The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-10
WORKING BOY FOR PRESIDENT.

hold ali forms of government in sub
lime contempt except the Republican
form of government. [Applause.] 1
utterly detest every system OF government
that is not founded on the legally ex-
pressed will of the people. (Applause.)
l look upon kings and princes and no.
blemen as
MEN IN THE LIVERY OF LARCENY,
wearing the insignia of robbery. I am
live in a civilized country. When speak
of country confinc myself to the north
ern and western states of this great re-
public. (Applause) This is, in my
opinion, the best government in the
world, simply because it gives the best
chances to every human being. 1t is the
best country simply because there is
more liberty here than there is any where
else; simply because life, liberty and
property are better secured in the north
ern and western states of this union than
in any portion of the habitable globe. l
love this country because it gives to the
lowest an equal opportunity. with the
greatest. The avenues of distinction are
open TO all.
We have done remarkably well, con-
sidering what we have had TO do with.
We have taken the failures of other
countries; we have taken the men who
could not succeed IN England; we have
the men who have been robbed and
tramplcd upon-we have taken them in
to this country, and the second genera
ton are superior TO the nobility of the
country from which their fathers emf
grated. ICheersl We have taken the
Irishman, robbed; we have taken the
| foreigner from the alm-hOuse, and we
have turned their rags into robes; we
have transformed their novels and huts
into palaces; out of the paupers we have
made patriotic, splendid men.
That is what we have done In this
| country. We have given TO everybody
| in the Union, in the states to which
have referred, equal opportunities to at
| tain distinction. That is the reason
like this country. / like this country
because the honest and industrious man
| is nobleman. like it because a man,
no matter how poor he may be, whether
| a merchant or clerk, can go home at
night,
TAKE HIS Tow-HEADED BOY
| on his knee and say TO him: John, the
public schools and every avenue of dis
| tinction are open to you. Your father
may be ignorant; he may not be good al
| figures but you may rise to the largest
office within the gift of civilized peo
pie" Applause and cheers.) We DOM
know how good this country is. Do you
| know that we have more to eat here
than any other nation on the globe
And that is quite an item. daughter,
We have better clothes, and they come
nearer fitting US. (Applause.) There il
more general information among oul
people, and it is better distributed, than
in any other country. But really
THE GREATEST THING ABOUT OUR CoUN'
is that there is no country where women
and children are treated as well as they
are in the United States. (Cheers) Lee
me tell you why: In other countries
the family is patterned after the fern o
government. In countries where ther;
Is q monarch; in countries where is /
despot at the head of the government
the head of the family is despot- Her,
in this country our families are RepublI
has 3 vote. (Cheers.) There are fev
of the reasons / like this country.
like it because it gave me chance. ZAP
plause.l / like it because a man in tn
lower walks OF life can have chance
like it because q boy who has
WORKED ON a CANAL,
| q boy who has driven mule on the tow
path, a boy who has cut wood at twenty
i've cents cord like because such
boy is going to be the next president o
the United States. fApplause. Wha
a magnificent complement they pay {
! our system of government; what spleT
did complement they pay to the goo
heart of our people, by making promiT
ent in this canvass the fact that the DO
was Door, and that the boy was compe
! | led TO work What in other countrie
; would be mark of disgrace, in thi
: country is TRANSPORTED into the wing c
, honor and of fame. (Applause) Nov
: as have said, this is good cOuntr,
hut there are perils against which "
, must carefully guard. As told you
4 the first place, you have got to fight fC
!. everything that is good, and the work
Q never done. There are always some VIII
r fall in the rear In the clearest wate
!. there will be settings; and just so il
in politics.
There are certain
PERIIs THAT MENACE THE GoyERMEN1
]. and let us be honest about t. / tell 20
Z tonight that have no fs8Sors to ask
any political parties in this world. II
first peril, in my judgment, is the do
!. trine of state rights. 1t is appealed
!: now in order tina: the southern stat
: may
= DENY TO THE BLACK PEOPLE THE
Z RIGHTS.
:. By this Won will see that the doctrine
Z state rights has never been appealed
9 in the history of this country exec
- when somebody wanted TO ste1i SON
thing from somebody IApplanse-I
detest the doctrine ] abhor it in eve
of drop of my blood This is coniede'
Df CIV: this q nation. I have the same rig
q 70 speak here in Massachusetts that
Il have in Illinois, not because the nag
q Maeezehslzafaa flr,a4s over me-becauss