Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-07-01
THE GLORY OF AMERICA.


On this our 146h national birthday, it is fitting that
we review achievements nation, that we take al
draft OF confidence in the wisdom OF the fathers who
laid the first foundations of our national structure In curl
JAG years Of national life have met many problems and
many crises The fathers after eight years OF devastating
war met the situation Of Is colonies loosely held together
as confederation, by forming government with
it's functions dimations defined by the constitution
When the freedom of the threatened in 1872
the new nation hesitated not but went to war with the
mNss powerful nation earth, in defense of what wei
EneT to be rights.
The menace of human slavery was met in the same
straightforward manner and following four years oil
fatTcidal strife, more nation with the
stain Of chatte bondage removed
Other problems and threats against national ex-
ance have been met when they reached the point that
solution must be arrived at and say with pride that
those problems have been met as free outstanding men
must meet their problems, and they have finally, after
free and open discussion, been met right
In the meantime the nation has grown from narrow
strip of land along the Atlantic coast, peoped by less
than 100000 souls at the close OF the revolution, until
100000 people stretch from farm to industrial
city from the lakes to the gulf and from the rock ribbed
coast of their first home clear to and far past the placid
shores Of the golden Pacific Then little handful of
pioneers farmers and hunters manufactures
shipped to the frhest points OF the globe and IN our
territorial expansion engineers are building railroads.
pioneers pannng gold, the Midas creeks OF
far off Alaska and ringing in the forests OF
the PHILIPPINES, ten thousand miles due west from Pyn
outh Rock.
LerTllO11al
problems that the present generation must raise up It's
Lincoln to settle For than 100 years free land
liberty Of thought rewards for initiative, and the
slogan of free republic in which the hmbest had voice
m the government brought the best and sturdles OF the
peoples Of Europe to settle shores From Germany
IN brought Carl Shurz and Fritz Siegerom Scanda
nayia came Knute Nelson and John Lind From Finland
from Poland from Denmark from France, Spain and
Italy, came hundreds who gained lesser fame III IN
dustry and statecraft but whose memories are today
proudly honored by their states and communities These
men came with honest respect for forms OF gov
ernment their children and their cildrens children be-
came the staff on which our institutions lean.
Following the settlement OF the land came the de-
veopment of other mines and TIMBER and the
establishment of vast industries in steel and wood, IN
textiles and machinery. With these came foreign labor
ers whose only interest in free America the wage
scale With them foreign press, and radical ag-
tators whose interest and is to keep these alien
peoples in their alien state; to see that the habits and
customs developed in the slms OF foreign cities are
transmitted to their children III America They have
attacked the fundamental forms Of our governments they
have tried to rule by fear and voence they have brought
with them the age old preudices and hatreds OF Europe
and they have become the real menace OF free America
today.
In every mining camp in the sums of every industrial
city, be found foreign quarters the expatnates OF
each nation cannsy holding to their own territory but
all fighting shoulder to shoulder against learning the
English tongue against sending their children to American
schools Their leaders and their press preach anarchy
murder and destruction of property and government
This, them is the problem we OF today must meet Tor
this must there be raised up Lincoln wise OF Chrstke
understanding, hugely tolerant but unyieding, His the
task to bring back to America the Amercanism that will
be lost if to tolerate the foreign propagandlsts
The danger is real and imminent So far has 1t gone
that only week ago demand written into the plat
form Of one Of the powerful political parties in Wisconsin
that public schools should be conducted in any foreign
language where the patrons desired.
We Americans must not let our government be Wrested
from u.s. We must stand together for the perpetuy OF
our Institutions for the uphodng of our laws at what
ever cost Otherwise we shall cease to be Americans