The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-23

great kingdom OF Ferdinand and Isa-
bella to fitly illustrate that national
decay and death which are always the
wages of sim Let us take not of these
things, that we may eternally strive
for that purity in our national lie
which, according to Gods law, is alb
solutely necessary for it's perpetuity.
Let us stand by merit system of pub
lie employment, let US vote only for
men who possess both ability and good
morals, let us be better citizens than
we are partisans, let us be patriots
who will be more persistent in demand
ind an honest and efficient performance
Of public duties than in seeking office
for ourselves.
TRUTH AND HONESTY.
Truth, honesty and stability must
inspire a people or these virtues cannon
find expression in their system OF gov
ernment. Inherent traits of character
are persistent, and follow from father
to son to even more than the scrlp-
tural third and fourth generation, ana
this fact leads me to observe: HOW
different from the Latins has been the
history of the English-speaking eX-
plorers and colonists on this continent.
Emerson says, "every revolution was
once a thought in one mans mind; eV-
cry reform a private opinion NOW
| the individual thought and the private
| opinion which gave to us industry mo-
! etry and political coherency in sucn
| coordination as to sustain society am
| at the same time reconcile liberty with
authority and authority with liberty
| was brought to these shores by the
| Pilgrim and the Cavalier
The Cabots. Sir Walter Raleigh. Mar
tin Pring. Bartholomew Gosnold, Fer
| dinand Gorges, Captain John Smlth.
| the Pilgrim Fathers, and the sons oc
| the Catholic Lord Baltimore were not
| looking for an Eldorado; We're not look
! ing for a land to debauch; they were
| looking for a fertile soil within tenn
perate cline that would furnish homes
! for an honest people; that would tur-
nish homes for people whose deareNt
ambition was to place each man equal
before the law and allow him to stand
| fearlessly before his Maker. They were
the seed from which came this people
and from which came this system
of Government.
TO be sure il was the seed of an
exotic torn by the roots from its native
heath and cast upon the mercy or the
winds and the waves, but Wheh u
found lodgment upon these shores u
bore political doctrine so Just IN llS
Inception, so grand in it's development
so beautiful in it's affinity for the
American soil as in time to become
cardinal doctrine not only Tor lhe
colonists of 1876. not only Tor the
swarms of liberty seekers VINO came
after them, not only for you, not only
for your children and your chlldreh
children. but for every God-fearing anu
humanity-loying person who in the
ages TO come shall seek political anI
religious liberty in this fair land.
MARKED BY DESTINY.
, The hand of Almighty God was upor
the Pilgrims and the CaYalier-th'
| mark of human destiny upon theI
brow. Had the ruler of the winds an.
the waves seen fit they might trs
have found Iodgment upon the Tugge
steeps OF the cold north; they nash
= have found settlement among SOM
peonle widely lscatt Sred over an afi'
: waste, on they might have droppe'
e down upon some island like JeWe
! nesting upon the BOSOM or a tropl'a
! sea. but vet their ideas Of governmen
; would have been great and they wou!'
: have exalted any people and ennoble,
: any land For $50 years the Spirl
p which inspired the Pilgrim struggle
= with what 10 any other people woul
, have been the unconquerable force
Il OF darkness; contended against =, D
j forest against the savage against IN
o vigorous French, against the cru
= Then was born a mighty nation;
4 impulse. for the colonies united in dc
Y fense became indissolubly Joined In
,, common destiny; Joined under the IN
. spiration of Almighty God in Gtvin
g a new political dispensation to the ht
nighted world; Joined for the purpo'
q OF sweeping westward the star
the republican Bethlehem until i
t light should rest not only upon Il
s rugged craigs of the Allegheny mour
+ tains. not only upon the alluvial plan
v of the Mississippi valley, not only upo
r the snow capped peaks Of the Sierl
e Nevadas. not only upon the glass
l. bosom Of the western seas, but shou
Il shed its benign rays over the bloog
g bay at Manila, and onward into, q
e portals of the Orient.
l. In pioneering the weakest fall by Il
n wayside while the survivors are Gull.
n by the neXorable law, OF the surV'y
Il of the nrtbses anG are the ntns t~pe
a feet composites OF human resourcetu
le ness Therefore, like Tartary in Asi
l. and Germany in Europe, New Englal
and the Middle Atlantic states 70: Il
l. 1 past hundred Years have been pr
le life hives sending out the hardy, Il
Pr honest and the Inherently resourc
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