Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1884-07-31
The Letter of Acceptance.
IInter-OCean

lnter-OCean.
We publish elsewhere Mr. Blaine's letter
OF acceptance. 1t appears to us to be the
| ablest, most explicit, influential, and thor
oughly wise document ever addressed to
nominating committee as letter of ac-
ceptance. The history not only of the two
pending political parties, but, in an eco
nomical aspect, of the Nation, Is condensed
in it, Amply as we were satisfied with the
Republican platform to which this is re-
sponse, it must be said that the letter of
acceptance at once embOdies and super
sedes the platform. Upon this letter alone
the campaign can be fought. On this we
rest. Our case is made out.
! The argument it makes for protection,
all the more effective because not put into
the form of argument, stands in relation to
the predictions of Hamilton and Gallatin
in the early days of the Republic as fulfill
ment to prophecy-as demonstration to
hypothesis. Then the great results capa-
BILE of being won from destiny by the
policy of vigorous protection to home in
dustry was believed in, though seen as
through a glass, darkly. Now they are
proudly pointed to because we are face to
face with them.
Mr.. Blaine's letter is not merely lumi-
nous; it is flood of golden sunshine it
is life radiant, health exuberant, hope
triumphant, vigor made self-cOnscious.
Every man who reads it carefully will feel
inspired by it. Every man who is pOliti-
cally sick or infirm and is worthy to re-
cover will find health in it. The calm
splendor of the rising day drives before it
all enemies by the simple power of light.
So, Mr.. Blaines letter comes with the
serene and silent power of sunrise. The
issues it presents had in some degree often
before been presented, but here they are
converted into daylight Other men have
urged the tariff question. Mr.. Blaine is
irresistible without urgency.
Wherever this letter of acceptance shall
be read calumny will make haste to break
its poisoned arrows and sink their frag-
ments in obliviOn's stream. Men who have
not previously felt that they have known
Blaine will now feel that they have con-
versed with him under the shade OF the
great trees of his faraway Maine shore.
We will mar the flowing cadence OF this
letter by selecting extracts. No extract
can be made from deep, clear, billowy
current of thought which in continuity is
| like river, and in breadth and placidity
| is like the sea at rest. Stars glisten in its
depths. Its pulse exalts us with sense OF
kinship to the great round world of human
hearts.
Reading this letter, the mighty state OF
which we form part, the great American
Republic, becomes again instinct with life
like ship when its pilot steps on board,
ready again to move, true to its sure helm,
| out upon a career that is wiser and safer
than to lie and decay in port. With this
hand at the helm the sooner the anchor is
raised the better. Fair winds invite US to
sst the ships PROV seaward. The ship her
self welcomes the hand Of her coming
helmsman. AS many busy hearts and
hands combine to loose her for her four
year voyage under the trusted pilot, all
look forward confidently to the time when
all on board will thrill with equal pride
at the grand manner in which the good
ship will breast every wave in her new
and enlarged career.