News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-11-08

be brought to the hilt; it could be
placed in 4 scabbard in the shape OF
cOrk-screw, and, in fact, twisted
and bent almost any way, very much
like 4 member of the Vermont Legis-
lature.
After spending some time in citing
instances where former century's eX-
cell the present, the speaker returned
to the nineteenth and said For all
King Solomon had his twelve golden
chariots and hundreds of horses, he
never rode so miles in palace car in
one hour; although King David pos
sessed an innumerable amount of gold
he wasn't able to send a telegraph
message to his subjects five miles dis
tant. We have built railroad from
Halifax, across the continent to Cali
fornia. That is worth ten thousand
times more than all the pyramids any
number of Egyptian slaves could make.
Take all the seven wonders of the
world of which we read in history and
they are not worth half one of our
modern invention, and yet men sigh
for the good old times
Mr.. Tewksbury then mentioned the
''seven wonders of the world" and
then placed by the side of them the
.'scven wonders of the nineteenth
century," as called by him. The first
being the locomotive engine, the sec
ond the discovery of anesthetics,
ether and chloroform, as used in sur
gical operations, third, the sewing
machine, fourth, paper making, fifth,
the telephone, sixth, the electric light,
seventh, the rotary printing press.
Il tell you, my friends, the nineteenth
century is the best, the brightest and
the grandeSt ever known. 1t is the
era toward which Kings and prophets
little account, for there are fifty mill
ions more, but each one is bound to
do his part to guard the grand coun-
Try in which we live. There are sew
cral things, however, that our country
should be heartily ashamed Of. One
is the illiteraCy of thousands Of its
people. In thirty-four States not
half of the children are connected
with the public schools. Also the de-
plorable illiteracy of the nineteenth
century. This must not be allowed
to increase, for if it is, this country,
our own free Union, may go down in
blind ignorance. Another matter is
the gambling in the cOuntry's pro-
ducts, the monopolizing of our pro-
duce exchanges, which makes our
bread stutfs 50 dear. Surely there are
giants in these times, and their dens
are in the Chicago grain markets.
Statistics show that the death rate in
creases where bread stutf5 60 up.
Our coin says Liberty" II is lie.
We are subject to these gangs of
gamblers and monOpOlists and here
we are held. The greatest damage IN
this country at the present day IS
not from the poorer classes, but from
the immensely rich. Business should be
encouraged, but there are some kinds
of business which must be stopped,
one being the monOpolizing
of the lands in the south and west by
a class who have gotten their gains BY
riding rough shod over the people.
There is nothing more astounding in
history than the fiocking Of enigrants
to our shores. Ever since our birth
our doors have been open. They
have come to these western shores
for freedom and happiness. Here
and now every voter is a Monarch,
and septred. Here and now
every freside is republic. We do
not know but this grand country with
IS prospects of two million people in
he future, may go down, but it will
De because mems passions are strong
II than their brains. Content we
must not be, for we owe to the future
~NA.NS lss>sU N,>>es N~-,-- g. NcNN<
to the thirtv-tNvo points of the com
pass and you see no country so grand
and free as ours. The peace and hap
piness now enjoyed by US was won by
the measured lances on the southern
battlefield, and every man that stands
beneath the grand old flag is free
Thank God and the fathers OF the
republic for it.