The record-union., 1895-05-25

are social cllqueS, based solely on wealth
and diamonds, no other passports being
required. They are demoraliZing public
sentiment in many lines, debauching
public conscience in the awful haste to
get rich, alternating and destroying the
brotherhood of man. There are places in
this land where nothing less than ST.
100000 will admit a person to the social
set. Brains, literary attainment. invent
i've genius, great public services-none of
things equal wealth in the social estlma-
ton of our wealth aristocracy, who ape
and effete and degenerating royalty on
other shores. The effect of this is iDjuri-
Gus to our social compact tends toward
caste, builds up a hatred among the
classes and breaks that mutual depen-
dence that naturally exists between the
| capitalist and his skilled laborer.
We live in this land,
With Freedom II S soil beneath our feet,
ANA Freedom S banner streaming Ger u.s.
Among its glorious stars and stripes
we see plainly written, The brother
hood of man." We stand on our Declara-
ton of Independence, "All men are ere
ated equal. They are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights.
Among these are life, liberty and the
pursuity of happiness" We believe that
| what constitutes State is
Not high-raised battlement or labored mound
Thick wall or moated gate;
ANot SllISs PIOuu, Will spires anu LuTf6LS
| crowned;
| Not bays and broad armed ports
Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies
Not starred and spangled courts.
Where low-broWed baseness waits perfume to
pride.
No; men-high-minded men
| With powers as far above du ii brutes endued
In forest, brake or den,
AS beasts excel cold rocks and brambles
Men who their dutias lrnow
But know their rights; and, knowing. dare
maintain,
Prevent the long-armed blow,
And crush the tyrant while they rend the
chain.
These constitute State;
And sovereign law, that States collected will,
Oer thrones and globes elate,
| Sits empress, crowninS good repressing i'll.
| Smit by her sacred frown,
The hend, Dissension, like q yapor flies.
When, as a nation, we fully appreciate
the lesson God taught through our civil
war; when our society shall be character
lzed by ideal justice toward man because
he is man, whether millionaire or pau
per; then shall we act upon the clear
recognition that the WrG2c OF one Is the
menace of ALL that society suffers in the
| injuries of its memb bers-if one suffers, all
suffer with him. Biting and devouring
one another in consummate greed will be
| prohibited. Between now and then, in
tense moral conflict Justice against in
justice, freedom against oppression-a
conflict in which all are to be warriors.
L believe there are enough men and
women, noble and brave, true to every
principle of righteousness, to save our
nation from its peril. Not all the heroes
of our country wear its uniform. Dur
ing our war the sublimest heroism was
found in the patient suffering, the serene
| hope, the spiritual strength, the calm
resignation, the consecrated self-devo-
ton OF the women of this land. The
men fought under the stimulus of sui
/ phuric intoXIcatiOn. They had the eX-
element of noise, the shouting of their
own side. the yelling of the other side,
the spiteful talk OF the Mimic bullets, the
scream informal of the shells, the mus
kerry debate-tifty thousand speaking at
once. They had the magnetic elbow
touch of the man on the right and the
the Captain, STEADY. men, steady; close
up there, steady" What stimulus had
the women at home? Nothing but their
own love and faith and loyalty. In the
silence of the day, and the still more
awful silence of the night, they held
their hearts from breaking during four
long years of anxiety, for father, hus-
band, brother, lover, son, fighting the
battles of liberty miles and miles away.
General Trumbull says: I'm my
original company, raised at the Begin
| ming of the war, was a man of wealth
and influence, about 40 years old. He
| was blessed with devoted wife and
eleven children. His eldest son enlisted
| with him. And when we marched away
we passed by his plantation. There at
| the gate were his Wita and the other ten
| children, each Of them waving the flag
even the baby. In our first battle the
young man fell, shot through the body.
'Tom,' said comrade. are you badly
hurt?' Yes he said, L am shot through
| the body. Give my love to my mother
AS his gallant spirit fled l could hear his
father cheering on the men. he was only
a Quartermaster Sergeant, but he rallied
and cheered the boys like a General. |
went up to him and told him his son was
dead. The word struck him like bullet.
| He fell forward on his horses neck and
great sob burst from his heart. In few
moments he Strengthened himself in the
| saddle and exclaimed: Thank God, he
| died like brave manp And until the
fight was over could hear him encourag-
ing the men. After the battle / assisted
him to prepare the body of his son tor
! burial, and together we laid the brave
youth in his grave, not far from the spot
where he fell. The same evening L wrote
letter to the boys mother, telling her
| as tenderly as l could how bravely her
son had died. The news was terrible,
! but she bore it with heroic resignation
and carried the dread anxiety for her
husband through the duties of the day
and the silent watches of the night.
In the course of year he had been
| made a Lieutenant-Co Colonel, and one day
| came news of great battle in which his
regiment had been engaged. Eagerly
| she looked over the paper for the name
of her husband, and there. among the
dead, she found it. He had been killed
Mot hnr tNn "A
son, 4 think | ought to go.' And she
said, CO. He went; and again she
watched and waited, hearing the sound
of battle in every breeze from the South.
One day man came from the Postotfice
with a newspaper in his hand. A great
battle had been fought. Eagerly again
she searched through the names of the
killed and wounded, while her heart stood
still with fear, and there was her boy
among the dead; killed at the front. Then
the third son Said Mother, | think [
ought to co. And she said, Co. He
went; and, like his father and his BROTH
ers, he also fell bravely in the fight.
"One day, just after the war, had to
| travel from Waterloo Ia, to lndepend-
ence. AS / took my seat in the car [
noticed a lady who was evidently very
| ILL They had made sort OF couch for
| her with cushions, and young lady
was tanning her to keep her as cool
as possible. 1 did not recognize the
lady, but she recognized me; for | saw
her whisper to the girl. who immedi-
! ately came to me and said, My mother
wishes to see you.' | went over and at
once perceived that she was the mother
of the three boys. Taking me by the
hand, she said, / want to thank you for
| the kind letter you wrote me the day Tom
was killed. The war is over, the country
| is saved, and l am satisfied. But my
heart is broken, and I am going to my