Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-06-01
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wtitiRs the ju .,g n"nt day;
Border with goid and blue,
Aeliowed with gotta and grsy'
History does not show a paral
lei case: one where a people ar
today writhing in the agonies o
civil str fe, with it's train of dis
Cords, hates. revenges, victories
defeats and bitter disapointments
and by the force of the powers III.
herent in the people themselves
are tomorrow blessed beyond all
the nations of the earth in the en-
joyment of brotherly love, peace.
plenty, and to spare.
Today, while We honor our dead,
is it uniting if we ask IL the liv-
ing have worthIly guarded and
all for which our laurelled heroes
gaue their lives? Have we per-
formed our public duties in the
spirit which animated them?
Have we been faithful and vigilant
custodiars Of the trust which they
lett in our hands? Are we prepar-
ing to transmit to our children
unstained and unimpaired the rich
legacy of liberty and patriotism
which we received from the heroes
of Shilo aud Gettysburg? Or do
we need even while we eouogize
our dead to chide our own care
lessness and sonnd a note of warn
ing to ourselves?
Members OF the Grand Army,
to you and to your fallen comrads
we owe all there is of greatness in
our Republic today, and if you,
to save the Union from the blight
the curse OF slavery, were willing to
suffer, and to die if need be, to ac-
complish that grand end, though
we meet the condemnation of the
powerful should we hesitate to ring
the tocsin of warning when we see
other and as great dangers now
threatening the perpetutity Of our
s? What more befitting
place to sound the alarm over the
graves Of Grant, OF Sheridan, Of
Thomas, Of Hancock, Of Logan,
and thousands Of others who in
lie performed the parts allotted to
hem with fearlessness, honor, and
idelity?
Before the war slavery was the
'uler of American politics, and
he reign Of the money. b-gs had
lot begun. Twenty-Five years be-
ore the war you could counts all
he great millionaire upon your
niger tips, and the man who was
of a hundred thousand
ollars was accounted rich.
twenty-five years before tho war
be great railroad lines were not !
uilt, the great cities not con- 1
tructed, the telegraph, and the
lectric light and even petroleum 7
Unknown, and the web of COM '
lex industries with which the /
md is now laced was unspun. In
nose days money had not lost its q
lodesty and it deferred to intel a
ct and high character. Astors Q
oct book-keeper (Fitz Green Hal c
'ck) was received In houses in
hich Aston himself was not in a
tied, and New York capitalist II
aited upon penniless Agassiz and p
solvent Webster. Corporations
egged Of legislatures neither p
.nds nor bonds, but were content
it'll the privilege Of life. Men n
ID not seek trusts in order to fl
olate them. Embezzlement by Ii
ock expansion was unknown. n
he legislator who sold his vote fl
ade arrangements to depart v
ON the country, the bank defal- Ii
Itions and bank burglary kept p
e lock step Of fellow convicts W
ar was an educator, but the tree 81
knowledge with its crimson b
ayes yielded evil fruit as well as b.
,od. D,
The obliteration Of slavery, the te
turn to peaceful occupations of I'll
inbred of thousands of artesians al