Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-01

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south . aY1 trains IA tue OH htnHetsS ADr
Portland railroad we're crowded. With entna-
siassic blne-eoats some Of whom never :. :
turned snsi sorse Of whom came BACK but 70
die Their names are cut in memorial gran
tie from th~ir nasive hills;
Their good .xords rust,
Thsfr sres~s aa-e.
Tn~Er soul. arr with the ssiuas, we IL
Col fsrbii til Il ever again sae. and eepetlAi-
~ civil strife, fdepopaixte car homes
or hang oar Aeayrns with black, YET
il just ean.e Of conflict come again, We know
that heroism will meet and welcome
il As before. When pope dies
and from the college of cardinals
his successor is 10 bs excited. that whs ie
college receives the obeisance Of the faith
fui, because the unsolicited and unknown
future pon,if is al any rate one among
them. So | feel ike saiatins
the uareeognized heroes who, half un-
known to Us and all unknown to themselves,
are now patiently and obsesrely at work at
the forge 0. in the field. euttiag ribbons
behind the counter or sticking type for
tomorrow's paper; teaching or preaching or
tending engine or loom. In 1861 Au'erica
never dreamed that in comparatively OBJ
seure practical politician or an Old West
Pointer and hals-saeeesstnl business man,
il had Abraham Lincoln, the typical char-
acter OF American Institutions, or the m
vineible soldier Grant. So 1t WAS before,
Al so il will BE- again, not onlg In the
W bite House and the generals tent, but all
the way down 10 sergeant and corporal ana
private LIT us hone, however. tina. the
future conflict of our honlely knights VIII
be with ignorance, vice and intemperance,
not with hostile armies on distant and more
yisibly warlike fields.
Az regards freedom in religion, ! know
that careful student of the institutions OF
our native State finds whole sections appar-
entity Goddess aud Christ.ess, and other
regions in an apparent spiritual decline. He
seems to show, in the words Of another,
what everyone. whose memory goes back a
generation, real;zes-that the New England
of our fathers has gone forever. Its populs-
ton has changed from an almost purely Anglo
Saxon stock TO a mixed body of halfnatiyes
and half foreigners and their descendants of
the first generation. IL is no longer Puri-
tan in theology, nor is the church the power
in the state il once was. Or AS he him
; If declares r. ii.ion has not that
grasp on the community whole and on
the concrete relations OF everyday life
which 1t once had" Possibly SO; yet when
one inquiries of the ancient men" OF the
state OF thiag. in Augusta and Hallowell
between l>fHi and 1895, as regard intem-
perance, immortality, illegltimacy. lottery
gambling. vulgar atheism, dishonest bank
ruptey, and minor evils when he searches
the church records aud newspaper files of
the good old times, he must conclude
either that vice was more rampant then than
now. or that the tithing men were brighter
than the ubiquitous and omniscient modern
reporters in ferreting il out. Ethics, sure
", has an increasing hold on the commu-
nifty, as may be demonstrated by following
our New England social chronicles from
Bradford and Winthrop's journals to such
recent books as Weedens Economic and
Social History of New England or Charles
Francis Adams Three Episodes in New
England History. And for our optimistic
view of the future We find no more cheer
ing portent than the eminently catholic, far
seeing, and practical scheme of President
Hyde himself for minimizing the waste of
energy due to wretched UNCONVENTIONAL
scrambles whereby three miserable meeting
houses are made to fall into ruins on land
2. The coming New Highlander will re-
speet character and deem it the flower of
time, the latest result of an evolution which
has already done much, but which, being
continuous, has far more to do in future
years. He will believe in man, not in name
or fortune; will recognize on the one hand
no aristocracy of wealth, and on the other
no voting aristocracy of mendicancy sup
ported by socislistic government and ca
joled by self-seeking demagogues. A Phil
adelphia journalist has well said that ''the
working people enjoy more privileges and
enjoy more prosperity in this country than
in any other and enjoy them in greater
measure now than at any former period. :"
They know this and they respect themselves
accordingly-theg, do ! say gre for all of
US are the working classes in a state where,
thank God, the loafer is almost as great a
varity as the plutocrat, for toll is necessary,
and great fortunes are few.
3. II the future New Highlander is not
able to include common sense as one of his
most conspicuous characteristics, he will
fail to deserve his name. Emerson our
most typical New England philosopher, has
been called "a combination of Massachu-
sets farmer and Hindoo seer; his common
sense always accompanies him in his high
est flights, and Emerson himself pointedly
inquiries, in his verses on Tact"
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What profit thy parts.
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