The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-06-05

your generation To settle
Abraham Lincoln had erystalized the
issue into the trite saying The Nation
cannot exist half slave and bali free. The
guns Of South Carolina belched out upon
Sumpter the angry reply The Nation
shall not exist. We viii destroy IT,"
Treason was rampant Treason 10
camp In the city. 10 the village, 10 the
hamlet. Traitors over 10 Canada plot
ting the Nations death. planning 70 send
nre and plague where the rebel armies
could not 60. A conclave Of crowned
heads peered across the Atlantic and
prophesied what they devoutly wished
that the American experiment, as they
called our government. might perish
The French Emperor placed Maxmillian
on throne In Mexico. There were
more English troops In Canada than were
needed FOR police purposes.
After the victory, the army came home
The soldiers took their places In civil
life and no ripple of disturbances TO the
Country followed.
ln abiding 70 reconstruction the speak
yer said -Four millions of slaves from
whose hands YOU struck the shackles are
Fstill In the land. They are now free
men but received liberty under conditions
of great hardship. When Russia freed
her serfs she provided ) acres of land
for every male, but for these, freedom
and the necessities of their former mast
ers were their only possession. They
are making rapid progress. They are
getting college education and filling all
kinds of professions. They are a patri.
otto people. History does not reveal in
the long struggle that a soldier with
blue coat was ever betrayed by man
with black skin
The survivors of both armies are 10 the
land to-day. Both are loyal now. Slavery
has gone to stay. What q magnificent
heritage We hand down to our children.
an immense domain larger than the Ro-
man empire ever was In the zenith Of
It's power, after 80 years of conquest
rake all the population from England,
/ Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Ger
many, Austria & Russia. All the inhati.
tants Of the South Sea Isles. Australia
and the Republics of South America. and
the United States has land enough to sus-
tain them all and q hundred millions
more. We are told that the source Of
Great BrltAn's financial strength, the pro-
curing factor Of her vast intellectual
actlVlty and great moral triumphs, lies in
her 1000 square miles OF coal deposit
The United States has l1j $50 square
? miles or more than times the area of
Great Britain.
When storing away the fuel for the
ages GOD knew the place to which he had
appointed US and gave US twenty times as
much of this concrete power ,as to all
Europe. Every year sees added to our
. wealth l.3 the accumulation of the whole
world. Our population doubles every 20
years. In 10 years We produced 1872 900,
ooo OF precious metals. There is Iron
r ore in % States. A number Of these
could singly supply the whole worlds
demands for that most useful of metals.
We are nation of inventors. At the
International Electrical Exposition in
Paris short time ago five gold media s
were given for the greatest Inventions
how many came to America think you?
Five. The United States has the best
] tools and machinery in the world. Her
> oert Spencer says, In mechanical
appliances the United States are eh;.al IS
.. all nations" Superior tools would give
US great advantage but the fact that We
invented and made them means much
, more. 1t means that We have also the
best mechanics in the world. With these
advantages and raw material at hand we
can supply the world with our products
; Steam and electricity are comprising
: the earth. The nations touch elbows aud
stand shoulder to shoulder in the march
: of time Ignorance and isolation, the
parents of barbarism, are becoming in
: possible. The mysteries of Africa are
opening. South America is waking up
The last Monarchy of the Western Con-
tinent went out since last Memorial day
: The hot breath of the lightning century
is blowing upon the earth. The dry
bones of Asia are moving. China and
Japan are observing and learning from US
The rushing speed of time is being might
, lily quickenned.
Comrades The youngest veteran of
you Is older than Methuseah. The man
: who has lived the last fifty in this part of
this century has seen more transpire
than Methuselah ever dreamed Of in all
the nights and days of his ten centuries
Wake up: The nation is more in peril to
dav than when you were born There is
Il cloud of danger upon our horizon lar
ger than mans hand. The people of
the old world are beholding our wealth
and prosperity Every pinch of want,
every rumor of war every political re-
volution is sending them by tens and
hundreds of thousands to our shores
During the last ten years we have suffered
Il peaceful invasion by an army of immi
grants ten times as large as the army Of
Goths and Vandals that swept over Eu-
rope and overwhelmed Rome. The rush
has only begun. The attracting powers
Of this country and the repelling forces
of Europe are both multiplying
To your land are coming hordes of men
to whom the word liberty means only
license, and freedom is but synonym
for anarchy. Their ignorance and su-
perstition make them an easy prey to
i demagogues and the inflammable natures
are rich food for devils. They are filling
E our prisons and reformatores to over
! flowing. They are devouring the morals
and debauching the politics of the land
. There is an Irish vote. y German vote, an
Italian vote, Rum vote, Beer vote, an
Anarchist vote and | expect to hear next
: Of some new kind of vote. These are al
ready controlling our large cities. This
D immigration 10 fostering and enlsrgipg
; the rum power, power which in itself
is a most threatening danger to our Re
public. Already the annual consumption
of liquor in the United States is 1000
million dollars. 1t is in the hands of
0 foreigners 1t is an organized political
9 power of prodgious dimensions for cor
ruption and may at any and all times de
feat the popular will. Socialism is rear
: ing its head and threatening the very life
c of the Nation.
Z Who shall say my comrades that the
-, Almighty has not wisely appointed the
:, 900 600 black men native Americans.
i GOO 600 men now ready to bear arms to
+ whom you gave liberty in lS65, to resto re
Il liberty to your children in 1868 and to de-
liver them FROM bondage worse tn al
' slavery.
K From every language and every nation
+ men are gathering here. If only the
8 thrifty and the honest Gomez they would
learn the language, become good citizens
and go back, If ever they returned to
republicauize their own lands, But woe
e to city woe TO our Country If we long.
o er permit the scum, the criminals, the
r paupers, the renegades. the rum seller,
= and debauched thieves and robbers to be
sent here, to poison the land
Y The tremendous moral forces which
0 this nation was appointed to exert and
o which thanks to your srms she does ex
: ert are being felt to the utmost parts OF
n the earth.
t Republics are rising. Thrones are
v lettering. The last crowned head ha.
It disappeared from the Western cnutin ent
d Royalty will not survive this century II
II Great Britain. Imperial thrones will
e where exist in the year 2090.
g] Comrades; The furious speed of the
b lightning age has sliced the earth &c
y to hurl US hence. To the sons Of veter
II ans we must commit the land. Surely
3 the sons and daughters of lighting sires
# and sacrificing mothers will never Civ,
l. the land over to anarchy.
IN Fathers; Before you depart driv,
patriotism into the souls and burn 1t In
d to the hearts of your sons.
a Mothers: Press freedom tn III