Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-18
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
IS THE MISSION or THE REPUBLE
CAN PARTY ENDEDy
The speech Of Judge Powers Accepting
His Nomination for Congress.

The speech Of Judge Powers Accepting
His Nomiuatiou for Congress.
am aware that this is an "off year" in
politics, and that we are inclined TO lapse
into a sort of political lethargy, and imag
inc that our political zeal can properly be
inhamed once only in four years. But,
gentlemen, this is "A grave mistake. While
we sleep the enemy will SOW tares. AL
ready our adversary is eloquent over the
| slogan that the mission of the Republican
party is ended that with the abolition Of
slavery and the settlement of the great
questions of reconstruction which have az
itated the public mind for "a quarter of a
century, it has no further work to do.
But has the mission Of your party ended
| When every citizen Of the republic, be he
rich or poor, high or low, white or black,
can with unchalenged right cast one vote
for such men aud measures as his conscience
approves and when each vote so cast shall
he honestly counted in the tabulation of
results, then you may say the mission OF
your party is approaching its end.
Its mission ended When our tariff reg
ulations shall be so framed as to impose up
on the people the lightest practicable pres
sure, and along the lines of fostering par
upon basis that will not only divorce our
wage earners from hopeless competition
with the pauper labor of the old world, but
will give 10 every workingman in the land
the chance to lift himself, with the wife of
his youth and his children about him, to a
higher level and a broader plane in the
race of life then you may say the mission
/ of your party has neared an end.
Its mission ended When every soldier
who wore the blue and the widows and or
phans of those who fell in defence of the
| flag against the assaults of the rebellion
shall have been paid that just measure of
| public reward which is their rightful due,
and which our government is rich enough,
honest enough and proud enough to pay
then you may say the mission of the party
is approaching its end
Its mission ended When that relic OF
barbarism, that foul blot upon the civiliza
ton of the 18th century, that canker worn
which is eating at the vtals of our religion
that stencil in the nostrils of intelligent
manhood, Mormonism, shall have been by
legal methods everlastingly cut up by tn,
roots, then you may say the mission Of thu
party is approaching its end.
Its mission ended When every anarch
ist who comes here from the old world Il
stir up anarchy among our people TO over
throw our social institutions and to under
mine the foundations Of the government it
self, shall have been hanged TO the highes
tree in the American forest, then you ma
say the millennium has come.
No, Mr. President, the mission Of on
party will never end until all the great il
dustrial, social aud political problems whic
concern the body polite have been settle
upon a basis that will accomplish the higt
est good to the greatest number, aud unit
the blessings Of the most advanced educ'
ton, of the widest civil and broadest relil
iols liberty shall abound throughout II
republc-frum the east to the west frol
the north 10 the south Let us then, layiu
aside all our differences close up the rank
push ON the columns, aud let the watchwor
now and henceforth he, Forward.