Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-03-26
HOW MANY OF THESE BIRDS
DO YOU KNOW?

Hon. John A. MacHahon, o.
Dayton, Ohio, in an address a few
days ago. said:
"A few words more: In few day.
] will be 81 years of age, long life
during most e,entful period. have
seen all our railroads built, our tele.
graph and telephones, the acceptance
and the submarine invented, and cleo
tricity made as obedient as the horse
have seen the country grow to Ito
millions Of free anu prosperous peo-
pie.
America the Land of Freedom and
Opportunity.
81 have seen the war with Mexico,
the Civil War, the war with Spain,
and the terrible war just ended, in
which two million American boys
convinced Germany that her end had
come. have seen the President of
the Unites States liberate, by the
stroke Of his pen, four millions Of
negro men, real slaves; and the whole
race, free and slave, elevated to a
political equality with the white.
have seen our President speaking
from the pinnacle of his nigh office
to the down-trodden people of the
world; flooding it with more freedom
than it could stand, but seeding all
Europe with republics as plentiful as
languages. have seen women
enfrancnised in most of the civilized
countries of the world, and an Amer
ican-born woman elected and seated
in the British House of Commons.
"And when I look over our country
and behold it leading the world in the
cultivation of the earth, the output
of the factory, the number and value
of its inventions, the size and number
of its banks, insurance and trust COM
panies, the extraordinary bulk of
deposits in the laboring classes, the
comfort in their homes and the i'm
provements in their wages and gen.
eral prosperity. Who built or control
all these great businesses, railroads,
banks, factories, stores and enter
prises that have put America to the
front? Are they dukes, princes, earls,
counts, or barons, or their sons, or
the sons Of the rich men? BY no
means!
Successful Men Come From The
Farm.
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from the farm, only half educated,
or from the factory with hardly a
high school education.
America is good enough for me,
or for any one else, although she is
not perfect. But I take no stock in
such Americans as foul their own
nest, revile their government and its
officers, because of temporary evils,
the necessary result of a great and
wasting war;"
Declaring that the special and in
dustrial structure of America is
founded on "enlightened citizenship"
Mr.. Colby asserted he "was deeply
concerned with the diminution of
teaching strength of the country as
q result of dispoportionately low
salaries being paid to teachers
throughout the country"
Loyalty to America means loyalty
to her chosen servants, from presi-
dent down." cambridge Colby, man,
ed at secretary of state, declared in
an address at loyalty week" meet
ing in +he city hall. General John J.
Pershing also spoke on Americanism
and patriotism.
We must stifle the voice Of hatred
and faction" added Mr.. Colby. eve
must realize that there is not n man
in America who does not hold Office
as the result of the free choice of
our citizens. 1t is a patriotic duty
that we should support the men who
have been placed in positions of diff
ficulty, even danger, as the result of
our suffrages.
can intelligent and conscientious
opposition is a part of loyalty to
country, but we must not, if we are
loyal, seek to dispense our energies
in a partisan warfare that is waged
without regard to its consequences to
the well-being, security or honor Of
the country"
The speaker referred to General
Pershing as the "true American" who
is go lesson in loyalty to country,
which makes all spoken words seem
weak and futile"