Show THE GREAT DAY AND FLAG I With the dawn this morning all over this Republic the flag of the Republic will be flung to the breeze In every foreign port where a ship oC the Republic Is straining on her chains at tho peak will fly the faG with stars Wherever on the ocean wastes a ship of tho Republic rises and falls with the swell of the deep sea there from that ship will he run out l lo catch the first flashings of the dawn that flag that Its stars may kindle like flames under the banners of the advancing day At home and In foreign ports and out on the ships on the restless seas whim the raising of the flag the Joyous bands will play the anthem which sets to music the stars on the flag I Is good on this morning for all Americans to consider for n little while the significance o the flag and of the mualc Some devoted men and women In selfcommunion determined at last to break away from the restraints of the Old World freighted as it was with I Its ccnturlfjs of superstition of bigotry of uncharltahlonesG of tyranny and wrong and to seek in a virgin land a haven though only n forest peopled lIS aJCI men and animals would receive I re-ceive them and there build up n home They were not a perfect race They had been buffeted and wronged their minds were in measure warped and dwarfed by heredity but their souls wore lightened light-ened by a sublime faith and they were great enough to want to be better and selfcontained enough to conquer within with-in themselves what was harsh and brutalized so soon as they could seethe see-the waj There for a hundred and fifty years they and four generations of their descendants de-scendants met and wrestled with the difficulties that rose In their path and through the friction of an Iron fortune they crystalized Into 0 race not only of fair women and brave men but they had held to the high ideals and to the Integrity which had boon from generation genera-tion jto generation transmitted to them Then came a final test They determined deter-mined that from them they would shake every hostile environment of the I Old World and to consecrate their new land to real freedom persona political I and religious freedom It was a mighty struggle but they I succeeded and when the dangers of the war passed they were great enough to found a Government and hedge i about with safeguards that would while securing se-curing to their children the personal political and religious liberty which they had fought for at the same time leave them untrammeled by any unnecessary unne-cessary law or restriction and open to them every opportunity 0 a rich but unprospected continent Then each I State In the Interest of all the States yielded enough of sovereignty from I which to frame a Constitution which all should yield to and be subject to and the Nation took Its station among the nations of the earth and appeared a new preation to the children of men Then the flag took on a special significance signifi-cance and the faces of the oppressctl grew glad as they turned and saw Its stars aflame with the new and steady light that had boon kindled in the West That light has been shining on and on the forests have melted away and In their place the harvests ripen the desert has proved to be a treasure chamber the stars have multiplied from thirteen to fortyfive Its radiance has increased until It fills the earth with a splendor never before seen under un-der its beams It Is easy to see that the foundations of thrones are crumbling the fetters arc breaking from the wrists of slaves the divine rights of kings l are passing away the divinity of man and his right to enter all fields and make his struggle for fortune and for fame arc being more and more acknowledged acknowl-edged With every returning anniversary anniver-sary of this day new sacredness attaches at-taches to the flag there Isa higher music to the national anthem for the spirit of the fathers still gives light to tho stars dn the flag a loftier and sweeter cadence to the anthem through which the stars were set to music As of old the flag symbols perfect liberty to all beneath It it Is a sign that all the rare opportunities of the lapd aro open to all Its children that the gates are still open to the oppressed I and at the same1tlme while liberty means liberty regulated b law 1 Ibert ted by there Is no law there Is to be no law that I will prevent any one In all our coun trys possessions from doing any legitimate legi-timate thing V j So the flag symbols the new Imperialism Imperial-ism of our land the Imperialism of power Uw Imperialism of n mighty people free to do any legitimate thinG the imperialism of the free school tho free press the free speech the Imperialism Imper-ialism of intelligence working In a Held ample for all our exertions to fincj room and restricted only by that Justice which makes no distinction between the rights of men I is right then to hail the day to renew re-new our fealty to salute the flag imperial im-perial iu the mercy and Justice which It symbols and to chant anew thQ great anthem which sets the stars on the flag to rnuslc |