Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-16

Is there an earthquake in Alabama, or
cyclone in Kansas, or murder in
San Francisco? Then we are sure to
read Of it. with extensive notes and
comments, in the daily press. But who
ever knew the columns of that nignty
engine of civilization to be filled with
vivid description of our daily BENSON
the suns beautious light? The earth
quake, cyclone and murder. though hap
pening too frequently, are abnormal
| and spasmodic. but on the Fourth and
every other day in our year the eye
Of God has opened in the dawning east
ern sky upon our slumbering world.
| The land upon which that sun has
steadily shown, the land in which we
live, has had substantial growth In
every element of strength for the past
thirty years. Becoming emancipated
from the thraldom of perpetual peril. 1t
has moved forward by leaps and bounds
in its fiscal policy and industrial ad-
| vance.
| The United States today possesses by
far the largest productive power in the
world-a power that has more than
trebled since 1860.
Let these simple facts bear their in
vincible testimony to the wonderful
growth which has enabled the quiet
farming and pioneer communities OF
the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
turtles to become the greatest republic
ever known to history.
But industrial and mechanical forces
are of themselves insufficient to cal
culate the real strength of our nation.
Athens ruled the world, and continues
to govern it's apprehension of correct
taste and thinking; and yet Athens was
small city, poor as touching gold: its
truer wealth being that Of knowledge;
it's power the dominancy of intellectual
force.
The schoolmaster must be abroad in
: this land. or the land will soon be
abroad of its destined mark. Wash
ington, Franklin Hamilton, Jefferson
and Adams knew that the school-house
was one of the stable pillars Of the gov
eminent they heroically established.
Successive generations of benefactors
have since responded to their earlier
efforts toward popular education.
Saber stroke and cannon shot cannot
abolish the armies of ignorance and
superstition. The mere lack Of under
standing in elementary sanitation, do
nestle science and rules of correct liv-
ing slaughters its thousands annually
even in this favored region. Blind
popular desires, lurid flames of an.
; archistic speech and fierce partisan
passions can best be checkmated, moi
by the apt usage of swords, not even
legislative enactment, but by the multi
plication Of the little white school.
houses on the country hillsides and The
vigorous support Of educational centers
= in our towns and cities.
Let us turn on the light. Right ant
truth have all to gain and naught Il
lose by so doing. Educate! Educate
: Educate!
/. to end in dynamite. instead OF conserv
. ing virtue and morality. No boy shoult
S leave our schools without being abb
' to write in brief synopsis of American
history; the principles and blessing
of American government. A future
sovereign by heritage. that boy shcul'
'' be prepared for his throne in democ
racy. Do this. and the sons of the dis
gruntled ones will become the bulwark
of law. liberty will not be dangerously
{, confused with license, and prisons an
4 poor houses will sink into glOii lou
: minOrities.
= The axiom first given to us by Nj
!, Lincoln's chaste eloquence: Let Il
r hold fast the faith that right make
}, might, and in that faith let us do GU
duty to the end as We understand it.
is quoted here and will be quoted here
4 after by thousands of his loving coun
u trymen. Because it is rich in ethics
wisdom, it has become part of tn
4 imperishable literature Of mankind
a And the soil from which Lincoln an
It Clay, Webster and Washington an
n many another hero sprang is fertile Il
u day. il we but sow the seed of true.
q patriotism in the hearts of it's sons.
~ The Christian religion is absolutel
n necessary to our life as people. NJ
because of sectarian views or segmeI
tai conceptions inherent therein but b
cause of its imperishable moralit
4 Based upon the purest conceptions I
:, God and men that all history, sacre
II or profane, can give to us, how can "
ii fail unless we deliberately choose
surrender to baser ideals and vicio'
It methods?
1.-THE German fears God and he eea
II nc body else" said Bismarck. Sure
none will deem it insalutary to con
mend heartily. on the glad natal "a
of the country. our devotion to the s.
81 preme Being in whom We trust. o.
4 fathers inscribed this name with reve
n ence upon the charter Of modern FIRE
10 dom. They stated their claim becau
Is Of the Creators iaa!isEable law OF or
=, y, alton. and they were right. Hence, Il
!" moral influence Of the American Il