Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-06-14
THE FLAGS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

The first flag, o far as known, to be hosted o n the North Ameri-
a continent W a. in the year 1000 when Left Ericsson discovered Amerl-
ca. This banner bore a raven a a device.
The next flag was the English ensign, the white with the rec cross,
hosted by Cabot in 1897. Ponce de Leon, searching fol the ountai OF
youth, landed in Florida in 1912 and thus the flag OF Spain "a flung to
the North American breeze.
In 1884 Cartier hosted the lilies of France at he Gaspe BASIN hereDy
adding the French flag t. the list Of European flags o American ground.
In 1909 Hudson arrived in New York harbor, sailing under the flag
of the Dutch East India company.
In 1888 another flag, the blue with the yellow cross, cam with the
Swedes who founded New Sweden on the banks OF the Delaware river.
The Pngrim Fathers hoisted the flag OF St George. but later it was
declared to encourage thu worship Of SAINTS M vas replaced In 1907 ny
one bearing a pine tree.
In 1913. when the colonies OF Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connec-
tiua and New Haven became the United Colonies OF New England
their flag became the St George ensign with the royal crown and k1ng 5
cypher I'M the center Boston still used its pine tree flag tor loa pur-
onies had begun to fly flags of their w to distinguish then vessels
from nj another.
When the wr OF the revolution began in 1873 Massachusetts, had
its pine tree flag; New York its black beaver o a white field; South
Carolina it's handsome silver crescent on blue afterwards displaced by
a rattlesnake O Yellow: Rhode Island had a white flag bearing the blue
anchor of hope, and each of the other colonies had flags for Local use.
Nome of the flags could be adopted as a national one, but a national
flag was greatly TIC be desired. ON December IS, I75 a dinner party was
held at which Washington, Benjamin Franklin and some other colonist
leaders were present The talk turned o the need OF flag and Fran
lin suggested having a flag with a held OF alternate rec and "hhe stripes
with the crosses of St. George and St Andrew in the canton.T This pro
posal was received with enthusiasm and twenty days later January l.
I76, at Cambridge, Mass, Washington hoasted the national flag
On August ID, 17 congress resolved that the flag OF TIT Onted
States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white, and that the union
be thirteen stars, white in a blue field. representing a constellation.
AT first the stars were arranged n a ring like a round robin. so hat
should have n precedence owe the other Tins pattern soon made
way for one in row of four and five ad four.
In 1894 congress enacted that from and after the hst day OF May,
1895. the flag of the United States be fifteen stripes and fifteen stars,
but in 1918 congress reduced the stripes permanently to thirteen II
enacted that the union should have a star 10 each state
This. in brief is the flag history of the country now embraced with
in the lines OF the United States. The American flag, as it appears,
will never be changed, except, perhaps, to add a stan or two, and when
people whose territory is taken in. Let it not come by intervention or
conquest.