The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1893-03-11

Dakota. There was not any Dakota
when the constitution was made But
it is a question now that concerns your
home life to 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 levyiug papers
on you. The first thing YOU know some
one in whom yOu have had your lie
centered Will turn up out there serving
a writ by a process Of publication IN a
little country newspaper that has cir
culation Of 500. On the circulation OF a
South Dakota country newspaper di-
vorces have been given, ami men and wo-
men have been remarked who lived in the
great city of New York. 1t matters ire
mendOusly what sort of laws they have
out there. There must be a uniform sys-
TEN of justice and administration from
end to end of this great nation.
1t matters to New York what sort OF
laws Pennsylvania has, where they have
got coal mines, and where they supply
your fires through an awful winter
what sort of rules shall regulate the
II ctlAo4b VI wal IL Al4lntS " ClNltS tliiN'
there should be q power somewhere
that could put its hand on coal combine
and strangle it to death whether it is
formed in l, 10 or 80 states. Unless you
have power like that you are abso-
lutely at the mercy of adventures who
can seize and make a corner on the very
bread you eat, On the coal that cooks
your bread, and on everything that comes
into your household today The day
has gone by when it is possible for TINS
nation to reach its true greatness with
out a concentration of its powers, a con
solidation of its laws and making those
laws uniform at a common center, where
justice shall be dealt out north. south,
east, west. The day has come when we
are one, and our nation must recognize
that fact
A TRUTHFUL NATION.
Third-Then the prophet says it shall
keep truth. In the history Of this world
there never has been born a nation that
failed to keep its honor and integrity as a
nation that lived long. Your made solemn
treaty with China and called Almighty
God to witness it with the flag of your
freedom, and then your politicians of both
stripes and all stripes-and they must
have been striped-got down in the dirt at
Washington and crawled before the scum
boat of San Francisco for the sake of
pandering to the lowest and meanest and
narrowest and most devilish spirit in the
American nation and took the treaty
that they had sworn to before Almighty
God and tore it in shreds. tell you, if
you do not repent, God, being a God of
honor and justice and righteousness.
will call you to account for it. 1t is inev-
liable. thank God our supreme court
has annulled at least a part of that in
famous bill. Talk about the heathen-
we are the heather when it comes to a
question like that.
What are we cherishing today? We
cherish schools in some places, l know.
In New York we cherish our saloon as
the apple of our eye. They are the hand
soonest institutions we have. We turn
people away from the church doors, but
they always have room for them at the
saloons every day in the year, and Sun
day too. We are not much on public
baths and establishments for the people
like that, but we have got whisky enough
to float the navy. As city we are not
much on a circulating library, though
we have 100000 people, but we have
got BEER. As you walk along the streets
you won't see many signs that read,
This way to the library or the gymna-
sum-" but BEER, beer, ice cool beer:
beer on draft; st. Louis beer: Milwau-
kee beer; Staten Island beer-beer. bier!
We have got BEER. We are a mighty
people when it comes to beer. We are
the people who can furnish the world.
We once sent men to congress-magnifi-
cent men. You have a beer key in the
senate now, but there is infinite har-
mony in it. 1t is a poem in politics.
When you have so much beer, it ought
TO be represented at Washington.
What is the matter with Mr.. Murphy?
You have so many industries and so
much at stake-why, of course you
should have a man to represent you in
the senate chamber at Washington. We
cherish our saloons instead of truth and
light and life. If a man wants to make
progress in politics, he first keeps one
saloon, then buys another, and after he
has got half a dozen and runs two or
three dives he is ready then for the Judi
ciary or higher honors. If nation is to
endure, it won't endure by that process.
Thank God, the whole nation is not as
mean as New York. The only salvation
Of the nation is that you have got Amer
lean manhood enough back in the rural
districts to hold your great, steaming.
filthy, devilish city by the throat and
say, IF you dare, will strangle your
That is why we have today a nation that
is solid and on which we can depend.
Fourth-If a nation is to endure in the
future, her walls and bulwarks must be
ighteousness-that is, her defense. This
defense really is magnificent men, right
eou5 men. Thank God for righteous men!
One righteous man is a bulwark for a
nation. What was Henry Ward Beecher
n.