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

strife, but we to convince man and God
that we are among the real men must
be willing to Law down our lives for
one cherished cause. for greater love
than this hath no man. that a man lay
down his life for his friends"
The paramount question with every
man should be: Is IL right. ought I to
do IL? This answered in the ~affirrna-
tive. our desire should become a con-
Stunning fire, our determination. one
that sees in what others call obstacles,
put spurs to our coveted good. Such
men. you. members of the Grand Army
of the Republic. and you women Of the
Ladies Relief Corps. were. You stood
in the Jaws of death, you dared to die
for what you believed. You sisters Of
charity like ministerinC angels guard
ed the home in the hour of suspense.
hours more agonizing thar hours Of
actual conflict. You moved among the
faint and wounded and dying and
dead. cheering the faint. binding up
the wounded. a~llaying the dying and
burying the dead. Ruskin's doctrine,
that war Is "a necessity is "A hard one,
but while men are as they are IL seems
TO be pr on'y reCours to "A perma-
nent settlement of many racial prob
lens. IL may not convince men but IL
holds them in allegiance till tim
evolves them into a state OF rectitude.
Human rights have ever been the in
SEPARATION OF all good men and in every
IA these sacred rights have either
triumphed or been trampled upon: If
trampled upon IL was but for the time,
70.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise
again
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error. wounded. writhes with
pain.
AL lt.. 80. ID. -a.l A.u -
Whoever threads his way through
philosophy and under history can eas-
lily follow the upward tendency of this
priceless boon. In reviewing the uni
verse David declared that the earth
VAS the Lords and the fullness there
of. hence all things hould work to
that end. and Tenyson saw
"One God. one law, one element,
And one far off divine event.
To which the whole creation moves"
While the tendency of the race has
been 10 tina end IL has been by steps
rather than by an inclined plane. No
nation has universally espoused the
cause of humanity. nor can we expect
one to, until we ave advanced much
farther i'm the arts of civilization. But
our nation has been foremost In es-
pousing humanity's cause. The revo-
luton was fought on hat principle. Its
triumph was the triumph of the race.
and the establishment of the world. All
admit the justice of the cause for
which Washington stood. The dec
laration of indeDendence marked an
epoch in the worlds evolution and
Thomas jefferson will remain mong
the immortals of human memory. The
constitution. with all it's amendments,
IL but an enumeration of that principle.
The second wal with England "A the
demonstrating of the truth that men
should first be men and then English
men or Americans. 1t has ever been
our cherished doctrine that the people
are the state and not the ruler. as
Louis XIV. said. The impress
ment of seamen was a violation of
that statement and the conflict Of 1872
determined that Americas doctrine
was correct. Us IL a matter of wonder
that Emerson said: America is but an
other name for opportunity? strange
that we have not committed more er-
rors thar We have But we have Com-
mitted them. our war with MEXICO
was. on our part. a grieyous wrong,
provoked only by ~unboundsi sectional
political desires and carried On only
with the vain hope OF perprtlatin2 an
Institution that was inconSruous with
free institutions. But as the calm in the
storm is only for the gathering Of
more energy that II may Jove-like hurl
its missile. so the lull after the MeXi-
can war served only for the friends of
freedom to prepare for a last deadly
combat. The Kansas Nebraska strug-
gle was but the vain attempt of the
physician to allay by lotions what
could be mastered only by the sur
geon's scalp. The Missouri compro-
mise and omnibus bill were the most
patent exhibitions of modern states
manship of the futility OF compromis-
geon's scalpel. The Missouri compro-
come an evil with an evil. or of meet
ing a foe on his own plans.
But as the brilliantly FURNISHED dia-
mond has become such through Sc
we're trial. and az the eminently scho-
lastic scholar has become such
through weary hours of patient toll,
SO humanity has won its vantage
ground through the crucible and not
the sedative of time.
Following the Missouri compromise
came the election of 1860 and the hith-
erto imaginary Mason and Dixon's
line became a real one. The die was
cast. The national status was know'n.
BY a vote of 1863. at Is minutes past
one. December 90, 1860. secession
passed and America was in the
midst of a self-imposed trouble: she
was at war with herself. The
feasibility and ~permanency of a free
government was 10 ne tested. IL WAS
a time that tried men, souls. Ii was
on "a beautiful May day morning that
a young man. whose experience was
not unlike other mems, enlisted for the
war and hurried home from the viii
lage to arrange affairs n depart for
the scene of He hurried to
the ~barnyard where the very tongue
of nature seemed to speak to him.
Never had the old tree in yonder cor
ner seemed so realistic. The old barn.
the %neighing of his favorite steed. the
lowing Of the gentle old COW the proud
bearing of the fowl. all spoke to him
in a strangely solemn tor Fastening
To the house. he visited in urn ZACH
room. and his own in particular, where
he a fought out and arrived AT his
conclusions regarding his duty. Each
having been seen, he begins his
lea~ve-taking of the family. Broth
ers, sisters. friends all wish him God
speed and an anectionate mother
drops upon her son a sympathetic tear
and down the path to the old gate