The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26
THE REPUBLIC OF
NORTH AMERICA
By Pemdenmis
Continued from page One)

| Leu us now look BACK Into the
past AMI trace the upward trend of
this idea. Let us take brief notice
Of the beginners founders
pioneers of Liberty of the Federal Union
"A vision passes before my dim finite per-
ceptlons. l see Humanity on the rack
The human conscience writhing in pain
burdened with poignant doubts. Glorious
Luther answers the call. The people awak-
en-; the scales fall from their ewes; their
mental vision is broadened.
A new epoch in the annals of Liberty is
born. l see John of Barnevsld fighting all
alone for the cause of liberty. The profit
gate courts of Europe cannot understand
the strange new idea of the brave Hollander.
Louis, the Grand Monarch is worried about
the growing desire of men for a greater
measure of political liberty. He petulantly
exclaims. 81 am the State
The seed sowed by Luther and John of
| Barneveld has begun to bear fruit
see rough rugged figure walking in
solemn meditation among his fields at St.
Ives. His soul is ahre and his heart is
aflame. Again l see the same presence sur
rounded by stern solemn men. He has BIZ
bile. He reads. Then lifts up his voice in
prayer. With bowed head his followers
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changes. | see "Marston by the moon
light and Nasby's fearful field and the
grim farmer of St. Ives, transformed into
General Cromwell splitting the crown of
Monarchial Divinity with the keen sword
of his Ironsides.
see the blood lust of the French Revo-
luton. A people gone mad, spread terror
in their wake. Their poor bewldered
senses unable to guide them. No leader
appears. Mirabeau endeayors- fails; Ma
poleon profits by the disorder of the times
An Empire arises. Liberty lies in the dust
of the Revolution.
| Paul Revere
| stand at night beside country road in
colonial New England. Afar a light
flashes, another closer, Still another nearer
l see horseman swiftly approaching. To
my right a darkened farm house. The
horseman springs from his saddle hurries to
the gate; leaps it, and runs up the path,
knocks Loudly at the farm house door. A
light fickers within. The door opens.
Tense words are spoken in mems voices.
The rider raturns, springs into the saddle
and is off like the wind. Paul Revere!-
The spirit of Cromwell, Luther and John
of Barneveld is abroad!
Lexington Concord Bunker Hill!
Washington stands forth! Liberty's Cham
pion Libertys knight! l see the gaunt
ragged heroes at Valley Forge leaving their
bloody tracks In the snow as they hasten to
greet the Noble Washington. Brave patri-
otic men-Grand, patient Leader. Hunger,
wounds, disease are there. Death stalks,
hovers, menacing over that winter camp,
but Liberty has her temple there and the
fire is kept burning on the altar. Many
weary months see pass, yet Washington,
still fought on. He knows he cannot fail.
How we'll he kept the faith? How strong
he was?
Afghan the scene changes. l see figure
standing upon an emminence, gazing out
into the vista of the wilderness before him.
Alone, tall. fearless-a living challange to
the terrors of the savage world about him.
Daniel Boone! He blazes the trail, makes
mountains, down rivers, across plains, the
settlers take their toilsome way. New
ideas follow in the wake of their endeavors.
The Immortal Lincoln
The great Emancipator walks before me.
Lincoln:-Out of the west speaking new
truths, into the east, bearing the confidence
of all true men. Lincoln the strong man
of his time. see him there in the high
station, alone at midnight, with bowed
head, sad, melancholy. His great heart break
| ing with the fierce turmoil of civil strife.
Oh, grand, sublime, Immortal Lincoln!
In the present see many men toiling in
the cause of human Liberty. All those
brave men who have gone before and those
who live today and are working for the adj
vancement of Humanity are the builders
and pioneers of the Republic of North
America.
would have portico at the entrance of
the Capitol Building of that mighty Federal
Union. The columns supporting the roof
Of that portico would have of marble and
emblazened on them in letters of gold; l
would have the names of Luther, John of
Barneveld, Cromwell, Washington. Frank
lin, Lincoln and all who have made heroic
efforts in the cause of Liberty.
Here in the New World the vision will
be realized.
One grand united Federal Union. One
great, glorioss, patriotic people. One
Flag!-Old Glory!-supreme; from the
North Pole, where Peary put it, to the
pdoc whore GOethaI,s i'm