New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-14

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ground and never viii own a foot of ground
until they get under it. Professors of coll
leges teachers of schools, editors of newspa-
pers ministers ofreligion, qualified in every
possible way to vote, yet no worldly success.
There has been many man who has not
had house on earth who will have a man
sion in heaven.
fortune have come TO great success while
they are profound in their stupidity, as
profound IN their stupidity as man of large
fortune with whom was crossing the ocean.
who told me he was going to see the dykes
OF Seotlandl When a member of my family
asked a lady on her return from Europe if
she had seen Mount Blanc, shereplied: .sWell,
really, don't know, is that in Europe?a
Ignorance by the square foot. Property
qualification will not do. The only way
these evils will be eradicated will be by more
thorough moralization and Characterization
of the people. That ark of the covenant was
carried into captivity to Kirjath-j earim, but
one day the people hooked oxen to a cart.
and they put this ark on the cart, and the
cart was taken to Jerusalem-the ark of the
covenant coming with the shouting and
Thanksgiving of the people. And though
the American ballot-box, the ark of the
American covenant, our sacred chest has
been carried again and again into captivity
by fraud and iniquity, and spurious voting.
believe it will be brought back yet by pray
er and by Christian conservation, and viii be
set down in the midst of the temple of Chris
tan patriotism. Whose responsibility?
Yours and mine.
poor soldier went to a hairdresser in
London. He wanted to get back to the
army. He had overrun his furlough, and he
wanted some help to get back in quick
transit. The money was given to the poor
soldier, who said to the man who had offered
a dino \, ,rfl ~,
in return but this little worn out receipt for
making backing He gaveit not thinking
there was any value in it; but it Yielded the
man who tookit $2,000,000, and was the
foundation of one of the greatest estates in
England. And that little vote, that insig-
n1tlcant vote which you take out
your % yo sirht aad in
the sight of others-may start an in
fuence that will last all through the progress
OF this government.
charge you, then, as American citizens to
remember your responsibility on the first
Tuesday of November. 1t will begin early,
the snowstorm of sufrages 1t will snow
all day-snow on until noon, snow on until
night. The flakes will fall in every town
and village and neighborhood the white
flakes. The octogenarian will come up. his
hand trembling, and with specialized eye he
will scrutinize the vote and drop it and pass
on. The young man who has been waiting
Tor his time will come up, and proudly and
blushingly deposit his first vote and pass on.
The capitalist will come up with bediamoned
finger and the laborer with hard fists, and
the one vote will be as good as the other.
SnoWstorm OF suffrages, and then these white
flakes will be gathered together and com
pacted into an avalanche that will slide
down in expression of the will of the people
Stand out of the way of it! In the awful
sweep of this white avalanche let political
fraud go down thousand feetunder.
You have not only a vote Won have a
prayer. The prayer may be mightier than
the vote; Oh, as citizens of this beautiful
city, and of this state, and of this nation. let
us do our whole duty. We cannot live under
any other form of government than that
which God has given us in this country. The
stars on our flag are not the stars of thick
enlng night, but the stars sprinkled amid the
bars of morning cloud. We are going to
have one government on this entire contii
nent. Let the despotisms of Asia keep their
feet off the Pacific coast, and let the tyrani
coast. Weare going to have one government
Mexico will follow Texas into the Union, and
Christianity and civilization will stand sidd
by side in the halls of the Montezumas. And
it not in our day, then in the day of our chill
dren, Yucatan and Central America will come
in the dominion, while on the north Canada
will be ours, not by conquest-oh, no, Amerii
can and English swords may never clash
blades-but we will WOO our fair neghbor Of
the north, and then England will say to Cam
ada. 'You are old enough for the marriage
day and then turning, will say 'Giant Of
the West, go take your BRIDE" An then from
Bafin's bay to the Caribbean there will BID
one government under one flag, with ono
destiny-a free, undisputed, Christianized
American continent. God save the city Of
BROOKLYN! God save the commonwealth OF
New York! God save the Union.