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

ronr men of commerce. Righteous men
are the only real bulwarks Of people.
VIXEN l say righteous men, do MOI
mean women viii have nothing to do WIN
it. George Washington, being born. must
have had a mother. That Is an neon
trovertible proposition. Righteous moth
erhood. patriotic motherhood, was the
real foundation Of this mans greatness.
1t was the mother that George Wash
ington had that gave to him character
that stamped him with power and maze
him the matchless man he was III the
history of his country and the world
In estimating the life Of nation you
must understand that righteous mother
hood is the power that forms and tash-
ions righteous manhood and makes II
possible thus TO have your bulwarkS OF
nations. The power that made Carthage
put up such a wonderful war was thal
her women came down TO the walls and
cut their hair and wove 1t INTO bow
strings. And what made 1t so hard tC
conquer the south in the last war was
that after the first two years OF the war,
when your proclamation of emanclpa-
ton had struck deathblOw at the
home life of the south, every woman III
the south, from its length and breadth,
was against the Union and against Its
triumph, and the south fought for l.
long months after she would have fought
if it had not been that her women SAID,
The home and the home life have been
attacked"
That is why it took the great army OF
Grant to come down III that last cam
paign. That is why that ragged army
fell back so sullenly over the dead at
Appomattox, because the mothers of the
south sent their 16 and 1S-year-Old boys
into battle and said: Go, die for youI
country, and Go not come back home
with wound in your back. l would
rather see You dead If yOu have
mothers who believe in your nation and
its power and its fag-and every south
ern woman today believes III the flag OF
the old nation, Of the new nation reborn
again-if you have such mothers, then
your nation is in that sense secure.
Righteous men Will be the result.
\ GLORIOUS FUTURE FOR AMERICA.
l believe the outlook is bright. Ameri-
ca will be the strong nation Of the world.
The church is making progress. Twenty
million church members in America to-
day! One hundred and forty-six thou
sand churches in America today! Do
not be alarmed at the Catholics. Last
year the Methodist church alone gave
more money to the spread of the gospel
than the whole Roman church that girts
the earth. God is leading the nation on
to its triumph. You have your schools
free-13, 100000 children! Teach them
patriotism, truth and freedom, and the
gates of hell will not prevail against that
invincible power.
Politics? Yes, am encouraged there.
Things are looking better. Men are do
ing bigger things in politics. President
Harrison appointed a man of another
party just before he went out, showing
that the day of party fetichism is gone.
And now the new president comes in and
does worse thing than that-appoints
as secretary of state in the
new administration. The day has come
when men and principles, not party ma
chinery, are running our nation.
thank God that hour has dawned in
the nation which witnesses an era of
new hope and glory. Let them annex the
Islands. There is to be a fed
Grafton of the English speaking world,
and then another nation will be born that
will exercise a supreme power in the his
tory of mankind. We were born of old
England. We ought never to have fought
each other. She ought to have said to her
child, who was of age, go now; you are
free" But she did not, and we had to
whip her. But the hour has come when
the English speaking world should be
one, federation bound by common
of common God around free
church, and that a church that sends its
missions to every quarter of the globe.
Remember, in that amalgamation
with 10000, 900 people, will lead
the old country as she did before. Donot
get down and worship fiunky or dia-
lem. Leonard Jerome, whose daugh-
-er married Lord Randolph Church
ii, went over to see her once, but he
would never acknowledge her title. He
Jailed at her door and asked if Mrs.
Churchill was in. The fiunky opened
The door half way and said to him, Her
eddyship is at 'ome. but not to the likes
If you, sir" And that big man reached
n the doorway, twisted him around and
said, You go up and tell your mistress
hat her daddy is down here and wants
% see her" Let them marry English
people If they want TO, but remember
you have mission in the world as free
nation. In the coming English federation
you, as an American, stand for some
hing, and be sure you stand forit. With
iod leading the nation and her people in
ways incarnate Of truth, triumph in the
md is sure.
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