The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-31

that shall never call retreat. You
may as well try to roll Yonder sun back
ward as to turn the American people
from the onward path of honor. We
are working together with God in lift
ing up and en1ightening the once en-
shaved people now committed to our
care. ''NIen of thought and men of
action clear the way.
This Memorial day speaks to US as
never before, of our common duties and
responsibilities. It summons the whole
nation regardless of parties ard creeds
to bear together the "white mans
BURDEN to meet the red mans claims,
to safeguard the brown mans rights
and redress the black mans wrongs.
She must check with the hand Of prud-
ence and Justice, the Unsuitable greed
of rapacious monopolies and trusts
which exist by the grace and to the
disgrace of the long suffering public,
and which, like the horse 1eech with
her two daughters, are evermore CRYING
3 <'Give, give. She must not only shut
now and forever the door of the Amer
lean congress to po1ygamy, but pre-
vent the spread of this baleful evil
She must deal in a common sense man
ner with intemperance.
Each citizen must resolute1y meet
every obligation that American sover-
eighty imposes. What a PROCLAMATION
of such a sacred trust to think that it
is not respectable to have anything to
do with politics. What cowardly
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political fray, while we ourselves go on
with our business or professional pur-
suits, hoping that, after all, some good
will come to us out of the rOugh-and
tumble contest. John Milton said:
II cannot praise fugitive and c1ois-
tered virtue, unexercised and unt0reath-
ed, that never sa1Iies forth and seeks
her adversary, but sinks out of the
race, where that immortal garland is
to be run for, not without dust and
heat. America expects every man to
do his duty. Let her not be disap-
pointed and ashamed It is war with
self, with its Indifference to public
concerns. It is war with the con-
stant1y assertive se1fshness of men
who, having everything to gain and
nothing to lose, are on the lookout
with Argus eyes TO see what there is
for them in the fat offices the people
have to give, and are ready with
Briarean grasp TO take all they can
reach.
am full of hope for this land Of my
maturest love and most devoted serv-
ice. heartily agree with Archbishop
Ireland when he so e1oquent1y says:
''The Republic of America was a s1-
preme act of confidence in man, d con
fession such as never before had been
heard of human dignity and human
ability. And never was the republic
so strong in all the elements of life, so
enhancing in beauty, so menacing to
all the foes of democracy, as when the
sun of Appomattox shone on her ban
ner and revealed upon its azure ground
the presence of the full galaxy of it's
stars
The republic is living grander life
today than whens Grant grasped the
hand of Lee and said LET us have
peace" The years that have sped on
since then have welded together the
North and South Into a compact and
glorious unity Beneath the starry
flag of the fathers, the sires and sons
who represented contending hosts
have been marching VIGOROUSLY for
ward to enlarge the reign of human
liberty and human rights. They have
been showing the carping critics at
home and the doubling questioner
abroad, as the patriotic Archbishop
AYERS that, america does not live for
herself alone; the great destinies of
humanity are in her keeping. No
Monroe doctrine confines her democ-
racy to Atlantic and Pacific sea-
boards"
have limited at the many and COM
p1icated problems, we of today are
called upon to solve, even as those who
sleep in soldiers graves had to face,
during the stirring times in which
they lived. But because they succeed
ed we have the sure promise of unfai1-
ing success if we shall be faithful as
were they. 1t is not only poetry but
prose which is embodied in the senti-
ment of the song, columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean. She is the chief of the
nations of the earth. [ say it proudly,
reverenty, truthfu1ly. We can CRATE
fully thank the Giver of all good that
there is not consumption in her blood,
no paralysis in her limbs, no serious
impairment of her digestive powers:
no signs of heart failure in that central
organ of her being. The strength of
the Everlasting hills" is in her g1ori-
Gus frame; the beauty of her rivers
and lakes and seas is in her beaming
face. ''The sweep continental of
mighty and majestic thought is in her
active brain. The ardency and fresh
ness of perennial youth are in her
1eaping pulses. The light of liberty
is in her eyes of heaven-1it blue The
words of conci1liation and affection are
on her persuasive lips, and her yearn-
ing arms have c1asped once more all
her children to her bounteous bosom in
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