The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-31

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ourselves, this hour lave It's Injunction.
Let no man feel, rs he turns from this
memorial meeting and goes back 10 his
daily living. that he can safely or Justly
neglect the personal performance Of bis in
dividual political duty. Let no man feel
that he can absent himself from caucus aud
convention, and then, when bad men have
foisled their tools upon his political parry,
cast his individual responsibility upon that
party and blindly follow its | aders and
support its candidates. Let no man feel
that he can stay away from the polls and
he guiltless IL bad men wrigele their way
into places of power and trust.
If there be truth 10 the oh 4rge, so freely
made, that partisae morality Is low In both
the great ORGANIZATIONS of our day then the
fault is yours and mine. Ours Is The shame,
for ours has been and il the power to cure
such wrong. If lingering paralysis sill
deadeus our industries aud checks our re-
viving trade and commerce, then with US,
the people, rests large share of blame, for
we have not insisted ths, lin national at.
fairs the same laws of common Honesty
should prevail that rule Ia our daily deal
ings between man and man
II our methods of the public civil service
still continue TO he helps to partisan control
rather than means for the prompt, ecouom-
ical and efficient performance of public
duty, it is simply and mainly because We,
the people, have either deliberately prefer
red that this should be SO, or have inno-
lently neglected practical efforts towards
establishing the civil service upon the ordl-
may business principles and usages of the
factory and the counting room. Whenever
We, the people, pledge our candidates fer
.,x1 sl.a. A. til l.
recommend appointments, and whenever
we, the people, ourselves cease to torment
our representatives and senators to secure
positions for us, they will naturally absn-
don any anxious attempts to control off,
crl patronage But so long as we, the
people, insist upon being rewarded by polit-
ical place for our political sersic ice, fear
that we shall not change the sy-'em which
we ourselves practically insist upon perpe
tuatnG. Trees usually grow from the roots
up; and not from the top downward.
Any failure TO have good government
under our system is as much our fault as
that of our rulers. Nay, it is mainly our
fault. For with us lies the fiu4l power.
When we deliberately resolve, they must
either execute our purpose, or give place
to such as will.
This is the lesson | would press home
this day upon each brain and conscience
the personal performance by each citizen
of his individual duty to the stats.
We stand in the centennial time of the
republic. The good deeds, the brave deeds
of many true men have made thi- year pos
sioe. Broad and full harvest g. lbs lie be-
fore us. Are we wise enough, faithful
enough. unselfish enough TO cross the river
and enter the promised land
TO us, to ALL these dead speak as living
man may not. Let us heed their teaching.
Let US here and now. as at affairs of sscri-
fee, dedicate ourselves anew to the duties
Of our citizenship. Thus .hall we turn
back TO our daily living better, more
hopeful, more resolue because we havo
been here TO scatter these flowers upon the
graves where our comrades sleep.