Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-06
Christ is sweeping creeds into mcrited

oblivion
r The standard stand Of business morality
blacklisted early in the fight Honor.
integrity. square-dealing are sufiicien;
capital for any young man possessed of
capacity to Withstand the struggle for
Cynics may cavil, but assert most
earnestly that in public life the standard
While all may not reach it the people de- de-
nand in their rulers the standard of
Washington and of Jefferson. Swift pun
ishment follows the exposure Of wrong
doing in high places. True. it is the age
OF the political boss. yet the successful
to catch the popular drift he keeps ahead
OF the procession.
Science revels in her miracles. Intelli-
affiliated The Presidential candidate
hears at a thousand miles the cheers of
MS convention. We. travel by hidden
Of the human heart; Discovery crowds
upon discovery until the marvcls of
icience cease to astonish. Franklin
frawing his feeble spark from the pass
ing cloud would stand aghast at the leaps
| Of modern science.
Intelligence widens until the ignorant
or today rival the scholars of yesterday.
With the cheapening of paper. the daily
newspaper is the inseparable companion
of the man with the dinner pail His
| children are rich in the blessings of free
libraries and free schools.
Invention. stimulated by expanding in
teliisence, has cheapened the processes
lessened the cost of transportation. I'M
| Til the wealth of the world lies tribute at
our feet.
| The happiness of nation is best found
in the content of labor. When Content
| sits basking on the cheek of toll then
has government reached its highest frui-
| ton.
Political firebugs, insane, with lust for
| power, declaim that the rich are growing
richer and the poor poorer. Is it true?
Look around you! When before was
there so general diffusion of the com
| forts of life? Our children are better
clothed, ourselves better fed. our homes
our history The spirit of unrest that de-
mands so large share of comfort blinds
our eyes to the constantly improving con-
dition of our people. Where some of us
went barefoot. our children so shod.
| Where many of us toiled for an education
by the light of a sputtering candle. our
them by generous public by light
cheap that poverty itself can have it al
most free. Go out upon your streets and
study the children of the poor.
Read in their clothing the advance in
| civilization. Enter your magnificent
| schools. the bulwarks of liberty. the her
has not moved ahead in thirty years. Sit
AZ the breakfast table of the humb!est
laborins man. Tea. coffee, sugar are
there his necessities: in Europe. Injuries.
black bread upon his table. At noon.
meat 10 harden his muscles for the day:
the Italian. The American laborer de-
mands good food, good clothing. good
home. American civilization demands it
! for. him. In a land where the ballot
makes every honest man a king. the
standard of living can have no limits.
| Good government demands good homes.
| True. enormous fortunes are amassed.
! But the most priceless inheritance for Il
| young man today is TO start in life with
an educated BRAIN pair of hands, an
empty pocket and an honest heart. If
his abilities limit him to labor's lowest
| tier. he will even then get more out Of
| life than did his father before him. If
| with a courage that defies all difficulties.
self-reliant. fun of American grit. there
! is limit upon his future. AS rule
/ the great fortunes of the day have been
| won by the sons of the poor. The rich
mans son starts handicapped. Men grow
when they feel their, children Juggling at
| their skirts for bread.
| Wealth is not measured by gold and
silver alone The value of days work
| is not to be weighed wholly by the rate
Of wages, The better test.-what will the
! wages of Il day buy of the comforts of
life. II cannot be denied that there never
was time when days work would
| buy as much food and clothing as today.
| But in this land of limitlesS ambition.
the more we have. the more we Will have
We begin life where our fathers lcft OIL.
| Labor is King and the King should en-
! JOY his kingdom
| As a nation our growth mas been mag
zeal. In manufactures we lead the world.
have one half of all its railroads; one
| fourth of its telegraphs. do one third of
| its mining, one fourth OF Its manufactur-
ing. one fifth Of its agriculture. own one
sixth of its wealth. and as statistics
show. are the richest nation upon the
globe. III. ,.
our people are the freest. the happiest:
| the most Intelligent. We live better and
| have better general distribution of
wealth than any other people; ; Ann sui
| the goal of our national and individual
| ambition is ever onward.
AS a people we today are more univer-
sally patriotic than N the ri ho frnn w Ws
/ lev Forge We love one country. one
constitution. one flag. with forty-iiye
stars. each and al hxed stars ir in , ine
| union. Never was the American Union
more secure. Not a State that would
not give it's last dollar and shed its last
drop of blood to defend the Union against
| foreign or domestic foe. Cosmopolitan
though we are. common love OF country
Swedc may yearn for the hills OF his
! fathers. the sturdy Norwegian at times
kturn his ear to hear the tumblnS watcrs
'of the far away land of the midn'sht
sun The flaXcn haired German in MEM
ory live again the Slories of the
FatherlaAd. the weaver OF Lancashire.
1 ndishitfaYi dream Of The curfew,s tol I,%
the hnd of Robert Bruce ana bannock-
kbl,rn. the son of Ireland smile in MS
sleep as fancy paints the beauties OF tne
Emerald Isle. the patient toiier from
Canada's peaceful farms drift away on
i memory's car to the porch where III the
x1baming the aged mother BOWS hcr hrad
Mn evening prayer, but. Wherec r the
y home. Whate'er the suSging at the heart
I strings. TO one and all America Is INC
motherl;nid loving and beloved, the
Mecca of tfeir hopes. a blessing un.o
them, their children. and their chiidrch $
children forever and forever,
generation has come ana gone since
we learned to read the constitution IN
III, hight of the bursting shells that flew
ar SSumter's erumbling walls. Above
The ,ffouds at Lookout Mountain even
Heaverl bent to kiss Old Giorys folds.
Rack W.;srd down the hills of Gettysburg
sxent The wave of Rebellion. but, pierced
, with shot and shell. high above me
smoke and hell Heated in triumph the
aac Of Bunker Hill. At Appomattox =
: generous North. gave the rlgnt mana OF
fellowship to their brethren OF the Soutn.
finder the apple tree sat a conqueror ten
der in heart as a woman love.
ares to come will bless the memory OF
tbaf ,Incrowned hero, that silent soldier:
vho long since knocked at the doors OF
Heaven and wide open swung the gates
70 receive his noble soul. He taught his
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