THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY. MAY 4, 1914.
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Hear that boom? That's Just tho unllmber
Ine of "Johnny" Manor's typewriter battery. (
Keop your eye on Mexico, and watch care
full' to spo which shell covers the llttlo whit,'
ball.
Those lawns that survived the drouth and
tho dandelions of last summer are now trying
to como back.
Statistics show that mlno accidents aro oi
the decrease. But those are not classed as acci
dents out In Colorado.
Dut that good old Nebraska wheat continues
to grow, just as If tho whole world were a
peace, Colorado Includod.
Some men never think of reading a book
till they run across It under a lot of rubbish
when tho wife is packing up to move. '
Wonder if those candidates for primary
preferment fully appreciate the fact that tho
filing fco is only the ante in tho gamo.
What'B this? A mild crltlclom of the "Water
board boss jn its thick and thin newspaper
organ? Must bo a cog slipped somewhere.
U's dollars to doughnuts that election of
postmasters by direct popular voto will not bo a
plank in any democratic platform promulgated
this year.
A Now York' doctor says the tango Is good
because it "Jogglos up" the liver. We felt all
the tlmo that there was a scientific defense 'or
lr somewhere.
And yet ono is forced to admit this, that
whoro men take the law in tholr own hands and
icsort to dynamite and bullots thoro may bo
oimothlng to arbitrate
It there Is any consolation" in it, it may be
worth noting that tho civil governor of Vera
Crui didn't last anywhere near as long as thu
civil governor of Panama.
Omaha trade boosters are going to get to
gether, and draw inspiration for the future by
telling about the past. Anything that has been
done once can be done again.
Tho officers of the Nebraska Peace society
give unqualified endorsement to President Wil
son's Mexican policy, But presumably thero Is
an invisible string to pull it back should war
ensue.
The Omaha public library has circulate),
over 100,000 books during tho first three
months of this year, of which less than 5 per
cent were In a foreign language. Let no one
hereabouts fear an Immigrant peril.
Omaha last year spent about $00,00!o lit
erecting threo new fire engine houses, of which
14,500 went to architects for designing and
superintending. Why should not Omaha havo
a building Inspection department able to draw
plana for fire engine houses, and to Inspect th
work of erection without hiring outside talent?
eMutett rot ace rticj
To show that the local basq ball spirit Is not dead
a Plan l under way to form a company with a cap
ital of JW,K to flnahre a good company to be known
a the- L. P. nine.
C 8. Raymond, for years the leading Jeweler o!
Clinton, la in Omaha, wheie he will re-establish him
self In buslnwa. He has taken a five-year lease of
atora now occupied by Mr. Bushman at the corner
of Fifteenth and Doug-as.
The Knights of Pythias obituary resolutions for
Alexander Damon aie oer the names of H. O.
Krause, Henry Hornberger and Julius Nag!, com
rolttee, St Phllomena's church has deeded to- Crelghton
university lot 1, block 2.
Among the hotel arrivals are John 8. Robinson of
West Virgin'a. O. A. Lulkhart and T. F. Mommlnger
of Clinton, la.
The sewer trench ha been finished as far as Far
naro and Tenth and the pipe is being put in. The
trench Is from fifteen to twenty Jeet deep, and along
the block between Ninth and Tenth has struck water.
The Commercial National bank will open for bul
neas located at the northeast corner of Farnarn and
Thirteenth. The officers-1 charge arei Bira Millard.
President; A P. Hopkins, cashier; Alfred Millard,
assistant cashier.
The tragedy. "I'riel Casta," was put on at the
German theater, with a sldeplay after the second act
when Mlas Emma Brandt presented Mr. Malchln, who
is in the title role, with a handsome gold watch and
chain. A player new to Omaha on the bill was Mr.
Niemann, tj
Warming Up Again in Mexico.
If outward signs afford true Indication.
things aro warming up again in Moxlco, and
brisk developments may bo looked for within A
very short time.
