Words to Be Remembered

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 6, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 27.

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Words to Be Remembered

Words to Be Remembered.—The following extract from Mr. Geo. S. Knight’s recent Chicago speech is worthy of more than mere passing consideration: “The time is ripe for brightening up Americanism, to teach with renewed vigor the principles of individual liberty for which the minute men of the Revolution fought; the Lincoln liberty, an individual liberty for the man, not a black man alone, any man, all men; the right of labor in the exercise of freedom unmolested, and to be paid for his individual toil, and with it build his cottage home. From the press, the pulpits, the schoolhouse, the platform, and the street, let the true history of our country be known, that the young men and women of America, and many old ones, may know what a price has been paid for the liberty, peace, and union they enjoy through the devoted patriotism of our silent heroes of the past. Deprivation and sacrifice already endured for many years before the old bell in the state house was given the voice to speak the glorious sentiment of the age and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, and they were made the instruments by which the principles productive of our national grandeur were set as jewels in our public’s coronet. What we prayed for, fought for, bled for, and died for, we want cared for.”