Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-26

who responded to Forefathers Day;
Senator McLaurin OF South Carolina,
who responded to Our Country; and
| Joseph b. Cummings Of Georgia, who
responded to The Mayt1ower. Senator
| Hoar said in part:
If there be single lesson which
the people of this country have learned
| from their wonderful and crowded his
| tory, it is that the north and south are
indispensable to each other. They
are the blades of mighty shears, worth
less apart, but, when bound by an in
dissoluble union, powerful, irresistible,
| and terrible as the shears of Fate; like
the shears of Atropos, severing every
| thread and tangled web of evil, cutting
out for humanity it's beautiful garment
Of liberty and light from the cloth her
sisters spin and weave. / always de-
light to think OF these states of ours,
not as mere aggregations of individ-
uals, but as beautiful personalities,
moral beings, endowed with moral
characters, capable of faith, of hope, OF
memory, of pride, of sorrow and Of joy,
Of courage, of heroism, of honor and OF
shame, Certainly this is true Of them.
Their power and glory, their rightfui
place in history depends on these
| things, and not on their numbers and
extent of territory. The separate en-
| tity and the absolute freedom, except
for the necessary restraints of the con-
stitution of our different states is the
cause alike of the greatness and the Sc
curity of the country. Whatever es-
arrangements may have existed in the
past, or may linger among us now, are
born Of ignorance and will be dispelled
| by knowledge. [ believe that Of our
As states there are no two who, it they
+, could meet in the familiarities Of per-
sonal intercourse, In the fullness OF
| personal knowledge, would not only
cease to entertain any bitterness, or
alienation, or distrust, but each would
utter to the other the words or the
| Jewish daughter in that most exquisite
| of idols which has come down to us
| from the beginning Of time: 'Entreat
me not to leave thee, or to return from
following after thee; for whittier thou
goest, | will go; and where thou lodg-
est, l will lodge; thy people shall be
my people, and thy God my God. Where
! thou diest, will | die, and there will /.
| be buried; the Lord do so to me, and
more also, if aught but death part thee
and me- In the great and magnificent
| future which is before our country, you
are to contribute large share both OF
strength and beauty. The best evil
dence of our complete reconciliation is
! that there is no subject that we need
to hurry by with our fingers on our
| lips. The time has come when
Americans, north, south, east
| and west, may discuss any question Of
| public interest in a friendly and quiet
spirit, without recrimination and With
out heat, each understanding the other,
each striving to help the other as men
who are bearing a common burden
and looking forward with common
hope. | know that this is the feeling
of the people of the north. think
know that it is the feeling OF the people
Of the south. In our part OF the coun-l
| try we have to deal with the great
problems of the strife between labor
and capital, and of the government Of
cities where vast masses of men born
on foreign soil, Of different national
tiles and Of different races, strangers
| TO American principles, to American
| ideas, to American history, are gath
cred together to exercise the unaccus-
| toned. function of self-gOvernment in
| an almost unrestricted liberty. You
| have to deal with a race problem rem
| dered more difficult still by still larg
er difference in the physical and intel
! lectual qualities of the two races whom
providence has brought together. |
( should be false to my own MANHOOD
| if [ failed to express my profound regret
and sorrow for some occurrences which
have taken place recently, both in the
| north and in the south. [ am bound
to say that considering all the circum-
stances, the north has been the worst
offender.
1T is well known Cor if it be not well
| known / am willing to make II KNOWN
that l look with ineXpressible alarm
and dread upon the prospect of adding
10 our population millions Of persons
dwelling in tropical chimes, aliens in
| race and in religion, either to share IN
] our self-government, or, what is worse