The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-02
WITH THE STUDENTS AT FRYEBuRG
Another Interesting Talk by Eloquent
Robert Nourse.
Portland Pastors Add to the Value
Of the Exercises.
Young Peoples Societies Repre-.
sented Yesterday.



FRYEBURG. August 1.-The interest in the
various meetings of the Chautauqua Union
still continues. Rev. Robert Nourse, d. D.,
of Washington, lectured again last evening,
to large and attentive audience, upon
"Kings and Presidents" The time has
come, he said, when it is we'll to consider
the merits of kings and presidents. Germa-
ny has recently passed through periods of
joy and sorrow at the crowning and death of
sovereigns. England has celebrated the ju-
bilee Of her Queen. We also have celebrated
the centennials of Yorktown and Washing
ton. After the gathered experiences of 100
years with a president, we may safely con-
trast these two kinds of rulers, We want in
this land no kings. We came to America
and fought the Revolutionary war to get rid
of king and establish this republic Yet
there are some people who now think that
republics are doubtful experiments; that
even this great one cannot stand the strain
of future contingencies. But the roots of
history are buried deep. They run far back
into the past The first king was Cain; and
all kings since then have had, in some meas
ure, Cain-like character. 1t is better to be
a president than king. A king is slave
to caste. This governs all his social and
public life. and is a bridgeless gulf between
all the classes of society. Many of the aris-
tecratic families have had lowly origin, as
we shall find if we investigate the origin of
their surnames. Under king there are 0p-
pressive taxation, an immense pauper class
and many other evils. Education for the
masses is condemned, because these rulers
say that it tends to unsettle the mind. In
deed they make the will Of God to be but
the will of monarch. All men under
possible to. free man. The sword is the
guardian of throne, but the president has
nothing to fear; he is the trusted friend of
his people. All Europe today trembles for
fear of war. We have only had two great
to give it. The debts of monarchial coun-
tries, contracted for the support of kings
and standing armies, will never he paid.
Then there is the espionage of secret police
of monarchies. They throttle the press, and
from the, people,, whether public, or
private. Republics have less war, less taxes
and less poverty. We have no rank. There
is only one standard for all. Presidents and
not kings are according to the Bible. Jeho-
yah is the only king. The society founded by
Moses was formed without king. The best
man in any country is the only one for
president; but any one, no matter II he is a
babe, is fit to be king. Indeed, there is no
monarch that can be compared with our
the ruler of a republic is faI better than that
of monarch, for he receives the trust and
love of all the people. We have no titles and
no crowns, yet Grant was royalty received at
the courts of all nations. 1t follows that
with better rulers the people of a republic
must be better. The people who founded
this government, the pilgrim fathers, were
remarkable men, They builded better than
they knew in this new world, for when in
the future our republic controls the whole Of
North America, Washington will be known,
pot as the father of his country, but as the
father of the world.