes rang out "Star-
Spangled Banner,' Hail Columbia"
and other national airs. The pas
sers-by paused to listen, and the in
spring music rang thru that thoro-
fare of Mammon and that thoro-
fare Of business, and for moment
the noise of traffic and the clinking
upon the tables of the money chang
ers were unheard. The wings of
the Nations guardian angel, the
spirit of the Republic, seemed how
ering over the scene. Somehow |
felt in the rapture Of the moment
: that the sentiment of patriotism in
the breasts of our countrymen was
stronger than the worship of gold,
stronger than the claims of the
market-place, and might still be
trusted to rise at the critical mo-
ment to the grandeur of sacrifice,
as it since has done. l felt on that
; day of all days, surrounded by the
! memories of our heroes and states
men, as never before the value of
:; country, and believe then and be-
! lieve now, that there are thousands
of our citizens who could honestly
take upon their lips the sentiment
of the psalmist: IF forget thee,
0 Jerusalem"-if l forget thee, o
l America-''let my tongue cleave
to the roof of my mouth, and my
= right hand forget her cunning"