The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-09-21


day. Mayor Mcclure of Syracuse made
the address of welcome to the city.
Governor Roosevelt, who was to have
delivered the address Of welcome to the
state telegraphed that he could not be
present. Former Mayor Samuel L.
Black of Columbus, O., president of
the league, responded to the address of
welcome. In his annual address, Presi-
dent Black said:
eve are not here to lose ourselves in
abstruse and abstract speculations.
Our purpose is only a practical one.
We deal with the human life; we seek
to prolong 1t; to suffer it TO run its nat
ural course, unchecked and unham-
pered by disease. We aim to work this
out by disposing Of such severely prac-
tical questions as garbage disposal,
water supply, civil service reform,
saloon regulations and similar meas
ures. Neither the physician nor the
minister of the gospel go before us in
the humanitarian character of their
work.
It u . 0rsaA Victory.
IF we and others working along this
line can increase the general effect of
Che health and happiness Of the mill
ions who dwell fn cities, we have
gaineda VICTORY, compared TO which
the destructionFof Q feet or an army is
as nothing. Since the hast meeting of
the League onr people have been called
upon to undertake On at least to regu-
late the QoyexnmenA OF cities in new
countries, and in Havana, Santiago,
Manila and other citis OF the East
and West Indies, .our, Vigorous soldiers
and administrators ase enforcing the
first principles Of ouf municipal syssem
.--cleanlinessia and ordA3--whatsver plans
are proposed and 4whs&evsx hopes We
indulge, the bulk Of on voters are not
educated uzop munketpAl Affairs and
are not informed oflsths advantages
they can secure by . proper exercise OF
fheir SURFACES. The voter should be
taught what he, can secure by inteli-
gent voting. This must be done by the
object lesson and example Of other cit
les were SO much has boen done for the
public at large. Tell the voters what
TO vote for. and pvt your examples In
the concrete"
Atlanta, Ga, is Aspeesented by .
large delegation which is making great
efforts to have the next convention.
i st. Paul and Milwaukee are also bid
ding for the convention.
"Goldsn Rule Government"
The principal address was made by
Mayor Samuel Jones Of Toledo, O., upon
the subject: "New Patriotism; a
Golden Rule Government" He said
in part:
dor to say that the word patriotism is
to most people a meaningless jingle,
the one conception they have being as.
sociated with red fire, bunting, flags,
6recrackers and Fourth of JttIY. The
ffeR patriotism, however, sBka old
patriotism. The flag, the stars and
Stripes. sttli represent the love Of mill
ions, but we have been - busy iu the
chase after wealth that ally 3ust con-
ception is well nigh lost in the hurly.
burly of the scramble.
1--WE have reached the point where we
are discovering that wild beast ethics
are not good enough upon which to
base permanent and enduring repub-
lie. The ethics of the wild beast, the
survival of the strongest, shrewdest and
the meanest have been the Inspiration
of our materialistic lives during the
last quarter of a century. This fact in
our natural history has brught us today
face to face with the inevitable result.
We have nation in which few are
wealthy, few are in what might be
called comfortable circumstances, vast
numbers are propertylesg and millions
are in pauperism and crime. Certainly
no reasonable person will contend that
this is the goal that we have been strug-
Cling for; that the inequalities that
characterize our rich and poor repre-
sent the ideas that the founders of this
republic saw when they wrote that all
men are created equM And the new
patriotism is the love of the millions
that is already planning for and open
ing the way to better things, to a con-
dition of life under this government
when every child born in it will have
| equal opportunity with every other
child to live the best possible life that
he or she can live. Vi
1.-THE steps most likely to contribute
| to bringing about the better days and
better times for which we all long are,
to my mind, those thing that will
unity the people; that will serve to weld
4 them together into one common mass
those things that will help them to un.
derstand the oneness or solidarity of so.
ciety and the things that are the great.
| est hindrance to this sort of develop
| ment are all these agencies that serve
to sparate the people into fragments
that kept alive the fires Of hatred with.
In their bosoms, tend to make them hate
rather than to love each other. All
these agencies are the enemies Of prog.
ress and liberty and stand directly
athwart the path Of freedom. Chief
among them, and the one agency above
ell others that the patriot should seel
to overcome IN the municipality. the
state and nation are partisan politics.