St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-31

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need be, to restore this republic their fathers
sought 70 dissolve"
1t has been a long~and weary road from
the clouds of doubt and distrust still hover
about its course, and the shadow of mighty
social problem lies across its path, the sun of
liberty is shining overhead and He who
vouchsafed His pillar of fire through the
long and dreary night will not withdraw His
guiding signal from the MONDAY sky.
But no ship can sail forever upon summer
seas Dangers still threaten the republic.
and the wise and thoughtful student of
affairs still looks into the future with anx-
iety.
With the immense increase in national re-
sources there has been a radical departure
from the pure lives and simple habits of our
fathers.
Not only are public and private extrava-
gance sure forerunners of national decay,
but absolute honor ana honesty. not alone
tween every man and every corporation, and
between every citizen and the municipality
and the state, are essential TO permanent
prosperity.
The opportunities for acquiring princely
fortunes in large and speculative enterprises
have developed
Combinations and MOnOpOlies
which are exercising dangerous and in
creasng influence upon industrial affairs:
while, on the otner hand, the reflex effect of
these movements manifest itself in the forma-
ton of class alliances and in organized as
saulGs upon vested rights. Both of these con-
ditions are foreign to the spirit of our inst
tutions, and tend to subyert the rights Of the
individual
There is room in America for every legiti-
mate enterprise and for the utmost freedom
Of action, so far as il does not infringe upon
the rights of others, but there is no room for
corners" trusts or walking delegates
Whether the solution of the problem lies in
more extended government regulation or in
more impartial and efficient administra-
ton of existing laws, is question
for wise and patriotic craftsmanship to de-
termine; but, that it will be solved in the
same effective manner in which the Anglo
Saxon race has ever controlled It's environ
ment, need not be doubted 1t must be APP
preached in the spirit of fairness to all con-
cerned, and decided honestly, in the interest
of the people of these United States, and so
that they who SOW shall reap the harvest of
honest toll, sagacity and enterprise, and any
class of interest which is unwilling to submit
TO that criterion is a hindrance to our civil
iZaton.
When the venerable Franklin, inclined to
rationalism as he was, rose in the cOnstitu-
tional convention of l76l and proposed that
the sessions should be opened with prayer,
he gave expression to q sentiment which has
pervaded the American people throughout
the whole period of their history. In his
farewell address Washington dwelt with pc
culiar emphasis upon the importance of
religious observances as 1.-The great pillars of
human happiness and the firmest props of
the duties of men and citizens, which the
mere politician, equally with the pious man,
ought to respect and cherish"
Take from me- said Bismarck, my faith
in divine order which has destined this
German nation for something good and great
and you take from me my fatherland''
While the theory of the absolute separation
of church and state is a cardinal principle of
Our Political Faith,
and is especially guaranteed in the constitu-
ton of our state, it is a patriotic duty to fol
wise statesmen have enjoined, and whose eff
feet has been and can be only salutary and
beneficent
Another bulwark of liberty whose main
tenance is essential to the perpetuity of our
institutions, is free, fearless and incorrupt-
IDLE press. No other agency is so potent for
good or evil in our midst. Before it tyranny
is powerless and vice assembling fugitive.
1t is, at once, the molder ana the oracle or pub
lie opinion, and, while its warning voice is
sounded from the watch towers of society,
the state is safe alike from outward siege and
internal plot
Not less incumbent upon the patriotic citi-
zen is the duty of supporting the system of
popular education. Foreign commentators,
who are disposed, perhaps. to give TOO little
credit to our form of government, are accus-
TONED to attribute our prosperity chiefly to
this feature of our political and social sys-
tenn. 1t is not probable that we, who have
experienced its beneficial effects, will ever
be disposed to undervalue this potent ele-
ment of our prosperity. but it is appropriate
OH this occasion to suggest that its usefulness
from the standpoint of the patriot, might be
enhanced. if more attention were given to
acquiring a familiarity with the institutions
under which we live and a lively interest in
all that awakens and promotes patriotic zeal.
'lNnr Cfr rx14 h0 s..f
with the spirit of heroism from their earliest
years, ana versed i'll the chronicles of gallant
deeds that tower, like, Rhenish castles above
the stream of time.
The man will not be deaf to duty's call
who, in his childhood days, is taught the
story of Leonidas and his Spartan band. who,
held Thermopyl@ against
The Persian Hosts;
of Winkelreid, who gathered in his breast
the Austrian spears and, through his death,
opened the way to SwitZerland's independ-
ence; of Tells immortal exploits. and of his
brave companions who lit the beacon fires of
liberty upon the Alpine heights; of Bruce,
who won the day at Bannockburn, and, with
1t, Scotland's throne; of the patriotic band
who fought at Concord, Lexington and
Bunker Hill, and sanctifed the name of Val
ley Forge, and them in faith and prayer and
patriotic zeal, founded a nation for the OBJ.
pressed of every land; and, having 40 king,
no throne, no crown, unfurled a banner as
folds have carried hope and inspiration to
mankind; and then, from lips that burn in
the recital, the story of those later days,
when the soldiers of the republic wrought
that glistening chain of heroic achievements
that. like a continental range of mountain
peaks will forever tower above the plains of
history.
Soldiers OF the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie! Your ranks are moving with unhalting
step. This day the garlands rest upon new
rious troops across the mountains to the sea-
has heard the summons to another shore,
and gone to join the phantom armies of the
skies, and. from our midst, stately form is
missing, whose kindly presence filed an
ample space in all the affairs of life
The lesson of the hour is one of duty and
self-sacrifce. These heroes, from their hal
lowed graves, though voiceless, speak it to
our ears TO coll them dead, and, measuring
by that little span between life's rising and
its setting sun, we speak of their untimely
fate, but. i'll larger, finer sense. their death
was gain. Embedding dutys call, they might
have passed in peaceful comfort the allotted
three score years and ten, and then lain
down, forgotten and unsung, but now, in all
the vigor of unfading youth, they range the
boundless empire of immortal fame
$50 take them, heroes of the songful Past
Open your ranks, let every shining troop
It's phantom banners drOop,
To hail Earth's noblest martyrs, and her lastl
Take them, o Fatherland!
Who, dying. conquered in thy name;
And with grateful hand.
Inscribe their deed who took away thy
blame
Give, for their grandest all, thine insufficient
fame
Take them, God our Brave,
The glad fulfllers of Tiny dread Decree
Who grasped the sword for Peace, and
smote to save
And, as they died for Freedom, also died for
Iheer'