The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-07-08
ADDRESS OF
B. II. HEATON

Henry Heaton delivered an address
bration and spoke az follows:
Off hand speech / would more thar
learly settlers picnic in southwes,
esr: He cam ana 1egan
bowling wilderness Then he stopped
Then again. Six years ago this coun'
try was all' He stuck again. The
third time he repeated This country
Some 60 years ago I attended a
schco! picnic in southwest Pennsylva'
at ike ts sans :, ssRf thes
tn. mighty nations in the east or in
the west. this glorious Yankee nation
is the greatest and the best. There is
is unfurled. with a general invitation
to the people Of the world. Then come
al ong, make no. delay: come from
enough. so dent you be alarmed. fo1
Uncle Sam is rich enough to give US
all a farm
"since that picnic 60 short year.
practically all gone. We no longer in
wife people from every cline. But we
know today better than we ever did
| before that this glorious Yankee ma
| ton is the greatest and the best.
! when we sang this song. !, a boy
of Is. had never seen a kerosene lamp
| nor any kind of a lamp with CHM
| ney. l had never seen sewing ma
chine. a bicycle. an electric light, a
photograph nor :. telephone, much less
a gasoline engine or a motor car or
| flying machine, for gasoline was as
yet unheard of.
"The war had not been fought that
decided that this should be country
wholly composed of free men and We
nation instead Of mere collection of
states. Minnesota. the thirty first
state. had recently been admitted tc
road YVES west ' OF the Mississ h river iS
What we now know as western Kan
sas and Nebraska Were marked on our
maps as the. Great American Desert.
Nearly all the country. west of the
Mississippi river was indeed vast
bowling wilderness and Uncle Sam
seemed to be able at that time, tc' give
us all farm. much of it the very
best land in the world.
But these days have past away. We
know today more surely than ever be-
fore that this is the greatest country
ment in the world. But the more we
progress. the wider our horizon be-
comes: the more are we able to see
shat we S Gre far very far from per
arising. We dare no longer issue invi-
tations to people CT every cline. We
have begun TO believe that the preser-
walton of our institutions demands
some check upon flood Ct people who
world.
eminent have increased tc, such an ex-
freedom We Halter ourselves that
this is government in which the
no other great country in the wond
in which the people have so much
power. But the politicians that we
place IN power are constantly ttakins
n
ference as tc what they are doing.
The people of every nation and ev-
cry CLINE are free in almost exact pro-
portion to their enlightenment If they
would be free they must be onto their
job. ne matter what may be the form
of government. The more ignorant
ey oesa ss Rfo Ps tns
politicians. Foclng%he people is the
great game.
IF We would be free we must edu-
must become Greek, Latin or Hebrew
scholars. nor that We must become
learned In the sciences. For many of
cur most learned in language and sci
ence are the most ignorant and most
gulllble In matters pertaining to po-
litical science and politics generally.
IF we would be free we must study
Monies and CT government; teach them
to the rising generations: require that
our lawmakers are not ignorant of
tileIu anu heep III constant COuCl with
them to know what they are doing
Eternal vigilance.
1T is thought by many that patri-
otism should be taught in our schools.
1t seems to me that the patriotism that
causes our boys to offer their lives for
their country does not need to be
taught. 1t seems to be inherent in
their nature. In every crisis in the
history of our country the boys and
young men have offered themselves al |
most en- masse. 1t has never seemed
to find men in abundance who |
are willing to die fer their country.
THE thing that seems to need to
be taught the rising generation is that |,
it is a glorious thing to live for ones |
country To live and fight for every
thing that will tend tc, make our coun-
try and the world a better place to
i've in. No greater patriots ever lived
than Benjamin Franklin. Thomas JET
one Of them was ''t a military man an But Rut
the people of this naticn and the peo-
pie of every nation are better off for
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