Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-09-21
ARE HELD TUESDAY
EVENING, JUDGE E. RAY STE
VEINS AND JUDGE JAMES
O'NEIEL SPEAKING

O'NEIEL SPEAKING
On Tuesday evening at the court
house a large silk flag was presented
by the Woman's Relief corps to the
county, the flag to be draped over
the Judges bench in the circuit court
room. There was a large audience
present, many members of the w r.
C. and veterans being among the on
lockers.
Presented by Attorney Bentley
The flag was presented by Attorney
F. r. Bentley, who said that 1t was
most appropriate that the stars and
stripes should be placed in the court
room where persons from foreign
lands come to take the oath OF c1tl-
zenship. He told how Mrs. Mary
Dwinneu became interested in the
movement and had been most kindly
received when she asked for sub
scriptions to purchase the banner. Mr..
Bentley spoke of the laws which had
been passed making it punishable
offense to desecrate the flag, or to
place advertising upon it. 1t is the
duty of school officers to see that the
stars and stripes are displayed on the
building, over the wall, or on a flag
staff He spoke of the meaning of
the colors and of the appropriateness
of giving the flag to be placed on the
wall where new citizens could see it's
colors when taking the oath of alleg-
lance.
Flag Accepted
Judge E. Ray Stevens of Madison
accepted the flag in the following
words:
The heat Of the morning of August
6, 1777, gives way to black thunder
clouds that envelope the Revolutionary
soldiers and their Indian and Tory an
tagonists with the darkness Of night.
The wet muzzle-lOaders no longer re-
spond to the flint, but hatchets, knives
and bayonets are used to carry on the
conflict. At last the Indians give way
and fee in all directions. Just as the
Tories turned to retreat, leaving the
/ Revolutionary soldiers in possession
of the field, the storm clears and long
8 Ho1, ~ n ROY ICrf0 q
est.
For the first time in the history Of
America the victors flung to the
breeze the Stars and Stripes adopted
by Congress in the previous June. It
is crude flag made from white
shirt, an old blue jacket, and some
strips of red from the petticoat Of
a soldiers wife, but in its honor these
men have done deeds Of valor that
have never been surpassed.
The nation which these Revolution
airy patriots served was as crude as
the flag they raised. That nation has
passed from the age of homespun to
that of silk. But there is the same
need of sturdy valor and devotion to
country that was displayed by our
Revolutionary forefathers in that
most obstinate and murderous battle
at Oriskany.
flag represent a generation of men
and women who possessed the cour-
age and devotion to country that was
displayed in Revolutionary times. In
the solitude of their stricken homes,
as we'll as on the field of battle, these
women and these men of Civil War
times stand with the founders of our
nation. Their task was to keep the
hand of secession from tearing sim
gle star from that field of blue. Our
task is to see that no star on that field
of blue shall ever dim it's luster or
become furnished by an act unworthy
Of those who fought to found and to.
preserve this Union.
We who are charged with the duty
of determining who shall be admitted
to fellowship with us in this republic
welcome your interest in this work,
and appreciate the aid you give us by
placing the flag where the eyes Of the
newborn citizen shall rest on it's folds
as he takes the obligation that sewers
the ties of the fatherland and makes
him one with us. This obligation i'm
poses on him no allegiance to king or
emperor. Instead, it binds him to an
ideal of which this flag is the emblem
to a great hope of the human race
of which this flag is the symbol.
AS the eyes of the newborn citizen
rest on the starry folds of this flag,