Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-06

OF our temperance Ie8lsiatlon, malL'
tanning inviolate our Sunday laws,
and the unqualified execution Of the
wise statutes now in force upon
these questions; by representing
our resources abroad, through
agents if thought advisable, and
certainly through . creditable dis.
play at the coming centennial ex-
hibition; by the encouragement Of
the building of narrow guage, a
cheaper class of railways, which in
time may come to be built with
honest money, and largely owned
by citizens whose interests are al
lied with the people of the State;
by providing for wise system of
savings banks, in which capital
may be aggregated in the interest
of business, and in which the small
savings Of the laborer will be en-
tirely safe and fairly productive;
by encouraging every Legitimate
manufacturing enterprise, Is State
and IS people; by holding persons
who under our laws are intrusted
with public funds to such strict
accountability IS TO utterly annihi-
late the practice Of temporarily
using moneys held in fidsucal ca
pacity; and finally, more than thro'
any other agency, we may promote
the introduction to Iowa Of capital
and enterprise by strict adherence
to our professions Of economy in
public expenditures. A two-mill
tax for State purposes never pre-
vented a dollar in capital from COM
ing to Iowa; but local taxes and To-
cal mismanagement have done SO. l
have been told that a portien Of tho
colony of Russian Mennonites were
greatly pleased with one of our
northwestern counties, and would
have located there had they not
learned of the enormous indebted
ness which the county authorities
had contracted, and which will hang
like a milestone upon every legiti-
mate enterprise of the people for
years to come. Many Of these peo-
pie had wealth, all Of them had
what is better, industrious habits
dnd high moral principles: being
possessed Of such strong religious
and moral sentiments as to volun-
tarily exile themselves from Russia
to avoid the effects of an edict
which was obnoxious to their relig-
ious convictions. THIS colony
was lost to Iowa because our laws
do not protect these counties from
an extravaganza which in some in
stances falls but little, if any, below
criminality.
Senators; Representatives: We
cannot escape the history which We
ourselves will make. We are met
to perform ou. part in tho worlds
political activities at an hour when
the public mind IS moro awake and
the public conscience more active
than ever before in American his
tory. With our daily press, our
swift locomotives, our telegraphs,
and our newspaper reporters, whose
business it IS to inform the world
one day Of all that has been done
the day preceding, the public man
is tried by n severer test than he
was some fifty years ago. Then, if
some unchivalric Senator who had
come on horseback from Ohio to
Washington, turned his horse into
a national park to nip government
grass, the news might not reach his
constituents until his term had ex-
pired. If, therefore, no higher mo-
tive incites to noble effort, the GER
.ainty of exposure and disgrace in
case Of failure should spur US to
our best endeavor. The people to-.
day are reading and thinking; they
demand q more chivalric unselfsh-
ness in the performance Of duty
than heretofore; and therefore he
who has passed unscathed beneath
the ordeal to which he will be sub
jected in this supreme hour Of rigid
reckoning, may be regarded as
gold purified by the refiner's fire.
Nineteen years ago, when the
governor elect was inducted into
Office, in speaking Of the high re-
sponsibilities resting upon the peo-
pie and their official servants, he
said: "To every elector might ap-
propriately be applied the injunc-
ton anciently addressed to the Jew
ish king, BE strong and shew thy
self man." Since that occasion
nearly two decades have been num-
bered with the years Of the past.
The history Of these years marks
the momentous events of the centu-
ry. The political world has felt
the throbbings of new ideas in re-
spect to freedom and equal rights.
Armies have trodden down rebel
lion, broken the manacles, and
erascd-th the prejudices of the past.
Material enterprise has brought the
Atlantic and Pacific into CONNER.
cial embrace. New states have
come into existence. Old states
have been clothed with q new and
better life. And he who spoke
these bravo words was one of the
distinguished actors in giving d.
rection to these mighty achievements
Of the people. Since entered upon
the office you call me now to re-as-
sumo, he has been stricken down by
death and buried in the soil Of the
state he loved so ardently and
served so we'll. But though the
issues which brought out his high
qualities are forever settled, still
now, as through all the years Of
the past, the times require in those
called to official station that exalts-
ton Of character which tlone de.
serves the name of MANHOOD. The
necessity for courage, wisdom and
fidelity has not gone out with the
life Of one whose character was
the type andaexpeasnt Of these ex-
alted Qualities. Aud il in the high
duties to which We are called We
would measure ourselves up to q
worthy pattern, NO better standard
can be found than was illustrated
in the public life Of James w.
Grimes. CYRus G. CARPKNrKR.
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