The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-21

of which every disaster comes, people
learn better to meet those that follow.
and as in the history OF nature, SO IN
that of country, there is an lncessant
advance from less to more, from rude
to final organizations. The lower
kinds are one after another extln-
guished, the higher forms go on.
Our institutions, of which the town
meeting is the unit, are all education
al. The town meeting, after the high
school. is higher school; the legisla-
ture, to which every good farmer goes
once on trial, is superior academy
for this country of poor men. Here
is practical democracy. Here is the
human race doing justice to itself,
working in it's shirt sleeves and not
grimacing like poor rich men in cities.
1t is all through the country, for al
though we see wealth in capitals,
there is a only sprinkling of rich
men. The bulk Of the population is
poor, but it is rare thing to find a
born American that cannot read and
write. The facility with which
clubs are formed by young men for
discussing political, social and intel
lectual questions shows itself in the
resultant freedom of opinion.
THE PEOPLE TAKE AN INTELLIGENT
INTEREST IN GOVERNMENT.
Congress is standing insurrection,
and escapes the violence of accumula-
ted grievances. Just as the globe
keeps it's identity by perpetual change,
so our civil system by perpetual ap-
peal to the people preserves its life.
The people all over the country shrek
their EXPLANATIONS against the short
cOmings of the government. And
this fact that we are a nation OF lndi-
viduals, that we have highly intel
lectual organization, that we can see
and feel moral distinctions. and have
such organizations that moral laws
and forces must be heard and felt. all
these things are our hope. But our
people act for the moment and on ex-
ternal impulse. They follow success,
and not skill. Therefore as soon as
the success stops, and an admirable
man blunders, already they remember
that long ago they suspected his
judgement, and transfer their conf
who has not yet Numbered.
THE FLOWER OF CIVILIZATION
is the finished man, the man of sense,
Of accomplishment, of social power
gentleman. 1t is certain that
our civilization is not yet complete.
1t is not question whether there
shall be multitude of people here;
chat is settled; but shall we be the new
nation, the guide and law-giver of all
nations, as having clearly chosen and
firmly held the simplest and best rule
of society.
TO BUY AND IMPORT MUCH FROM
ENGLAND
and Europe does not make us better
men. Every town has it's cottages,
its fashions. its church from Eng
land. America is provincial. 1t is an
immense Halifax. Our politics
threaten England. and her manners
threaten us. Our tendency is to make
men all alike and extinguish the indi-
vidual. The builders of London give
you your houses. and the Bishop of
London your faith. Thus we find that
often the passion for Europe casts out
the passion for America. Those who
have maintained in London and Paris
their own houses can we'll be spared
to return to those cities. can only
see room for more genius than we
have here. but for more than we
have in the world. The new times
need the new men,-the complement
al man. whom plainly this country
must bring forth. Morality is the
object of government. We want a
state of things in which crime will not
pay: state of things which allows
every man the largest liberty COM
patible with the liberty of every 9TH
Ell man. hope America will come to
have its pride in being
NATION OF SERVANTS. NOT 4 Ma
TIoN OF SERVED;
where every man can say, Il serve.
I apply my faculty to the whole ex-
tent of my power to the service of
mankind in my especial place. He
thereby shows a reason for being in
the world. and that he is nota mere
incumbranee. (Applause.) But the
helm is given to a better guidance
than our own. and seeing how that
guidance has rested on,this MON thus
far have good confidence for the fu-
ture. | feel that in all directions the
light is breaking: that trade and gov
eminent will not lose by the over
throw of the enemies of mankind.
that the useful and the elegant arts
will be exercised within us as a na-
tion:t hat the reason, the nobiest af-
fections and the purest religion will
find their abiding home in our insti-
tutions. Earnest applause.l