The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-30

realm OF disputation. The issue has
been settled and we are all rejoiced
that the hand of the dial points as IL
does. Had the scale Inclined otherwise
han IL did the race would have been
retarded. our sense of humanity would
have been blunted and our attitude to-
day toward Cuba would not be as Ii is.
IL was a mighty struggle for the SUI
premacy of self-government. and the
cause of freedom won. Who in Amer
lea h a is an American espouses the
doctrine. that a self-government is an
experiment. A scene like this goes far
to demonstrate to the candid man that
America will remain and will work
out for men a nation in which equal
rights VIII be meted out to all. The
gathered thousands to-day bear un-
mistakab testimony to the reality of
future peace and justice. While we
wreathe the tombs of our departed he
roes with gar!ands of living flowers
and drop DER their graves a loving and
sympathetic tear, W. can see i'm our
vision a better and holier life for man.
While posterity old in hallowed and
sacred m such principles as we
commemorate to-day there will be
abundant reason for hope.
That the Union must be preserved.
we hold to be an automatic truth. We
have cleansed our hands of much evil
and relievd our body polite of an
enormous burden. The wounds made
and the bitter feelings ~engendered
have been allayed and we are ready to
join heart and hand against a COM
mon foe. We have placed ourselves
among the foremost nations in all
helpful reforms. Free speech and
thought are working u for us and the
world the reality of the brotherhood of
man. Nations. like men. move upward
by degrees and every victory gained
must be. not a couch on which to re-
cline but a stepping-stone to higher
things. The war Is a matter of his
tory, IL is a thing of the past. We are
not to recline on the vantage ground
to which II has brought us, but scale
the mountain at whose base Ii has
placed us. However much we love and
revere the past we must act in the liv-
ing present, in the eternal now. Our
time calls no less for brave men and
true than did those troublesome times.
We must not forget that eternal Wig
lance is the price of liberty" and that
only in the spirit of don't give up the
ship" and I'll fight il out on this line
IL IL takes all summer" can we hope to
say. we have met the enemy and
they are ours"
our time calls earnestly for men to
enlist that human greed and human
lust. which have been united to bid de-
fance to right, may be overthrown.
Twin monsters these. more hideous
han ancient mythology ever con-
celved or poet or painter ever
pictured. Communism, Ishmael-like,
steals forth to entrap n ruin. The
Moloch of wealth and the Goliath of
intemperance are here n brave men
and true must enlist to q them.
Dark-robed skepticism, assuming the
~pseudonym of human reason. is still
stalking among US.
Comrades-that gem of our language
which sometimes mean a little less
than love and n little more than
friendship-shall we in the more calm,
though not less trying. scenes of do
nestle life, remain faithful to human
ity's holy cause? / a judge the fu-
ture only by past achievements and by
present prospects and from those l
believe we will scale heights more
lofty and steep than the heights of
Lookout mountain.
Our record has been a splendid one.
We seem To have risen Phoenix-like
from u own ashes. We must be
manly, brave and true.
Let us like infant Hercules crawl
from our cradle and with a monster in
each hand rid our LAND of every foe. |
sincerely believe that time, industry
and the arts, intermingled with true
l4 u 'liTA VIII WIN ''N " '' NhS
fun f~ruition of our cherished hopes.
You fought and nobly, too. t. unite
a rent and torn asunder country. Will
you fight as nobly to unite a rent and
discordant humanity? You fought UNI
der brave and noble leaders, but they
were only the teachers of human
rights. Will YOU not he mustered out
of their service into the service of Him
who was the author of our cherished
rights? You recall with fearful eyes
that last eview $50. 900 strong, but
there will be one in which the entire
race will share. In that l trust you
will all pass from the scenes militant
into the Genes triumphant. To Amer
lea let us say:
.,rbo, too sail on. q ship of state.
Sail on a Union strong and great
I,,anitv with Ali its fears
with ali the hone of future wears.
Ia hanging breathless on thy fate.
We know what master laid tby keel.
Wba, vorkmen wrought thy ribs of