Conditions appear to have become so acute
within the Huerta government as to presare n
complete change of tho official personnel, tho
forerunner being the retirement and replace
ment of the minister of foroign affairs. If this
In the beginning of the disintegration, an early
change In the position of provisional president,
by which Huerta would bo succeeded by some
ono else, in accord with tho dominant political
element but free from Huerta's personal an
tagonism, would not bo surprising.
What the immediate consequences would
bo, and what attitude the Unitod States would
take toward tho successor of Huerta, would still
bo open questions, but thero Is no doubt that
elimination of Huerta would be a wondorful
help toward a complete solution of this compli
cated problem.
Then and Now.
Tho difference between responsibility and ir
responsibility provorblally attaches to every
change In political control of tho government
by which tho ins step out, and tho outs exchange
the prlvllego of criticism for tho burden of per
formance, i
Who ever would have thought that any dem
ocratic administration, with which William Jen
nings Bryan would bo Identified as cablnot pre
mier, would dispatch federal troops to quell
labor disturbances within tho boundaries of u
sovereign state? Here is a plank from one of
the platforms on which Mr. Bryan ran for presi
dent for tho second tlmo oh the paramount Issua
of anti-Imperialism: '
A further manifestation of Imperialism Is to be
found In the mining districts of Id olio. In the Coeur
d'Aleno soldiers have been used to overawe miners
striving for a greater measure of Industrial Inde
pendence. We denounce the state government of
Idaho nnd the federal government for employing the
military arm of the government to abridge the civil
rights of the people, and to enforce an Infamous per
mit system which denies to laborers their Inherent
liberty and compela them to forswear their manhood
and their right before being permitted to seek em
ployment .Of course, this pronUnciamento was made
fourteen years ago, and bolng made with refer
ence to tho miner's troubles In Idaho, has noth
ing whatever to do with proHont conditions in
Colorado. In other wordu, it makes all tho dif
ference In tho world whose foot Is pinched by
tho shoo.
Farmers and Interest Bates.
Farmers do not understand why they should
not bo able to borrow money ns cheaply as other
business men and concerns, for example, rall
rpads. There Is a very good reason, though,
why farmers cannot at present do this, in that
they are not sufficiently organized for It. Rall
roadji get money at 6 per cent and lower, while
farmers pay up to 10. Railroads, of course,
have no better security to offer than the farm
ers, for, as a matter of fact, tholr prosperity de
pends largely on the prosperity or tne larmors.
The latter has his land for; security, tho best thoro
Is. But he folia to cot tho same advantage of
the railroad in low interest rate because he goes
at it 8inIy, the railroad collectively; tho farmer
as an individual, tho ratlroad as an organisa
tion. Thu farmers themselves realize the need for
better organization for this purpose, When they
como lo realize, however, that their supreme
noed is organization, that will put them on an
equal footing to copo, not only with tho railroads.
In tho matter of Interest rates, but all other
corporate activities In the city, they will get
Bomewhere. Thoy havo boon willingly paying
8 and 10 per cent interest,, feollrig that, though
high, it yet enabled them, especially in good
crop years, to como out on top. But now that
they seo thoir possibilities, Indeed, their actual
commercial needs, relatively speaking, they will
Burely not long be content with the old condi
tions. One of the most vital demands Just now In
this couutry is for chenper money; for tho
farmer. It is a demand with many ramifica
tions, touching city as well as rural life. When
that demand Us adequately met we shall witness
a tremendous stimulus lo agricultural activities,
which, of course, will be reflected in our com
mercial and Industrial life generally.
Possibilities of the Recall.
Writing from Los Angeles, a staff corre
spondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says,
'Recalling city officials Is becoming a recog
nlzod industry In this city." Although Los An
geles claims nearly COO, 000 population, "17,000
voters, many of them carelessly signing recall
petitions becauso solicited by professional can
vassers, are able at any time," this reporter
says, "to halt the city administration and fore
its members to devote Weeks of their time de
fending their jobs,"
This further description of conditions In Los
Angeles Is Illuminating;
Skilled canassera stand ready to get algned peti
tions to recall any official one happens to dislike at
the atandard rata of & cents per signature. They
alt In chairs back of little tables on the sidewalks
displaying their warts I mean their petitions and
solicit custom quite. Ilka the venders of chewing gum
and other small commodities. The petitions now
circulating ask tor an election to recall Mayor Rose,
City Attorney Stephens and five of the nine coun
cilman. Candidates will be named against each of
the seven men under fire and all will be voted on at
the same time provided the petltron-mongers pro
cure the signatures of !0 per cent of the registered
voters to force an election, and It la taken for
granted they will. Only 1 per cent of the registered
voters are able to place In nomination candidates to
succeed the officials whose recall Is attempted.
