Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-17
VIVA I they ARE DOING

Taking Place In Iowa
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design. And Sir, Will the American
spirit soley relieve you when this hap
pens? / would rather. Infinitely and I
am sure most OF this convention are OF
the same opinion have q king. lords and
commons, than government 80 replete
with insupportable evils II we make
a king, we may prescribe the rules by
which he shall rule his people and i'm
terpose such checks as shall prevent
him from infringing them, but the PRES
sident, in the field, at the head Of the
army, can prescribe the terms on which
he shall reign az master SO far that 1t
Will puzzle any American to get his
neck from under the CALLING yoke.
Will not the recollection OF his
crimes teach him to make one bold
push for the American throne? Will
not the immense difference between be-
ing master Of everything and being ig-
nomiously tried and punished, power
fully excite him to make this bold push?
But, sir, where is the existing force to
punish him? Can he not, at the head Of
his army, beat down every opposition?
Away with your president, we shall
have a king. The army will salute him
monarch. Your militia will leave you,
and assist in making him king, and
fight against you. And what have you
TO oppose this force? What will then
become of your rights? Will not abb
solute despotism ensue 2"
Patrick Henry fought twenty-three
days against the ratification OF the con-
stitution by the Virginia assembly.
During that time he spoke on eighteen
days; he made three speeches one day,
five another, anu eight another. His
speeches nll one-fourth OF the reported
debate, and they possess all the fine
geloquence that have made him first
among American orators. He covered
( the whole field OF '.imperialistic" cal
amity bowling; and what OF it all now
after one hundred years? The record
simply dims the fame Of a great man.
who. after a heroic struggle to glamour
liberties. took to the woods OF political
ghosts and bugaboos and left 1t too the
SWashingtons and Madisons to devise q
wise government that would preserve
our liberties.
Bryatl's speech, with few aitera-
tons, can be actually patched up out OF
Patrick Henry's speeches against the
constitution. the Kentucky resolutions,
5calhoun's speeches against the right OF
the government to enforce tariff, the
Santi-expansion speeches of the men
Who opposed the Louisiana purchase,
the speeches of the men who wanted
Andrew jackson hung for his acts as
governor In Florida, and the odds and
ends of speeches of the rest of the
alarmists who at one time or another
have seen our liberties, being over
thrown" every time a new issue has
been met in an intelligent and courag.
seous way by the patriotic statesman
ship Of the American people.
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SPLENDID SOUL.
lRobert q. Cousins for the keokuB
Gate City.l
1t is lucky for our state that Sam
CLARK lived. He lifted Iowa, journalism
into the world of letters and he kept i,
there. Ever since his pen was welded
understanding minds were ashamed te
write small things. He set the pace for
loftier, brighter thought. His style was
rugged, elegant, scholastic: his thought
as stimulating as the oceans breeze.
During his term of public service as
Representative in congress with the on
'erous duties there involved he felt the
handicap of physical intirmity and vol
unfairly retired. He could not do the
endless errands devolving on a con-
gresham, but his feeble hand, directed
by a vigorous mind, could WELD the
mighty pen until the very endz-until
the Gate City should become his cpl
taph. He loved the paper as he loved
his city and his state and country and
he was faithful to them all.
His generous words have cheered, in.
lspired and steadied many hearts
especially the young. His deeply read
and philosophic mind became a foun-
tain Of philanthropy. His very presence
was an inspiration and q charm. His
only scorr, if augkS he had, was for
stupidity and meanness. He liked no.
bility and letters. He had an under
standing mind. a body frail and full oi
pain-just sufficient of the physical tc
serve as an apology for his great SOU
stolive. q little while on earth. But with
all his frailty and infirmlties, pessimism
never crept into his hopeful heart. He
viewed the rising and the setting sur
with philosophic mind, but the bright
ening colors of the dawn predominated
lin his makeup. He belonged to the
Affirmative element. He tarried in nc
cavern. His eyes dwelt on the highway
of progress and even In one of his very
latest editorials he unused upon the
stars that shone down on Abraham and
Newton and Phillips Brooks and his
own venerated father and mother
Splendid soul that gave good cheer te
.doubting ones: that planted flowers
along the toilsome. way OF life: tina,
saw with keen and healthy vision the
great achievements of the past and
wrought their story into inspiration
for the present. Splendid soul, tina,
still looked toward the stars wher
earthly shadows fell and painted with
the twilight hues a picture of eterna
Ihope-splendid soul!
Story OF slave.
To be bound hand and foot for wears
by the chains of disease is the worst
form Of slavery, George D. Williams. OF
Manchester, Mich. says: My wife has
been so helpless for five years that she
could not furnSovar. In he'd n1opa Afta,