The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-14

Americans. There is nor a man or
woman sitting here today but feels
proud Of that: that he or she was either
born under the stars and stripes or have
become citizens Of this great republic.
You know sometimes feel a great deaf
like the freshman An EngliShman and
an Irishman were talking about The
relative merits Of the t1o countries.
and the Irishman said TO the English
man as he was speaking of England.
Wen ne said but now Johnny Bull
IL YOU had not been an Englishman
and could have been born as you chose.
what would you have been born2 The
Englishman thought he would pay the
Irishman a little compliment. so he
said; Pat. If I had not been born an
Fnglishman and could have had my
choice I would have wanted to be born
an Irishman Well he thought he
would get a return compliment from
Pat and lac said TO him Well. now.
Pat. If YOU had not been born an Irish
man what would YOU have been Pat
said sure. and begorry I would have
been ashamed OF myself. So YOU know
! feel so intensely that this nation was
intended by your God and NINE for
every particular purpose. [ believe that
God intended this as the great melting
Pot Of the world. 7 believe God heard
tho cries Of the Christian people as
they kneIt at the affairs and asked him
to throw wide open the doors of the
world in order that we might walk in
and Christianize these nations, and then
God answered as more abundantiy than
We had expected and he poured this
mass Of people of Europe into our very
lap ia order that they might get under
the influence Of the power Of the public
school and the Christian religion and
that we might all be made into one
great Christian citizenship in this ooun-
try Of ours. / believe il. Why. We have
our broad fields that not only make
food for us. but feeds the people Of
other nations of the globe as well. We
have our mines and we have our great
industries and we carry our products
to the remotest nations of the globe
We not only have these. but we have
the greatest network IF railroads in
the world Our school system is known
ali over the world. why there was
time when we used to send our boys
and girls to Germany TO be finished off
IN their education. but today Germany
is sending her men over here 10 learn
the real secrets Of the public school
system Of America. We do not ask our
selves whether they be black or white
or rich. or poor. but they are ali offered
the same education alike. We say that
education is the safeguard Of the ma
ton That ignorance ia a monarchiaf
form of government may be beneficial
but not in a republican form Of gov
eminent: it is the cause of dangers.
our states care for their unfortunates.
their delinquents and their dependents
In our great land we have some Of
the greatest inventors and some of the
greatest educators of the world; many
Of these were Graded in a log cabin in
days gone by And then above all their
flags on the high seas dip to old glory.
oh how proud we are OF all thisI Listen,
want to say to YOU this afternoon, my
dear women friends, that may con-
quer everything we start out to do; we
may improve the land of every land:
we may open our storehouse of material
wealth TO all nations and let them en-