Show grand words worda of a grand senator peffer in a speech in the united states senate august 24 1893 mr president the people are going on guard today to day their posts are in the farmhouses and in the dwellings of the poor in the workshops in the mines in the forests on the lakes and rivers and along the highways of commerce their countersign is loyalty to the republic the stars and stripes is their flag equal rights is their motto anglo saxon blood is their inheritance freedom is their birthright and to be rulers in their own country is their destiny 11 |