The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-03-09

of the prophet
The prophet, while he thus spoke Of Is.
rael, had in view wider kingdom, q
wider empire, that should go through all
ages and times, and that should endure
forever. While one nation should rise
and another should fall, and God should
call one to account and weigh it in the
balance and throw it on the dust heap Of
the ages out of some obscure race, he
would call another and lead it on and up.
But what are the elements sketched here
In this nation Of which Isaiah dreamedi
A RIGHTEOUS NATION.
First-It must be born of righteous.
ness That Is what Isaiah had in mind
when he said: "Open the gates, clear the
track of history, that the righteous nation
may enter in. Let those that have dealt
unrighteously die" The nation that is
to be born must be born of righteous
parentage. Our nation was born in
Righteousness. Thank God for its his
tory. A distinguished infidel has said
that God had nothing to do with this
country. He never told a bigger lie.
The history of this nation is the history
of the providence of God, and the men
who founded it were righteous men.
Whatever they may have professed to
the world, they were men who had in
their souls a deep and abiding sense Of
reverence for the eternal God, and in
their declaration of Independence, in
their public documents, is written that
faith, for they closed with prayers to the
providence of God for guidance and di-
rection and left in his hands the nation
that they were about to launch. They
rebelled against their government in the
name of God-the God Of liberty and
justice and honor.
They rebelled against the power of
England because she had so acted as to
give them the right primal to say: 81
will not bow to unrighteousness. will
have fairness or / will have war" There
are some things worse than rebellion.
II is peace with dishonor. 1t is the deg
radiation Of servile race that has no
power within to say, This is right, this
is wrong, and | stand and die for the
right" Our fathers were men who could
see the difference between right and
wrong, justice and injustice, honor and
dishonor, and though they turned against
the flag they had sworn to protect they
turned against it in the name of the God
of righteousness. Nations are born thus.
This nation was born in righteousness.
The man who says the Ten Command
ments and the Mosaic law are out Of date
is out of date himself
A PATERNAL GOVERNMENT.
Second-Another element here sketch
ed by the prophet is that the ideal ma
ton shall be strong. believe in a strong
government. Men say the true theory
Of government is laissez faire-the less
government the better. know there
have been distinguished philosophers
who have taught that theory. If you
mean by government a tyranny that
forges chains, | agree with you, but if
you mean by government the communi-
ty issuing the DEGREES of its own right
eous attainment, then you have the true
idea of what real government is. The
government Of this nation is becoming
stronger.
Our fathers built loosely constructed
federation of states, and then there came
an hour when men said, 1--WE are group
of Independent sovereignties; we make
laws for ourselves" And South Caro-
lima seeded, and Massachusetts threat.
ened to- When that happened, you came
together on the battlefield, and you laid
down on the altar of your country the
lives of SOC, 900 heroes, and with their
blood you wrote a new charter for new
nation that should know no little sover-
eighties within its borders, but that
from ocean to ocean and from frozen
north to the open seas of the south
should float but one fag-the symbol of
one people, with mighty central power
at Washington that should issue its de-
crees and have the power supreme to en-
force them Iaccept Appomattox. There
the nation was born again-a new ma
ton, nation of inherent, central power,
centralized at the capital of the nation.
Your old idea of local self government
went down in Appomattox never to rise
again, and nation strong and mighty is
the result.
AS our nation has grown it has grown
in its necessities for that stronger gov
ernment. 1t is useless to talk about
what our ancestors had and used and
liked and disliked. What they meant
by the constitution and what we have
got to have today for a constitution are
two different things. What our fore
fathers got along with 10 years ago and
what your children must have are also
widely different things. You remem-
Der that our fathers some years ago had
TO drive over u whole continent in a
stagecoach when there was no such
thing as intercommunication between
this widely scattered territory. Now
the nation is knit together in a perfect
network of iron bands. and the cleo
tric telegraph and the fast express have
made the whole nation as compact in its
life as a single county was in the days of
George Washington. While we have ad-
yanced and must advance in many
things the administration of justice is
not as it should be in all the states.
NEED OF A STRONG CENTRAL POWER.
We must have today strong govern
ment. 1t did not use to make any diff
ference what sort of laws they had in
Dakota. There was not any Dakota
when the constitution was made. But
it is question now that concerns your
home life 10 know what sort of divorce
laws they have in Sioux Falls. The first
thing some Of you people know your
husband viii be out there levying papers
on you. The first thing you know some
one in whom You have had your life
centered viii turn up ont there serving