Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-02

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Her kings obliged the judges to take q
oath that they wo Id never do anythiI
against their own conscience, though IL
kings themselves should command then
When an Egyptian died . session We
held for the direct purpose OF inquring no
he had spent his liie, 80 that all the
| RESPECT DUE TO his MEMORY
might be paid, and bad prince was denie
the honors Of a funeral. Their tOmb
like the famous Pyramids, are standing te
day, because they looked upon houses O
inns in which they were to lodge for fe
days, and their sepulehres as habitation
for many ages.
Never was nation more exalted tha
ancient Rome. It began with 5000 vags
bonds and thieves and in 600 years wa
mistress OF the world. Such marvellous ac
ivance was the result Of a code OF laws 8
just that England and our own countr
have Incorporated most of them into thei
own, and to those laws Consul, S. nato
and citizen rendered strict observance; i
proof Of which il the example of Brutus
who condemned his two sons to die 10
having conspired with the Tarquins to en-
slave tfe citizens and overturn the Repuh
lie. To guard against unjust wars the
had a college at Rome, where it was cooll
examined whether an
!. INTENDED VAR
were just or not before it was proposed t,
! the Senate and people. Military fraud wa
denounced. When Lucius Marcus de
ceived Perses, K'pg of Macedonia, and con
quered him by strategem, the Ssnat
adjudged him to have violated Roman
laws, because it was a maxim Of the Ma
tion to conquer by valor and not by fraud
Such was Egypt under it's wise and human,
kings; one Of them gave the best OF the lant
under it's Consuls, who, like Regulus, re
garded country dearer than lie and intee
| rity more precious than freedom. Tht
glory OF Egypt disappeared in anarchy and
ruin, because she departed from the right
eousness OF former days. Rome passed
with slavery and death when she
fought for conquest and spoils.
1t aometimes happens that Nation ia
elevated through pursuing course con.
trary to the teachings Of Gods word. But
such state cannot be permanent. A Ma
ton may desire q vast income from rev.
enue tax on Intoxicating liquors. A town
or city may FIJI its Golfers by licensing the
dram shop. Great public works may be
undertaken and completed by means gold
thus obtained d;costly public buildings erected
and splendid parks an gardens estab-
lished, bus the result is
PUBLIC VIOLENCE AND MISERY.
Working men feel like the Knights Of La.
Dor that all this means ruin and woe for
them individually. and we'll for the Nation
if it initiates their example AMI refuse the
trafic to membership. An intemperate
Nation cannot perpetuate itself, 'There-
fore my people are given unto captivity"
was the sentence executed upon Israel for
this vice, and such 10 the sentence executed
upon every incorporate people. Vice, lux
ury and worldly ambition 60 hand in
hand here and everywhere, and they lead
to ruin, though the path may sometimes
seem to approach the summit of pros
perity and power. The Roman eagle un-
der Cesar, was displayed in the fartherest
part of Asia, along the Rhine, upon tine
shores of Briton and throughout all the
Adriatic Coast, but it also crossed the Ru-
bicon, rose over Pharsalian field that was
tered remains OF Pompeii's army into
Africa. Covered with ito wings the throne
OF a prostitute and became ut last the in.
sigma Of people whose meanness and SER
Witty al 9 the contempt Of slaves.
TwENTY-sIx YEARS AGO
the South was the garden OF our Republic,
the fAirest portion of the United States.
But South IN prosperity rested upon
slavery. and slavery wrought her desola-
tion. We have cause, indeed, to heed the
lessons tf the past that teach us to shun
the example that surely leads to ruin, and
to believe that "hlessed is the Nation whose
God is the Lord" Visit the South to day
the new South-redeemed from the curse OF
slavery, and you will see how the touch of
liberty has developed resources that slum
bered through the centuries OF bondage.
All ntA has become q great Industrial
center. Florida is the garden of the
Nation. The cotton mills of Georgia and
Birmingham, in Alabama, is
sending its iron into the markets of the
world. Rebellion has blessed the South by
giving it emancipa ton. for without eman-
cipation the present prosperity were im-
possible. As We to-day honor loyalty to
country and fag let us bo profited by past
experiences and taught by the word OF in
spiration. Let us put the welfare Of coun-
try above that Of party. Let US teach our
children to
LOVE THE COUNTRY
for the founding and maintainance OF
whose institutions 80 many men have died
on red fields of war. Let us do more.
Let US help to hasten the day when
''Nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any
more" You fought on Southern fields to
save the Nation you loved. Our comrades
whose memory we hail to-day gave their
lives to maintain that Nations honor.
Let us now join in contest that will re-
suit in q victory grander than any earth
ever saw, when every creature which is in
heaven and on earth and under the earth
and such as are in the sea shall be heard
saying
''BLEssINa AND HONOR AND GLORY
and power be with him that sitteth upon
the throne and unto the lamb forever and
ever"
BLESSED is the Nation whose God is the
Lord, )" because God leads in ways that are
safe. His word does not deceive. His
thoughts planted in our minds prompt to
deeds OF peace. Science does not and can
not make hearts pure. Cultivation of the
intellect alone does not make homes bright,
nor lives happy. Man cannot lift up him
self. He who wept because there were no
more worlds to conquer died miserably in
drunken debauch. The human heart
gravitates toward vice as naturally as the
swift-fying cannon bah gravitates toward
the earth.
THE CANNON BALL CANNOT RISE
above the line OF elevation, but ever falls
below it. So with the heart. Take men
away from the Bible and Christian influ-
ences and shut them up to themselves with
liberty to indulge every desire, and they
descend to a level with the brute. Put
them in camps. teach them the art of war,
let the discipline be ever SO rigid, make
death the penalty OF theft, OF pillsge or OF
foraging, and the best Of them will steal
pigs and rob hen-roosts.
God alone can lead:men and Nations away
from selishness, from vice, from every pro-
pensity that helps to drag them down to
ruin. He feeds the soul with His word OF
truth, giving power to mind. he touches
the heart by His spirit and makes it pure.
There could never have been such docu-
ment as the
DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE,
had there not first been Bible. There
could never have been the character OF a
Washington, had not God b" His spirit
before Washington's day, moved the hu-
man heart by His spirit. That word and