The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-07-12

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has been matter of the profoundest surprii
to note the heighth to which she has clmbt
In America. The form Of government whie
we enjoy is the purest of republican; the pa
ent on the original is as old as the longings
man for self-goyernment. We have simpl
discovered those improvements. which adap
ed to our needs and applied in the light OF Il
original principle, secures to us the plaud
OF the world, and will insure the blessings
posterity. No municipality I'm the Union al
played more patriotic zeal In doing honor |
the memory of the founders OF the republi
than that in which Washington took the fri
oath administered to president of the Unite
states. Music, fireworks, parade and orator
was the order of the day, and men lived owe
again the scenes of a hundred years ago. Tn
significance of this pageantry carried deep II
lesson of patriotism; but the highest tribut
thus paid. 1t was attested by the presence
those who met there for a common purpose
the Englishman, the son of Erin, the German
the 6rawny Scott, the Frenehmsn. the ligh
sentative or every civilized nation on th
globe, Americans then, one and all worshipin
at the shrine OF government Of, by and 70
the people. Each In his native land had hear
the story of our glory and came TO share I'm
and make II more brilliant. Seventeen hur
| dred and seventy-six originated nothing ne,
In government. The idea, transplanted fror
| beyond the seas, was the result of ages of Ions
ing for the rights we enjoy; and the sons Q
other lands, when they came here brought trs
lieved in the rights Of men. inspired by thei
| memory, their descendants were equipped Il
| mind and heart alike, for the high duties o
free and enlightened citizenship. Fortunat
indeed is America, in that to her shores Go
guided the oppressed of all lands and put It Il
| their minds to here erect O pantheon OF lIbert
containing an altar for the sons of ever
| CLINE.
The formation of the republic was not an &C
| cident; with the birth of a Christian religion
came the first educated desire for liberty an
| self-government. Meteor like, the though
had furrowed the skies with its brilliant prom
| Use many times before, but, like the meteor,
had vanished. leaving In its wake an inkie
Christianity came the desire and necessity TO
religious iiberty-this made necessary politi
cal liberty, and self-government was the inevi
table tendency. To this tendency we owe tn,
origin OF the union of states. Driven from
| their native shores because of religious intol
| erance. seeking an asylum, not for the pur
pose OF setting up government which nigh
they might worship God according to the die
| tates of their own conscience. They found
both. Dependence begets slavery. Independ
hundred years for the colonists to appreciate
/ the Eldorado they had found. Politically
weak, uncertain, doubling, they leaned On tho
er's breast. The story of the birth of Ameri
| can liberty is the story Of wrongs suffered anf
rights denied The inspiration was notsthe re
suit Of deliberate purpose. 1t was forced t.
| the light by the stripes of oppression. II grew
| for years In the soil of New England, and ye
| its growers knew it not The same loyalt,
which characterizes the American OF to-day
kept the American OF two hundred years ago
| true TO the British crown, until manhood wa,
degraded past endurance by the demands oil
| avaricious ministry. Then the eyes OF the
blind were opened as II by lightning flash
and the cause of human liberty in what wai
destined TO be the greatest republic earth heC
ever held, unfurled her banner never more t.
| fold ii. "TaxatiOn, without representation, Il
| tyranny" declared James Otis, the eloquen
defender OF human rights, and his word
echoed, from hill to dale and from mountain
| to valley, they swelled into cry which awok,
| q sleeping nation. Thus was born a republic
No man knew its destiny, and yet the heart.
of it's sponsors beat high with hope for its fu
republics, reading with enthusiasm the YER
| dict of history or the lives of other defenders
| of human rights, and up-builders of human
liberty, they family saw perhaPs the future
rather than that of calculation. Poetic fame,
excused the prophecy Of Phillip Franuei made
In 1775, in that beautiful poem which depicted
heart swelling with patriotism, he sang
81 see Freedoms established reign,
Cities, and men as numerous as the sands up
on the oceans shore;
The The Ohio soon shall glide by many a town OF
note,
And where the Mississippfs stream, by forest
o, shaded ssi; now a runs ms Sweeping on d. -
fa than Greece S and rome 81 old: ss ~ 'sne
We too, shall boast our CatOs, Scipios, solons
sages, chiefs, which in the womb of
Time yet dormant lie, waiting the joyous hour
of life and light"
And vet the realization of thisdream came In
a hundred years. The shores of the Ohio an.
SseS II f thrilled tbe saiftiDS banks Of the Mis-
sissippi. and great cities sprang into exist
ence. Spread over the prairies of the West, II
brought into being empires Of wealth and
power, which rolling onward In resstless tide
looked toward the East again from the glisten
ing sands of the Golden Gate.
