The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-11

nigh TO for whatever Is to be left to us OF
sound government commercial success
and business prosperity.
On that we were all agreed, some OF us
who were Democrats regretfully, for we
all hate to be classed with the unsuccess-
full whose condemnation Is at hand, even
II we gain by the change; others OF us who
were Republicans cheerfully, but without
exultation, for we know how hard the task
must be to rebuild out OF the ruins OF the
| last four years the stately mansions OF ma
tional happiness, prosperity and self re-
spect wherein our people lived until that
| unfortunate election of 1892
The Silver Mushroom.
| Two months have slipped away-hardly
| time to ripen a strawberry, much less
system of flnance-and there are those who
| tell us that all things have changed; that
| those very men who were being arrayed
| for decent burial had burst the cerements
of the grave, and, transfgured by some
new arrangement Of crowns of thorns and
crosses of gold. were to lead us to new
happiness and even repair all the damage
they themselves had wrought.
Now, this may he SO, but to me 1t does
not seem probable Human experience
IN every walk of life teaches us that those
who have blundered will blunder again,
and that the wisest course Is not to employ
A ship captain who has not yet emerged
from his last shipwreck, but the safe sail
or who has never lost a ship, passenger
or n letter, but who has sailed safe through
every sea.
He may have lost masts and sails and
| even been rudderless for hours, but IL he
has every time come safe to shore better
have him than all the landsmen who are
forever shouting what they can do and
| never dare to tell what they have done.
Boosters are worth nothing. Deeds art
facts and are for ever and ever Talk dies
ON the empty air Better pound Of per
formance than shipload of language.
But is 1t wise or just TO class all Demo
Gratis together and to declare them al
wrong, then announce they must be beat
en- because they are Democrats Tha
would be very unwise, very unjust ant
senseless altogether. 1t would hout nj
history, and especially our own Parties
are one thing; their Individual member
NAV be another. Parties seldom follow
| their best men. They follow their averag
sense.
In real action there can never be bu
| two parties--the creating party and the re
tarding party. The progressive party ma.
! | be unwise In Its progress, and tho retarti
| ing party may be unwise In Its conserva
, | tism, but both serve good purpose ant
between them both the world slowly ant
safely moves ahead, dreadfully slowl
sometimes, but IL does always move ahead
> Perhaps some one will say here we hav
. creative party which has sprung up In
; night. like n mushroom, and created ney
system Of finance My friends, you wi
find that that mushroom Is not good
I eat, and that that progress will land 20
In the ditch Now, all progress avoid
ditchcs
have said that II would be unwise, ur
/: iust and senscless to confound the Demo
, cratic organization with Individual Demo
, Gratis have said also that that would I
fouting part OF our own history, and
glorious part Of our history too. Why,
is within the memory of n third and pc
hnps half Of this very audience whic
listens to me that when the terrible war
y the rebellion broke forth tens OF Thousand
OF Democrats. politicians. strong part