News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-10-01

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settlement Of this acrid controversy be-
tween silver and gold, or the bimetallic
quarrel, that it will become easy to
make a living that time will never
come. 1t never as been easy to make
living. The men who have it very easy
now went through hardships and self
denials to which most young men would
never consent. Unless they got it by in
teritance you cannot mention 30 men
who have come to honorable fortune
that did not fight their way inch by
inch and against fearful odds that again
and again almost destroyed them. For
some good reason God has arranged it
for all the centuries that the only way
for most people to get a livelihood for
themselves and their families is with
both hands and all the allied forces of
body, mind and soul to push back and
push open the red gate, the gate of car
buncle. For the benefit of all young
men, if 1 had the time, would call
the roll Of those who overcame obstacle.
How many of the mighty men who
went one way OH Pennsylvania avenue
and reached the United States senate or
walked the other way on Pennsylvania
avenue and reached the White House
did not have to climb over political oblo-
guy? Not one. How much scorn and
scoff and brutal attack did Horace Mann
endure between the time when he first
began to fight for better common
school system in Massachusetts and the
day when a statue in honor of him was
placed On the steps Of the statehouse
overlooking the Commons?
Read the biography of Robert Hall,
the Baptist preacher, who, though he
had been pronounced Ounce at school,
lived to thrill the world with his Chris
tian eloquence, and of George Peabody,
who never owned a carriage and denied
himself all luxuries that he might
while living and after death, through
last will and testament, devote his un
counted millions to the education of the
poor people in England and America
and of Bishop James, who in boyhOod
worked his passage from Ireland to
Andrea and became the joy of Metho-
disuk and a blessing to the race. Go to
the Biographical alcove i'll city, state or
natitnal library and find at least every
othe}' look an illustration of overcome
obstacle aud Of carmire gate that had to
be forced oron
Living Gates.
What is true CT individuals is true Of
NJ %, a
when tie pilgrim fathers landed On
Plymouth rock and did they come in a
gilded yacht, gay streamers flying? No
1t was in Gold December, and from a
ship in which one would not want to
cross the HUDSON or the Potomac river
Scalping kniAfs all ready to receive
them, they Landed, their only welcome
the Indian warwhoop. Red men on the
beach. Red men II the forest. Red men
on the mountains. Red men in the val
leys. Living gates Of red men. Gates of
carbuncle. \-- =
Aboriginal hostility pushed back,
surely now our forefathers will have
nothing to do but to take easy posses
sion of the fairest continent under the
sun. The skies SO genial, the soil so fer
tile, the rivers SO populous with fnny
life, the acreage so immense, there will
be nothing to do but eat, drink and be
merry. No The most powerful nation,
by army and navy, sounded its protest
across 3, 600 miles of water Then came
Lexington, and Bunker Hill. and Mon
mouth, and Long Island battles, and
Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and star
walton, and widowhood, and orphanage,
and the Is colonies went through suffer
ings which the historian has attempted
to put upon paper and the artist to put
upon canvas, but all i'll vain. Engraver' s
knife, and reporters skill, and tele-
graphic wire, and daily press, which
have made us acquainted with the hor-
rors of modern battlefield, had not yet
begun their vigilance, and the story of
the American Revolution has never been
told and never will be told. 1t did not
take much ink to sign the Declaration
of Independence, but it took a terrific
amount Of blood to maintain it, 1t was
an awful gate of opposition that the
men and wonderland the women as
much as the men-pushed back. 1t was
a gate Of self sacrifice. 1t was gate OF
blood. It was gate of carbuncle.
Red Letter Days.
We are not indebted to history for
our knowledge Of the greatest of nation
al crises. Many Of us remember it, and
fathers and mothers now living had bet
ter keep telling that story to their chill
dren, so that instead of their being de-
pendent upon cold type and obliged to
say, con such page Of such book
you can read that" will they rather be
able to say: my father told me go, "
''My mother told me so" Men and
women who wildly remember 1861,
and 1869, and 1868, and 1864, be your
selves the historians, telling it, not with
pen, but with living tongue and voice
and gesture. That is the great use of
Memorial decoration day, for the Gala
lilies on the grave tops soon become
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