Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-03
such creatures, let them go hence, be-
have themselves or die.

occasions; and am determined that moth.
ing that | shall utter shall be capable of
distortion even into political partisanship,
for these occasions are too holy to all
loyal hearts for the harmony thereof to
be Jared by party rancor; but the pat
riotic, timely enforcement of our laws.
the defense of our liberties, our homes,
our hearts, is higher, dearer to us-and
outside of party; and there is not loyal
heart IN the great state of Wisconsin
yea. not a loyal heart in the whole
United States whose pulsations drive
the hot blood to brain that thinks. that
has not thrilled with thankfulness and
felt proudly glad that it could be thrilled
at the mention of name, and that name
Governor Rusk; the least pretentious
of men, but who rises with the occasion.
is always found just equal for any emer-
gency in any place. He scotched the
anarchistic snake and made it hide its
ugly head. And all over this broad land
innocence sleeps more peacefully that
Wisconsin had Governor who dared to
do his duty and teach brute force that il
must obey the laws.
In general whenever you hear a man
decrying the laws of this country put
him down as a crank or worse. For re-
member that your laws are nothing more
or less than the reflex of the aggregated
conviction of justice, of the right, of the
whole people, of yourselves. If your
laws do not express the aggregate con-
victions of right, of the majority, then
indeed, is representative government a
failure. Of course it is the fashion, and
| the press belittles its dignity in joining
in it, to decry against lawyers and courts
for the shortcomings of the law, but to
the man who thinks, the very plain an
swer to that outcry is, the lawyers and
courts are not the majority, and do not
make the laws. At most they do but
expound them in the spirit or sense the
lawmakers intended. Correction is
easy for the future by making the sense
plain. 1t is but poor compliment to
yourselves to say that your lawmakers
do not represent you; for if SO, why do
you send them? So with this senseless
cutlery that the law is made for the rich
and against the poor. If this is so, the
poor are recreant to duty to themselves,
for we, the poor, are in an immense ma
jority.
No; the men who are the loudest-
mouthed bowling this untruth do not
| themselves believe it; it is simply DEM
igogic cry to hoodwink the ignorant by
men who desire to live without work at
the expense of those who do not and will
not think.
have the most profound respect for
and the most perfect confidence in the
| ultimate fairness of the American peo-
| pie. And the masses of the American
people have no motive object or desire
| to do anything unfair to individual or
class. The American people only desire
to know the right, to resolve it shall be
done, and any men who are unwilling to
trust their cause to the decision of the
people as the umpire, have, in my iudg-
ment, a bad cause. And these labor or
carnations, if they have any real griev-
ance, can explain it to the American
people and they will see them righted,
for in this hive of ours there are few
drones, and labor is in greater maiori-
| ty than the poor
Why do they not do this if they have
confidence in their cause? instead of tax
ing the law into their own hands, and
not only using their own inalienable
right of saying that they will not work
for the price offered, but denying to their
neighbor the same inalienable right to
say he will? For two reasons: First, the
masses of these orders do not think to
what their actions tend; and second, the
leaders are making money out of the
unthinking.
All these questions, difficult and intri-
| cot 70 aG lf,,
| tied by reason than by force. It is law
full for them to persuade, but not to CO.
cree 1t is the inalienable right and
duty of every man to support himself
and his family, and no combination of
other men has right to say, you shall
not do your honest work unless it says
SO. Such an assumption is a tyranny
as far-reaching in its consequences as
the tyranny of the guilliotine. Such an
assumption in unamerican, violation
of inherent rights and a crime against
society. And sooner or later the people
in their majesty will rebuke in an I'M
mistakable manner these efforts of de-
signing men to substitute force for rea-
son.
l have said, jealousy guard your lib
critics; and it certainly requires no special
comment to call attention to the fact that
where citizens cannot pursue their daily
avocation in support of their families
without the assent of combination of
men unknown to the law, that theusurp-
alton of the liberties of the American
citizen has begun. The trial of the pat
riotism of the men of this generation
may come at any time. That such sons
will prove themselves worthy of such
sires, | do not for one moment doubt.
That you will guard the liberties your
fathers guarded and hand them down to
your sons unimpaired, do not doubt.
That you will demand that all questions
of public policy shall be tried in the pub
lie forum or in the public courts and
that sooner or later you will frown
down and if necessary put down all one
sided adjudications by unauthorized bod
les of men of the rights of American
citizens, | know.
Eventually the strong sense of Justice
| of the American people, and their desire
to do justice by law to all classes, will
find peaceable solution of the labor
question, and to all other questions that
have substance enough for tangible
| thought to rest upon, but for the vapid
vaporings of the socialist crank or an
| archist scouudrel, smile of derision is
all they can ever merit
When these or any trials come to YOU
| meet them In manner, worthy of your
ancestry. When the nations TRANQUILITY
is threatened by either domestic or for
eign foe, let your patriotism stimulated
| by the example of these dead heroes
cause you to rise to the hight of the oc-
casion and dedicate yourselves and your
children TO uphold the nations honor
and the individual right of the individual
citizen inviolatc. Preserve your glori-
Gus heritage for your children, as these
dead heroes preserved it for You. Then
shall your children's patriotism be slim
ulated by your example, and for the COM
ing generations richer patrimony of
inspiring example shall accumulate.
which must make more full their love of
country, and thus add further assurance
that American liberties shall be pre-
served so long as an American lives.
| Then shall the innumerable hosts of
noble fathers and mothers who have
gone before and are gathered in perpet-
ual reunion with their Father in heaven.
smilingly approve and shower down
| their angel blessings upon you, and then
can they fervently thank God that their
| infinite sacrifices have not been in vain.
The Grafton was delivered in a clear
tone of voice, making it plainly under
stood by the large assemblape. who