Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-07-10
AMPLIFY PERRY'S WORDS.

Perry nailed to his masthead the
brave words of the unconuucrable Law
renee: Don't give up the ship May
We not amplify and extend them to en-
brace the sweep and reach Of our institu-
tional system? On land and sea. in glory
and in peril whenever the republic rides
the waves too proudly or Is threatened
by foes within or without let rs take
them as message from heaven, and
pass them on to our neighbors and teach
them to our children. Don't give up tho
ship. Don't give up the ship, Don't give
up the ship"
In beginning his address, Mr. Waiter
son said This Is an age of ccntenaries
We have assembled to commemorate our
victory gained by the Americans over
the British a hundred years ago. The
year after We are to herald n hundred
years Of peace between English-speakinp
| peoples \ year stil later and We shall
solemnizc half a century of peace among
ourselves. Already at Gettysburg the sur
vivinc ones who on either side contended
there 30 years ago are mustered 10 cole
orate the event. We cannot tell them
apart, distinguish the federal from tn,
confederate. al. are SO well content that
government Of and for, and by the peo-
pie shall not perish from the earth,
After these festivals, II is promised
US that perpetual peaC" shall reign
throughout the world With all my heart
| say Amen Yet before the final oxi,
of the God of War, may we not with
out offensc, for a moment, wrap the flag
about US anr with the agile soar? | am
So old-fashloncd that | still warm tc
the bunting and exult in the bird
DEBT DUE TO VIRGINIA.
within the radius of hut little further
than the eye can reach from where We
are gathered all that makes US proud
Of our country, the very rose and eX-
pectancy of American manhood, Joined
heart and hand during the unforgctable
autumn of 1918, Except for the sailors
Of Rhode Island, the hunters of Ken
lucky could not have crossed these
deeps; except for the hunters of Ken
lucky, Perry's Incompatible exploit had
been barren of results. Yet first let us
salute the Mother of States. The nation
owes an Observation-Disclosures debt to Nir-
uinia I'm the War of the Revolution
George Rogers clark conquered the ter
ritory Of the Great Northwest. In the
War of 1872, William Henry Harrison and
Isaac Shelby regaincd and held 1t. Then
the old Dominion made gift of It t.
the New Dominion.
BROTHERS THEN AND NOW.
Turn we seward, John Paul Jones
set an example of sea lighting to oliver
Hazard Perry. and. taking up the wond-
Hazard Perry wrote with his sword the
end of the chapter. Dying he left no
copy. The twain stand upon "A single
pedestal. matchlcss in naval annals. The
battle of scarborough Head In the north
ern ocean. was prelude to the battle Of
Lake Erie. off Put-in-Bay. The Bon
Homme Richard and the Niagara, sister
ships. sailed into Valhalla harbors side
by side. i have not yet begun to fight,
makes immortal couplet with We have
met the enemy and he Is ours
And thus we come and here We are
this blessed Fourth of July, 1913, With
such a past and SO great patrmony Is
It not discreditable that the heirs Of the
noble men who fought with Jones and
Perry, with Harrison and shelby, could
| ever have fallen apart and come to
blows? | think SO truly, and it seems to
me the more dscreditable when we re-
fleet that brothers then, are brothers
stil: the most homogeneous people upon
the face Of the globe the sections merged