The Weston Democrat

Owning a Home.

The strength of the American republic is the universal desire to own a home. It is molding all the people, native and foreign born, into one homogeneous mass. The ownership of a home is something of which neither the Irish nor the German laborer have, in their own country, any conception; but here it is the goal of their hopes and desires. Education comes next; it is a something the need of which is not felt until the adornments of home are thought of. This desire to own the roof under which one sleeps is distinctively an American characteristic, and seems by nature adapted to the growth which is raising us in importance in the scale of nations. It is the link which connects the man with the government; it adds to his interest in the making and execution of the laws, and identifies him with the usages and customs of the people. It is this element which gives the people of Switzerland their unity and power, and the lack of it causes nine-tenths of the unrest in Ireland. No feeling is stronger than the attachments of home, and no nation whose people possess this as a common sentiment can lose its liberties.