The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-05

battlefields made red with the blood
of father fighting against son and
| brother against brother, the constitu-
| ton of our country has emerged
| stronger, clearer, more compact and
enduring than ever before. And as it
! has been in the past. so believe it will
| be in the future. Doubters will con-
| tinue to question, DIRECTORS will con-
tinue to object, critics will continue
| to find fault. statesmen of the strict
| construction school will continue to tell
us that this thing and the other is I'M
constitutional. pessimists will continue
| to prate of the fall of Rome and to pre-
! diet the downfall of the great republic,
| political partisans will. | suppose, con-
| tnue to resort to falsehood and mis-
representation to secure party ad-
vantage and demagogues will continue
/ to magnify every ripple which dis
| turbs the onward current of rational
! advancement into an impossible OBJ
stace All these thiEgs will no doubt
continue to happen in the future just
as they have happened for hundred
| years past.
Cant Stand still.
But with the American people there
will be no such thing as standing still
Progress is their watchword. We oc-
cupy the first place in the procession
of the nations, and we shall continue
right on in the performance of our
manifest duty and in the discharge of
the moral and other great obligations
which time and events have devolved
upon us. There will be no halting in
the grand triumphal march of civiliza-
ton, of industry and commerce, upon
which we have embarked. Wherever
that flag has been rightfully raised,
there it viii remain. And wherever
that flag floats there will follow en-
lightened liberty, and there also, in due
time will be established peaceful. per-
manent republican forms of govern
ment.
Call it manifest destiny, or call it
what you may, l am one of those who
firmly believe that this nation is des-
tined to become the greatest power, the
most potent influence. Intellectually.
morally, politically, industrially and
commercially that the world has ever
yet seen.
To accomplish these magnificent re-
suits will require patience and courage.
endurance and patriotism and a high
order of craftsmanship. but these are
the qualities in which the American
people excel, and in the bright lexicon
of their hopes and aspirations there
will be found no such word as fail.
And there need be no apprehension of
injury to any class or section because
its or the extension of our trade and
commerce. Our constitution is broad
enough to protect all classes, all sec
tons and all interests and to preserve
all just and necessary distinctions.
Unsolved Problems.
l have said that as a nation we have
| made marvellous progress since the
days of 70, but there are many prob
| lens of government yet confronting us
| which remain to be solved. Not all the
abstract truths contained in the dec
laration of independence have yet been
reduced to a concrete form; not all the
great principles therein enunciated have
yet been crystalized into practice. The
declaration that all men are created
! equal and that all are entitled to life,
! liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
remained empty and void, mere gilt
! tering generality, until the martyr
Abraham Lincoln signed the proclama
ton of emancipation, which struck the
shackles from the limbs of four mil
| lions of human slaves
The truth is that as fast as one great
problem is solved other problems arise
for solution. This is the history of the
past; it will be the history of the fu-
! tLre
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