The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-07-11
"The glory that was Greece

"And the grandeur that was Rome"
Now after century of growth ant
] trial, of experience and observation
what, in the opinion of mankind, ha:
been the success of this government? Ha:
the young nation been able to hold it
self among the nations of the earth? Has
our Tree suffrage loosened the founda
lions and undermined the pillars of the
state? Has eternal discord and dissen
ton rotted the bands that made liberty
and union one and inseparable?" Is the
nation less unit than 1T was a century
ago? In material development, in So
cial lite, in literature. science and art, has
it kept pace with the onward march OF
progress! 49,
But we have yet great social questions
to solve that are not questions of race
and it will take no less wisdom and
courage than those that have gone be-
fore. We need now more than anything
else, a true knowledge of social and eco
nomic forces. We need Men, who in
pain words that all may comprehend,
shall bring into popular view the true
relations of capital and labor, who shall
be able to discover and to teach nature S
irrepealable laws in the field of social
and industrial economies: men, who, by
the right word shall help allay the distress
that ignorance and passion on the one
side and selfish greed and dangerous in
difference on the other, are fastening to
create. This is the problem of this age,
which will more and more press Us for q
solution. With growing accommodations
Of unemployed capital, it is a problem
in finance; with a large contingent OF labor
unemployed, it is an economic problem;
with liberty and general happiness to
preserve, it is a problem in statesman
ship; with the moral welfare of coming
generations involved, it makes pathet-
ic appeal to philanthropy and religion.
In this connection let me recall the
glowing tribute of Castelar,, the eloquent
and fearless champion of republicanism
in Spain:
"Nations," said he, "are like beehives,
each nation contributes to fabricate the
honey Of univel sal life. When from our
narraw horizon here on the European
sca-bOard, we turn our eyes to the whole
planet, we see that tine continents are all
ruled by universal and Observation-Disclosures
Asia is The iIrecOverabie land vi the past,
the patriarchaI land, the land OF the
ocracies and cast; Europe is the volcanic
land Of the present, the arena Of Combat
between the ancient powers and new
ideas; America, especially SaXOn-America
with its immense virgin territories, with
its republic, with it's happy equilibrium
between stability and progress, with its
harmony between liberty and democracy,
is the continent of the future, the inn
mensc continent stretched by God be-
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific,
where through labor, liberty and law,
the world may behold i'll the progress of
that republic, the greatest triumphs OF
the grandest civilization"
May we hope to prove ourselves and
our country worthy of this high destiny,
this glorious progress, this grand future
SO eloqucntly forecast by this noble Span
ish republican.
And thus, proud OF Our country, shaped
by the geography OF a continent, stretch
ing from the British borders on Maine
and the orange groves of trOpic Florida,
to the Pacific slope, to Alaska and the
Arctic sea; proud Of her history past, but
cven prouder of her grand record in the
present among the nations OF the earth;
prOuder still of her inevitability maSnifi-
cent future, may we all with heart and
lip, with mind and soul, echo to-day those
stirring sentiments of Americas noblest
poet.
" Across the Rocky Mountains, DER the
deserts death and sand,
The circles of our empire touch the west
ern oceans strand
From the slumbrous Madanaska to the
ella. wild and free,
Flowing down from Arizona to Califor-
MAS seq
The day is breaking in the east of which
the prophets told,
And lightens up the sky of time, the
Christian age of gold
Old might to right is yielding, war and
bIood to speech and pen;
Earth monarchs are her people, and her
sons stand UP like men.
By ali Tor which the martyrs bore their
agony and shame,
BY all the warning words OF truth with
which our fathers came,
By the future which awaits us, by all the
hopes which cast
Their faint and trembling beams across
the trials Of the west,
Let the mighty north salute the south,
and sea shall answer sea,
And mountain unto mountain shout,
1IttlSe you LOT VIC dlS llCS
1t was nearly noon when the crowd
dispersed, all enthusiastic in their COM
of the speaker and his adj
dress.
At 100 p. NJ. the ragmuffin parade on
horseback attracted the attention of the
crowd. 1t was we'll carried out, the par
being masked in grotesque
costumes. 1t was followed by the hose
race for a silver nozzle between the Acme
and Clipper companies. The distance
run was 800 feet to a hydrant where the
hose was attached and 200 feet of hose
laid from the hydranr, making a total
run of 500 feet. The Clippers made it in
forty seconds and the AGNES in thirty-siX
seconds, but the latter forfeited a second
and a half, which was added to their
time, owing to insufficient coupling of
the hose to the hydrant. The Judges
gave the prize to the Acme company.
Both did exceedingly we'll, again demon
strating the fact that Sank Centre has
department of which she is not only
proud, but upon which she may safelyre-
ly in case of emergency. 49,
The miscellaneous SPORTS during the
balance OF the afternoon followed thick
and fast. The Rosebuds of Franklin
county attracted marked attention. They
made any quantity Of fun. There were
three speakers on platform on wheels
speaking at one time, each trying to be
more patriotic and noisy than his fel
lows. The speakers were listened to
with-interest. Under the management of
Henry Keller, Gideon's band, the butter
milk dives and various lighter sports
were conducted successfully.
The base ball game was the only I'M
satisfactory feature of the day, and it is
to be regretted that a misunderstanding
arose relative to it. The Paynesville
club offered itself against the Sank Cen
tire nine for the game, but among its
members were two players from st.
Cloud, semi-professionals, who were not
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