The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-31

| PRESIDENT Lincoln nad 10 call Tor lo,OOO
volunteers to teach South Carolina
that Gods thunderbolts are hot-that
a black man is as good in the sight Of
heaven as a white man; that patriot
ism is not narrow, but considers the
rights of Massachusetts as we'll as
those of South Carolina.
And so it happens to-day that each
section may demand that its rights be
| respected. And when that section is
great and its claim legitimate, then
may 1t the more cry aloud and expect
to be heard.
So on this Memorial day, in the Lame
of true patriotism, in the name OF the
great and growing West, 1 desire to
send my voice from the tops of the
Rocky mountains, across their slopes
and valleys, where smokeless chimneys
point heavenward. and across the fer
tile plains, where enforced idleness and
needless financial distress are found
to tell New York also that Gods thun-
derholts are hot, and to demand our
rtghts-to demand that all the interests
of the West, as well as the East, be
developed, which can only be done by
free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16
| to l.
1t were better for us to-day If we
had patriots at Washington as UNI
selfish as was O'Connell the great Ir-
ishman. The slave party went to him
and said: "O'Connell, at last you are
IN the house with one helper; il you
VIII vote with us, here are 16 votes
Tor you on every Irish question. If
you vote with those abolitionists count
us always against you" O'Connel
said: Gentlemen, God knows 1 speak
for the saddest people the sun sees,
but may my right hand forget her cum
ming and my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth if. to help ireland, even
ireland, / forget the negro one single
hour That was true patriotism, as
z broad as the race. | appeal to the
young who are present to-day, who
represent the public schools of our city,
do not allow your patriotism to be-
come selfish and narrow Do not. i'm
matters of church and state, fall into
the error of thinking that your church
or your little state is of more import
ance than all the rest of the world Do
not make the mistake that a certain
Oriental nation made in thinking that
they were the only chosen people of
God, and that all other people were
candidates for eternal darkness and
death. Do not make the mistake that
John c. Calhoun made when he thought
South Carolina was bigger than the
United States. Do not make the mis-
take that Wall street is making to-
day in trying to manage the finances
OF this great country for her own
profit. l appeal to the parents here
present TO teach by precept and exam
pie this broad, unselfish patriotism TO
done by honoring and emphasizing,
both in private and public life, the
great principles of our constitution,
life, equality, liberty and unity.
Each individual, under the protec-
ton of our flag has the right to live
to hold property and to travel in any
part of our country. He should have
the privilege of trial by jury, and mob
law should be suppressed. whether in
Atlanta, Ga, or Philipsburg, Mont,
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treated with due respect, without re-
gard to color or monetary recommen-
dations There is no aristocracy in
America except that of true worth.
The principle of the survival OF the
fittest here has a broad theater for it's
operation; but this principle upon
which the future of society depends
cannot operate unless man enjoys that
liberty which our constitution guaran-
tees to every American citizen. Liber-
~ of Thought. liberty OF conscience,
liberty in business. How can a man
enjoy life and equality without liberty?
The chains of slavery are broken. The
shackles have fallen from four millions
of negroes, and yet there is a spirit
abroad in our land which is antagonis-
tic to one of the fundamental princi-
pies of our magma charta, namely:
That men with worthy wives and chill
dren looking to them for support are
refused employment, or boycottcd in
business because they do not belong to
this or that society; because they do
or do not belong to this or that labor
organization; because they GO or 60
not belong to this or that church. The
United States is not monopoly-it is
not a society-it is not a church--and /
say perish the monopoly, society or
ecclesiastical organization which seeks
to make slaves of men or in any way
curtail their liberty. This liberty is not
that license and dilirium which shouts
from under the black cap. "Hurrah for
anarchy but a liberty in accordance
with law and that unity for which our
fathers fought 1t is a liberty and uni
ty of which the stars and stripes of
our country's flag speak with mute bur
eloquent lips. 1t is that liberty ana
unity for which that prince of orators.
the modern Demosthenes, plead when,
in his address before congress, he said:
When my eyes shall turn for the last
time to behold the sun in heaven, may
they not see him shining on the broken |
and dishonored fragments of a once !
glorious Union; on states discovered, |
discordant, belligerant; on a land rent |
with civil feuds or drenched. it may
be, in fraternal blood. Let their last |
feeble and lingering glance rather be- |
hold the gorgeous ensign of the repub- |
lie. now known and honored through |
out the earth, still full advanced, its |
arms and trophies streaming in all |
their original luster not a stripe |
erased or polluted: not a single star OBJ |
secured: bearing for its motto no such |
miserable interrogatory as What is |
all this WORTH" Nor those other words |
of delusion and folly, of Liberty first |
and union afterwards" but every |
where, spread all over in characters |
of living light, and blazing on all its |
ample folds, as they float over the sea /
and over the land. and in every wind /
under the whole heavens. that other |
sentiment dear to every American /
heart, Liberty and union-now and |
forever--one and inseperable."
But the nation was rent by civil |
feuds and drenched with frGternal |
blood. for a million boys in gray
marched northward, and a million
boys in blue marched southwark, and
for four long years the bloody war was
waged, but at last right prevailed, and |
those who survived the terrible shock