The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-31

with their blood in order that the
march of progress into the unknown
might be kept up. Martyrs, in all ages
have gone to the stake n amphl-
theatre to testify to their willingness
to stand by those truths that make
humanity free. And because it is
the way, the one way of universal
salvation the son of God went up the
hill of Calvary carrying his own cross
while drops of blood from thorn
crowned head and lacerated back
spotted the dust on the Via Dolorosa
and on Calvary's cross He gave his
blood that men might be saved. This
is the way of true gain and salvation.
Aye the plains were drenched with
the blood of the boys in blue that the
negro might be freed, that the union
might be contaminated and that the
principle of right and righteousness
might be emphasized. And If today
the plains are redolent of prosperity,
if today the p~rairies are pregnant with
peace, If today the mountains are
yielding their millions, If today the
railroads are rolling the nations
riches, if today the steamers are sail
ing with specie 1t is only because the
boys in blue were willing to baptize
the land with their blood. Eye are
bought with a price" Not in your
relation to this country. Blood has
been shed for your spiritual redemp-
ton and for your temporal prosperity.
What is our duty in such a case?
There is but one. If these men thought
that righteousness could be served
only by their tremendous gift, 1t is
Gus to see that that which they gave
is forever kept inviolated. Here is a
land undoubtedly destined by the AL
mighty to play a very important part
in the great game of nations. What
shall we do? Just live for ourselves
that this land given to us at such a
sacrifice shall be the field for u own
! advancement? Just live SO that a
| worse slavery than that of the sixties
shall confront us? A slavery Of the
best things, a slavery OF men ana
| women, a slavery of soul and spirit?
Or shall it be said, and truly said,
that the stars and stripes are floating
over the land of the free and the home
| of the brave?
Oh for patriotism big enough to
make our exultation mean something
more than the firing of crackers and
the murder of thoughtless children.
Oh for a patriotism that is deeper
| than a mere sentiment, a patriotism
that is true to the land for which the
| nobility of the sixties endangered
and gave their lives.
III Low d 5iCot pS@SS ~Dit KS
held in Boston and about 10000 people
| gathered in the great coliseum pre-
pared for hat purpose. There were
1000 instruments of wind and string,
1 10000 trained voices made he Whole
| place musical. The masterpieces OF
| ali ages were rendered hour after hour,
day after day. Handels Judas Macca-
bacus,. Sphor's Last Judgment. Bee
thoven's MDunt of Olives, Haydn's
Il TN-.a $500 - $3.50 ~ q G fIi 10 n ~ NAV
erbeer's Coronation March, rolling on
and up in surges that billoWed against
the heavens. The mighty cadences
| within were accompanied or the out
| side by the ringing of the bells of tho
| city. and cannon on the commons dis
charged in exact time with the music.
laundering their awful bars of a har-
mlony that astounded all nations,
When all the voices We're in full cho-
rus and all the batons in full wave
and all the orchestra in full triumph
and 100 hammers were in full clang
and all the towers of the city rolling
ia their majestic sweetness and the
whole building quaked with the boom
of thirty cannon Parepa Rosa, with a
voice that will never again be equaled
on earth until the archangelic voice
| procIaims that time shall be no more,
rose above all other sounds sounds in
her rendering of the Star Spangled
Banner. we know the verbs of that
hymn, The Star Spangled Banner, but
are we today standing for their mean
ing? Is this land a land OF the free
and lis lit the home of the brave That
flag protects us. Under Its folds we
feel ecu But are We free? Are We
making OF this land that which the
old soldiers died to secure? When
one thinks OF the corruption, the r0t-
tenress. the selfshness, the rush for
gain at any price, we feel that liz We