New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-23


those which are dearest to their children. -,
New-Engand has a harsh climate q barren SOIL .
rough and stormy cOastand yet we love and WIN
passing that OF the jewellers In favored regions.
Nature niggard material gifts las there been aracous
love the Puritan land for grand and tender beau
ties OF mountain and valley and OF Its rugged Gins with
the measureess mrmnring at their foot Beyond
all aud above all love New-Engand for what Is there
enshrned the OF her honoed dead the hallowed
spots whore great deeds wrought; the memory or
the who their labors and their lives to the SER
Vice OF their country and mankind. Continued Ap-
clause.
INDEPENDENCE, A PURITAN CHARACTERISTIC.
The independent spirit OF New England That is q
chief characteristic OF the Purtans laugher and the
day celebrate marks the beginning of the long strg-
gle for independence OF foreign control and foreign in
uence. The cornerstone laid In period OF intense
religious erment and bore the marks Of its origin. Pill
grim and Puritan alike sought freedom to worship God;
freedom for themselves to worship God In their own
fashion, In the new world, but not at all freedom OF wor-
ship for any who CHANGED that way with different
opinions as to creeds and tcncts tLaughter Independ
generous breadth and just lberaiy OF opinion;
at least 1t was not IN the seventeenth century
The Puritan set up his independent church and then
made every come no 1t pain OF death or Danish
ment. punshments which he inflicted upon all recalc-
whatever may think OF his methods, he achieved his
religious Independence and his church was his own
aud not that OF some one else across the water
Applause. That same Puritan spirit 0f hostility 10
foreign control has travelled and fast since then
I'm the battle OF tho civil which destroyed our
morO sonsiby TO- foreign opinion anu LETT u.s.
"SofsChOOid, soi.scannd SefhODOrd, sell secure
Yet after ALL there Is still work for the Puritan splrts
IL Is not altogether our own church. even now IN the
world Of ideas in art literature and certain elements
OF our society. Who has not heard the dctnm that In
this country nature does not lend itselt to art Have
we not then the gories of morning and evening, the
mists dawn the radiance or the Infinite beauties
OF sea aud sky OF ryerand mountain When nature does
not lend tclr to art It ia because there is no arg able to
borrow lChecrs Lot the right men come III the right
spirit and th.y Will have no trouble with kindly
nature. Laughter
LITERATURE FREE FROM FOREIGN IDEA.
Thanks to the ever-incrcaslng number OF goodly
workers the spirit OF dependence foreign ideas Is
fast disappearing from literature. But yet took up
Anglo American or international" volume the
other day and the burden Of the first few seemed
to he that Que could not sketch Fifty street
tho"snt Yet after '% all who wants to sketch
Fny third street We know, It Is, not as pic
also know these Things but trappings In tera-
ture. The conditions OF French or English HE are not
and Ia accepting the right spirit our own conditions
aud 1t will Ind. indeed has found the best nspr,
ton at the true source ever old and new the we'll
spring Of human passion aud human emotion. Long
Most of all we need tho Puritan spirit In certain elc
monts OF society. rho number OF mon To whom i-
heritcd fortune brings education, and command OF
themselves ly OF their opportunities. or are they Too
apt To pass their days In vain search Tor Distractions
aud u nournfu regret that this country Is not some
very worst country In the world for an dler Applause
But To tho man with health. wealth, education and
unlimited command OF time TO the man Who owes
to his country here are better opportunities
and higher duties than anywhere else am not gons
to make the familiar plea that young men OF education
aud wealth ought to perform their obvious duties as eitl
There has been plenty OF sound argument anu
good advice offered on that score ana the propositoh
well understood.
THE CLASS OF MEN NEEDED IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
this is not all In this question there lie deeper
meanings There is very real danger that the growth
wealth here may end by producing class, and thence
class feeling thing deadly noxous and utterly wrong
in this country. II lies with the men OF whom have
spoken srangle this serpent at its birth They can
do this, however. unless they are IN full sympathy
with American people and with American Ideas, ana
to this sympathy they never attain by living In
Europe.by foreign iniuencesby haunting well apl onted
clubs by studying public affairs In the columns oi
a Saturday Reyiew-home-ma or lll Orteh lney must
go TO work Applause ds , ana S Othsrs
cannot spare. There Is great field In politics. BeiOro
they enter N lethem take TO not only the Ia,
lighting qualities his logged perssence and another at
good nature. Laughter They will need all these
weapons for 1t Is no primrose path ihey must DO pre-
and serious pref ndce they must mind defeats and
hard work. II their OF duty differs from tna
be surprised II OF those very friends mete OUT To
them the hirshest measure and deal them tho sarpest
But II they hold fast 10 two principles care not under
what party banner they serve, II they VIII foariessy
do what In their own eyes aud In their own eir"uh.
stances Is right aud brave ANA hohorhoo II ING ,nn
hands, with al their might they Will win the best sue
They Will win the regard ana confidence OF hrsc
strons hands and active brains tho republic is being
ever raised higher and this regard aud confidence are
can can ever hope have Let such men then 20 Into
politics because they can glvo their time ami energy TO
IT, they can do work worth dong ana above All
because they will thus become trlicr and better Apeii
cans Applause
FAITH or THE PURiTANs IN THEIR CAUSE
Ibelieye Mr.. President. that coming very close
to what Ia called Americanism, but OF Americanism Of
the right sort cannot I'm this day aud generation
have too much. Nero vaporlng and Boosting become
n nation "A little IA man. But honest, outspokcn
pride and faith In country are infinitely better and
moro respected than the cultivated reserve whlch
acts IL down brod and In bad taste ever to refer To
our country except by way OF depreciation. criticism or
world because they believed most fervcntly In their
cause their country and themselves Long continued
this sort nothing worth doing is ever done.
We have right 10 be proud OF our vast material sue
cess our National power and dignity our advancing CIV
ilizatlon carrying freedom and education IN is train
Most OF all may be proud OF the magnahmlty nls,
nlayed by the American people at the close OF the civil
Wnr "A noble generosity unparalleled I'm the history OF
nations But count our wealth and tell our hunters
n"eies enough We have right to do 1t only when we
listen to the solemn undertone which brings tne mes
SAGE OF great responsibilities. KesponSlbHltles lar
greater than the ordinary political and financial ISSUES
whrh sre to find sooner or later rgnt se'tenlem,
and the future for the American people Inc race ior
wealth has opened broad gap between rcn anu pour.
Thee are thousands your gates tOllng rom sunrise
to sun act To keep body and soul together AMI cue siE
gle is hard and bitter one The ide the worthless tue
criminal
m, re- ia vast body honest God fearing working mon
aud Women whose yoke is not easy and whose burden
IA far from light
IMPORTANCE nr THE WORKING CLASSES.
Tho dcstlnv of tho Republic Ia In the welfare OF s
wurkins mon and women We cannot push their troubles
and cares Into tho background AMI trust that all VIII
como right In the end lot ~ look to It that differences
and INEQUALITIES OF condition do not widen ino rum "
IA mast true that these differences cannot he crioach
hut hcy can he modified aud great deal can he Ione ="
.nrirn to every man tho share o vel lrlhk ahu nv
utnr,. n which hit honesty, thrir ani hllF rhutle
HIM instalAtinn oannu, change humanity or AFTER tho
aeciecN ol NATURE but can help tho solution q" 'eA"
grave prrrlcms- ,.,,s Il, .......,,, ,,. hanna ,s
inhnri emigration irm our oNcivtnwdcd oltles ~ w"
land. of tho Moati economical ana chrisrur huhV'p"'
ZION of adueralion IN the grcat staples ot huli wise