Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-05

stand up for and defend and the way in
which We did It, You say the peopIe have
dlsapproved both. Very well Your $50
majority has then one veIy plain dnty. il
is to make a new tariff. Do it without
Sinking or dedging. Do what Won saw
the people sent yen there to do; do IL as
we dld our work In the ffty-6rst congress
IN straightforward. manly fashion; and
on that let US 20 the people
for the young persons Who have dur
ing the last two or three years gone over
to democracy because of their dissatisfac-
ton with the slow processes by which re-
pqohcans are bringing in the millennium
l nave only feelings Of kindness. Young
persons are apt to be restless, uneasy and
impatient of slow progress. The doctrine
OF free trade naturally attracts them from
ITS being in accord with the divine idea
of the universal brotherhood of man. Be.
side 1t the law of self-preseryation or of
enlightened self.interest seems narrow
and provincial. Well, some of us have
dim notions Of coming millennium,
when the lamb can lie down with the
hon, unprotected by a tariff on wool: but
we are not looking for it Tomorrow, nor
do we discern in the bruised lineaments
damaged features of the democratic party
any suggestions of the "little child that
Will lead the menagerie.
The language of Impotence always
seems eloquent. 1t is apt to be fervent
and spirited, and glowing with confidence.
de whose memory we recall SO tenderly
to night heard il almost continuously
above the din and tumult Of the war; the
presSurn and urgency aud impatience of
men who could not wait. Greater than
all OF them, with clearer vision and a
yasser view, he trod his lonely way with
sub lmest patience and unfailing trust
Stand still, Dick. and see the salvation
OF the Lord, was his answer when Gov.
Yates protested angrily against DELAYING
emancipation. Fools drift, pilots steer,
said the most polished orator of his time,
IN scathing philippe ardigning the adj
ministration for its feebleness and inca
pacity; and a sympathetic audience APP
plauded, for 1t suited their impatience and
sounded well. And yet, il | may para
phrase a famous saying, the world will
little note nor long remember what Wen
dell Phillips said here; it can never forget
what Abraham Lincoln did here.
Patience; patience, my friendsl No
party ever was immaculate, none ever free
from seif-see kers, none ever exempt from
mistakes. Ours is party of human be-
lngs, with human purposes and aims and
with human weaknesses. 1t does not
promise to bring in the millennium to-day,
or tomorrow, or next week But it does
believe in all things that contribute to the
general welfare; all things that are true
and honest and that have for their ulti.
mate end the amelioration of hard
conditions and the upbuil6lng of man
kird. Except for its saving grace we
should have fallen back into barbarism in
1860, into feebIeness and dissolution in
1862, into bankruptcy and reputation
after the war, and into rudderless drift.
ing on unchartered seas in the years that
followed 1t has always stood for some
thing, meant something, fought for some
hing. its record before the world; the
story of high endeavor and great achieve.
ment. We stand on it, abide by it,
waiting only the order to go forward