Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-06-22

freely he has spent and been spent in
his country's service; but the same
vigorous manhood and clear and patri-
otic vision animated him as of old,
and give us confidence and trust for the
future of our republic, because his hand
will guide us, and his genius direct.
The speaker then reviewed at con-
siderable length the achievements Of
the rpublican party under Mckinley,
and of the blight of democratic rule
under Cleveland. The tariff law and
its effects, the settlement of the money
question, our relations with foreign
powers, our war with Spain and our
duty toward our new possessions. 1t
was a mastery address, closing with
the following peroration:
The American people are neither
poltroons nor pessimists, and they will
not signalize the dawn of the new CEN
tury by the surrender of either convic-
tions or territory. Every soldier back
from the islands, and they are in al
most every hamlet in the land, returns
an advocate of their retention. Our
dead are buried along the sands Of Lu-
zon, and on its soil no foreign flag
shall ever salute the dawn.
Whatever may be in store for us in the
new and unbeaten track upon which
we are entering, we shall not be found
with the unlit lamp and the ungirt
)oln.' Our way is new, but it is not
dark. I'm the readjustment o. world
conditions, where we must take our
place with the other great nations of
the earth, we shall move with caution,
but not with fear. We seek only to
lift up men to better things, to bless
and not to destroy. The fathers of
the republic accepted with courage
such responsibilities as devolved upon
them. The same heavens bent over
us, and the same power that shielded
them will guard and protect u.s., for
what we seek is to build still more
firmly, always upon foundations of
probity and of virtue, the glorious edi-
fee of the Republic.
We stand at the dawn of the new
century. Before it shall have reached
its meridian the youngest here will
have passed beyond this life or
beyond the sphere Of usefulness.
New recruits will step into the
ranks as we fall out. This very
year thousands of young men will for
the first time exercise the right of citi-
zenship and cast their ballots at the
national election. The safety of this
republic must ever rest in 1.-The courage
! of young hearts and the vigor of a
noble manhood" Youth is buoyant
and hopeful. No snarling criticism,
or gospel of a little America, or pro-
phecy of despair, will find response
from hearts that beat full and strong
with courage and with faith, and
whose creed 1t is that
God in his heaven,
Ais right with the world.''
Whatever else in the past has suffered
change or decay, the republican party,
which for forty years has been identi-
fed with everything ennobling and up.
lifting in our history, was never as
vital, virile, and as vigorous as today
And the heritage we shall transmit to
the new century, to the coming gen.
Grafton and to their children, and tc
their children's children, shall be a
record clean and untarnished, and un.
quenchable faith in free institutions
an unalterable belief in the patriotism
of the people, and an undying love o.
liberty and of country.
Senator Wolcott closed his speech a
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