The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-31
TRIBUTE PAID TO
COUNIRY'S DEFENDERS
Continued from Ilrst pagel

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
coming Of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where
the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning OF
His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on"
1t Is the same note the great apostle
sounded in his letter to the Galatians
haif-century after the death OF the
Messiah! "Be not deceived; God 10 not
Knocked; for whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap
As you read the histories OF the ma
tons of the earth, as you read OF bat
| ties, sieges and slaughterings, as you
study the rise and decline of nations,
as you review the progress OF civilization
along the bloody pathway OF the past
there are written in letters OF fire across
each page OF early history these words
"Whatsoever a nation soweth that shall
it also reap This is the law OF cause
and effect II is true OF the individual,
il is true Of this city "a collection OF
individuals, il is true of the state and
/ OF the nation. whether that nation be
a monarchy or republic IL IS the
greatest and most immutable law OF
life.
The mighty Roman empire was build
ed by the strong arms and clear heads
of the Roman soldiers, until Rome tow
cred the highest and most powerful
throughout the then known earth. But
with military success was sown the seed
OF enmity in the breasts Of those whom
Z al L.I IoI .tpInr bnF heal
and with military success were sown
the seeds OF luxury and its attendant
vices. These seeds, the seeds Of enmity
sown without her walls and luxury and
vice within, grew and multiplied until
world ruling Rome was BUNDLED in the
dust and the great empire destroyed by
wild, strong men of the North; men
4 who sayagely remembered their wrongs;
wild. strong men, whom luxury had not
weakened ale trampled out the vint
age where the grapes of wrath were
stored; and he loosed the fateful light
ming Of his terrible swift sword Rome
sowed enmity and corruption and reaped
dissolution.
Spain was the mistress Of the seas.
She was proud and cruel By the bar
barity of her soldiers abroad, and
through the infamous inquisition at
home. she had sogn seeds Of enmity
and OF horror in the hearts of all Chris
tendon And when TO feed her pride,
King Phillip planned the conquest OF
England, and in 1858 sent the great
Armada North from the Tagus, Il was
but to reap the harvest Of her sowings.
/ All England. Catholic and Protestant,
with common impulse joined in repel-
ling the invaders; and that spirit OF
patriotism. welded by hatred of Spanish
cruelties, dispersed the great galleons of
the Armada And the storms came
down and beat upon those engines OF
destruction and drove them helpless into
the North seas to be wrecked or to
founder, and the flower Of SPANS no
bility to be slain on hostile northern
shores. In eommemoration OF this event
England's queen caused coin OF the
realm TO be struck on which are these
words "The Winds and the Waves Dis
persed Them" Again must just history
say God is not mocked; whatsoever a
nation sows that shall 1t also reap"
And vet note again how Spain, in
spite of this terrible lesson, retained the
same cruelty as before shown. In your
time and in mine, four hundred and ten
years later, in 1898, Spain yet again,
still too proud to learn the lesson OF
1888. reaped the reward OF her pride
and cruelty DO you not remember the
simple but terrible story that our United
States senator from Vermont, Senator
Redheld Proctor, brought back from
CubaY How his tale OF Spanish cruel
ties in that beautiful island awakened
the conscience of this nation, and how
at Manila bay and at Santiago, again
on sea, and also on land, Spain reaped
in blood and disaster her just reward.
ale loosed the fatefui lightning Of his
terrible swift sword" "His truth is
marching on What Spain again sowed
that also again did she reap,
But why travel across the sea and dig
in ancient graves for Illustrations of
this great law of the universel What
need is there to draw on foreign nations
for further illustrations Behold in this
western land the sowing and the reap
ing
In colonial days two seeds were plant
ed on the Atlantic seaboard. One was
as white as the snow on our mountain
tops but the other as black as the very
depths of hell These were the seeds of
liberty and of slavery The history of
this republic the history of civilization
in this great land OF ours is nothing
else than the sowing, growth and reap
ing of these two seeds.
TO these shores came a chaos of creeds
and principles Many came to avoid the
calling yoke of oppressive rules; most
to escape religious persecution. They
came one and all in a spirit of tolera-
ton, and in an abiding belief in liberty
of conscience; and they lived it with
each other BY happy neglect England
left these men of many minds to gov
ern themselves; seldom interfering, UNI
less occasionally in some colony to APP
point a governor. Therefore spirit of
self government, the seed of liberty,
grew apace in the American colonies.
II ripened so fast and grew so big that
King George the third, in suicidal OBJ
stinaev. attempted to choke it out by
impanting the weeds of absolute mon
arehy, by imposing taxes without the
consent of those taxed. Do you recall
how these taxes these seaweeds cling
ing TO the crown of monarchy--were re-
ceived? How some taxed tea was spilled
in Boston harbor; how other taxes were
repudiated? Well could King George
have said with Spencer's Shepherd
"And thus of all my harvest hope
have uaught reaped but weedy crop
of care" Do you recall how this seed
of liberty burst forth into bloom in l776
with the Declaration of Independence