Vol. I. JUNE, 1906. No. 4.
June,--BUNKER HILL--June,
1775. 1843.
Peroration of the Address Delivered by Daniel Webster,
June 17, 1843, at the Dedication of the
Monument That Now Marks the Scene of
the Famous Revolutionary Struggle.
We have indulged in gratifying recollections of the past, in the
prosperity and pleasures of the present, and in high hopes for the future.
But let us remember that we have duties and obligations to perform,
corresponding to the blessings which we enjoy. Let us remember the trust,
the sacred trust, attaching to the rich inheritance which we have received
from our fathers. Let us feel our personal responsibility, to the full
extent of our power and influence, for the preservation of the principles
of civil and religious liberty. And let us remember that it is only
religion, and morals, and knowledge, that can make men respectable and
happy under any form of government. Let us hold fast the great truth that
communities are responsible as well as individuals; that no government is
respectable which is not just; that without unspotted purity of public
faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor--no mere forms
of government, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political
society. In our day and generation let us seek to raise and improve the
moral sentiment, so that we may look, not for a degraded, but for an
elevated and improved future. And when both we and our children shall have
been consigned to the house appointed for all living, may love of
country--and pride of country--glow with equal fervor among those to whom
our names and our blood shall have descended! And then, when honored and
decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of
ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one shall speak
to the other of its objects, the purposes of its construction, and the
great and glorious events with which it is concerned--there shall rise,
from every youthful breast, the ejaculation--"Thank God, I--I also--am an
American!"
The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While.
Praise and Blame for American Women From Dr. Emil
Reich--Earl Grey and Secretary Root Discuss the Relations of
Canada and the United States--William J. Bryan Defines the
Limits of Socialism--Rabbi Schulman Explains Certain
Prejudices Against the Jews--William T. Jerome, Senator
Lodge, and Norman Hapgood Criticize or Defend the Noble Army
of Muck-Rakers--With Other Interesting Expressions of
Opinion on Current Issues of the Day.
_Compiled and edited for_ THE SCRAP BOOK.