The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-04-18

OF music that any man can conceive oi
that is the kind Of music they have j
heaven. An angel, sitting on the golde
edge Of feecy cloud. playing upon tina
tom, became so enTaptured with he
own music that she dropped il. and tha
is how we got IL, and any man that say
that can be improved upon by putting
back and front TO il. and four strings an,
a bridge. and getting some horse hal
and rosin is no better than the weak AM
unregenerate" What effect would tha
have had upon music2 Would human
ears ever have listened to the divine sym
phonies OF Beethoven And suppose th'
king or priest had said Il bat crooked
stick is the best pillow we can ever hav'
invented. The pattern OF that plough
was given to a pious farmer in a holy
dream. and that twisted share is the a,
Plus ultra Of all twisted things; and any
man who says he can make an improve
ment, we will twist him" [Applause.
\ What, in your judgment, would have
been the effect upon the agricultural
world 2 In the olden times OF which
have spoken. they said: 1--WE can make
all men think alike All the me-
chanical ingenuity of the earth cannot
make two clocks run alike. and how are
you going to make millions of people.
clad in this robe of passionate flesh how
are you going TO make millions of them
think alike2 If the Infinite God, IL there
is one, who made US, wished us to think
alike, why did He give a spoonful OF
brains to one man. and a bushel to an
other say our fathers concluded that
they would do this by force. ! saw these
iron arguments our fathers used to use.
| saw there the thumb-screw--two limo
cent-looking pieces of iron, armed on the
inner surface with protuberances to keep
them from slipping-and when some
man denied the efficacy of baptism, or
may be, said: II do not believe that the
whale every swallowed a man to keep
him from drowning" then they put these
pieces of iron on his thumbs. and there
was a screw at each end. and. in the name
OF love and forgiveness. they began screw.
ing these pieces OF iron together.
great many men when they commenced
would say, II recanL" | expect / would
have been one of them. ] would have
said, Now you just stop that; / will ad-
init anything that you want. ! will adj
init that there is one God or a million.
one hell or a billion suit yourselves. but
stop that" Laughter But want TO
say. the thumb screw having got out of
the way, ] am going to have my say.
There was now and then some man
who wouldn't turn Judas lscariot to his
own soul; there was now and then a man
willing to die for his conviction and IL it
were not for such men we would be sava-
ges to night. Ii il had not been for a
lew brave, heroic souls in every age we
would have been naked savagcs this mo
ment. with pictures of wild beasts tat
tooed upon our naked breasts, and dane |
ing around a dried snake fetish and I. |
TO night, thank every good and noble |
man who stood up in the face OF opposi |
tion, and hatred, and death. for what he |
believed TO be right. Sometimes when |
get to reading about these horrors, it |
seems to me i have suffered all these tor |
lures myself, as though had stood upon |
the shore Of exile. and gazed with tear |
filled eyes toward home and native land; /
as though my nails had been torn from |
my hands, and into the bleeding quic>. |
sharp needles had been thrust; as though /
my ieet had been crushed in iron boots /
As though had been chained in the cells |
Of the Inquisition-had watched and |
waited in the interminable darkness TO /
hear the word OF release; as though had |
been taken from my treside, from my 4
wife and children, and brought to the /
public square, chains aud fagots had been 1
piled around me; as though the flames 4
lad played around my limbs and scnrch- 4
ed the sight from my eyes; as though my 4
lshes had been scattered to the iour \
Winds by the hands OF hatred; as though 1
had stood upon the scaffold and felt the /
,littering axe tall upon me. And, while
see and feel all this | swear that while
live. | will do what little / can to aug.
nent the liberty Of man, woman, and
,hild When ! think how much this
world has suffered, | am amazed, when
hink of how long a time our fathers
we're slaves, / am amazed Why, only
ust think of il. This world has only
been fit Tor a gentleman to live in il fifty
Tears. Laughter Ii was not until
sos that Great Britain abolished the
lave trade Up to that time her judges
lifting upon the bench in the name Of
ustiee. her priests occupying the pulpits
n the name OF universal love, owned
lock in slave ships and luxuriated in the
profits OF piracy and murder lt was not
until 1905 that the United States abolish.
ID the slave trade between this and other
but preserved il as between the
States. IL was not until the 2Sth OF Au.
gust, 1888. that Great Britain abolished
he slave trade in her colonies; and il
vas not until January !. 1868. that Abra.
nam Lincoln wiped from our flag the
Zig "a OF disgrace. Abraham Lincoln, in
ny Judgment, was the grandest man
,ver made President of the United States!
Applause Think how long we clung
o the institution OF human slavery; how
ong the lashes upon the naked back
we're legal tender for labor performed
l.. - - q 4 Al III a I Z
light when | say this world has only been
il for gentleman TO live in fifty years
hate, with every drop Of my blood, ev.
ny form of tyranny. / hate every form
,i slavery, hate dictatiou-I want some
hing like liberty and what do | mean
ly that2 The right to do anything that
loes not interfere with the happiness OF
another physically. Liberty OF thought
includes the right to think right and the
light to think wrong Why Because
hat Is the means by which we arrive AT
The truth tor. II we know the truth be-
Ore we needn't think. Now, ii men
have been slaves, what about women p
Women have been the slaves of slaves;
and that is a pretty hard position and, in |
my Judgment, it took millions OF ages for 4
woman to come from the condition OF 4
abject slavery up to the institution OF 4
Let me say right here that ! I
regard marriage AS the holiest institution /
among men. Without the family rela- l
tion there is no life worth living Every l
good government is made up Of good I
families. The unit Of government is the /
family. and anything that tends to de 4
stroy the family is perfectly devilish and |
infamous. The grnndest ambition any I.
man can have Is TO so live as to be worthy
the love OF some magnificent woman. and
the grandest ambition auy gIri can have
is to be worthy the love of some splendid
man. Merry every religion in the world
has accounted for all the crime in the
world by laying 1t on women. What a
gallant thing thatis And il il Is true,