The advocate., 1891-05-27
'INATIoNAG EYENTS or THE YEAR.v y

diametrically opposite in it's teach
ings to the Tribune, in these latter
days which was founded on April
Al, 1841, by Horace Greeley, one oi
the most distinguished representative
men this nation Of United States Of
America has ever produced--hss ex-
tracts from an address, with the
above title, which was delivered by
Miss Bertha Canary, of Independence,
Kansas, before a teachers association
at their closing session. AS they ex-
press thoughts that breathe and
words that burn, and evidence the
great fact that woman is at work in
this broad land Of ours and is mani
fsstly leaving her impress upon the
body polite, THE ADVOCATE gives
them place, with accompanying COM
ments and comparisons. The People
remarks, "The passage we select has
special bearing on the coming upriS-
ing Of the people:
Another event that showed the unstablenesS
Of present thought and form was the November
election. It was q political earthquake. Noun.
tains OF custom and prejudice trembled and fell.
Party ties were sundered; party fav0riteS were
buried beneath new party creeds. Whether the
results viii accomplish permanent good or not
remains to be seen; but this fact stands out clear
and bold; the American people Is brave enough
to changeitS mind.
One Of the crimes which condemn the present
age is the lack OF leisure. Take from every soul
in our land its leisure for the coming half CEN
tury, who Is bold enough to picture the condition
OF society In 1871? We hear weary deal In
these days about the dignity Of labor and the no.
blity Of toll, but strangely little do we hear Of
the dignity Of the aborer and the nobility OF the
t0llcr. The stern fact is that large and alarm
ingly increasing portion Of the labOring class Ia
deprived Of the opportunity to know the slgnih-
cance and Importance of dignity and nobility.
The man who tolls from ten to fourteen hours
per day, five or ten miles from home, for half
enough to purchase the deCenCieS Of life, and bis
wife, who must do the manual work Of three
women, In addition to her duties as heart and
housekeeper, have neither the requisite time nor
means to study science or literature, or to delye
into ethics or sociology. Their ideas Of dignity
and nobility are 10 Stunted that In numerous In
stances they imagine these attributes to be neceS
saTly foreign to all but the sOcalled arlStOcracy,
aud often they mistake SuperclllOuS, vulgar
eQcluSivenesS for dignity, and dress coat sur
rounding dearth Of ideas for nobility.
As Governor Humphrey resides at
Independence it may be said concern
ing the political earthquake in his
county -Montgomery-th that he lacked
518 votes of having a majority in his
county, while Harrison carried it by
24 mjority, loss of 794. Repub-
lican Representatives to the state
Legislature were elected from this
county in 1888 by o majority Of 155;
in 1890, the Republican candidates
were beaten by 400 votes, making q
Republican loss of 564. This was in
deed a demonstration that "the Ameri-
can people is brave enough to change
its mind" Her comprehension Of the
burdened environments that surround
the man and woman who have con-
slant work at most unremunerative
rates is keenly appreciative, and her
following remark, "The man who