Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-13

vided up the exercises of the dav into
two parts-viz., Part l, morning exer-
cises at the grove: Part II, evening exer-
cises also at the grove.
In speaking Of the grove did so more
for devilment than anything else, for
this end Of the state is all grove, being
virgin wilderness against which a
tongue of scandal has never breathed the
breath of the deadly upas tree, nor bigot
forged a chain. Oh, would that ! were
safely back i'll that bright land again, as
the fellow says
The morning exercises consisted of the
usual America" on the or
gazette, accompanied by child voices:
reading of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and n few selections from the pro-
ceedings of the Tennessee legislature:
complimentary prayer by the chaplain;
singing of Red. White and Blue" bv a
man from Statesville: Piece on the melo-
deon, entitled Pee wee Bird Waltz" bv
young woman from distance who Is
visiting North Carolina. and who was
left at Busbee Station By the train whilst
gathering golden rod: address by me
touching on The Growth. Progress and
Final Pluak Of Nations"
There is hardly room here for more
than resume of the address, for it was
long, covering. as it did. the history OF
man and the evolution of government
from the feudal ages, and even back of
that extending through barharic centu-
ries, and so ON down to the present time,
when national and state government be-
comes not only duty but pleasure.
The speaker touched with great power
and feeling upon our duty as citizens. ow-
ing 1t as we do. he went on to say. TO our
selves and our posterity 20 suitably pre-
pare our minds and hearts by early edu-
cation and association for the great du-
ties Of citizenship, and both by our pre-
cept and our practice so live that we
may safely leave the mere act Of voting
70 other heads. The speaker said also
that to the rewly arrived citizen voting
is a new and thrilling experience. Why
not allow him more of it to do. while we
who have the taxes to pay and who
therefore need rest and change of scene,
may safely take much needed relaxation
on election day, and if we do not ike
paper signed Tax Payer" and marked
on the top communicated
This was followed by applause, which,
on being looked up turned our to come
from the wife of the speaker. who had
been huckleberrying, and hearing a
noise in the direction of the speakers
stand had dIIfted around that way, and
having met the audience before shook
hands with him and sat down to hear
the address
The speaker touched lightly on the
subject of the presidency in 1892. and
said that while his health was never SO
good as it was at this time, yet he did not
wish his name used for two reasons. One
was that he had been too fearless in his
denunciation of large moneyed interests,
and the other was that he would rather
lecture all winter at his present prices
than TO deliver ten free speeches per day
out of the tailgate of sleeping car and
then get up three times in the night in
a suit of pajamas to inquire the name of
the station and then make ten minutes
cyclopedia speech on its resources.
The audience agreed after the address
to use his influence toward seeing that
the speakers name was not brought up
before the convention. After the ad-
dress the mayor of Skylaud, who owns
the sugar bush in which the opera house
stands, opened fresh case of Bent's
justly celebrated water crackers, together
with new Chalybiate spring that tasted
like the basement of a wholesale hard