With the possible exception of Seattle, Los
Angeles ranks first among the cttlos in experi
ence with the recall. One might almost infer
that the people of these two Pacific coast cities
had determined to put the recall out of commis
sion, on the thedry that the best way of abolish
ing a mischievous law Is to enforco it rigidly.
The recall may prove serviceable in emergen
cies, but its susceptibilities to abuse are so nu
merous that resort to it must be restricted it
serious harm is to be avoided, restricted at least
to the extent of the recall provision embodied
in our rejected home rule charter.
The vast oil Interests mixed up in ono way
and another with the Mexican furore have no
quieting effect on the troubled waters.
IJntl-M of thr llnntr,
OMAHA. May 3,-To the Editor of The
Bee: "As a voice crying in the wilder
ness" Is Mrs. Crossland, and alt honor
to her. The foundation of the greatest
of the American people nay, the greatest
of any people, has always been, and will
be, world without end, motherhood of the
typo this woman so nobly , represents.
Motherhood that does not shrink Its
duties nor avoid Ita responsibilities; moth
erhood that does not shift Its work onto
society, In order that the mother may
have more time to gad or gossip,
A mother who does not deem her duty
ended when she haa fed and washed her
flock and tidied up her house, but who
still conceives It to be part of her work
to train up her children In the way they
should go. Is a woman who Is honor.ng
the name of mother, and giving to It
that deep and sacred significance that
haa endeared it lo all men who had real
mothers,
Such mothera rarely If ever moan In
anguish of soul over a wayward child, for
they have none.
Mrs. Crossland'a remarks should be
appointed to be read aloud in every suf
frage meeting and before every woman's
club In the world at stated Intervals, for
she has very neatly summed up the fac
tors of the problem of raising children.
OLD FOGY.
"Where Light Weeded.
OMAHA. May Z. -To the Editor of The
Bee: While the city commissioners are
debating where additional electric lights
should ba located, whether on streets or
In parks and playgrounds, let mq say
that One place where llghta are badly
neoded la the high school grounds, par
ticularly when the high school auditorium
Is used for evening meetings as It was
during the Charities and Corrections ses
sion. Whether the care and lighting of
th school grounds belongs to the city
council or the school board, the high
echool square ought to be made safe at
night. x. X.
Brass Band' Detectlres.
NEW YORK, May 2.-To the Editor of
The Beel On my return to tho city my
attention hue been called to tho artlclos
which have appeared In the press In which
William J. Hums characterises all pri
vate detectives as crooks. I agree, with
Mr. Burns that there are some licensed
private detectives who ought to be In
Jail, but I believe them are honest, up-'
right men in the. detective business as
well aa In any other, though they may
not ba of the "brass band'1 variety. In
my opinion, ono'a clients are the beat
Judge of hla Integrity and honesty, and
not the principal of a rival detective
agency. Mr. Burna may ba Judging
others hy himself; at any rate, it might
be well for him to be a little more ex
plicit In hla re-marks, If he can be. and
stop this "four-flushing" game of hla.
The private detectives of the bid. school,
of which I am a member, did not em
ploy brass bands 'and press agents, but
were content to go about their Investiga
tions In a quiet, Confidential way, and did
not unnecessarily expose their clients In
an effort to advertise themselves.
CHARLES SCHNEIDER.
bt Broadway, , ,
Lottera from a Heathen Mexico.
SOMEWHERE. May 2.-T0 the Editor
of The Bee: Let me begin by saying that
I havo no antipathy against the Catholic
church, as such; on the contrary, I regard
it as the 'only logical form of Christianity
in existence, Accept tho premises, of
original sin and vicarious atonement, and
the Catholic haa got you.
