The Portland daily press., 1885-07-01
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whole world and can only be settled on the
principles of democracy. Everybody has
got to be heard and will be heard, from the
poorest laborer to the richest capitalist 1t
VIII not be settled by demagoguery, by money
power, by riches or by ignorance. 1t will
get settled by the intelligence which all ae-
quire in the fight. The location of great
many rocks are found by running against
them For example, when strikes began all
the then intelligence of the world pointed
out the exceeding folly of the same. Today
the fact that men can combine and do COM
bine has taught capitalists that reductions of
wages must be justifiable or will be danger
Gus. On the other hand the knowledge
gained in strikes has taught workmen that
wages depend on something besides the will
OF either workman or capitalist Each
knows the other the better for the contest.
The nearer men are to knowing alike the
nearer they are to thinking alike. If any
one knew today the panacea for all these
troubles between labor and capital there
would be two other things needed: First,
that the workingmen should know it, and
Deheve In 1t, and second that the capitalists
should do the same. That the problem will
be worked out successfully and for the good
OF all IS no less certain than the tides of the
sea. 1t may be that it will come in the dis
solution Of old institutions now loved and
honored for it has happened many times in
human history that the worst obstacles of
future progress were the monuments of past
progress.
In what has been said am well aware that
the doctrine of democracy, of the rule of all
the race in both government and knowledge
mas only been Illustrated in most desultory
way. To illustrate it fully would not be an
Grafton, but volumes. Let me present one
view OF it as whole and then take leave of
you. rake man as you find him in the
earnest history. In every thing but one he
was the inferior of the very brutes that per
lsh. The stroke of lions paw Drained the
stoutest One crunch of the tigers jaws and
the man was man no more. A hundred
animals could outrun him and hundred
more Outright him. He acknowledged the
superiority of brutes. He took them for ex-
amples. Brave as a lion is proud een11enda-
ton even to-day, when we know that the king
of beasts has-grsat sense about running away.
iIeeaed shelter more than they all. To
nm most OF all the elements were pitiless.
his offspring IN long infancy was the most
helpless OF Gods creation. He built his huts
In lakes to keep from him the bowling wilder
ness he had thousand terrors to brighten
him OF which the beasts knew nothing. If
ne walked the forests all the strange sounds
came to him as from deities mostly malgn-
ant his mind could not grasp the one
great spirit peryading all nature and all life.
He knew only little gods and little devils
peopllng the earth and air. Because there
We're no roadways a tribe of such creatures
might be starving while a hundred miles off
another might be rioting in plenty
Indeed to witness that sight You would
not have to go far back of Queen
Elizabeth in Christian England. Even
those to whom better things were re-
Vealed long ages afterwards had strange
warnings for groves and high places, strange
longings to substitute Baa1 and Ashtarofh
Tor the Living God. Every evil that came
to them had no cause. When they came to
aelye IN mines fantastic devils haunted them
there. Ii you wish to fill out the picture
LOOK at Missionary Moffatt's Southern
Africa" What is the portrait TODAY of the
rear guard OF the human race was once long
ages ago the picture of the vanguard Sup
pose you could bring back to the earth one
OF thoSecreatures the best and bravest Just
as he left the earth. What an amazing sight
ne would see The wild beast he feared and
almost Worshipped meets unerring death at
the touch OF trigger. Lions and tigers are
Gagged Tor the amusement of children. The
forest he feared is but the treasure house of
man S comfort and wealth. No devils pe0ple
the mines. That shrieking locomotive which
PUSHES across his vision into the dark tunnels
Is not one of the dread unknown evil creatures
winch haunted his sleeping and waking
dreams, but the peaceful servant of his race.
he would see no tribes dying of starvation
with plenty across the border, but every land
ransacked to lay at every door the luxuries
OF every CLINE. He would see that the race
OF man had become masters of land and sea-
ana were IN full struggle for dominion
over the viewless air, and strangest
Oh all he would see thousands of pill
grlinS every year urged on by the love of the
Deautltul alone, trayerslng sea and shore to
eaten glimpse Of the ruins of the Parthenon
and if in his day the 'Parthenon had looked
perfect across the Hgean Blue" it would have
suggested to him and his race nothing except
shelter or pillage. In fact all that he would
see, ne could no more comprehend than
c cS the dog that walked by his side.
