The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1895-06-12

All The hopes ana prayers of anxious
humanity bridge this awful chasm
Can an the deep solicitude 81 d patrl:
Iotlc people scatter the clouds that nov
tlarken our SKY, and once more let ID
! the sunlight Of plenty. peace and
pleasure? America, proud and hope
ful America Fragrant flower that
\ smiled from the dismal depths DC an
unbroken wilderness. Is this the be
/ ginning Of thy decay or is it only
| the dark hour before the dawn whose
coming sun shall warm and burst III
Ito splendor new blossoms of untold
glory What is thy mission Is ii
to bloom and tempt and fade is II
I'd trifIe with human hope and daily
with human freedom, awaken a thirst
for liberty, inspire love for justice
and equality. then fali ignominiously
| fall, by the cradle Of infancy and leave
disappointed humanity to gasp in the
struggling clutch Of an Nsurping
Tyranny No. God forbid "A blood
brought freedom can never be sacrific-
ed so cheaply. land so full Of
promise. q government SO firmly built
resting, as it does, upon equality, the
eternal principle Of Justice, has d mo-
bier mission. It's establishment was
for a nobler purpose. God inspired
the mind that wrote the Declaration
of Independe and directed the hand
that wrote the Constitution Of the
United States.
In this great Republic, in its fresh
morning life, before wrong, error and
injustice have had time to crystalline,
with no inherent disposition to class
es on caste, with all power il the peo-
pie who are advancing in intelligence
and enlightment, with sixty centuries
of recorded examples and experience
behind it, the underbrush of tyran-.
MES, errors and preiudices of centu-
ries cut away, the situation clearly in
view, and the question pressing for
solution, who will question that this
is the time, and our country the place.
to begin to solve the problem of ages /?
TO prevent war, to distribute wealth
equitably, to regulate the forces of
competition, tosecure TO labor larger
share of the products it helps to Gre
ate, to shorten the hours of toll, and
lengthen the hours for leisure and inn
provement, are objects worthy the
ambition Of American manhood.
Struggling humanity is anxiously.
watching the action of the great. Re
public. Let us feel then that we are on
the threshold Of a great revolution, hav-
ing for its aim and end the bettering
of the conditions of our fellow man,
to be wrought out through peaceful
methods, with sublime thoughts that
pierce the night like stars, and noble
deeds like weapons. q Let us realize
that the present agitation Of the in
Edustrial question IS healthfal FOR Il
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argues onthe part Of THE people 4 de.
sire to move forward and an aspira-
tion to rise higher. tits the yearn-
ing for independence on the part Of
the whole people which is yet to be
the glory Of American civilization,
A mighty change in the industrial
system, such as will secure the prop
er distribution Of the products of la
Dor anlongal men, is coming. The
eternal principles of justice demand
it. Civilization will have no repose,
governments no certain security, until
it does come. All who love their fell
low men will welcome it, and all who
want Justice done between man and
man will lend helping hand Eve
rything points to America as the land
where this great change is first to be
wrought. This republic carries the
hopes of the human race. Blot out
the beacons which light the portals
Of this republic and the world is adrift
again. But it deyolves upon us to
keep them burning, to- preserve our
purity at home and maintain our dig
nifty abroad. We, like the band Of
Spartans at Thermopy Lac, are standing
in the pass behind which the worlds
liberties are guarded. Our mission
is the republicanization of the world.
That which God himself has begun,
and has given US power to continue, it
is evident he intends us to consun-
mate. The ark OF the covenant of
liberty has been returned to Shiloh
and it's now ours to defend. The
Constitution of the United States
is the leaFen that shall liberalize every
government. Ours is the liberty which
grows With the growth Of humanity
and knows no defeat. Justice and
right are in the very order3of things,