I believe In economic determinism. If
there ever waa a war or revolt that did
not have an economla starting point, I
do not remember It Material Interest
that la the factor.
In the year 1810, Michael Hlldalgo, a
country priest In Mexico, raised a revolt
against tho Bpanlsh power. At that tlmo
only two ports In Mexico were ooeyi to
foreign commerce, Acupulco on the Pa
cific and Vera Crur (True Cross) on the
Atlantic. Mexico was'not allowed to pro
duce anything which could be pro
duced In Spain. Hlldalgo appears to have
been a man after the order of George
Mendel or Luther Burbnnk, He In said
to have been the man who Introduced the
altk worm from China to Mexico. He be
thought himself of starting vintage as a
national Industry: and began the culture
of a vineyard. This transgression reached
the ears of Don Francisco Xavlcr (sic)
Vtnegas, the viceroy. This would never
do. Spain was the wtne-producer of the
world. Its monopoly must be maintained.
Tho viceroy with a salnt'a name ordered
Hildalgo's vines destroyed. But the
echoes of the French revolution of two
decades back had reached even benighted
Mexico. Hlldalgo raised the standard of
revolt. For a time he was successful and
gained victory after victory, but at
length was overwhelmed by superior
numbers and fell Into the hands of the
viceroy's emissaries. He waa degraded
from the priesthood, turned over, to the
cWll authorities and was shot to death,
Michael Hlldalgo was the John Brown of
Mexico. Hla mantle fell upon another
priest. John N. Morelos, In a week after
the death of Hlldalgo, Morelos was at the
head of CO.fa) men tilled with patriotism
and vengeance. For a time he, too, waa
successful. But he was finally defeated
by Iturblde, and, being betrayed and cap
Ured, he was turned over to the Inquisi
tion. Put to the. torture, he showed the un
yielding fortitude of a Scaevalo. But
Morelos waa condemned as an unconfessed
heretic, degraded from the priesthood, ex
communicated and turned over to the
secular government for capital punishment-
Morelos met death with fortitude.
He waa condemned by church and state,
but he Is canonised In the hearts of his
grateful countrymen. The state of More
los In Mexico Is named for him.
DER HEIDE.
Editorial Snapshots
Cleveland Plain Dealer: An eloquent
homliy on the way neighbors should act
might be based on current observatlona
south of the Hlo Grande and north of
tho forty-ninth parallel.
Tittsburgh Dispatch: Estimates of war
taxea include the possibility of IM.000,00)
from sreelal taxea on beer, tea and cof
fee. It looks as it those desirous of
economy will have to cultivate the use of
grapo Juice aa a beverage.
Philadelphia ledger: Newspapers In
the City of Mexico are said to havo pub
lished reports that the Americans were
massacring Mexican women and ch 1
dren. It Is possible. In the same way,
that many reports of atrocities which
reach this country from Mexico are ex.
aggerated. In time of war It is always
wise to wait tor the verification- of re
A Mexican Inspiration
Soldier of Former War
and His Famous Poem.
On every American battleflela transformed Into a
national cemetery jhere stands In tablet form muto
reminders. of a hero of the Mexican war who fought
and won laurels at Buena Vista and Chapultepec.
From the heights of Arlington and the slopes of
Gettysburg to the resting place of American soldiers
In Mexico the Immortal poem of Theodore O'Harn,
"The Bivouac of the Dead," vitalises the spirit of
departed soldiers. The war which added three stars
to the nation's field of blue also gave birth to the
stirring martial lines:
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
Tho soldier's last tattoo,
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
But Otory guards, with solemn round,'
The bivouac of the dead.
