The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-07-06
the WORLD REBORN
IN a NATION

aspect Of our republic, Country
men. which ought today to COM
nland your wonder and your awe.
What America represents at
present is the world reborn i'm a
nation.
Society spent six or seven thou
sand years Of recorded history
working out its destinies practi-
cd!iy in one hemisphere. The pro-
gross which it made. particularly
IN the past few centuries. has been
the miracle of the ages. Men Iit-
tie better than beasts banded
themselves into organizations.
land learned to subordinate the
wants of the individual to the
reeds OF the community. FROM
wandering animals not unlike an
;tiiropoid apes they evolved into
the sov"reigns of continents; they
levt He'd forests, built cities, con-
structed highways. drew up laws.
They went further and assembled
to even loftier heights; they ere
ated enduring works of art. paint
ed Incompatible pictures,
wrought rare statues. and wrote
indispensable literature. They
invented a science, printing.
which enabled them to save for
each generation the work of ev-
cry great genius. They annihilat-
cd space. sent floating palaces
sklInmlng across the ocean. dis
covered means of transmitting
the human voice over measure
less distances, and flew fleets of
winged vehicles into the air. And
yet with all these amazing accom-
.plishments they could not rid
themselves of a petty sectional
ism, or nationalism. which kept
them perpetually fighting and
Strengthening one another. Neith-
Ter religion nor philosophy could
RID them of these pernicious ha-
hts and this pernicious outlook
which threatened to undo AL The
miraculous work they and their
forefathers had achieved.
Only few hundred years ayo
Nature, as if despairing of her
owl subjects, opened up to them
IA new continent on which thew
might make a fresh start. l'pon
this continent a new nation was
born, a nation conceived and drd-
irated to- the proposition i!.a. all
rr"n are equal. This nation, was
! Eav" every advantage Of DId
World experience and none of the
disadvantages Of Old World sec
t'cnalIsm. The progress wllic.,
this experimental. this U.upIan
nation shortly recorded scared
beyond the most Sanguinar,
dreams of its founders. Peoples
from all over the globe cam" flock
ing t" it. and in time it brran," Il
Visible embodiment of tina; iIri-
descent dream, the federation of
races. or the parliament of man.
Today. C"untryIncn. our nation
represents the most impressive,
national, or international, expert
mrnt that the world has ever be-
held. one hundred million strong
We stand. the richest and mos;
powerful people which at present
lntIahitS the globe. We are re-
rruit"d from all races. all ruIors.
all natiOnalitieS. ali creeds. We
ar" as universal varied and di-
v"r>" as Nature made human be-
lng> vried and diverse, and as nm
'l"r>al as the species of man. We
hav" within our midst the Rod
Indian. he yellow -Iongnlian. tn.
black African. as we'll as the white
Caucasian. We are descended
from Truton as we'll as Anglo.
Celt as we'll as Latin, Slay
as we'll as Magyar. 1t is a bod. ain
audari"us experiment which we
represents: This attempt to rr-as-
>"mbI" into a single nation all the
races of man. We must renem-
Der that we have only made a be
ginning in our unparalleled un-