Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-08-15
TO THE RESCUED

objects are crying out to ihe.people, to our
homes, and to you and me, in voices that
ought to reach our ears-"To the Rescue |"
Look where we may, and turn our ears
10 whatever quarter, there comes to us
urgent appeals for action and effort.
Never in the history of time, were we
living for 20 much and where so much
was expected of us.
Fifty millions of people, with hun
dred times as many wants, are demand.
irg our service, and depending upon it..
Great issues are at stake, which will not
be laid on the table for future censldera-
tion, and which are TO perish in the vortex
OF human affairs, or become successful 10
bless or curse humanity according as we
net upon them, or refuse TO act at all,
which in some cases is more serious than
TO move in the wrong direction.
We are living in an age when we are
always at a crisis which is not true OF all
ages; when every blow counts for hun
dred, and effects thousand Others, and
thousand times as many people; when
man depends upon man more directly in
all that affects his life Tor veal or woe,
than upon bare nature, or individual sell I
as In former times, when every meal of
victuals may bring before us the combined
toll OF genius, OF art, OF honesty, of ro-
query in adulleiation from every civilized
land under the sun.
When the sun may be made to shine
with lustre OF golden hue, as it is reflect
ed from the mirror OF our homes, or onr
social and political life, or with the dull
tint OF century ago. When every man
may be made as prosperous as king, and
every woman queen, or toll in the dus
OF poverty. When our land may become
more rich in resources for The seekers
after wealth, and moral and intellectual
requirements, or suffer stagnaiion in bus
iness like the present. and four fold worse
All OF which is affected and determined
by the way we cast the die, and determine
each and every issue that comes 10 us
Yes, each individual has The determinin.
power in his own hand, when he has th
power to vote them up or down, whicl
way these shall be.
THIS Individual ability, and determine
ing POWER which every American citize
possesses needs to be pressed home TO ever
one so that he will feel that he has III
oars in his own hand, and il one of th
telling factors in shaping every phase G
life.
This being so. we SHOULD look we'll, bu
not indiaerently, as too many of us do I
church and state affairs, which way w
push the boat, and rally TO the rescue.
4on dcei mine by your vote which wa,
the ship OF state shall sail, either towar
prohibition, or hard or prosperous times.
To he sure this political issue which
upon ns, is but one among the many as i'm
porlant, and voting is only one oil the way
we may rally to the rescue. Eut like a
other cases where public trusts, and shap
ing power OF all phases of on,
life is placed in the hand of the indi
vdual, il is too much sighted, and shifle
on 10 some one else.
And ii whiskey curses our land, an
hard times stares us in The face, we cry on
against the officers, or the party in power
when we ought TO besiir ourselves and res
cue the wrong and press the victory to on
own gate,
Less OF finding fault with the party, an,
more OF individual effort nn. responsible.
ity. Vote riaht, and the affairs of stat
VIII In The main 20 right. Vote wron
and everything is wrong. This every ma,
ought TO feel 10 the quick. But because
he does not, he is so Indifferent as TO. il
many cases. sell his vote for money OF
prejudice, or to n party spirit which is be-
hind ana Indifferent 10 The right.
Men are coming ont of party rnts, IN
church and state, and voting more from
an individual standpoint, which is hope
ful indication of our times, and is rescuin.
right from might, in politics, which i
needed before we will be rid OF our evil.
and civil service reforms triumph.
There are one hund, ed thousand officers
In the u. s., the disposal of which depend,
on your vote, and not only change OF
administration, but il involves ali the
hlunders and risks of incompetent appoiat.
menir, growing out of such n clange-men
nnfit Tor the positions, which is likely to he
The case among SO many appointments.
shall change take place, and run all the
RISK involved in it?
Each voter has the power TO determine
to the extent OF one.
| We are The only people who are sover-
eIgns and do not know il, or Mt least seem
To forget IL. The officers we elect are only
agents employed to do certain work, to
carry out celtain principles which IRE
generally embodied in the party platform
facts which make il necessary 10 enquire
first, what are the principles proicssed, and
second, are the men nominated likely to
carry out these principles?
The charge sometimes heard inserted
mo matter about the man, If the princi
pies are right" and ils opposite. "No mai
ter abont the principles II the men are all
right" Ia not sound politics. We must
examine both the principles, and the men,
and then determine onr duty toward them.
Many do not do this thoroughly
enough, but depend too much OH newspa-
pers, and demngogue mud throwing,
which is carried 10 shameful extent IN
Amerlcsn. .p1liics-so that II il fasl, ional,le
to lie, and slander and misrepresent both
The principles and The man. We need TO
rally TO the rescue of This abuse. No man
can vote right, educated under knch n sys-
TEN, unless he discriminate more closely
than the average voter il likely TO.
| The British .ry, "God Save the Queen n
We need to cry, "God Save the Vote n
In j. ia power equal to The Queens, and
on II, we ride 10 prosperity or adversely.
WINTER Mix.