The son of an Irish political exile, and a Ken
tucklan by birth, Theodore O'Hara exemplified In hla
life the martial spirit of his poem. In his short life
of 47 years (1SHMSS7) he fought as captain In the Mex
ican war, as colonel of an Alabama regiment In the
civil war and participated In two Cuban filibustering
expeditions In the '80s, narrowly escaping death when
General Lopez was captured by the Spanish and
executed September 1, 1851. In peaceful times O'Hara
practiced law In Washington, performed several diplo
matic commissions before the rebellion, edited two
newspapers for brief periods In tho south, and died
of fever on a plantation on the Chattahooche river
In 1S67. n 1E74 Kentucky brought the remains of her
soldier poet back to Kentucky and gave them appro
prlatc Interment In the cemetery at Frankfort. Hid
shroud was the tattered battleflag under which he
fought In Mexico and his resting place la between
the graves of tho Kentucky dead of that war and that
of the famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone.
The occasion and the Inspiration for the poem wai
the reburlal In the Frankfort cemetery of the bodies
of Kentucky soldiers who fell in the Mexican war.
That waa late In 1847. O'Hara nad retired from tin
military service and ias editing tho Yepman In Frank
fort when tho governor requested him to write and
read a poem In honor of the return to Kentucky soil
of Its soldier dead. The martial lines were written
In the office of the Yeoman and were fittingly cap
tloned, "The Bivouac of the Dead."
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round.
The bivouac of the dead.
No rumor of the foe's advance.
Now swells upon tho wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones loft behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
. The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn nor screaming fife.
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered Bwords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads aro bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed In dust.
Is now their martial shroud
And plenteous funeral tears have washed
The red' stains from each brow;
And the proud forms, by battle gashed.
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast.
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout, aro past;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Like the tierce northorn hurricane ,
That sweeps his great plateau,
Flushed with the triumphs yet to gain,
Came down tho serried foe.
Who heard the 'thunder of the fray
Break o'er the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was "Victory Or Death!"
Full many a norther's breath has swept
O'er Angostura's plain,
And long the pitying sky haa wept
Above Us mouldered slain.
The. raven'tf- scream, or eagle's flight,
Or shepherd's pensive lay.
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray.
' Eons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there,
Where stranger steps and tongues resound
Along the heedless air.
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Shall ba your fitter grave;
She claims from war his richest spoil
The ashes of her brave.
Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest,
Far from tho gory field.
Born to a Spartan mother's breaJt
On many a bloody shield; .
The sunshine of their native sky
Smiles sadly on them here,
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by
The horoea' sepulchre.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead!
Dear aa the blood ye gave;
No Impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps.
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel's voiceless tone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many a vanished year hath flown.
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight,
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Can dim one ray of glory'a light
That gilds yopr deathless tomb.
People and Events
Back In Indianapolis lh News threatens to pull
off a prize guessing contest with the hope of dis
covering why an electrlo light company which seUs
"the Juice" to the city at 3 centa a kilowatt hour, In
sists on soaking the private consumer for from
7 to IX cents an hour.
Peter Coatcs of the great London threadmaklng
firm of J. and C. Coates, left an estate of tU.000,000.
The death duty to be paid to the state will amount
to Sl.8M.CC0. The $70,040,000 estate of the late An
thony N. Brady of New York haa Just paid an in
heritance tax of !,U4,0CO.
Fulfilling a promise which he made to his wife
at the time of their marriage, although she has been
dead sixteen years, Matthew Eler wore at his fifty
ninth wedding anniversary last week the silk hat
which he wore before he was married. He has worn
It on every wedding anniversary.
Governor McCreary has named a commission of
ten educators who will select the common school
textbooks to be used In Kentucky, outside of the
cities, for four years. Involving an outlay of ll.60O.W0.
The Invasion of the Blue Grass rcrfon by textbook
agents will be a thriller for the movies.
W. J. Henderson, tne musical critic, cruelly Jolts
the pride of "Intelligent and discriminating audi
encea' by telling how Caruso, after being- wildly
applauded' In the star role In "Paghaccl," stepped
behind the scenes and sang In his best style a solo
which was programed SLgalnst the name of a minor
singer and -didn't get the whisper of a hand.
THESE GIRLS OF OURS.
"George.'" said the wife to her generally
unapprcclattve husband, "how do you like
my new hatr
"Well, my dear," said George, with
great eandor, "to tell you the truth"
"Stop right there, George! If you're
going to talk that way about It I don't
want to know." Ladles' Home Journal.
