Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-28

! temporaLs. There are young men and
older men who hope, through the right
settlement of this acrid controversy be-
tween silver and gold, Or the bimetallic
| quarrel that it will become easy to
make q living. That time will never
come It never has been easy to make a
/ living. The men who have it very easy
now went through hardships and self
denials to which most young men would
never consent Unless they got it by in
heritance you cannot mention 90 men
who have come to honorable fortune
that did not fight their way inch by
inch and against fearful odds that again
and again almost destroyed them. For
some good reason God has arranged it
for all the centuries that the only way
for most people to get q livelihood for
themselves and their families is with
both hands and all the allied forces of
body, mind and soul to push back and
push open the red gate. the gate Of car
buncle. Fer the benefit Of all young
men, if I had the time, I would call
the roll of those who oyercame obstacle
How many Of the mighty men who
went one way on Pennsylvania avenue
and reached the United States senate or
walked the other way on Pennsylvania
avenue and reached the White House
did not have TO climb over political oblo-
GUY? Not one. How much scorn and
scott and brutal attack did Horace Mann
endure between the time " hen he first
began to fight for a better common
school system il Massachusetts and the
day when q statue in honor Of him was
placed On the steps Of the statehouse
overlooking the Commons?
Read the biography Of Robert Hall, I
the Baptist preacher, who, though he
had been pronounced Ounce at school, I
lived to thrill the world with his Chris
tian eIoquence, and Of George Peabody, I
who never owned a carriage and denied
himself all Injuries that he might /
while living and after death, through /
last Will and testament, devote his un
counted millions to the education of the /
poor people in England and America, T
and Of Bishop James, who ia bOyhOod +
worked his passage from Ireland tC +
America and became the joy Of Metho-
dism and 8 blessing to the race. Go to 4
the biographical alcove in city, state CT
national library and find at least every
other book an illustration Of overcome
obstacle and Of Carmine gate that had tC
be forced open.
Living Gates.
What is true Of individuals is true Q.
nations. Was it mild spring morning
when the pilgrim fathers landed on
Plymouth rock and did they come in
gilded yacht, gay streanlcrs flying? No
It was in cold December, and from
ship in which one would not want tC
Il,
Scalping knives all ready to receive
them, they landed, their only welcome
the Indian WarWhOop. Red men on the
beach. Red men in the forest. Red men
on the mountains. Red men III the val
leys. Living gates of red men. Gates Of
carbuncle.
Aboriginal hostility pushed back,
surely now our fOrefathers will have
nothing to do but to take easy posses
sion Of the fairest continent under the
sun. The skies so genial, the soil so fer
tile, the rivers SO populOus with finny
life, the acreage SO immense, there will
be nothing to do but eat, drink and be
merry. No. The NEST powerful nation,
by army and navy, sounded its protest
across 4, coo miles CT water. Then came
Lexington, and Bunker Hill. and Mon
mouth, and Long Island battles, and
Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and star,
walton, and WidOwhOod, and Orphanage,
and the ID colonies went through suffer
ings which the historian has attempted
to put upon paper and the artist to put
upon canvas, bot all in vain. Engravers
knife, and reporters skill, and tele,
graphic wire, and daily press, which
have made us acquainted with the hor-
rors of modern battlefield, had not yet
begun their vigilance, and the story of
the American Revolution has never been
told and never will be told It did not
take much ink to sign the Declaration
of independence, but it took terrific
amount Of blood to maintain it. It was
an awful gate Of opposition that the
men and NCnlcn-and the women az
much as the lnen-pushed back It was
a gate Of self sacrifice. It was gate of
blood. 1t was q gate Of carbuncle.
Red letter Days.
We are not indebted to history for
our knowledge Of the greatest Of nation
al crises. Many Of Us remember it, and
fathers and mothers now living had bet
ter keep telling that story to their chill
dren, so that instead of their being de-
pendent upon cold type and obliged to
say, ''On Such a page of such a book
you can read that, !" will they rather be
able to say: Ny father told me so,''
MY mother told me SO. Men and
women who vivit2ly remember 1861,
and 1862, and 1865, and 1864, be your
selves the historians. telling it, not with
pen, but with living tongue and voice
and gesture. That is the great use of
Memorial decoration day, for the Gala
lilies on the grave tops soon become
breathless Of perfume, and III a week
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