The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-05

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honor than the unmitig.ted ''todyisnn
that by honoring on American soil the
memory Of the accomplished officer
who threw away his life in the most dis-
honorable attempt to aid the BETRAYAL
of our country by one whose name viii
stand in all future time next TO Judas
Iscariott, on the roll of traitors, cast dis
honor on the fame of our Washington,
who in the stern discharge Of his duty
to mis- country signed the death warrant
of the brilliant genteel spy, with tears
streaming down his face.
We can stand over the grave Of the
confederate soldier, and forgive the mis-
guided zeal that honestly sacrificed it,
self to bad cause. Let those who still
mourn for ''the lost cause" scatter flow
ers over the graves Of those who died
for the cause. Let the late confederate
who now sees his error, weep over the
gave Of his comrade, who died in his
mistaken zeal and honor his memory,
Let the dead confederacy bury its dead
but our honors be reserved for those
who gave their lives that our country
might be the hetter not the worse for
the sacriiice-the asylum, not the pris-
on house Of the oppressed. The cause
in which they died could never be a
"lost cause" for it stood on Gods eter-
nal principles Of right, and 80 was Gods
cause-destined ever to gather new
strength from every seeming defeat.
Only error and wrong mourn lost causes.
'Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid its worshippers."
A quarter OF century has passed
since these questions were settled Or
the southern battlefelds, and we find
ourselves confronted with q new foe.
The question forces itself upon us, cam
we bear the strain that is brought upon
our American institutions, by the large
importation from the Sums of Europe.
Of the worlds worst classes The idle
vagabonds, led on by the vi!estAtheistio
Anarchists, seeking hy torch and dyna-
mite bombs, to lay waste, pillage and
destroy. Ideas un.American have been
sown upon American soil. Ideas, the
acceptance of which, by people, would 4
not only overthrow all government, and
annul all law. but SAP the foundation Of {
the whole social edfice, disband society
and make each man not only a law to-
himself, but set him at war with each
fellow man. A system that takes eway
every incentive to fugality. temperance
and industry. A system that would
turn mankind out, like beasts, to brouse
upon the commons, and when the COIN
mon supply is exhausted, like famishsd
beasts, deyour each other. Let Us for u
moment look tor the causes OF these
threatening evils, and then see il there
is remedy. In our land, and still
more in the old world, for the last 30
years, we have had class Of assum ed
reform ers, who would right the wrongs
of the world by crowdlng God out of It,
lowering the standard of morals, by
t,ting away the highest moral sanc;is n |,
for the history.of the world demonstratesa n
the truth of Solomon's proverb, "by the
fear of the Lord men depart from evil. ~l
I distinguished lawyer, who cannot
argue case successfully in Q court OF
law or equity, without citing some prin-|
ciple of the law set forth by the WORRIES
first law-giver. has perambulated the
land in tlippant lectures, pointing out
the alleged mistakes Of the great law
giver, anu proposes to rid the world OF.
"ths superstition OF belief in o PERSONAL
God," and reduce all religion to pleA
viding food enough for the poor, to stss-
tain his hopeless, goddess life, till ho'
: sinks into annihilation, or at the best q
hazy uncertainty whether there be an-:
other life. The tree is TO be Judged by
its fruit The first fruitage Of the doc
trine of no personal God TO fear, love-
or obey, fell in the lorm Of that terrible9
dynamite bomb, thrown at the minis
ters of law and order, and tho plot that
is unveiled shows us what the gospel
of Atheism would bring to mankind.
And before We ioin in the sneer at tho
mistakes OF Moses" we would inquire
how it is that following the teachings of 4
mistaken Moses pauperism is not, and
through all the ages, has never been a
vice of the Hebrew race. What is our
rem medy? We find it here in our beloved
, Dakota in an intelligent population.
that is every where planting the Church.
and the school in our villages and hanl-S
lets, on our hill tops and in our valleys.
A community not cursed with the dregss
or fugitiyes of the Odd World tisasE
feels no need of drinking houses, 10
their prosperity, or to tempt them from
their peaceful homes that honor the
Sabbath as the day of rest, and the poor
) mans protection from toll upon every!
day of the week.
When the world stands aghast at the
threatening evils, 1t appeals to the sanCt-'
uary--to the minister OF God. Il asks
for a new zeal in promulgating Christsi
ianity that shall. level distinctions,
that shall teach both employers
and employed that they are brethren,
bound to seek each others good-that
knows no conspiracies or boycottg, or
occasions for strikers that avoids pAgxs
perism by teaching industry, frugalityy
! temperance and the fear Of God.
Fellow citizens of Dakota, we live ia
land second to no part Of Gods dos
main. We need go to no other land 10
seek better society or more robust marl~
l hood. | have spent threeAscore-and- =
Q ten years upon the ever recedipg from
+ tiers, and in all those years have never
v seen new community equal to these
{ scattered oyer all these broad lands.
e Our native population loye the institU<
t tions our fathers planted and watero<I
r with their blood--that our brethref|
Il died to perpetuate. Our foreign pop
n ulation is not composed Of the dreG1
d and refuse of other lands, but the il
IS telligent, the enterprising, the more
J. and God-fearing Of those lands. th&.
Is come to ris rs brethren, desiring q
o share with us our tolls and labors, on
y hardships in planting those institutio(
q that shall bless our posterity and nia44
O the name of Dakota one OF praise A}
II the earth, for all that is great, noble apIE
II good. Though deprived Of our rights ~
o partiz,n meanness, inspired by the fei
n mains of rebel hatred, by adhering ~
c law developing our state. and cherishiuk