The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-05-11

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Senator Bayard, Of Delaware. in re-
spOnss, after paying a compliment "a
the city Of Chicago and 70 the company
assembled, and summarizing the great
ness Of the nation and i,s rsaourpss IL
eloquent stratus, seid
standing thus upon the highlands ol
vision and realizing The material forces
placed In onr care, how important, how
digniied, become the duties of each
American citizen how vast the inter.
es.S committed ! TO his charge, Cor We can.
not disguise the presence nor lesnan the
weigh. upon che members OF this DEM
ocratic Republic Of individual ~ we'll 81
collective responsibilities TO administer
we'll aud wisely the affairs Of no grand
an Empire, - vAat body Of human in-
terests and souls. Our country is the
spirit Of justice and liberty fading ex-
preston under equal laws, for the pres
ervation OF which the written Constitn.
tion Of onr Union was ordained and the
free institutions Of our government
founded. Left free and unfettered 70
proclaim and exert tbetoselses the In
telligence and faculties OF mankind have
vindicated by their results in this coun.
try the wisdom OF non.intcI ference by
the Government, either to assist or OBJ
struct the exercise Of Individual effort
and faculty under tie regulation of
equal laws in just such mode and di-
rection as the possession Of conscious
powers and inclination by the indiyid-
ual should instruct. Hence we have
seen ia Amsl lea the children Of adver.-
ity and poverty growing strong in their
contests with circumstances which else-
Shere would have proved an insupera.
sle bar, but under the equity Of our
Amesiean system, become guides and
instructors to success IA test for grow.
ing abilities and encoura genisnts TO
high and honorable aspirations. The
enduring greatness II our country il
founded upon what i really elevated
and great in the minds aud hearts Of
our people. LIST us never fIrgst tbsa
We have embarked our hopes upon trust
and net upon diatrust ia human nature
upon what It contains Of Strsngth and
wsrth, and not uppn i.s weakness and
doprasily upon the beli,f that the in.
stinet OF self-preservAtion left free u
recoil from natural and necessary error,
and mistakes viii not repeat them, and
that with free and recurT-nt opportnni.
ties for popular elections misconduct in
rnlers and mistakes in public poll
CT = can and viii bs corrected AMI rem
sdiel nndsr peaceful, orderly, and ef'
fvctiye forms Of law. And can We b.
mistaken in the present indications, ss
manifest and abundant, that we ~,
soon to be witnesses in the election o.
1884 Of a splendid and potential proc
Of The popular wisdom and power 70 re.
dress grievances, 10 reform unwise poll
cies, 20 rsbuke corruption aud purify
anil strengthen popular institutions b,
driving out of the temple Of our liber.
ties mercenary and machine politician
who have betrayed the popular trus
and disgraced and degraded the admin,
istration Of our Government 7 Gentle
men, the era which inclu les our life
time is one of remarkable, almost in
credible, combinations. The results O
invention in the production Of mAteria
wealth and the rapid and Gaoile distri
button Of that wealth bring the Who'll
world into such close and intimate reIa
tions that all the former conditions o
human intercourse are changed an,
problems bewildering in uumber AM
Importance arc presented TO our view
Time and space are no longer obstruc
tions to tie worlds intsrcoarse. Th
telephone bas already brought the lip
Of New York close against the ear q
Chicago, and to girdle the earth in fort
minutes wonld be an unpardonabl
waste Of time. Never In human histor
was the creation OF material wealth y
easy and so maryeloasly abundant, it
consolidation under the forms of incer
p0ration creating vast units of powe
which result in monopolies and absor
and withdraw ;ndisidual and independ
ent riyalriss. Herein are dangers
will bshooye US to greatly eontemplat
and consider what forces shall be sun
moned TO counteract them. The gres
question which attends this creation ,
J wealth is. what will you do with II
Are we to be content with making In
land Of ours one great wealth factory
:, Is that to be all and end all Are v
to travel over the same lowlands Of lu
Il
nn..IInry, effeminacy, corruption and deca
: as the nations and governments tb
!. have risen and fallen before Us on Il
I plains Of history .Oa what do v
build and for what do We build Wa
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