The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-06-04

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children would be orphaned. Sons of
Veterans, did yonr fathers hesitate?
Grant himself says the soldiers
in that line said to him,
BE cautions. but don't spare us. Give
Little Phil' permission to send us in
and in five minutes we will whip Lees
army out of their boots" That is the
kind of stuff, fellow citizens, you jostie
against every day i'll the persons of the
survivors of the Grand Army.
Young man. do you know what this
story means toyou. As you are growing
up to manhood remember, and let it be
an incentive to work, that there is no
spot on this round globe whore
You will be more surely sized up and
given credit for what you do than in the
United States. The road to honor and
plenty is before you. 1t is your business
till 81 to get good habits. get knowledge.
get strong bodies. That was what this
war was fought for, that YOU might have
| opportunities to get these things. In
Harvard and Yale, in Cornelland Hamil-
ton the rich mans son touches elbows
| with the son of the poor man. Where
there is Il will there is a way. The
capable get TO the front. Make yourself
capable. Bat you can't loaf and slnok g
and drink Yourself into capable man
hood. II yon care to take that course
for y0u this war has been fought in vain.
In forty years you will be just where you
| started-more wTinklei, more dried up
though, but still loafing, still smoking,
still drinking. On the other hand, when
| 40 wears have passed AWAY Brnle county
| will be covered with valuable farms,
with comfortable homes surrounded by
groves and gardens and wei! TILED fields.
| These W ill be yours, young man, il you
are capable. These workshops will be
owned by other toilers than the ones you
now see. These stores and banks will all
| change hands. Other men will fill our
county offices nnd legislatures, our halls
OF congress, our governors and prcsiden-
tiai clltirs. These things also will be
yours ii you are capable. Not one in
| ten OF the prosperous men you meet has,
| had other assistance than his own brain
his own willing hands and strong body.
You have the same chance they had.
| And that was what these men were
lighting for in 6l:-they proposed that
| you. young man, should live under flag
these opportunities, but that you should
| live under y flag that controlled power
| enongh TO guarantee them to vou.
And yon, careful. conservative business
men, what do you think oi these things
Busy you are from morning till night;
you feel confident, you feel safe in your
ventures, you Wnnid not exchange your
business opportunities fer citizenship in
any other land. Did you ever ask yoGr-
self why this state OF Things? Don't you
know it is because the stars and stripes
Oh our flag were not wiped off by treason
because these men over here gave up
their business opportunities, gave up the
best years OF their lives tramping around
hunting fer q chance to get shot at, that
y0n now have golden opportunities tt
easily and continually pile up the dol
lars! lon wont object to an equation
being struck? You won't object to hay
ing things evened up, will YOU? Not as
q matter OF sentiment. not as matter OF
gratitude, bul as a matter OF business
pure and simple. Men OF money anc
credit loaned their money and credit tC
| tiiS SbNc ihicit. Aii !IuJlul W itlfh VIII
were willing to risk their pocket books
honestly and justly, as they ought to be
paid Men of patriotism gave their tim,
and rsked ttcir lives when the govern
plent was too poor to pay what thei
services were actually worth. Thangs t,
their patriotism you are now enjoying
your present business opportunities
, Thanks to their patriotism we are nov
! rich and prosperous. and they should b
paid honestly and fairly as our other
creditors have been paid. There is n
sentiment, there is no charity about il
1t is matter simply of integrity in bus
, mess. You know and know that ha
any man who objects to things bein
]. fairly osened up chanced to have burs
I an Old pair of suspenders straightenin!
, his legs to get away from the draft, Il,
, would long ere this have had bill in t,
G this government for a whole suit o
4 clothes,
t My friends, these Decoration Da
exercises do not pay our debt to th
: living soldiers, however much they ma
/. ease somebody's conscience for what the
a may have said about the patriotism {
(. the dead soldier. We get the benefit {
: these exercises not they. They mus
II soon pass away from this scene OF actio
\ and we are the ones interested in TIL
G continuance of free institutions. Jtthes
t, exercises are Of any practical value tina
5 yaleu is for us. They are productive {
is good only in the measure they teach thu
g young boy yonder when occasion ma
$ require, to battle as manfully for IL
l flag as these men battlcd.
g Bnt another phase OF this subjec
II There arc thousands OF our citizens ar
r, millions Of American trade that do hi
II enjoy the safety you enjoy. Their SAT-
y ty and prosperity are your safety al
Il prosperity. So intricate, so mutual
" dependant have the various branches
d modern trafic become that injury
il obstruction TO one branch is quickly fe
& ba all. And yet those American shi
Of sailing up the Baltic. laden to the dec
!e with food for the furnished Russians a
w utterly nj the mercy Of any freeboOte
10 that may chance to roam the sea unlc
re- protected by foreign men-of-war. ! q
20 well aware that those ships are safe.
er am we'll aware the poor Russian pheasa
re- will salute. not dishonor our flag. | II
n we'll aware that prominent Americ'
II. cnca standing on the shores of foreif
10 harb0r, and seeing among the hundre
at of noble craft AT anchor one solitary /
IN tie ship flying the stars and stripes, st
rk to an old lrishman standing near: ''.
IS. what country does that ship yoni
lr beIong?, After looking at the ship fol
,e- moment, the old man said, with tears
er his eyes, Il don't know to what count
IL that little ship belongs, hut [ do knc
at that is the flag that brought food
in starving Ireland.
re We all know that our flag is held
n great esteem among the poor eve
an WHERE. and we are proud ct the goot
I'd has done. But. fellow citizens. we cf
mt not loai nIl our ships with charity neith
". can we settle al! our disputes by arbitl
no ton. The scAolars sitting by me W
ng tell you that geometry is a wonder
lid science. bHt they will tell you, that
a question the axiom of geometry would
al toutterly annihilata that science. Line
on said that every man had the right to
Id the bread which the toi! OF his oTn ha
a the sweat OF his own brow had earn
no Nnnld lincoln have entertained nj u