Is It any wonder then. that we are proud OF
the progress of our native landf Is II any
wonder that the stars and stripes in ouI
thought borrows Heavens language, when
kissed by Freedoms breath it speaks in grace.
| full fold Truly has it been said that ours is
existence, when compared with the worlds
age, is but day: it is as a fingers length up
on the dial of time; but In that span. It h has
| tory has recorded in the existence of the
world before.
The electric current has been called into
requisition to do the errands of increasing
business Bands OF steel bring into close com
munion regions continents apart. The giant
steam has been tanned and disciplined until II
obeys with child-hke faith, the every behest OF
man. Nature has laid bare her exhausless
fields of mineral wealth to feed the furnaces
of manufacture. Our rivers and lakes teen
est and mine. Education, that governor OF
mankind, offers her enlightening influence
free gift at the humblest door. Intelligence
is the rule and ignorance the exception, and
ward to that millennium OF development which
| will proclaim to the remotest cline, the broth
erhoOd of man.
Our own state has played noble part in, the
drama OF national existence. Ushsred into tn,
Union just IN time to offer Of her brave sons
sacrifice on its altar. She has ever kept step tc
| its music. The home of the Indian and the buf
falo has given rich reward to the industry o
man. Tickle her soil with the pillow share anC
rich fields OF waving grain laugh In glee to thu
her hills and the choicest building stone bear:
| its face to the sun, waiting to be placed into
magnificent piles Of architecture and beauty
Of WoF So
been her progress that she challenges the admi
ration and wonder Of men and invites him from
every shore in promises which cannot be denied
| to become Of her sons and share in her glory.
| In 1888 we harvested 53 million bushels OF
wheat, 40 million bushels of oats, 10 million
81 milton bushels s S
hundred million feet Of lumber, made over 40t
million shingles, laths and pickets, and shipped
nearly 500 thousand tons of virgin iron ore
However, there is reason, to some extent, fol
mutterings OF discomfort even in the midst o.
| our rejoicing. The rapid growth of the countr.
has been attended by some evils, which wis
citizenship bids the true lover of his land. at
| tempt to eradicate. Vast accumulations of in
| dividual and family wealth tend to the up
| building Of an aristocracy, which Is un-Ameri
1
In the economy of God all men are no
| equally endowed with the abilityito make Of
| save money, SO the world will never see al
| of Its riches. have no fault to find with tn,
man. who, by industry, honesty and strict at
i tention to business has acquired wealth; hi
| example is wholesome and should be FOLLOWED
| by his neighbor, but do not believe in tn,
/ existence of laws or circumstances which en-
able one man to amass a Croesus fortune
| from an industry that does not pay livinl
Il vyaer IN "a Pnhlfn M
/ enlightened citizenship, educated to condemn
| Is the best corrective remedy for this evil
Let such men understand that the world
not backing them in their greed: Lot the EN-
ployed be educated and Intelligent and tn
/ brotherhood Of man will force the employee
to recognize as his equal in all respects, tn
wage Garner, and teach him that the interes
| of both is best subserved by the elevation o
| the worker. Profit sharing and mutual inter
est will settle the differences between capita
i and labor, and instead OF strikes and discOrds
these twin brothers of development will wall
as they should, hand in hand, In the union o
complete confidence.
The proper regulation of corporate power
presents another question with which the mel
Il of to-day and the future have TO deal With
out that aggregation OF capital, which judi
has u made possible, very much Of the develop
J ment of which we are so proud to-day, woul
never have swelled our statistics. The bus
ness of the world has grown too great to b
never be contented to go back to the cana
i, boat and the ox-cart. Were it not for on
trans-continental roads, hills and dales now dol
| ted with the school house, the church, and tn
, peaceful homes Of happy people would still
shelter the wild deer and the Indian. But Civ
, ing to these agencies their just need OF prais
! and guarding their legal and moral right
, with Jealous eye, there is yet left to protec
, the interest of the people, indeed, thi
is of first importance and overshadows all II
; dlvldual aggrandisement. When ] say tn
! people, mean the whole people; there shout
be no discrimination in the zeal for reform
Laws should not be enacted or other restric
> i've influences inaugurated which give to on
, and take away from the other. The farmer
: entitled to have the products of his industr
7 taken to market as cheap as Is consistent wit
. protection of the capital invested his fellol
man, who works Cd the railroad, In the IA,
tory or the store, but no cheaper. A rul
+, which does not recognize this justice betwee
! man and man, does not build up the whol
= country and all Its interests. A mans hes