The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-12-05

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Of the Wing party.' and so It
did. You may love your party
and of course ii is the best party
in existence, but if either parent
dies when a child Is born Into
the world is not the mother the
better of the two and the one
who most tenderly loves the
Young life? So if the travail
which gives rise to the new and
grander institutions ofthe future
shall bring death to any OF Inc
old, we may expect that it Will
be the best and hence it Will be
our party.
The subject of civil service re-
form which might we'll occupy
all our time this morning, eau
only be mentioned, and that TO
commend. "To the victor belongs
the spoils" has been with US q
party motto for which the pub
lic has paid a severe and pro-
tracted penalty. MY party must
succeed for my bread aud butter
depends upon it" has been the
cry of a vast hoard of hungry of
fee seekers as well as Office hold
ers." Work hard, pay we'll, get
me elected TO Office and l will
give you an appointment" The
question of competency has been
lost sight of. 1t is not what
are a mans qualifications or what
his character, but how much did
he do towards my election And
so il has been a drive in and q
drive out with every change of
administration, and the public
which supports them have been
compelled 10 take all the conse-
quences Of their incompetency
and inexperience.
The principle of civil service
reform says that the public shall
be no longer triflsd with thus and
appointees shall receive and hold
positions just MS they Go in any
we'll regulated business estab-
ishment on the basis of character
md fitness. Give US this, the
more the better.
And now, friends, let us con-
for a season those au-
'picious facts which render this
lay SO fitting and inspiring. You
rave stood by a great body of
water when the sun was rising or
citing and traced broad track |
# light stretching away and up |
Intil it touched the sun itself. |
When l look out upon our nat
onal history, Notwithstanding
he shadows which occasionally
it across 1t, I seem to see a broad
athway of light reaching clear
ack until it beams forth from
he Sun of Righteousness Himself.
nd my faith in the final success
f this grand nation is born Of
~ conviction that it is the child
t Gods own providence and
rejection. -Four centuries ago,
he spirit of liberty, deathless in
he soul of man, was struggling
4 a mighty effort to break the
etters which had so long bound
!. 1t was a powerful uprising of
ldividualism against conven-
onalism, Of the man. against the
The Reformation was at hand
nd all Europe was OH tiptoe-
len were going 10 read, think
nd act for themselves. Anew idea
'as beating like a trip-hammer
, the popular brain ana throb-
ing in the popular heart. This
lea wanted training ground
wanted to disengage itselffrom
10 circumstances which had so
ing smothered it and find a
ome where it might have a fair
rance. God heard its cry. The
lips Of Spain like the arrows of
divine Providence, shot away
ward the setting sun. America
as discovered and a virgin con-
nent offered its arms TO vel
,me the new spirit of liberty.
his principle of indiviGualism,
le essential bequest of The Re
blew across the at
ntic, rooted itself in our soil
I'd has become the foundation
all the peculiar nobility of our
siitutions,
In 1920 ship landed on the
lore Of Virginia and sold a part
lrgo of African slaves 10 the