Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03

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by the people OF the control of industries
Such theories are in such i'll repute that
only some feeble, discredited political
parties advocate them, and yet after al
the whole system is here and doing al
most all the business of the nation. Al
most every great business IN America is
under the control of a trust. The peo-
pie have found out that anything from
railways to whiskey and collins can be
handled with infinitely more success by
combined pooling than by competition.
But through all these changes which are
constantly taking place, the most impor
tant is in the betterment and moral and
intellectual elevation of its individual
citizens.
The standard of living, the standard of
comforts, the standard of intelligence,
and the standard of morality are all
higher today than ever before There is
a sense of security IN the communities
like this one which is of immense advant.
age compared with the dangers that often
threaten large cities. When the riots in
Chicago and Pittsburg and other places
threatened the destruction of its business
people and its homes, the people here
TASTED in the sense of peacefui security.
When the alarm of war was souaded ard
the people In the cities along Gu coasts
anxiously watched for an invading feet,
every man IN rural Iowa had nothing to
fear. But its citizens of every shade OF
political and religious belief were ready
to do their full duty. Their influences
and Surroundings had developed the
ideal citizen-a citizen who had an ex
allied idea OF his duty to his country and
his family and himself.
Such a man comes to rightfully I'M
derstand the spirit of this republic to
mean the homes wherein men and wo-
meu live in hailowed supremacy of each
others affections, and 6resides by do
mestlc virtues. 1t means that through
the benefcent influences of honorable
parentage ann the destiny shaping pow.
ers of these homes our childhoou has
been protected, our ripening manhood
and womanhood fostered through life
unto u graver responsibilities as indi-
viduals and citizens. 1t means schools
and colleges aiding these homes to cul-
ture the youth and anchor the nation IN
truth and intelligence. 1t means insti-
%tutions that shelter the friendless, sue
cor the infirm of body, foster with tender
care the weak OF mind, and give brother
ly aid to the unfortunate.
1t means a government in which the
rights of man, MS man, are universally
recognized, while integrity aud worth of
character outweigh silver and gold, and
bestows on every American the birth.
right Of al individual sovereignty sur
passing that of kings. 1t means a spirit
of citizenship begottep by the sacrifices
of our fathers in giving us national birth
and the holy example of men and wo-
men who have toiled i'll the field,
wrought in the shop, planned in legisla-
tive halls aud decreed justice IN execu
tive chairs. 1t means the rich incltement
of the men who in our country's peril
left home and kindred dear to fight the
battle OF truth aud liberty that home and
native land might be inviolate under one
government and one flag and that the
composite photography of the American
soldier might be peerless in the annals
OF history 1t amounts to this American
people becoming an embodiment of
John Millions definition of a nation,
Zone huge Christian parsonage, one
mighty growth of stature of an honest
man as big and compact in virtue as Id
Lody."
A true patriot holds his ballot above
price. He is above a mean thing il the
~neighborhood or in the nation. He does
his work we'll whether in field or in shop.
He gathers the children into the schools
and colleges and builds them in the
principles of truth and honor. He gives
as far as within his power every
man an honest chance in the battle OF
life. us he not in reality the truest
patriot who fills UP his station III private
life we'll, he who lives and promotes
peace both public and private. who know
ing that a country's prosperity depends
much more on its virtues than its arms,
resolves that his individual endeavors
shall not be wanting to promote this de-
cii Cbo Slu llOlIl6T b llDe,
"The one best omen is to fight for fatherland,p
is good and true, but more than all this
is to live nobly for native land. Virtue
and religion are indispensable con iitiops
OF the most exalted patriotism and the
western farm home is the best foster
of all these virtues.
The farm home responds to patriotic
duties quicker than Wall street. The
farm home has a divine setting. The
farmer abides amid fields fresh from the
hands OF the Almighty and teeming with
the powers OF an endless creation and IN
finite variability, with the blue sky above
him, with heavens fresh air encircline
HIM, with the heaven born orders of ey.
cry morning "let there be light" and
therefore life, with the heaven. sent Ave
Marias and benedictions of the evening
to bless him to restfulness which is rec
reation, and the songs of the stars and
the music of the spheres to sing over him
in pleasant slumbers. What a labora.
tory is his! What life giving forces
quick to respond to his truest thought
and deepest originality! The divine
laws of heredity, variability and selec.
ton in the vegetable and animal king.
disclose their secrets to his will.
The whole is either his cupboard of food
or cabinet of pleasure.
The years may come and the years
may go, but the farm goes on forever.
Nations may rise and perish, and imper-
lal cities be blotted from the face of the
earth, but the farm remains, with its
ever recurring seed time and harvest to
inspire and comfort mankind. Palace
and temple may crumble into dust, but