The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-07-17

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not fact. For we old timers know b,
observation that most of US will sta,
here until we are carried down into thu
valley to be buried; and as for you who
are new here. and whom we most heart
ly welcome as bringing muscle and brain
tnd-what we most need-capital, to
develop our resources, we hope you have
come to stay.
| Let no citizen say at doesn't matter to
ne who is elected to office" That is the
| position of the slave. 1t does not mat.
er much to the Bavarian peasantry, for
distance, who is their King? As be.
ore p'srked, the other day when their
ruel King drowned himself because he
uuld no longer rob them they made
great cutlery Of grief. The next King
,ho is already installed without any
question as to their wishes is acknowi.
dyed to be simple idiot. Truly to
nem it docs not matter" Are we the
iame? No, not now. But if we 90 on
aging and by our acts proving that we
lun't care who are to be our servants.
ne thing will change. 1t is an unfailing
iw that that which is unused becomes
Incapable Of use. When the ear is deaf
or nlany years the tongue does not con.
'erse as much as usual. The voice, un-
leeded by the ear, becomes low and in.
distinct. Signs received in lieu OF spoke en-
sords are answered by signs, the weaken
ng Voice becomes fainter and fainter and
lnally mute. SO in political life that
which is disused dies. II we disuse the
'allot, the essence Of liberty, it dies;
ast as, II We misuse it, we destroy it.
And in that event the day will most Ger.
ainly come when it will not matter to
IS who is elected to office.
II we are men-if there be such o
ning as manhood it is of the greatest
Importance to US who is elected to
thee. We must continue TO improve
ot try to destroy--the work OF those
'ho have gone before us-men who were
reat-not merely because they con.
luered nations, but because on the farm,
Il the workshop and the mine, as well as
the field of battle they have built up
nd preserved with their muscle aud
rain and blood government in which I
hree score millions can be free.
We cannot all be great in the eyes of |
he world. We may not have the oppor. |
unity given to the million men who
Iught for us % Yeas ago. But we can
I'll do our political duty, and in doing it |
he battle will be no less hard, nor the
ictory less honorable, than those won
efore. We must conquer ourselves.
lie who does that does what Alexander,
jaesar and Napoleon failed in; but what
ar " ashiDgton, our Lincoln, our Grant
I'D all our million unnamed heroes sue.
'eeded in doing We can be their equals
2, In Whatever lines our lives be cast,
We are in earnest. Without earnestness
'othng, with il everything. Let us be
rue to ourselves.
81 his above al to thine own selfbe true
And 1t must { low NJ the nis hit the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man !"
! will close by calling to mind an ex.
mple in one Of our best men of that
upreme earnestness which becomes great
esa. In the war Of the great rebel
ron one commander after another had
cen tried and found wanting in the
ask of subduing, probably, the most
nrmldable instruction that ever dis.
urbed nations peace. The opposition
ad hundreds Of thousands of men in the
'eld. They were not ragamufiins or
ascals Though some Of the leaders wercD,
Ior fools By any means, but they were
Intelligent, vell-armed, brave American
itizens, giving their lives and fortunes
or what they believed to be right. Such
we're the men we called rebels. The war
vas war of ideas. There existed in the
ountry two great ideas which were at
UGH complete variance with each other
hat both could not continue to flourish
-one must give way before the other.
When they came to battle they brought
nto the conflict the best blood of the
alton. Hundreds Of thousands Of lives
ad already been sacrificed to the half.
eartedness and vanity Of succeeding
encrals; but when, at last, the tax was
iven to that man, he began work in
arrest He seemed to have no thought
I what kind Of reputation no would
nake for the day-no jealousy of any one
no fear that some one else might derive
nore glory from the field than he. He had
ut one thought-the destruction Of the
confederate army-the only method Of
estoring peace. He thought it better to
acrifice tens Of thousands Of lives in hon
rable battle than tie waste hundreds of
thousands in the hospital, the river, the
ummer's heat and the winters cold. 1t
vas his truth and devotion to that
bought that accomplished the desired
nd. You all know who he was. He
as but lately passed away-not dead
. us; for when his memory and his
pirit die there will no longer be an
american Republic.
"Say, bub, is your mother sitting on
he front steps?' I
NAV; that's the hired girl, Jenny"
''Can l zee your mother"