Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-07-31

put bread into mems mouths and
hope into their hearts.
II belong to the Republican
party because it is the grandest
political organization of freemen
that the world has ever known
because under its wise guidance
star after star has been added to
our flag, ship after ship has been
added to our fleets, factory after
factory has been added to our re-
sources, millions upon millions
have been added to our wealth,
city after city has been developed
from our villages, and the land
has been laced with a network Of
iron rails, and furnace fires have
Illuminated the night, and the
grand diapason of labor has been
made to sound throughout the
continent. 80,
II belong to the Republican
party because under it's inspiration
these United States, once q
wrangling and discordant common
wealth, these United States, once
ehamod with slavery and decrepit
with the disease ofsecessioA-these
United States have become a
country where no slaves presence
dishonors labor, where no free.
mans utterances are choked by
the hand of power, where no man
doffs his hat to another except
through the courtesy of equals,
where education is free, where
manhood is respected and where
labor is protected.
"Under the patriotic rule of the
Republican party these United
States have become nation whose
credit reigns at the head OF the
worlds finances-whose flag
floats proudly upon every sea, and
whose armies would come at the
drumbeat out of the hives Of in
dustry to swarm in defense Of the
country on every shore.
"Under the rule of the Repub-
lican party these United States
have become the greatest, freest,
and most prosperous nation under
the light Of sun.
II belong t" the Republican
party because it gave land to the
landless, because it gave work to
the Industrious, because it gave
freedom to the slave, because,
when the nation was in peril, it
gave armies and treasure for her
preservation.
"Forty years ago. then lad of
10, I joined the Republican ranks,
and, too young to vote, [ flung
my blazing banner aloft for Ere.
mont and Jessie. l was present as
a newspaper reporter at the Chi.
cago convention in 1860, when all
Illinois shouted Abraham Lincoln
into the presidency. I heard the
song OF John Browns soul sung in
bated breath and in secret gather
'ings of his sympathizers, and four
years later on these distant shores
I almost caught the echo of it's
refrain when armies chanted it for
their battle anthem. I enjoyed
the eloquence of Baker and of
Starr King, and Butler and Blng.
ham, and Garfield and Conklin,
and that noblest Roman of them
all, James G.. Blaine.
"Who, then, is there in all this
land that shall dare ask me to
betray these memories because of
a difference of opinion concerning
the conditions under which silver
dollars shall be coined?
"Who shall dare tell me it is my
duty to leave the path along which
my youth and my manhood
marched, and here, when the
evening bugle shall sound the final
reveille, my age shall be found
still marchinge Rather will l turn
to the Republican goddess the
same steadfast face that I bore
when my locks, now whitening,
were black as the ravens wing,
and say to her as Ruth said to
Naomi: Whittier thou goest, |
will go; and where thou lodgest, I
will lodge; thy people shall be my