The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-21

Ine CONDITIONS IN this
country are that the interests Of all are
dependent upon the farmer. If he
is prosperous there are good times.
When there are poor crops there are
hard times. So, when the manufacture
ers are prosperous, farmers get good
prices for their crops, rnd when the
workshops are closed there is a poor
market for the produce from the farm.
All are a united people. What is a ben
eft to one class, SO called, is a benefit
to all.
THE GREAT BUCKEYE STATE.
What great and prosperous state
is this which we possess. 1t is great in
material wealth, great in its social ad-
vantages, great in its educational facil-
tiles. Our farms indicate comfort and
our cities present busy commercial ac-
tivity and even luxury. We have rea-
son to be proud of our great state.
1T is fitting and proper to compare
our condition with that Of 100 years ago.
What has produced the wonderful
change? I think the foundation for our
greatness is the great and good laws
our forefathers provided for us. One
hundred years ago the great North
west Territory, out Of which we as a
state were carved, was an almost un-
broken wilderness. The Ordinance Of
1887 was one Of the best laws ever pro-
duced. 1t was made effective over Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois. Michigan and Wiscon-
sin. One thing said in that ordinance
was, Religion and intelligence are nec-
essary to the happiness Of man. And
SO means for education were provided
for all time in the Northwest Territory.
That has made the people a moral and
intelligent people--one who will always
respect law, and forever maintain the
means of education and for the promo
tion Of religion and intelligence. And
for this we should be thankful to our
forefathers.
Another thing provided in the ordi-
nance of 1887 was that no one should
ever be deprived Of liberty except for
the punishment Of crime, and SO no
man was ever held in slavery in any
Of these five states. The people Of the
great Northwest Territory have always
been liberty-loving people. Another
declaration in the ordinance of 1881 was
that the states erected out of the terri
tory should remain forever q part Of
the confederacy known as the United
States of America. And so when the
time came when others thought to de-
stroy TIE republic, the states form ed
from r0e Northwest Territory were
ALL TRUE TO THE FLAG.
1T is a fact that of all the soldiers
from the north who served in the war
Of the rebellion-more than 10000 in
number-more than one-third came
from these five states.
And we have right to rejoice that
these states furnished some Of the
greatest leaders the nation has ever
produced. No better or greater man
ever lived than Lipcoln-and no greater
warriors than Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan.
"While we owe much to the great and
good laws which laid the foundation
Of good government, good morals, edu-
cation and intelligence, still more is due
perhaps to our great ancestors. WASH
ington, at the close Of the revolution,
called attention to the great country
northwest Of the Ohio. And SO many Of
the great revolutionary patriots sought
this section for settlement. No better
or sturdier pioneers ever blessed any
land than those who built up the waste
places of the great northwest. And
now, IL we have the proper spirit with
in us, we will prove
WORTHY SONS OF NOBLE SIRES.'
1.-The men who migrated from the
older settlements Of New England,
Pennsylvania and Virginia, were refer
red to as among the best men any coun-
try ever produced. Their ranks were
recruited from Scotland, Ireland, En-
gland, and Germany; and the stock
produced by these noble progenitors
have shaped the destiny of the great
northwest, of which Ohio was a part.
And to all we owe q debt of gratitude
for what they did and how they build
ed for posterity.
But" continued the speaker, "Ohio
! is but one of the five states Of the
Northwest Territory-nay, one Of the Is
States in the great union of states.
This great republic is greater and bet
ter than any one state. All your ener-
gy and patriotism should be devoted to
the building up and bettering of this
great country Of ours--the greatest, the
best, the fairest and the freest country
on the face of the EARTH"