Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-04
HON. REESE N. LING FREQUENTLY
 DELIVERS PATRIOTIC ADDRESS
Prescott Orator Speaks in Evening After Rain Ceases and Strs Large Audience As He Pays Tribute to the Ameri-
 cans of Early History and Men of Today

dure. From sand enshrouded Egypt, from the marble wilderness of Athens. from every fallen. crumbling stone of the once mighty Rome. marks a cry that a nation founded upon injus tice cannot stand.
 Founders Showed Ingenuity.
 The sun in his beneficent progress round the world. has never beheld d more glorious example of the ingenn. Ity and skill of man in the formation of government than that of the found CTS of this Republic.
 It has been tried in the crucible of time
 It has withstooJ assaults from with out and dissensions from within, but has ridden triumphantly upon sea lashed into a fury mountain nigh and crimson tipped by the best blood of its children. Only a strong people can build up nation. To be strong they must be self-reliant, self-ruled, 
 This government was not funded by weddings. its strength would nev. CT have withstood the tests imposed upon 1t. It is not bound together with clouds and chains of mist it is cemented together with the flesh and blood of the grandest race of away-all are warning thar no na people on earth-Americans.
 Mortal mind cannot conceive of greater sacrifices, severer suffering or more patient endurance in the face of the trying hours of the Revolu tion.
 Who can forget the sufferings of Washington's patriot band during the winter at Valley Forge. We cann1, forget the blood-stained tracks of the shoeless. lilly clad and poorly fed men who so freely gave themselves ,-- willing sacrifices for the sake of nsa ing an experiment for the benefit oi those who in their turn should al low them.
 What patriotic cheek does not flush with pardonable pride at. the remem brance of the dashing gaIlantry- oi Wayne.
 What heart does not beat more quickly upon recalling the words o the dying Lawrence Don't give up tht ship
 Stirring Words of Spark.
 What eye does not kirile at tEf words of Stark, We'll beat the rs' coats tomorrow or Mollie Stark vi. be a widow"
 But it is not in recounting the ris nhnUn hGt fnfn hfpb in countless deeds of valor unexcelieG that the builders of the government deserve greatest commendation. It IS in the successful rearing of an edi flee, lofty, grand, magnificent, no where approached in the historical pages of the past or present 1t de wolves upon us to maintain it unde filed.
 Viewed in the light of the present their wisdom seems almost more than human.
 It is almost impossible they could have peered SO far into the dim flu ture with such wisdom.
 They sought to frame a government of the people-one where each should have the privilege of partaking to the fullest extent in that government.
 They were opposed to rulers who ruled under an assumption of divine right-the accident of birth.
 An American has been defined to be a king. This definition is true one for he is a part of the sovereign pow CT.
 To one fully alive to the full sig nificance of American citizenship there is no nobler title-no greater honor to be conferred than the honor able title of an American
 Its possessor stands upon the high est pinnacle of human distinction. He is the peer of any man on earth. AS an Irishman might say he is as good as any man and a little better"
 While We differ upon questions of great importance, and are oftimes like old Ocean, tempest tossed and lashed to foam, yet when calm set ties and sunlight bathes its peaceful surface, We find that the heaithful thoughts Of the majority of the Amer. ican people have decided the issues. and all should be satisfied. Should some of Us not be fully in accord with some of the policies of those in pow. CT, still all true Americans say, Our country, right or wrong. our country still"
 Great Condition confronts
 The greatest condition confronting the people of this land today is the existence of those who desire to right wrongs by attempting to arouse a prejudice of par of our citi' gems against another.
 It is a snake which rears its ven. omed head at the sacredness Of American institutions. It strikes at the very cornerstone of our existence as a nation.
 I have no patience with those self styled reformers who desire to tear down our form of government in or der to rear one emanating from the imagery of a d;sordered imagination in its stead.
 We concede to each person the priv ilege of differing as to methods or means for the accomplishment of needed reforms They cannot come by appeals to prejudice. They cannot come by the savage fury of the bomb. bayonet or cannon They cannot come by violence. They are only possible by the exercise of the same calm. de liberate. unselfish feeling and consid- erafion for the rights of others as as shown by those who founded this government
 have sometimes wished there were words Of the most malevoient hatred