The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-03-09
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those who pass this way In the years
to come may mark 1t as one of the
mileposts along the long and bloody
trail which led at last TO Yorktown.
He is a bold man who will undertake
to say Just when and where that trail
began-whether at Lexington, at
Naseby, at Runnymede. or in the
Black Forests of Germany, when Ar
minus first checked the victorious
flight of the Roman eagle. In fact
that is not the end of the road we
are most vitality interested in. The
study of the story of that long strug-
gle and an appreciation of the her
ole sacrifices which its every turn
discloses are an inspiration TO patri-
otism, and patriotism is the founda-
ton stone upon which good citizen
ship is builded But 1t is vouchsafed
to us, as IL was not vouchsafed to
the fathers, to look back upon long
fight which has already eventuatee
in victory. The divine right Of kings
has persisted, and in its stead that
other theory that government which
are instituted among men derive
their just powers from the consent
of the governed has triumphed.
when we look back over the road
which we have travelled since that
good day what a story reels before
us. The wilderness which hemmed
them in has fallen; the continent
has been conquered in strict ODE
dience to the divine injunction they
have multiplied, replenished, and
subdued the earth; and today 100000
900 Americans are gathered together
throughout the confines of the Repub-
lie to pay grateful tribute to the mem
DRY of him who wrought SO well for
us, and TO consecrate anew our lives,
our fortunes, and our most sacred
honor to the lofty task of maintain
ing in their integrity these institu-
tons OF freedom for our children.
This is the burden upon us; this is
the duty we owe to the men who
have gone before us as well as to
the men who are to come after us
| would not, of course, upon an oc-
casion like this violate the prophet
les by making a political speech but
there are some questions which, in
their Importance, transcend mere
matters of party dispute, as they IN
volve a change in the very funda-
mental principles upon which our
Government is founded. To discus
sion of these questions, briefly Of
course, under the necessary and pro.
per limitations of the occasion, shall
address my remarks today, believing
that there could be No place so meet
no place so apt for such a discussion
as at Bound Brook on the 22nd of
February.
The men who founded this he
public were no novices. Search the
history of mankind and believe no
body of men better equipped fer the
task before them ever sat together
for a common purpose. Washington,
Hamilton, Madison, Pinkney, Franklin,
Livingston, Patterson-names 10 CON
lure the word. They knew what the
mailed hand meant; thew had felt Il.
They knew what the man on horse
back meant; they had seen him. II ey
knew what the struggle for liberty
meant; they had fought it, aud they
brought to their task a knowledge OF
the history of the governments which
had gone before them, an an under
standing of the rights and the limita-
tons of man which few, II any, SINH
lar bodies Of men ever pos iesSod be-
fore or since that day.
In every crisis in the history of
our race-and when say crisis
mean crisis-and | believe that it is
justification for our boast that AS
race We are the most capable OF
freedom-the biggest and the bIsv.
est and the most capable hen have
been chosen by the people to do ne
work at hand. The demagogue, al
ways the forerunner and apostle OF
calamity, has never held the center
of the stage except to squeak and Glib
Der in the piping times OF peace. And
so it came to pass that when the
great crisis confronted our fathers
in 1887, when the old confederacy was
about to crumble and the very liber.
~ which they had so dearly bought
vas in the balance, they chose for
the tremendous task the men best