The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-05

| has given place to 0 deep and absorbing | interest n public affairs. The masses of the | people nge considering economic questions more earnestly than ever before and are | aroused to ineir impor tance as affecting their | own individual happiness and prosperity To | wisely guido them calls for the exercise or the | highest wisdom, coolest judgment and purest | patriotism No party can be safely trusted | with the sacred interests Of the peo- l pie or tho control of the government without | 1t possesses e fixed honest and enlightened | purpose. Singleness of purpose is necessary | to every reform, indispensable to wise admin l istration and Legislation Tho want of this | quality is tho intirmity Of the present admin | istration and the present congress. Their vic tory was due 10 discontent Of every kind It
 was not the result of unity of purpose, nor of
 outcome of misguided judgment pique, passion and prejudice. The majority or those who voted for Mir Cleveland and the present demo- cratic congress did not agree upon any principle
 or policy. They had their several different
 reasons for opposition to tho republican party and their temporary union was not inspired
 by devotion 10 democratic principles, pur- poses or policies. Frec silver men voted the democratic tickeE opponents to free silver, or to any silver in our circulating medium, voted
 it.; the widest inilatIonists, as well as those
 infexbly opposed to every form of imitation of our currency, voted it; the protectionfst voted 1t because he did not believe the democratic leaders would be reckless enough to disturb tho tariff the free trader voted it in the belief
 that inc democratic leaders would demolish all custom houses and inaugurate unrestricted
 commerce with all the world; the single tax
 men, the disciples of Henry George, voted 1t, while thousands who hate all such yagaries voted it; the silver stan
 dard the gold standard, the double stan dard, the paper money advocates and the advocates or state bank money voted 1t; pen sioners voted 1t. and those who were certain
 that the democratic leaders could De counted upon to wipe out all pensions voted it. And when It was all over and the victory was won by these various antagonistic and con tending elements the realization of their hoDpg and the of leUia. lation for the good of the country wero of course found to be utterly impossible. Failure and disappointment were bound to follow an administration and congress thus chosen, and the whole country suffers as re. suit Tho administration and congress are accomplished anything-whilo they are yet
 wranging about what they will do-the people have become 80 dissatisfied as to burn with
 them A general election was never before so much desired as now, and never so much needed. The altogether too common idea that
 there is fin fact little difference between the 1 two parties, and that the country will prosper equally well whichever may be in power, has been completely exploded by one years trial Of | the democratic party. That difference has
 been shown to be so vast as to fill the country with astonishment It is greater question than who shall hold the oflces. In fact 1t has been demonstrated that the success of one party or tho other means all the difference be- | tween national happiness ano prosperity and national discontent and distress
 w nat part small you, IcllOW-COuuITyLue
 Of the state of Minnesots take in the settle
 ment of these great and pressing public ques- | tionsH May we not hope that the spirit of jus ticc and patriotism which animated you in the critical days of the past when the people of the northwest led the hosts Of freedom in the I great contest with the slave power may still in- ] spire you to even mightler efforts in behalf of | the fundamental principles of our government and of our industrial Independence and pros- | perltyl Standing before tbis vast assembly, I | recall tho words of William IL Seward spoken | tO inc DpODlg of St Paul SeUtember lS. lSCU, when he said:
 .'The virtue which Is to save this nation | musf reside fin the northwest On both sides | of this stream arc the people who hold in their
 hands tho destinies of the republic. That | some great states are to be built up in the
 valley of the Mississippi, 1 know. You will
 no longer hear hereafter Of the old | Dominion state: dominion passed away from | Virginia long ago Pennsylvania is no longer | tho Keystone Of the American union, for The
 arch has beer extended from the Atlantic | coast to the Pacific ocean and the center of the
 arch IS moved westward. A new keystone is l to be built Tn that arch New York will cease | to be the Empire state, and new empire state | will grow up fin 0 northern latitude where the | lands are rich and where the people who culti- | vate them are all free and all equal That
 state which shall be truest to the great funda.
 mental principles of tho government, that | state which shall be most faithful and most | vigorous fin developing and perfecting society | on those principles-will be at once the new | domlnion state, the new keystone state, the new l empire state"
 ! TIC uutSDOu TOT WHICH llc BTedb NtW lOrh | statesman spoke so eloquently has been set.
 tied. righteously settled. as he plead and prayed | 1t might be; settled in consequence of the | decrces of tho great campaign in which ! he spoSe; settled by the great liberator for | whom he spoke, the immortal Lincoln; set 1 tied in eternal justice, for freedom and man | kind. Citizenship is no longer unequal and | every man is free beneath the flag The diff | ferences existing then arc no longer presen. | to impede the progress and unity Of the | republic, or to stand between us fin the | realization of it's highest interests. Now all l sections and all states bow at the shrine of | freedom. All have common and glorious citi- | zenship all like interest in the permanency | and progress of the union. The liberty for | which Seward spoke has been secured and the l union saved stronger and better than ever | The virtue which is to advance the nation now | free to its highest destiny and glory must re- 1 side in the people, not of the northwest alone, i but in the s00lio Of every part of our common l country. The northwest can be relied upon now
 and in the future, as in the past to contribute | to the onward march of the best government on tIa faaA fha orfh