News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-02-16
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VI Rev. Mr.. WlnShlp'S lecture last
Wednesday evening, in the Morris
vile lecture course, under the above
given topic, nothing but words of
praise have been heard. Treated not
so much with fine OratOrical polish
as with good sound reasoning and
plain, candid expression, embracing
IN part the thoughts that on this Col
umbian year it is natural for US to
look backward, but still, aren't we
more interested in Americas to-day
| than it's yesterday, or it's tomorrow
even? We have failed to remember
| that history has never made tO-mor-
row or to-day. 1t is always the to-
morrow of an event that makes bis
tory. The Mills bill not long since
was considered destined to have
part in history, but it had no to-mor-
row, therefore no history. The Me
Kinley bill possibly may have no to-
morrow, and if not it has no history.
We celebrate Columbus discovery,
not because of what he was, and we
celebrate the birthday of America,
not what it was, but what it is to-
day. tits the tomorrow of Plymouth
Importance of the tomorrow of any
and every event is evident. When Col.
Hayne made that speech in the United
States Senate it seemed quite gener-
ally believed that he had made a
speech that never could be answered,
but Webster arose and met the de-
mand. Webster went to his grave
not knowing of his victory, but the
tomorrow ofthose two great speeches
made plain the victory won. 1t was
the tomorrow of that speech, bap-
tised with the blood of thousands,
that made Webster famous. II we
have any pride here in America we
must look we'll to it, that our to-day
is in keeping and harmony with the
best possible tomorrow. The speak
er then gave comprehensive facts rel
alive to the increase of wealth in
America-the almost startling in
crease per capita between the years
1880 and 1890, notwithstanding the
thousands of paupers coming to us
from foreign lands. There is not
ghost of truth in the claim often
made that the rich have grown richer
and the poor have grown poorer.
The poor man has really added more
| to his position and possibilities than
the rich man. The advance in gain
of comforts for the home life IF the
wOrkiDgman has been marvellous,
while the rich man has not that, but
simply may count more dollars. The
great difference in shipping facilities
has worked mainly to the poor
mans advantage The princes of the
old world never dreamed of riding in
such style as the poor man in this
country does when he enters the rich
ly cushioned electric car and rides 10,
II, l 5 miles for five cents. No other
result is possible than that some men
acquire great wealth under favorable
conditions, andit is necessary thatit
should be so. just as New York or
| Chicago are immense, so there must
be men of great wealth if the country
is prosperous.
The decrease in pauperism was then
referred to, and facts given to show
the decrease. Once a pauper always
a pauper, is the general rule. 1t is
the healthiest occupation in America.
They remain healthy and live to
ripe old age. We have no disrespect
for them. Our population is con-
stantly increasing at a much greater
rate than the pauper population.
America, the best country on earth,
is attempting to pc out pauperism
by universal prosperity, and in her
tomorrow great advance will be real
lied in that direction. AS deplorable |
ir 10 hnxyo ,1i,fnnaoI
all nations in the line of murders. |
England, with all hergreat centres of
desperate people, is not in sight of US
in this respect. The claim that rum,
foreign population and a tendency to
large cities, are responsible for this, |
is made, but the responsibility is not |
all there; there are Others. The non
church-going tendency of the Ameri- !
can people has dangers close to us. |
We, as Americans, find it easy to try |
reform ON those who are away off
somewhere, but there is a sober and |
very serious matter confronting US at |
our very doors. These church bells |
must carry the truth into the homes |
of our land; if not, America has no !
tomorrow We know full well the |
unrest in this country. The more
prosperity, the more unrest in a GER
tain way. The nervous forces are
strained to the utmost. Is America |
to keep up this pace? Can the people |
stand it? No; you know they can
not. On the strength of prosperity
alone America cannot stand perma-
nently above the other nations of the
world. Look at England's acquisi-
tiveness and economic focus-how she
has been picking up and picking up
for these many years. Why there
hasn't been a piece of land laying
around loose for the past 200 years
but what England has picked up, and
now for the past few days she has
been in delirium tremens for fear the
United States would secure the Ha-
vain Islands. Germany's intellect
ual focus, Frances thrift and social
focus are prominent before us. Amer
lea has no economic focus, cannot
grapple economic questions, is not in
tellectual as Germany, has not the
social focus of France. What, then,
must be the warp and wool of our
! fabric to make a tomorrow? | dare
not prophesy, but, being a Yankee,
can and will guess. Americas mis-
J sion is to be the solving of the prob
| lens of humanity Her mission then,
is heaven high above these traits of
England, Germany and France. Cas-
tie Gardens gates open inward. God
opened them. His design, [ believe,
that America shall solve the conse-
quent problems. These problems of
humanity for us to solve are the
problems of labor, liquor, loyalty,
race and religion. These are not
Americas problems, but problems
of humanity. They are to be solved
here or they will never be solved. 1t
must be or we step backward. Amer
lea must rise in her majesty and do
this America is moral, and is rapid
ly developing the keenest practical
intellectually. She is always ready
in every emergency. 1t was the moral
purpose of America that fought the
British at Concord Bridge, and decid-
ed by the blood of a million men the
great questions involved in the civil
war. We have, then, Americas to-
morrow to make, with all it's grand
possibilities, and with the young men
of to-day rests the responsibility. The
young men must come to the front,
and as | look into the future / say,
thank God for the boys.
FIVE MEN KILLED.-By the falling