Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-30


selfish uses. Indeed it is question whether
to-day 1t be not rs much under the control of
evil as good-thus presenting the striking
paradox of one who hberates others, and yet
Is itself enslaved.
But had not the world examples of paral.
lei nature in days Of old when God spake TO
men through the mouths of the prophets
All that called themselves prophets IN those
days, were not commissioned OF Col. Baal
had his prophets as well as his worshippers.
But since those times the modes of communi-
cation have greatly changed. God now
! speaks to men through the Prophets of the
Press; and many great and noble ones bear
his mandates. But while the good thus sur
yves. evil lives also. Baal lives and has has
prophets of the press. and they greatly out
number those Of the Lord All, but the true
prophets of old were careful to proclaim the
! great truths OF Him who sent them; and in
different aud careless were they OF the praie G
or censure OF men. The singing, though
brave and fitting rebuke Of Nathan to the
crime-stained despotie King Of Israeli
"Ihou art the Man"--Vill live in history
while time endure But what wonder it Is
that the bearer of su - abrupt, unpleasant
! dispatch, did not share the fate OF large
majority OF those men who deal IN unpleasant,
questionable truths
rg Prepare We the way OF the Lord, make
straight his paths, aye. the same John, went
boldly into the den of the lion Herod, - the
| beentious, tyrannical Herod, and delivered
most impohte message, just rs received
from the mouth Of God, and for which poor
John lost his head, how many Of our latter
day teachers, - Prophets OF the Press and
Pulpit, will risk in the advocacy Of truth,
even their bread and butter, saying nothing
about endangering their heads
And yet in the great conflict so long waged
betwixt good and evil, have we not hopes and
assurances that the former must eventually
triumph over the latter?
But TO hasten on that good time said 10 be
| coming. when the hon shall lie down with the
lamb, and the nations know war no more, a
change must be effected in the whole moral
and social condition OF the world; men must
cease to worry and deyour one another; the
| human family must become cemented
brotherhood; Christianity must be withdrawn
from the market. and those who buy aud sell
in the house of God must be driven out. The
trades of law, government, politics and relig
ion must come INTO disuse; and the feverlsh
and consuming lust for power, fame aid
wealth, must be purged from the hearts OF
the children Of men,
And participating in this general upheaval
| the Press, so long prostituted to unholy uses
and made "to act the earthly and abhorred
/ commands" of evil, must itself become
emancipate and free, for Of truth the Spirit
Of Man and the Press must be bond or free
| together.
But the subject grows upon our hands; and
for fear Of respassilg upon time set apart
for other exercises, we bring to an abrupt
close this very I'm orthodox discourse, and
which is hereby rendered and submitted to
| this Association with none but the best mo-
tives and most respe ctful and kindly feelings.
ANIMAL POEM DELIVERED HEFoRE THE Ed
ToRIAL ASSOCIATION AT PRAIRIE DU CHEN
JUNE 2lsT.
BYH n. ROSS OF sHEB Jg6ASs
Knightly Brothers of the quill,
Who with ever ready will
Grappe each disturbing i'll
AS il grimly troops along
Who of progress lead the van,
| All its woodworking scan,
And unfold Its secret plan
To the insight Of the throng-
Who with pen, and ink, and press
| Work with varying success,
| All in hfe's great race to bless,
Catering TO mans highest need
| Who with patience day and night
! Wo.k TO shed a broader Light
/ WORK Eainst Wrong and for the Right
| Work i1g mauhood's noblest need
/ Glad are zee once more to meet you,s
/ In fratelnal gathering greet You
/ With til. warm aud earnest haud'clasp
/ Palm = palm in hearty friendship,
/ Made su ii By the bond OF union
/ Ever drawing near together
4 Those VINO seek the same endeayor-
| Glad this fourteenth annual gathering
! OF our Press Association,
| Finds so few among cur number,
! Since the last we net together,
| Gone before us Ger the liver,
| Where dscordant cries for "copy"
| Meier are heard from lips Satantc-
| Glad to see your pleasant faces
| Redoent of health and comfort,
| yelling from peaceful conscience
Free from guile and hate and malice
| Glad your "patrons" oped their purses,
| Though reluctantly il may be-
| aud with air most patron '-izingl
! Doing cut your long-earn'd greenbaoks
| To release you with brief respite
From the treadnli round of duties
| That SO bind you to your sanctams,-
| Glad TO meet you by these waters
Mighty rolling Father of Waters"
| Aqueous highway Of the Nation
Meet you ON this plain historic
| Once the home of the 0jibewas,
! Proudest tribe of the Algopquus;
Here, where erst, in times quite oldeD,
| Near two hundred years have passed slncei)
Hennepin, the bold adventurer,
First upon t set eyes Caucasian;
Here where four decades thereafter
Pressed Dame Cardinells foot the green sward,
First white woman Oh the Prairie;
Where she lived an hundred summers,
Aud was 10 her fathers gathered
With eentury's years and thirty
MARKED upon The faded nailestones
OF her liIe's eyenttul Grney.
Mark W. now The trans lorm alton
When the cowed and shaver jesuits,
Hennepin, Marquette and Joliet,
First descended the Wisconsin,
Ana deserted this mighty river
With JOY wildly exutant,
None but savage HANDS had ever
Launched upon its placid bosom
Floating craft of human tashioningi
Only the lignt bark canoe had
Ever cleayed its darks me waters.
Now, against It's rolling current,
With nigh almost resistless,
Al eeds the proud majestic stesmer-
Born Of modern civilization
On its acknowledged voyage,
Freighted with nations riches.
Then upon this lovely prairie
or was seen the council fire,
And was heard the war.whoop's echo.
Now we mark the crowded citys
Busy mart and gilded spire
Gone these dusky forest children;
! Gone the wgwanls chiefs and warriors;