The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-11-09
HOME RULE.
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BY zoe. 3. 9. poNNEY. ID. D.


OF the citizens OF Chicago
In behalf Of the law abiding
and order loving citizens Of
Chicago, l greet you and bid you
welcome, on your return TO the
field of your active labors, after
your successful journeyings in
search of the rest and restoration
which ever pressing demands
upon your time and strength
would not permit you to find al
home. We trust that you come
back to us with such a store OF
health and energy that for many
years to come you will be able to
discharge the onerous duties OF
the high positions in which the
providence of God has placed
you.
We welcome you, not only for
your long and splendid career of
human service, but even more
earnestly because we need your
aid in the great emergencies
which now confront, not only the
citizens Of Chicago. and other
great cities of our country, but
the justice loving masses of the
American people.
The present alarming condi-
tion of the country demonstrates
the need of some more direct and
efficient means and methods of
dealing with public disorder and
private crime: with conflicts of
labor and capital; with munich
pal corruption; with political de-
moralization and inadequate pub
lie service. We boast an ideal
.s5Iesga Of trees eTe e. s ss 3
the facility with which bad
man, or an unqualified man may
obtain possession of a public of;
fee was created, shows that
while the system is indeed ideal,
its actual application to human
affairs is far from perfect.
Whatever difference of opinion
may prevail about suffrage and
ofice-holding. enlightened man
kind agree that it is the right
and the duty of women to exert
all their mighty influence in
favor of virtue, good morals, in
dustry, education, and the gen.
eral welfare of the people AS
we cannot wait for great changes
to be wroughtin the constitutions
and the laws of the States and
the nation, but must at once if
we would avert more widespread
and appalling disasters than
that which we have recently wit.
messed, we appeal to you, and to
the hosts that follow your lead.
ership, TO enter without delay
upon a great campaign of home
rule for the deliverance of the
country from the evils TO which
reference has been made, and
from which no merely partisan
organization can long keep it ex-
empt.
By home rule, 1 mean the con-
troll of he country, the great
cities. tie States and the nation,
not by me liquor traffic, not by
the great trusts and combinations,
not by labor organizations, not
by par san oligarchies, but by
the ho.:es of the country, ex,
pressing their convictions
throus all existing agencies, to
secure the dominance of the
princi les and the interests
which ;hese homes represent.
Tic home is the microism of
the State, the church and the
school, all of which exist for the
sake of the families for whom
the lone itself is created and
maintained. All public ques.
tions should be discussed at the
fireside and the table. and for the
individual voter should be set.
tied there. He whose political
action is true to the sacred in
terests of home. will never be
found false to the true interests
of his country or his church.
, II this kind of home rule could
be established, it would wisely
control the high Offices of cities,
States and nation, and would adj
minister their powers with an