The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-07-31

that the world has ever lxnown;.
because It's wise guild dane q, star
alter star has been added to our
flag, ship after ship has been
added TO our fleets, factory after
factory has been added to our
resources, millions upon millions
have been added to eur wealth,
city after city has uperseded
our villages, and the land has
been laced with a network Of
iron rails. and furnace fires have
Illuminated the night, and the
grand diapson Of labor has been
made to sound throughout the
continent. ri =
Il belong to the Republican
party because under it's inspira-
tiun these United States, once
wrangling and discordant COM
monwealth; these United States,
once shamed with slavery and
decripit with the disease Of Sc,
cession-these United State
have become a country where no
slaves presence dishonors labor,
where no freeman's utterances
are choked by the hand of pow
er, where no man doffs his hat
to another except through the
courtesy of equals, where ,educa-
ton is free, where manhood is
respected, and where labor is
protected. "
Under the patriotic rule of
the Republican party these Unit
ed States have become a Nation
whose credit reigns at the head
of the worlds fnances-whose
flag floats proudly upon every
sea. and whose armies would
come at drumbeat. out of the
hives of industry, 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, free
est and most prosperous Nation
under the sun.
Il am a Republican because it
gave land to the landless, be-
it gave work to the Industrious,
because it gave freedom to the
slave, because when the Nation
was in peril it gave armies and
treasures for her preservation.
Forty years ago, then lad
of Is, I joined the Republican
party, and too young to vote, I
flung my blazing banner aloft
for Fremont and Jesse. I was
present as newspaper reporter
at the Chicago convention in
1860, when all Illinois shouted
Abraham Lincoln into the Presi-
dency. heard the song of John
Brown soul sung in bated
breath and in secret gait .erings
of his sympathizers. and four
years later on these distant
shores I almost caught its re-
frain when armies chanted it for
their battle anthem, 1 enjoyed
the eloquence and friendship Of
Baker and of Starr King, and
Butler and Bingham, and Gar
field and Conkling, and that
noblest Roman Of them all,
James G.. Blaine. ..:
"Who, then, is there in all
this land that shall dare to ask
me to betray these memories be-
cause Of a difference of opinion
concerning the conditions under
which silver dollars shall be
coined? :. >,
"Who shall dare to tell me it
is my duty to leave the path
along which my youth and my
manhood marched and where,
when the. evening bugle shall
sound the final reveille, my age
should be found still marching?
Rather will I turn to the Repub-
lican goddess. the same stead
fast that I bore when my locks,
now whitening, were as black
as the ravens wing, and say to
her as Ruth said Naomi:
"Whither thou goest, I will go;
and where thou lodgest 7 will
lodge; thy people shall be my
people. and thy God my God;
where thou diest I will die, and
there will I be buried"
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