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OLD GLORY
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When you see the Stars and Stripes displayed, son ,
stand up and take off your hat.
Somebodv may titter. It is in our blood to deride all
expressions of noble sentiment, 't ou may blaspheme in
the street, and stagger drunken in public places, and the
bystanders will not pay much attention to you; but if you
should get down on your knees in the street and pray to.
Almighty God, or if you should stand bareheaded while a
company of old soldiers marched by with their flag to the
breeze, some people will think you are showing off. 1
But don't you mind! When Old Glory comes along
salute, and let them think what they please. When you
hear the band play “The Star Spangled Banner," while
you are in a restaurant or dining room, get up, even if you:
rise alone-, stand there and don t be ashamed of it, either!!
For of all the signs and symbols since the world began
there is never another so full of meaning as the flag ofj
this country.
That piece of red. white and blue bunting means five
thousand years of struggle upward. It is the full-blown
flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century
plant of human hope in bloom.
Your flag stands for humanity, for an equal oppor
tunity to all the sons of men. Of course we haven t ar
rived yet at that goal; there are many injustices yet
among us; many senseless and cruel customs of the past
still clinging to us, but the only hope of righting the
wrongs of men lies in the feeling produced in our bosoms
by the sight of that flag.
Other flags mean a glorious past; our flag a glorious;
future. It is not so much the flag of our fathers as it is
the flag of our children, and of our children’s children yet
unborn. It is th^ flag of tomorrow. It is the signal of
the “Good Time Coming.” It is not the flag of your king,
but the flag of yourself and of all your neighbors.
Don’t be ashamed when your throat chokes and the
tears come as you see it flying from the mast of a ship in
the bay of Gibraltar or the port of Singapore. You will
never have a worthier emotion.
That flag is the cream of all religions, the concentrat
ed essence of the best impulses of the human race; rever
ence it as you would reverence the signature of the Deity.
By hundreds and by thousands the wretched victims
of old-world caste are streaming westward, seeking here
the thing the flag stands for—opportunity and equal!
rights.
It stands for the quick against the dead, the youth of
the world against its senility.
It stands for the open door of ambition against the
closed door of caste.
It stands for the stability of vigorous growth against
the fixedness of hoary institutions.
It waves defiance at all ghosts, they that have for long
intimidated men; the ghost of monarchy, the ghost of;
aristocracy, the ghost of war, the ghost of serfdom and
slavery; all they that lay shadowy hands upon the life of
Europe and Asia.
Listen! See! The band is playing "The Star Spangled
Banner.” They have let loose Old Glory yonder. Stand
up! Some people over there are smiling at us. Stand up!
Let them smile and be damned to ’em!—Author Unknown.i
, ALIENS UNDO OUR CONSERVATION
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One of the disadvantages attending the influx of for
eign labor into Alaska is their utter disregard of the game j
and our laws, either through ignorance or wilfullness,
using pretended ignorance as a blind.
The latest instance noted is the killing by aliens of
a number of beaver in the region lying back of Tyonic,:
near the head of Cook inlet. These beaver were almost
annihilated by fur trappers some years back and in order
to protect them a ban was placed on killing them until
1920. The native population observed the order, only to
A HIDING PLACE.
—Taylor in Los Angeles Times.
have its effect set at naught by a bunch from the south
j of Europe who, not having found sufficient work on the
railroad to keep them busy during the winter, went for
aging. ... ,
The winter before a number of Russians living at the
head of the bay brought back enough moose on one trip
to keep them all winter with the aid of ptarmigan which
they brought in by the gunny sack full. *
Wonder how the Germans in the trenches will view
the different copies of the president’s address, the original
one dropped by allied aviators and the other copy the cen
sored document released by the kaiser.
If congress lets money talk, the allies will soon teach
it how to fight. „__
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