The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-31

singing brook and cooling spring; every
GRASSY velvety turf; every winding way
! lovely valley and wooded hillside, which
in his growing years, have become the
very warp and wool of his being. He
must forsake his home, which, however
humble, is crowded with tender associa-
tions and loving memories; the graves
lof his forefathers, hallowed with their
years and reverend in the messy stones
which mark them, and the honor and es-
TEEN which his heart yields to them.
He must break mayhap every tie known
to man. He must abandon all that is
dear and sacred and sweet, in the reso-
lutte belief of his strong soul that in
the strange land, in the new environment,
there is for him and his q greater OPP
portunity, better, nobler life.
"The countless homes of our immi-
grants who have made this awful sacri-
| flee, where plenty and peace abide, tes-
fifty to the wisdom of their choice. While
the growing greatness, the expanding
I grandeur of our nation are willing wit
nesses to their high worth as citizens of
an adopted and beloved country.
''This influx of new blood, this inpour-
ing of new life into the veins of our
people, has no little significance to state
and nation. At the last census, of the
81 ,73l .957 total white population of the
United States, 32,342,3s2 were foreign
born or born of parents where one or
both Were foreigners, and l3,345,545 of
these were actually born abroad. Truly
we are cosmopolite people, for in the
making UP of these millions there is
o,.ltli. Il III, rs ha rlI
which is not represented. That which
is true OF the United States is no less
true of Vermont. The census of 1910
gave us a population of 355,956. Native
to these hills were only 306.035, and
of these 75,455 We're born of parents
where one or both were foreign born.
The figures show that in our state l24,- |
666 were either born abroad or had a
parentage of foreign origin as to one or
both OF the parents.
"When Civil war came and our ma
ton was bleeding and torn, when our
proud flag was humbled and its folds |
dishonored in many of the states OF |
the Union, when liberty trembled in the I
balance, and freedom was aghast, these
of ours were loyal to the
land of their adoption. the flag of their
selection, the nation of their espousal. /
Among the brilliant deeds which adorn
the pages of our history, none are more
brilliant than theirs; while among the
lonofed names which are written high I
IN our columns of fame, none are more L
more illustrious. Right well
hey repaid our welcome and our trust, I
or in the midst of death, in the face OF ,
laath and in fha ooonipS of death thew
Helped to cement the Union by their own /
precious blood, freely shed in its de-
ense, freely offered that liberty as a
rational expression and fact might not !
,erish from the earth, that the Union in
Is integrity might be preserved. (,
ut was an era of unselfsh service by d
ii, native born and foreign born, of Il
sacrifice, of unrestricted out j
'ouring of life and treasure. All these 3
we're generously placed upon the altar I
i their country. Men who had been t
allied weak and wavering. out of this e
rucible. intensely heated by the fires OF t
atriotism, came forth pure gold, clear,
trong and resolute, and at last, in the In
Ill measure of their devotion yielded s.
p their lives for their country. Dur Id
IL the four years of civil strife there g
as paid for our nations redemption the s,
wful sum Of 359,52S patriots lives. 81
hat terrible price. Greater than the 7
ltire population of our state at the Il
st census. IL
Vermont lost of her brave hosts 1924 Il
greater percentage than any other "
ichigan. To this terrible toll of death, is