Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-06

for We can do nothing for ourselves;

for We can do nothing for ourselves;
says the dreamer Bellamy,
building with afaster-Fand
his ideal city in Utopia, where there
shall be no doubt of the future, no
poverty or want. no political oppres
sion. And so the upper and the neither
miIlstones go around upon each other
in the politico-economic mill, and
grind the manhood of mankind into in
f1nitesimal dust between them. So,
the armies of might and oppression
and the armies OF discomfort and want
with battle banners gather for the fray,
only to find as they approach each 9th
er, though from antipodal stations, that
the standards which they carry are the
same, that the cause OF each converges
to one end. and that their common enc
nv is the individual citizen vino is the
unit of the State.
Not in the temper CT the partisan,
but rather in the spirit of the historian
have sought to lay before you briefly
the attitude of the Republic OF to-day
towards it's citizens, as | conceive it.
is it the attitude that should continue
as best for him and for the Union? Or
is the old notion that the indiviual who
is least governed is best governed to
prevail once more some day in the Re-
public? Is "the unbought grace OF life.
the cheap defence Of nations" to pass
away in the splendor of our new wealth
and power? Is the dream OF fhe So
cialist to find it's fulfllment in Ameri-
ca?
These are the mighty questions
which SEINE to me to lie at the very
root of the perplexing problems that
confront us, and that promise to con-
front our children.
It may be that | have seen as through
glass darkly; and that the later his
tory of the Republic, as it presents it
self to my view, is distorted and an
illusory history. But as God has given
me to see 1t, believe that the sole le-
climate end OF government is
To Secure and Protect
The individual citizen in the enjoyment
of life. liberty and property, and that
when it assumes other functions, or
permits other privileges, it becomes the
instrument of usurpation and the
means of tyranny.
And yet, however far the mighty vos-
sci that bears us all, may seem of late
to have veered from her course, be-
cause that do believe in the ultimate
saving common sense and patriotism
of the plain American citizen, lock
with confidence to some future day for
her safe return to her charted and GER
tain path. And in that faith and with
that hope salute her, as she enters in
to this new year, that shall carry her
into the new Century.
Thou, TOO, sail on, o ship of State!
sail on, o Union, strong and great
Humanity with all it's fears,
With all the hope of future years,
Is hanging GREATNESS on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast and sail and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear rot each sudden sound and shock,
It's OF the wave and not the rock;
Ills but the fiapp.ng of the sail,
And not rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite OF false lights on the shore,
Sail on, ror fear to breast the seal
Our hearts, our hopes are ali with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our
tears,
Our faith triumphant DER our fears,
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