The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05

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! 70 Less than the proposition now under discus
sion then IL ceases 20 Be respectable govern
| uent
government less than respectable ceases to
be blessing, and government that is not .
| blessing il a curse. governmental curse is
organized sin When man organizes sin God
organizes punishment don't ask you 20 take
my word for il, but study history, and uni
veysafIy It il 80. When humanity and God have
| measured strength, humanity has demonstrated
Its weakness and God His power. sit is a fear
full thing to fall into the hands Of the living
God" have right 70 be anything in this coun-
try please, but must take the consequences
| can murder my friends If want to, but after
/ that must settle with the scafoId.
/, Putting IL another way, law Is the interrcga-
ton point of civilization II asks all alike, VIII
you obey? II they say yes, so long as they keep
TO that determination law never troubles them.
IL they say no, Law puts guard over them.
In this country, as already intimated. the law
also says: As long as you keep my statutes, not
only wiz not interfere with you, but will see
TO II that nothing else interferes with you.
This gives every man, woman and child under
the shadow Of the Stars and Stripes right 10 do
good work for good pay.
Some one here interposes With 81 do good
work, but don't get good pay" Let me tell you
thing, my friend; there is nothing in this
world with SO perfect ard nicely balanced equi-
Nbrium businessman IL has rules which
compel the survival Of the fttest II any one
will make themselves a master, in whatever
they choose IS an ayocatioB, undertake 70 say
that they will always get good pay. / say what
have said with the full remembrance that my
father and my brother and the husbands of my
sisters are taiors, and with the very fresh recol
lection that oftener work sixteen hours day
than less. / want 70 call attention TO this other
weil-established historical fact, history never
moves backward, and our country says: The
man who keeps the laws shall be protected, and
shall have the right to do good work for good
pay-and If you lift your hand to prevent this
you become q criminal, and there is only one
safe and sensible way 10 treat a criminal, what
ever be his crime, and that is TO punish him.
When q man violates law be does wrong.
When man does wrong he Sins, and SIN has
but one right in eli Gods universe. and that
right is the right TO be punished. / might stop
now and tell the story oft told OF, from the back
woods cabin to the White House, but would
hold up before you a higher ideal, for to be an
American citizen and q good man il about as
honorable record a. this life admits of, and to
such record very little honor can be added.
Before the feet of every American citizen lies
open the path Of honesty, from walking in
which comes Gods noblemen. There 10 another
side TO this question: and it is not well TO pass it
by unnoticed. There is pinching want, there is
grinding slavery, there are lacerating grievances,
but dare TO say here and now, and If you dub
me crank for saying IL / will wear the name as
badge of honor and a distinction to be
proud OF, there is no i'll, save the
misfortunes incident 70 usual mortal life, but
what Americans can rid themselves of at will
call you to witness my words today aud chal.
lenge you who are weary under burdens 70 the
trial. If Americans will cut of the hire Of the
harlot, the wage OF the gambler and the rob
berry Of the saloon, their grievances will disap-
pear like the morning mists and the Utopian
draa stafE all o.,I
sore workers for the uplifting of mankind will
quickly become established facts or give place
TO realization better even than we can dream OF.
For sure, God spoke It OF earth rather than of
heaven when he said. eEye hath not seen, nor
ear heard. neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love him"
You may take the history OF our nation, and
our greatest victories have been achieved only
az we have been in line with the will of God.
On this, our natal day, call upon you, fellow
citizens Go into partnership with God.
Come now, If you please, to another thing I
would impress upon your mind: We are ma
ton.
would have you go from this place with that
trite sentence burned into your very souls The
time was when IL wac question; then the time
was when only our wisest statesmen dared to
hope 1t; then came the time when we believed
1t, but did not tell our nelghbors; today the
world knows IT, but will not admit it. In my
opinion the time has come for US to assert our
nationality. In the days of our weakness there
was enuncisted the Monroe doctrine, which
practically said, "If you will keep your hands
oil our person. you can do what you please else
where" This was possibly wise in the day in
which 1t was uttered, hut I am free to confess
that believe we have outgrown that period.
Did we buy Alaska from Russia? And II we
did, why does every American man-of-war that
q hav pCifa al
consort? Are those seal fisheries within the
limits OF our purchase from the empire of the
car? IL SO, and ii becomes necessary let il be
Numbered through iron throats with sulphur
breath, Islands off," Suppose the United states
would propose TO close the mouth of the Congo,
how soon until red war would hover over the
shores of Africa? And yet England is now, I
learn. proposing to practically close the mouth
OF the Orinoco File on u.s. There is not a
crowned head on these American continents
now, thank God, and the sooner we give the
command. about face-get. to the remaining ser
wants OF kings, the sooner we will show our
good sense.
believe God set US here on these western con-
tinents for q purpose, and that purpose the
building up of vilization OF the highest type.
We have done well personally, now we should
begin TO help our neighbors. Ere this believe
we should have said to the warning factions in
Chile, "Peace, be STILL, and seen to it that they
subsidized.
That bloody butcher Hippolyte should have
been suppressed ere this. Nation? Yes Out
of the sea rises the sun and gilds our East while
the bells of the city are tolling the noon of
night in our homes here on the sound and the
evening is not yet dead yonder on our western
boundary under the North Star. Within this
boundary people. brave, wise, intelligent, pro-
gressiye. would be glad IL could climb some
Mount Pisgah and view what is promised for
my country, but the prospect is too boundless
would be glad of some Patmos from whose
surf-beaten shores would come to the impris-
oned seer vision of the final triumph of the
land OF my birth; but it took head that had
lain against the breaking heart OF God to look
away from Patmos. turn and look ME back
ward and ! see her grow stronger with
each succeeding year. Ny country, whose
first feeble steps excited pity, now
walks the earth with tread which ELECTS only
admiration; across the sea yonder, with reign
ing houses that trace their linesye through cen
turtles, and whose customs and laws are heavy
with years, nations are looking down
the mountain of their achievements
toward the ocean of history in which
the sun OF their existence so fast de-
sends But my country has her face toward
the morning and her feet on the stars and the
scroll of her history is not one OF the boun.
daried and finished epochs of earth, but is held
in the hands OF God. Rejoice with me, young
men and naidens, that This is the land where
you are privileged TO work out your career
We are young yet here in this new state OF
Washington. but with resources as boundles. As
the strength flour young life Yonder. on the
east, stand the Cascade sentinels Out of them
comes our morning when the chariot OF day is
driven into this fair garden by the inland sea
Out OF them, also. | opine. will one day
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