Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-07-13
SOUTH DAKOTA. SATURDAY. JULY 13, 1919.
THE FOURTH AT FOUR MILE.
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course Of about 25O people on the Fourth
Of July. The feature Of the day was I
picnic dinner got up by the women folk
of the neighborhood. Such mountains
Of fried chicken, meat loaves, deviled
eggs, fruit salads. oranges, bananas and
plums were lsveled to the table top
Barrels Of lemonade and glaciers OF ice
cream melted in the mouth.
Prominent among the ladies were
Mesdames Bellemare, Brasch, Nevin
Wolfe, Lindstrom, Pitcher, Kirk, Hun.
ter, Harris, and others, while 80 bsauti-
full girls waited on the tables.
There were horse races, women'a
races, base ball and many other games.
The music was under tie direction oi
Mrs. w. A. Nevin. The orator of the
day was Major Robert Mann Woods, OF
Pleasant Valley.
The Majors effort was TO convince his
hearers of the wealth and power Of the
United States, of it's great extent Of ter
ritory, citing Alaska, the Hawaiian
Islands, Tutuila, Guam, the PHILIPPINES
and Porto Rico.
He recounted our great agricultural
wealth Of grain and fruit, horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs; our mineral wealth of
gold, silver, copper, nickel, antimony,
quicksilver, platinum, lead, zinc, mica,
gypsum and petroleum, and our more
valuable minerals coal and iron ore.
Our mineral wealth has revolutionizsd
the manufactures Of the world. Our OK.
ports of locomotives, steel rails, station
cry engines, agricultural machines, sew
ing machine, automobiles, tin plate,
watches and jewelry. We make more
Portland cement than all the rest of the
world.
All these great industries have been
fostered by our Government during the
past fifty years, during which time the
balance of trade has always been in our
favor, and last year was our best year
with q balance in our favor of $685.
900, 900.
All these have combined to make us
the richest country on earth. The esti-
mate of wealth of the principal nations
is as follows:
France $45, 900, 900, 900.
Germany $55 ,OOO, 900, 900.
Great Britain $62, 200, ,0O0,00
United States $l20, 900, ,0O0,0
We have made greater strides toward
wealth and power in the last fifty years
than any other nation has in thousand
years
But tho problem of our statesmen is
the more equal distribution of our great
wealth, to hold in check the multi-mil-
lionaires of predatory wealth; the con.
servation to the people of the unearned
increment, the equal enjoyment of our
vast resources of forest and stream, of
coal and iron, of water power, etc., that
belong to all the people. To give to la
Dor its share of the wealth which labor
produces. To protect the small manu-
facturer against oppression by the great
trusts.
The Major traced the Revolutionary
war, and named the great generals.
But do not forget, he said, our inde-
pendence was won by the united efforts
of the thirteen colonies. Not one oi
them could have accomplished it alone.
Not one of them on the day of final vic.
tory were independent of the rest. Not
one of them on that day nor any subse.
qusnt day had a right to secede from the
rest.
He then sketched our four year wal
of the Rebellion and named our great
generals and admirals, and gave due
praise to the Confederate generals who
fought so gallantly against great odds
But the Rebellion was suppressed ant
we have reunited country-ons snG
inseparable-now and forever.
He then gave an account of the grea
work for universal liberty, justice anc
peace that the United States has don'
since the war, in China, Cuba, the Phil.
lipines and in our intervention for peac,
between Russia and Japan and in vari
Gus international imbroglios, CLOSING
with an invocation to the ever gloriou
and unconquered banner of the grea
American Republic-the stars anC
stripes.