Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-03-22
The Fifth Discovery
of America.

The United States of America is
the greatest Country with the great
est and grandest government the
world has ever known. I do not
claim this in the spirit of braggado-
clio, nor, by reason of my birthright
as an American citizen. claim it
| for the reason that all Governments,
Kings and Potentates admit it as a
| fact, and point, and refer, to us at
all times as the 1'Great Republic"
when wishing to drive home some
point of Importance with their own
people or Governments AS a matter
! of comparison let us take the British
Empire "On whose possessions the
sun never SETS It's valuation in
dollars and cents is placed at Eighty
five billions of dollars. The Russian
empire, before the war, comprised one
sixth of the globe and with it's vast
store of mineral wealth and it's mil
lions of acres of agricultural lands
and population of Two hundred
millions of people was only valued at
Fifty-five billions of dollars. By the
token and statistics this great cOun-
try of ours is valued at Two hundred
twenty-five billions Of dollars. And
what is the reason for this? Why is
it that in the short space Of time
only one hundred and forty-tWo years
we have outstripped all the nations
of the earth and all those that have
gone before us. many of whom have
long since been forgotten except in
history? It is because in the begin
ing we wrote into our Constitution
The Liberty of the Individual and -
The Liberty of the State! And when
we unfurled our banner to the breeze
we had inscribed thereon-in letters of
the purest gold Liberty and Freedom,
neither of which in the one hundred
and forty two years of our life have
ever been dimmed. And that is what
brings the down troddenpeople Of the
entire earth to our shores. Those who
are heavy of heart look into our CON
stitution and raise their eyes to our
banner and they read with glowing
eyes The LIBERTY OF THE IND
IVIDUAL and THE LIBERTY OF
THE STATE - LIBERTY AND
FREEDOM.
I have often wondered if the conglom-
GRAFTON of tongue, races, and
i creeds-the people of America have
ever thought, in considering the Uni
ted States, our continent Of what
myriads Of years must have elapsed
from the first days in which the earth
first took form until a few years ago.
have often wondered if God Al
mighty or some other force of which
we know nothing, had not kept this
continent virgin soil for some devine
purpose. And il SO what was that pur-
pose? Is 1T not possible that it was
for no other purpose than that it
should be a great big experimental
station, for the promulagtion, the
planting and growth of the seeds of
liberty. Have we ever considered that
those who claim to be the discoveries
of America were not it's discoveries
at all! and that they were only men
who just entered the vestibule of
America! The first discoveries of
America were the men who were seek
ing liberty, individual liberty, free
dom of worship. The Pilgrim Fathers
and the Cavaliers, the men of New
England and of Jamestown, Virginia,
and the south-they came here for the
protection of individual liberty.
Then years rolled by and the second
discovery of America was made by a
German-a man named George who
happened to be the King of England.
/ He discovered America and he dis
covered the American of self-reliance
and independence, whose motto was
that Britons will never be slaves.
And the liberty of the state was es-
tsblished by those noble men of the
time under the leadership of our great
President, and Gather Of our country
George Washington. This second dis.
coyery was the second step of progress
also, for it established the liberty of
the individual and also the liberty of
the State.
Then the third discovery was made
at period, when another great indi-
vidual, a great President discovered