River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-08-30
I'm Union there is Strength

yet we do not always practice what we
preach, even when we know that what
we preach is sound doctrine. There
may be nothing strange about this fact,
since men everywhere can and do write
and speak far better than they live
The reason is this:-They usually write
and speak in their best frame of mind;
they work themselves into the very
mood they most desire, and their
thoughts are then selected from the
best the head and heart afford. This
fact is plain to all observers.
But an oft repeated maxim wears
deep burrows in the mind and heart, and
it has its bearing, and its legitimate eff
feet upon our lives.
The text implies that we have word
to say about concert of action, and that
is just what we are about to do. In
society each particular individual is a
part OF the whole. We can accomplish
little or nothing for the public good,
single handed, hence men have always
banded themselves together, formed
compacts, societies and parties. This
nation is now divided into political par
ties, and there is scarcely man in it
who does not feel that he has a duty to
perform. And how shall he perform
it? How shall he best satisfy his own
conscience?
There is but one answer to these
questions. He must perform it in such
manner as will, in his opinion, be the
most conducive to the general welfare.
We are compelled to take sales.--future
is no such thing as neutrality on ques.
tons Of such momentous Importance
Laying aside all personal and minor
differences, we must work together,
hang together and draw together. This
is the dictate of common sense, ofsouud
logic and true policy. The moment we
introduce side issues, home quarrels,
personal and local strifes, that moment
we cripple our strength on every vital
issue.
For ourselves, we believe in party
lines, in party fealty, in party loyalty
One of the signers of the declaration of
independence immortalized this princi-
pie of fidelity, when he said to his COL
leagues:-"We must all hang together,
or we shall all hang separately" Most
forcibly does this illustrate the impor.
lance of union-frm, sacred, indissolu-
BILE union. 1t was for principle that
our forefethers periled their lives, and
shall we not now for principle make the
small sacrifice of personal prejudice.
1t is not in a complaining spirit that
we write, but we desire to encourage
the evidently increasing feeling of union
that seems everywhere to pervade the
ranks of those who would sustain the
present administration, and thus
strengthen and encourage the hands of
our friends at home and abroad; but
more especially at home. And to those
who are hating, we make an earnest
appeal to remember our text-"In I'm.
ION there IS Strength"
We know quite we'll the fact that, if
one man kicks out here and another
there, a general decentralization ensues.
We may have personal objections to
some man or men, but when our adver.
saries can set us such an example of uu-
ion as to drop their prejudice against
one of their life long, bitterest enemies,
and vote for him for the highest Office
in the gift of the American people,
most assuredly is it time for us to drop
all minor differences, and unite in one
grand mass upon all tickets. and upon
all men who are not too positively OBJ
noxious. And, in all such cases, we
should cut those names only, quietly
drawing with the main army. If a