Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1920-05-27

cia fanatieism But as long as time /
shall endure, floating high and unsul |
lied over a nation of free men, liber |
ty-loving and liberty giving men, the |
Stars and Stripes may continue to kiss |
and caress those FIRE and whole !
some winds of heaven that are not |
more free than the gallant citizenship |
that so proundly assemblies under that
flag. Look at that sacred emblem
again, carry it with you from these,
the portals of your Alma Mater.
Note it in gentlest breeze or widest
wind; its red ripples on like the warm
blood that trickles, from the patriot s |
wounded breast, its white streams on,
telling us to seek the purest, the |
brightest and the best in life, and to
trample on every I'M American scheme
and goddess plot, and its blue but
undulates to remind us that after all
home is not here, but in the azure
of the Beyond. It's stripes radiate
with the tints of the dawn, to denote
the dawn of liberty, and its stars, even
when the night is darkest, are so many
beacons of inspiring hope. Why it is
an honor even to touch it. It's staff,
like the tree of the cross, pointing up
to the skies, and its folds. like the
arms Of the cross, reaching out to the
winds, this blend of cross and color is
constant spur to us to live for God
and country and if the cause demands
it, to die for God and country.
FUTURE RESTS WITH YOUTH
Then note it well, as the twig of
today will be the oak of tomorrow, it
naturally and logically follows that
the future of this great nation, in veal
or in woe, hinges on young men and
women of your stamp today. The past,
the glorious past, is calling to you to-
night, asking you young cadets, now
enrolled in our army, you young sol |
diers who love America, that you will
never, no never allow the bloody !
hands of those goddess, besotted un
balanced, un-American crew, whose
liberty is license, ever guide the helm
of our ship of state. You are not yet |
ready to elevate murder to a virtue,
to nationalize and commercialize our
women, to cast aside Christ and His |
gospel of live. Oh no, you must not |
faint Old Glory, and you will not, nay
you cannot, if you remain loyal and
true to the precepts and principles
that have been instilled into you
within these cherished wallis. The
men and women who died to make us
free are calling to you to live so that
liberty may not perish from this
earth. The nations of the world have
all their hopes of better things cen
tered on you.
Humanity with all its fears,
With all its hopes of future years,
With all its hearts and prayers and
tears,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
SCHOOL DAYS ENDED
Dear graduates, your school days
in Grangeville are at an end, and you
are now about to go out into the big
broad, busy thoroughfare Of public
life. But 90 and fear not. Go forth
and show to the world the superior
education which it is your good for
tune to receive, an education that
will help you to walk securely in the
way that leads to success, an educa-
ton that viii help you to live and die
honored and honorable citizens of our
grand republic. Your Alma Mater
this hive of industry and home of
learning, crowns you tonight with her
laurels. See that you shed new lustre
on them, that you carry trcm and
wear them with honorable distinction.
You will be known as her graduates,
as examples Of her training. Sustain
her character. be true to her counsels,
be conscientious in the discharge of
every duty to your God, to your cOun-
try and to your home. Then, success
and honor will be yours. Fortified as
YOU are, with the strength of faith,
enlightened by the gift of hope, and
holding in your hands the illuminat-
ing torch Of knowledge, with this ar
NOR and with these weapons, l say to
you, 90 forth, have courage and fear
not. These Notifications will be your
anchor in the storm and stress of life,
your beacon lights in the night of ad-
versity and uncertainty, your polar
star guiding you on to the glOries OF !
a grander day. Go forth in the name '
of your good teachers who taught you
that the heart of culture is culture
of the heart and the soul of improve
ment is improvement of the soul. Go
forth in the name of humanity, whom
they loved and served without dis
tinction of race or creed. Go forth
in the name of our martryed dead,
whose hopes in life have been cut off
like a SPIDERS web, whose gifts of
love and love and life are placed
under seals of clay in foreign land.
Go forth in the name of our own city
and state and give to them the best
you have and the best will come
back to you. Graduates, we want to
hear from you again. We want you to
live your lives by the square of truth
and the line of right. Whatever
comes and whatever goes, wherever
you may be and whatever you may
do, keep your honor bright One and
all, you are the pride of our hearts
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