Mrs. Gump What do you call taming a
husband?
Mrs. Hump When you can get him ao
that you can take monev out of his hand
without his snapping nt you. Baltimore
American.
Mr. Peach, before leaving town on a
business trip, instructed his wife's nurwe
to apprise him of the arrival of the stork.
She obliged with tho following telegram:
"Mrs. Peach has a pair." Judge.
"Did you enjoy the trip across tho At
lantic, Mlsa Gattlesby7"
"Not a hit. It was so rough all the
way that tangoing on deck was out of
the question." Chicago Record-Herald.
"I heard your daughter got a great
deal at school this term. Mrs. Smith."
"So she did. She got the highest com
mendation from her teachers and the
mumps "Baltimore American.
"You used to keep crying 'Down with
the trustsl"
"Well," replied the stateman who keeps
up with the times, "I used to sing 'Sweet
Violets' and 'Annie Rooney," too.
Washington Star.
"You called me a bone-headed Jelly
fish!"
"Yes."
"Well. I don't care about your opinion,
but. for heaven's sake, don't mix your
metaphors." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Was your husband cool when you
told him there was a burglar In the
nouse?" asked Mrs. Hammer.
"Cool." replied Mrs. Oabb, "I should
say he was cool. Why. his teeth chat
tered." Cincinnati -Inquirer. .
M. D. Would you have tho prlco If 1
said you needed an operation?
Manning Would you say 1 needed an
operation If you thought I didn't havo
the price? Life.
She 'Tls true that I have broken the
engagement and that I still havo your
ring: but do you know why I retain that
ring?
Ho (ruefully) On the 'principle that lo
tho victor belongs the spoils, I suppose.
Boston Transcript.
"What do you think of the way our
son Josh combs hla hair?" asked Mrs.
Corntossel
"I approve of It," replied her husband.
"It shows pride In the right direction.
By pullln' his hair straight back he runs
less risk of Leln' mistook for a low
brow," Washington Star.
Two men were talking of tho hard
times.
"Docs your wife ever grieve because
she threw ovor a wealthy man In order
to marry you?" queried Hall.
"Well, she started to once," was the re
ply, "but I cured her of It without de
lay." "I wish you would tell me how," said
Ha"- . . . .....
"I started right In grieving with her.
replied the other, "and I grieved harder
and longer than she did." Llpptncott's
Magazine.
Father I got a number of sealed pro
posals at my office today
Daughter Oh, pa, were any of them
for me? Philadelphia Ledger.
Ho Women ought to go on record lo
men of being aligels. ,
She Yes, and If we take tho record of
men we'll bo recording angels. Baltimore
American.
AMERICA TO MEXICO.
H. 'I", r-uisu'er in Hie Outlook.
We do not come
With throbbing drum
And fifes triumphant crying.
We know the cost
And count our lost
Or ever they Ho dyljig.
Wo have no lust for battle
Where men like driven cattle
Go down before the bullet and the blade.
No dre&d and vengeful ghost
Shall guide our northern host.
Our legions ol the just and unafraid.
Where Cortes marched In slaughter
Through blood that ran Ilk water
We sound the knell of passion with our
guns.
No lure of land shall bind us.
And the pledge with which wo bind us
la the life and faith and vision of our
sons.
Where the empire of tho Frank
Drove backward rank on rank
Before the aword of Juarez and the right:
There vulture stand at bay.
There the -northern eagles say
That tomorrow will bring freedom and
tho light!
We can forgo no prison bars
From the spirit of the stars.
Though we speak In words of thunder
and of flame.
Free Cuba is the token
That our pledge will live unbroken, ,
Nor shall anger turn our honor Into
shame.
You have felt the Iron heel
And the thrust of naked steel;
You havo watcneil your people minted Into
gold.
While the promised dawn Is Breaking
Will you slumber still, unwaklng,
Dull peons of tho ages stark and cold?
Fling wide your gates before us!
By tho love of truth that bore us
Through tho blinding rain or death on
Bunker Hill,
In our veins the blood Is singing,
In our ears the slogan ringing:
Faith Is freedom, right Is power and
God's will!
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