Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-06
AOyurx 70 A vesxc nAs.

Cato once remarked that that man
approached nearest the gods y ho know
no. 70 be silent even when he il in the
riRnt. IL seeois 10 ms, nv dssr boy.
| tndt this " tns very tina a man il rs,oss
aps 10 be silent. That il the trouble
With the man in the right. He WON'T
speak NJ. he should lift up his voice,
and cry aloud and spare not. The fell
loS In the wrong doesn't keep silent.
he rends the very he aveu with his cIar.-
or. He gets tbs hoor early in the session
and spreads himself over fiftv psees Of
the record before this right msn has mus
tered up sufficient Courage TO get on his
legs and say Hr. Speaker because
the man who is right keeps silent, the
New Jersey legislator steals the -saste
baskets Of this State with impouity. a
Pennsyivania jury justIfies the most in
famous man in tbs land in the most in
famous crimes, dynamite il introduced
In Christian lands as n political srpu
ment. hotel keepers lure the weary tray.
eleFs into IRE traps. railway directors
save enough on cheap bridges to nav
heavy damages for life aad limb and
stiil declare Lrge dividends. children
are burned IN schOolhouses and NOBODY
to blame, steamships with 100 miles Of
clear water to pass in collide in mid.
ocean and the captains get new ships,
aimshosses are robbed by thsir superIn-
tendeats and State treasurers 60 into
otfice poor and come ont rieh and in
siexico, the money changers and they
that sell doves sit in the porches of the
temple, craftsmanship gives place 10 the
politics of the pot house and the Senate
yie.ds TO the ward caucus; and all this
time the man who il in the right keeps
silent. He has no right to keep silent.
II isn't Rodlike in him. Ii ia cowardly,
II Il base, II is treachery to his duty.
You young fellows whose brains are clear
and whose hearts are pure and whose
hands are clean, you are the men to be
heard. And don't be content with speak
ing. my boy. Do something. Think
and speak and vote for what is right.
Don't believe IN every party that faunts
the banner Of reform; mot every one
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into tho Kingdom" Don't look at
the banner; look at the men who carry
IL. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy
voice like trumpet and show the pso-
pie their transgfession, the sin OF the
nation that Is written with pen Of iron
and with the point Of adiamond:" when
w ooO Stns ~icAcouooS ~ tuc iduu, my
boy, you have no right TO keep silent
Scourge them that sell oxen and sheep
and doves, the soullees men whose mea.
the nation a market place, away from its
sacred portals, and rest not from thy
work until thy light shsll break forth
~ tho morning and thine health shall
spring forth speedily" There is 80 much |
IN this world for you to do. my boy, that
your poor old father left undone, 80
muck that We arc too weak OK too COW
ardly to do, that you're not going to have
much time for rest II you accomplish |
even the half Of your mission. There |
isn's mole rascality in the poor old land |
than there is goodness, my boy; but the
trouble seems TO DO that the rascals are !
doing two thirds Of the work and three |
fifthS Of the talkinc