Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-07-16
ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR WALSH
OF MASSACHUSETTS ON AM
ORGANIZATION DAY

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should be addressed tonight by gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, who is himself
the son Of an immigrant, and so is an
illustration and proof OF the wonder
full fact that this, your adopted coun'
try, receives you into fullest brother
hood, and opens to you and to your
children without reserve an equal op-
portunity to win every honor and ev-
cry kind and degree Of prosperity and
happiness that her boundless resources
can bestow. Why should we not love
herr Why should we not, as we most
certainly DO, reverence her flag with a
grateful devotion. even surprising that
of those whose ancestors for genera
tions have been children of the soil,
and who cannot realize, as we do, the
contrast between what she offers and
the conditions which their ancestors as
we'll as we and our fathers crossed the
sea to escape:
And so l DO not urge you tonight, be-
cause there is no need OF urging, to
give America without reserve the first
place in your affections. Nor do 1 urge
YOU to be so unnatural as to forget the
homes of your forefathers or the rela-
tives and friends who are left behind.
Shame upon the American naturallzed
citizen who does not think Of his an
cestors with fontlness, and who does
not long to see extended over them the
blessings of self government and equal
itv before the law that we enjoy. The
ties that we have here formed are like
the sacred and indissoluble bonds Of
marriage For America we have aban-
ofh md
till death do us part. But though our
affection for her overmasters all other
and earlier affections it cannot and
should not obliterate them. If the
time ever comes, which God forbid,
when war should rise between our
country and one of those from which
some Of us have come, know and you
know that still again, as often before,
the adopted sons of America would be
among the first to shed their blood in
her defense. But a still better safe
guard, not alone against invasion and
conquest, but against war itself, is
found in the bonds of affection and mu-
tual understanding that stretch across
the ocean and bind so many of our clti-
zens, in ties still strong though no
longer compelling, to friends and faith
erland in the old world.
What l ask of you, then, is not a
more intense patriotism Of emotion, for
this you have in abundance, but rath-
er the service which our country needs
from every one of US, no matter how
many or how few may be the roots of
our ancestry in American sofia more
enlightened and a more unselfsh use OF
get that we have inherited not only
the liberties, but the powers, the du-
ties, the responsibilities, of American
citizenship. Other nations have their
sovereigns and their subjects; America
has her sovereigns only, the sovereign
people. On every man of us rests and
will continue to rest in equal measure
the responsibility of handing down to
posterity the blessings we have receiv-
ed, Of carrying forward the task which
the early corners to these shores so no.
bly, begun At the ballot box, in the
primaries and on election day, every
one of us yields an equal power to pre-
serve the institutions and mold the
destinies of the republic. Never, [
urge you, neglect the duties of citizen
ship-above all never betray your
country for any selfish consideration,
or sell your sacred vote. I need not
say for money, but for any hope or
promise Of personal preferment. Do not
for a moment imagine that free instl-
tutions, once secured, will perpetuate
themselves, or that anything less than
eternal vigilance is now the price of
liberty. Greed Of power and greed Of
o1-iJ fho% cr0ofoI and
are upholding the aristocratic govern
ments and hereditary castles Of the old
world, are human passions that no
change of climate or conditions can
eradicate or destroy; and YOU will find
them still working, half-hidden, but
tremendous in energy and wonderful in
skill, to turn our free institutions into
government by and for a favored
few.
Do not then be lulled into false Sc
curitv or rest satisfied in the present
endowment of the better conditions and
widened opportunities that you your
selves have gained, but remember al
WAYS that to YOU is intrusted the new
er-inished task Of securing the same
blessings for those to come after you.
To die for our country, as I believe
every man among you stands ready to
do if need be, is grand and glorious,
but the call to this supreme sacrifice
comes seldom and to few. To live for
her may be wearving and unnoted
service, but it is service upon which
the life and health of the body polite
is as dependent as the human body up
on the constant action of the heart. It
is service in which no one is too weak
or too obscure in this land of manhood
suffrage to bear an important part. The
call comes today to every one of us
without distinction or difference, and
all Of us, confidently hope, are glad
to hear and ready to obey.
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