Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-09

forgotten for it was written in
human blood. We can never forget
the cause for which our forefathers
fought, bled and died, and while the
American people continue to live we
would prove recreant to our duty
if we failed to uphold the stars and
stripes of yonder blood stained ban
ner.
The Flag of Glory.
Over and above us today floats
the grandest flag that was ever I'M
furled to the breeze.
Oh, glorious flag! We love your
beautiful blue stripes and your gilt
tering stars. Nav you continue to
wave over Americas free soil as
long as this Republic shall exist.
May your votaries never bow the
knee to any Nation on this earth.
Yonder flag floats over every land
and sea and has never yielded ii
any power 1t is the flag which
has increased its stars from Is to
48. That flag is consecrated by
thousands of precious memories, and
has led vast armies to victories, and
though it has been tattered and torn
by shot and shell, it has never been
forsaken.
Under that noble emblem of
liberty the American people have
grown from a few scattering mem
bers to a population of over one
hundred million and from IS feeble
States to a mighty sisterhood of 4S
strong. mighty, and progressive
commonwealth. Ours is now the
greatest, strongest and most power
full nation the world has ever pro-
duced.
In fact we have all that surrounds
and embellishes civilization. We have
a nation which is the hope of the
world. 1t is the cradle of liberty
and the fibre of free institutions,
and the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
The Civil War.
We pause and think of our Ma
ton which had stood for IS years
upon the eternal principles of free
dom, when again Civil War rent it
asunder. We behold in that great
picture the fierce conflict arising
between sister States, and see the
feverish unrest in the pulse of the
people. We can see our happy and
prosperous country passing into one
of the most trying ordeals ever
written in history. We can imagine
the bands of political union almost
dissolved and witness the beginning
of the struggle We almost imagine
we can feel sthe convulsion which
is soon to rend asunder the north
from the south. We read in the
minds of the people a subdued feel
ing that the issues which the
founders of our Republic had post
poned, and that the issues which
had been held in allegiance by states
men for three quarters of a century
must be decided by an appeal to
arms. We see the Revolution ap-
preaching. We almost hear the
clash of arms, and see our happy
Republic which had rested in peace
and safe so long, now in the throes
of war.
A Reunited Nation.
Four years OF that great struggle
and the union was restored in the
affections and hopes Of the people.
Unconscious forces under the COM
mand of king Providence soon open
ed up in the North American con-
tinent unexampled grandeur and
prosperity The mysterious power
of hope illuminated the hearts of the
people and gave them aspirations for
greater liberty and a juster recogni-
ton of the natural equality of man
kind. and soon the north and the
south were one, and God forbid that
they shall ever be anything else.
Under the union thus established, we
have grown as a Nation in numbers
and strength, and have taught the
young the arts OF peace rather than
the science of war. Civil and religious
liberty. universal education, and the
right to participate in all the affairs
of government, gives to our people
an opportunity and an inspiration
no where else to be found. 1t is
the American Republic, founded and
defended by freedoms sons, that has
given to the world the noblest types
of human character. The passions
and resentments engendered by that
of four years struggle have been
allayed, the wounds have been heal
ed, and the hate and resentment left
as an inheritance from the struggle
now sleeps the sleep that knows no
awakening, and from one end of this
Republic TO the other, we feel the
ties of fraternal affection binding
us together in one indissoluble bond
of family union.
The speaker here paid a high
tribute to the chivalry and bravery
of the soldier who preserved the
Union, also giving deserved credit
to the valor OF those who fought
in the southern cause, and closed as
follows:
We are proud that we are citizens
of Arizona. We love her hills and
her wales; we enjoy her pure air,
her cold water and exhilerating
climate We admire her beautiful
valleys and her towering pines. We
cherish her institutions and her in
dustries but above all we admire
her patriotic citizenship, and amidst
CIR enthusiasm we must NOT forget