Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-08-21

a. they became worthy, might sutse
the Union. -
Even then our nag was not 4 nag.
Il had to win place for itself- and
q, right to existence. It was a. Il tho
stripes were not yet welded together
or the stars riveted in their places.
Through the long years Of the Revoly-
h0nary war the American fighting
men gave their lives and shed their
red blood that the flag might become
a permanency. Each dying soldier BY
his death gave life to the flag. It wac
born Of their blood.
There was no separate peace" made
by Massachusetts or New York or Viz
ginia, to tear one Of the thirteen
stripes from the flag or to rip one Of
the thirteen stars from the blue field.
Year after year, cold, hungry, half
clothed, beaten about and buheted,
retreating and advancing, the Revolu-
tionary heroes who had at first fought
under a dozen different dags, fought
under the Stars and Stripes, making
1t a flag. When the struggle ended
at Yorktown the flag was already Ca
cred, made 60 by the blood Of those
who died for the freedom Of their
fellow countrymen. Our flag was not
made by those who worked with
needle and thread but by those who
died for high ideals. The blacklist
traitor that ever betrayed our country
might sew silk or bunting together;
our flag was made by Washington and
his men, jackson and his men, Lin
coin and his men. The great minds
and great hearts and brave men and
women Of the past made our flag q
real flag. They made the flag for us;
today we are making It for those who
will come after US.
Must Be Made Again.
I say we are making Il, because you
and /. hope, are doing all we can to
help our army and our navy win the
fight against the blood-reeking autoc.
racy that wishes to unmake half the
flags Of the world and put the modern
flag Of piracy in their places. For
this is true: Each flag that ia a real
flag must be made again and again
with the passing years. It is true our
flag has been made and perpetrated.
In times Of peace it has been q flag
Of peace and a truer symbol Of peace
than the white flag Of submission. It
has also been a war banner as glori-
Gus as any that ever Aoated above the
heads Of armed men. Again and again.
when brave men fought for what they
believed to be right and justice, our
flag has been torn by shot and shell
and drenched with blood. It has
gone forth at the head of armies. silk
en- and fringed with gold, to come
back torn and tattered but a more
splendid ensign of liberty than it had
ever been before. It has left our ports
floating from proud ships and has
sunk beneath the waves when the bat
tered ships went down and was a
greater flag then than it had been.
Like the phoenix it has arisen from
every fire of trial in renewed glory.
And on each Flag day, it will float
from the STATS of a million. American
homes. perhaps from ten million or
twenty million, but it's greatest glory
the greatest glory of it's 40 years-is
that it will float in the breezes of
France and Flanders beside the flags
Of Belgium, France and Great Britain,
and on the seven seas Of the world, in
the worlds greatest combat against au-
tocratic brutality. No longer the flag
of group Of colonies, Old Glory has
become the banner of a world-power,
the emblem of the mightest free peo-
pie that ever existed.
Old GIorys New Birth.
Never were the stripes of our flag
brighter or the stars more brilliant on
their field Of blue than they are today.
In field, In mine, In factory, In home, in
garden, in camp, on ship, In trench and
in battle line the men and women and
the children of our vast free empire
are united In one great cause. and the
free flag Of free people floats over
them, unstained and unspotted.
From generation to generation, since
Old Glory was born, flags have died,
but Old Glory has had new birth. The
white flag Of royal France and the
standard of Napoleon have given way
to the tricolor, but Old Glory still
waves. From generation to generation
our flag is born anew, re-created in our
hearts, ever better loved and more sa-
cred In our eyes, because it Is the flag
for which our heroes have died and be-
cause it is the symbol of the only gov
eminent that can endure-a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people. It is the flag Of no king
or car or emperor, but your nag and
nay flag and the flag Of the brave boy
who has gone with song on his lips
to die that we may remain free. Earth
has no greater glory today than Old
Glory. For century and q half 1t has
hoated above our soil, sign that we
are free. Today It floats on alien
breezes. in foreign lands, not for con-
quest but az an earnest that all ma
lions that desire freedom shall hence.
forth be tree.
PREDICTS REVENUE BILL
WILL RAISE NEEDED SUM
Chairman kitchln OF House Commit.
tee Says New Measure 10
+ Nearly Ready. .>>,~