The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-06-04

| oOic VI our people, "A HlSn SlanudIu
OF citizenship means better government
and general advancement This viii
improve the public service. Above al
we should be more devoted to country
and have less regard for party. The
rights OF all should be guarded, and the
| highest pride should be in the proud
consciousness that we are citizens OF
this, the great republic. With sobriety,
industry and education and love OF
country among our people, the land
will become what the founders of the
government designed. Let each and
every one remember that Righteousness
eXalteth a nation. Then many'of the
dangers that Turk about our institutions
will no longer exist.
DISSATISFACTION.
Dissatisfaction prevails in many
walks of life. Many of our people feel
the pinch of the dreaded hard times.
The tendency of increasing wealth, ag-
gregating in the hands of q compare
lively few, is viewed with concern by
those who note the marvellous increase
in the number of the very wealthy in
the last forty five years, with the growth
OF lndlgency proportionally large. The
extremes of society are receding farther
and farther. But this will not long
tareaten; monopoly will be curbed. In
land where the laborer of today will
be the capitalist of tomorrow, such
troubles will be averted. All are given
the opportunity to acquire competence
IN an honest way. The class from
which most of the leaders in all worthy
walks in life have sprung will readiust
by harmonious methods the inequalities
now prevailing.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
The rights of labor and capital should
be alike protected. We should not
overlook the fact, as has been well
said, that capital often, in enriching it.
self, helps to enrich others. 1t is esti-
mated that the possessions of our people
amount to about sixty-fve thousand
millions of dollars; the census give these
figures. Dividing this among our pop
ulation it would give every person $780,
The increase of property value in this
country in ten years was 40 per cent.
1t will be seen that by prudence, econi
Omy and steadiness, each can secure
his share of the property of the nation
and add thereto largely. This will pre-
vent the much talked of absorption of
the wealth of the land by the few, and
enhance the prosperity of every class.
The inevitable rainy day that comes to
us all should be ever provided for.
Many of the people have of late years
been taught the error that our laws
were designed for the impoverishment
of the many and for the aggrandize-
ment of the few. This teaching has
made unrest. Capital and labor have
equal rights. They were well defined
by Lincoln, the great American, the
martyr, the friend of the people. He
held that Capital is only the fruit of
labor, and could never have existed if
labor had not first existed. Property is
the fruit of labor; property is desirable,
it is a positive good in the world. That
some should be rich shows that others
may become rich and hence is just en-
to industry and enter
prise. Let not him who is houseless |
pull down the house of another but let |
him rise diligently and find one for
thus by example assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence |
when built" These were the views of |
uttered before that imperial |
brain had ceased its throbbing forever. |
But these questions will all adjust |
in the days to come.
The times of trouble will, we hope, |
pass away, and prosperity come again.
We are looking hopefully to the future,
to the dawn of purer, nobler, better
era. Our achievements in the past are
headlands in the sea of progress and
civilization. God will preserve the land
from danger from without or within, if
we are true to ourselves and the cOun-
Try. Our repose and peace shall not be
disturbed.
THE MONUMENT.
Another has beautifully spoken of the
here unveiled today. 1t is
rood to rear monuments to the heroes
If the war. The country that honors
It's heroes will have heroes to honor
when the emergency shall arise. 1t is
, pleasure to speak of what this patri-
,tic people have done. The Woman's
Relief Corps has the happy conscious
ness of beginning the work and largely
it to completion. Then the
yeterans responded to the call for aid.
You patriotic people came forward
And the children, the
scholars in the schools, taught lesson
n patriotic generosity; the coming men
md women completed the fund. Ac-
of the good work OF
DTcSS, anu Inc auUllIdDlc ChOItS W sNO
evening Argus, are gratefully tendered.
Honor to all who helped rear this
structure to the soldier dead of the
,ation This is an enduring tribute to
he cause for which men perilled all.
This monument will be lesson
whose influence will abide. This day
md this scene will enrich and adorn
your history. This granite may crum-
Die, but the cause it typifies will endure
brewer; its record never can fade from
he book of time. This memorial tells
if our heritage of fame"
IN CONCLUSION.
NV comrades, soldiers of the Grand
Army of the Republic, 400 600 brothers
n friendship, charity and loyalty, all
hail! Comrades of the battle field;
members of the Womens' Relief Corps
md Sons of Veterans, we give you
greeting and hope for your enjoyment
If the nation the soldiers saved.
And now, patriot dead of the nation,
Your silent tents OF green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
addressing the statute) he said: Oh
silent soldier of the Union, as YOUR