Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-09-06
A Splendid Republican Welcome.

AS spoHsor Vi the people OF the
city of Yankton, on this occasion,
| appreciate the honor of extending
that spontaneous, heartfelt and
enthusiastic welcome which now
throws open wide the doors Of our
civic hospitality to you and the
accredited and honored representa-
tives from every county of our state
OF that great political party which
through thirty most eventful and
crucial years. shaped the character
and destiny of our national life.
In most profound and grateful
recognition, | not only bid you All
hail! and welcome to our midst che
representatives of that party which
in the person of its first great leader
and fallen and sainted martyr, gave
to this land, to the world and
humanity, not only that prophetic
mind Of most colossal grasp, but
also gave the purity, the tenderness
the magnanimity and moral grand
eur Of the character of Abraham
Lincoln.
We welcome you as the -epresen.
tatives of that great party that,
through the vigorous prosecution of
the fiercest civil war in the annals
of all time, forever established be-
yond the question of = doubt, that
ours, is q union-one and INSOFAR
able.
We welcome you as the represen.
tatives OF that great party which.
on its first assumption of the reins
of government, found our public
credit almost hopelessly shattered
and yet within the space of three
short decades left US, though the
youngest, yet the richest nation on
the entire face Of the globe.
While in my representative char.
acter, the proprieties Of the occasion
forbid me from speaking to you
from the standpoint of any personal
political preference of my own, yet
as lovingly loyal children of this
great American Union, l know that
beating i'll responsive accord, all
our hearts are n as the sea.
In political character, however
may differ those for whom | now
speak, | know that, in common
with yourselves, We are all, indis.
solubly bound together, not only by
the common and glorious heritage
OF the most comprehensive and per-
feet liberty ever vouchsafed to man
but also by nothing less than the
sublime purpose of seeing to it that
no harm shall come to our republic,
but that with a newer glory and
diviner power, it shall be transmit
ted, unimpaired, to those who shall
come after us.
Whatever else We may desire, /
know that all want nothing that
shall not conslst with the speediest
and most complete realization of
this highest and purest aim of every
patriot heart.
Therefore it is that, as a nation,
we must 60 forward and not back
ward. Therefore it is that we want
virtue and not Acknowledgements and
not ignorance.
We want faith and not doubling;
hope and not despair. We want
the golden harvest but not the
shrlveled price.
W. want the cattle OH a thousand
hill but not the wool Of Australian
hocks.
We want commercial life and not
industrial death. We want the
ringing anvil and not the silent
anvil.
We want the whirring spindles
and not the m~otionless looms.
We want the quickened pulse of
trade but not the heel of grinding
trusts.
We want the stir of eager feet and
not the idleness of rowing tramps.
We want the bread of honest toll
but not grim and CHASTITY famine's
clutch.
We want the natural equality of
right and not the arrogance of soul
less wealth.
We want employment for labor