The Farmington times., 1917-05-18
A GREAT EVENT
FOR FARMINGTON
The Loyalty Club Dedicates an Electric
Flag in the Presence of Vast,
Cheering ASsemblage

liquid fire in its assaults upon the
ranks of those opposing it.
"We have witnessed its effort to
close the sea to all traffic, the sink
ing of the Lusitania and other pas
senger ships, in a ruthless submarine
warefare, without warning, sending
thousands of innocent men, women
and children to the bottom of the
sea, among them over hundred
American citizens. 1T has resorted to
plots and intrigues in our own coun-
try through spies and paid emissaries,
and while pretending friendship
sought through its ambassador and
his emissaries to induce Mexico and
Japan to make war on the United
States.
"We have witnessed a once proud
nation, justly entitled to credit for
its development and culture, enlarge
and extend these acts, until it be-
came apparent that liberty and de-
mocracy were involved. 1t disre-
garded and spurned all our protesta-
tions and even committed glaring acts
of war against American ships, until
our long, patient efforts to maintain
friendly relations gave way and Con-
gress declared that state of war ex-
listed. And it is now the duty of ev-
cry American, whether native born
or who has made this his country by
adoption, to be loyal to our country.
We are either for the United States
or against it."
AS little Miss Guessing pressed the
button and the flag flashed and SHIN
mered, Mr.. Rozier paid it the follow
ing beautiful tribute:
"'My flag and your flag,
And how it flies today
Over your land and my land,
And half world away
"Your country and my country!
Your President and my President!
Your duty and my duty! What in
spiration turks within its folds! What
memories does it invoke! How it
brings to our minds the Declaration
of Independence, Lexington and Bun
ker Hill, Brandywinc and Trenton,
Valley Forge and Yorktown! How it
recalls the great patriots, Washing
ton and Jefferson, Hancock and
Adams, Lafayette and Rochambeau.
What more fitting tribute may pay
it than quote the words of Joseph
Rodman BRAKES beautiful poem:
" When freedom from her noun
tain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night
And set the star of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure celestial white,
With streakings of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the sun
She called her eagle barrier down,
And gave unto his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land
"May l be pardoned if I paraphrase
the beautiful classic delivered by Mr..
Lincoln on the occasion of the dedi-
cation of the National Cemetery at
Gettysburg, and say, The world will
little note nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget
what our forefathers did for that
flag. 1t is for us, the living, to be
dedicated to the task of upholding
that flag and the ideals it represents.
1t is rather for us to be here dedicat-
ed to that great task remaining before
US, that from the honored dead who
gave their lives for liberty and hu-
manity, we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion; that
we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain; that
this nation and the whole world shall
have new birth of freedom, and that
of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people, shall not per-
ish from the earth"