why has man, so weak and frail alone of
creatures, made this marvellous progrp~e"
the eanacifv and ns tiS9 t of poTel
he alone can grasn the y union
lows and give = 0fKlng tOgeUnef
-, knowledge of his fell
|, GneIn his. See how the faml-
lies have united into tribes, the tribes grown
into nations, the nations melted INTO larger
nations See how close together all the Woriu
is getting But you may say that even II
one grants that nations have their growth
from all there is long stride between tnat
| and growth Of the whole human race But
nations are not fixed quantities Inc mi IN
nese wall did not keep out the Iartars; KOHL
| ing oceans have not shut out the Engllsn from
! India, All the might and culture OF home
could not chain the barbarlans to their nortn
ern lairs. Europe could not keep Russia
from the Black Sea and who Delleyes ina
the Russian Bear will not yet lap the waters ;, q
the Indian Ocean? All the deadly levers OF th'
African forests will not keep Europe ant
America at home. And there is not on
swarming across the borders that. does no
mean in the end increase of knowledge AM
civilization for the whole race: In tne on
goes on by war and cunning an
diplomacy. We are doing the same thln
peacefully and of set purpose. we az
absorbing half million to a mllllo
every year. They come, the ignorant an
the learned. They absorb knowledge 1rol
us. They impart knowledge to US. In I'll
great hurly burly of wars and lnyaslons,
, Conquest and overthrow no knowledge
lost until man needs it no longer. Wha6
we cannot make the Toledo blade To-Day Y
have got by Toledo blades We could rell
vent It tomorrow if needed. Even the SKI
, of the greatest orator of our day could ~
make the catalogue Of Lost arts LOOK 10
midable We need then to waste no tlme
: bemoaning the lack of leadership. 1t IS n
worth while to burst into fine poetic 1ren
about the still strong man who is to do, o
s work for us. If we had the strong, slle
:, man there are as many chances tnat
ought to fight him as follow him. what t
u famous Chancellor of Gustavus Adolpn1
r wrote to his son expresses the very trutI
/ have been enforcing, but for the mode
translation, "Behold my son, with how Lit
|, sense the world is governed nave neV
d been able sufficiently to express my contem
IL With how little sense the world is goVeTinee
Why the world is always governed by all
Il sense there is in it. The seat of governmt
le is but the place where the DEGREES OF
IS people are registered. If Congress and
" village constable do not closely resemble II
: and Aristotle they come quite as near as tn
10 constituents will permit. The people Of
country always get as good government
they really desire.
lg Such then in all the past has been
Or steady march Of the race continuous, unDr
10 en-, unfaltering. There never has beer
AZ halt. When Gustavus Adolphus falls
as Lutzen the steady hand Of OXenstierna gra
ne the helm of State. When Wolsey can go
es farther Thomas Cromwell takes his plf
II and after Thomas Cromwell has noun
nc the scaffold his work goes on. What has so
ry times seemed retrograde step has never r
he ly been So The splendors of rhetoric WI
n have thrilled US on the fall of England II
~ Cromwell to Charles the Second will Away
*. dear to our souls. And yet the reign un
ill which Dunkirk was sold and the Dutch &
on were heard in the Midway was also
-, reign in which lived Sir Samuel Morland
oh the Marquis of Worcester, and 1t may
be that the love which the graceless Oh,
os had for mechanics and the encourage
CO. he gave them did more for the ultimately
asst of England than even the regal and m
eX- genius of Cromwell. st
,S+ The fact that we owe this nights
U'' and present to the whole race, thatoy-
m tory shows it to be finally responsive in
the ernment in invention, in progressiest
tn civilization, to all the demands of and
~ souls; that though its saints and that
orc martyrs die their thoughts neverwhen
lay its upward movement thoughunn9uman