St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-10-02

sancti6ed by the faces of little children
Just shown aud then withdrawn, the
call to public life, the seat in congress, st
teen years OF steady work and growth,
yielding him mastery of the hardest and
gravest problems that perplexed states
men, making his name SYNONYMOUS wit b
the tariff itself in the most important
financial measure of our time, and sending
! him forth as its champion before the ma
| ton his partys inevitable leader, his tri-
umph at the polls, and so at last his hand
! upon the helm OF state, troops of friends,
stronger personal following, as even
| his critics confessed, than any president
before him ever drew, then the exercise OF
all his tull-grOwn powers IN great affairs,
the return of confidence and plenty,
the gathering clouds of International
trouble, his long, patient, conscientious
labor to make peace possible with honor,
at last war and the sudden end of war
in unexampled victory, clouds clearing
away, aud the sun of the new century
rising upon enlarged dominions, with
problems and respons bilities undreamt
OF in the past; courage, tact, persistence,
gradually overcoming all obstacles, the
submission of his work to the judgment
OF the people in second candidacy, and
their tremendous verdict OF approval;
then, after few brief months, Gro Nd, d
with swift fulhments and splendid
prophecies; Cuba sitting clothed and in
her right mind at the feet of Freedom,
the far off Philippines setting themselves
to learn at last the first rude elements of
liberty under law, in the m DIST of Pan
Americas high festival, amid the love
and acclaims OF the people, martyrdom,
the days work done, the volume closed
and the seal set beyond the power of
change
To call him dead is only an abuse of
speech. From the voice of wailing that
went up over the fall of Lincoln comes
back the cry of the great patriot
preacher, true today as then: Dead.
dead, dead, be yet speakethl Is Wash
ington dead? Is Hampden dead? IsD..-
vid dead ? Is any man that was ever fit to
live dead? Risen to that unobstructed
sphere where passion never comes he be-
gins his illimitable work" He lives
in the stupendous changes that
came to pass under his hand. He
lives in redeemed and enlightened
Cuba, and in the islands of the
South Pacific, where anarchy and mis-
rule give place to peace and order. He
lives in the brighter glory of the flag
and so long as that banner holds place
among the ensigus of the earth
il There's not a breathing of the common
wind that can forget him"
His very policy lives by the pledged
word OF his young and powerful success
sor. He falls but another steps into his
place, pale with responsibility but not
with fear, ready, and able with the peo-
PIES help, to take up and carry on the
work The people will hold
up his hands. Government exists for the
protection of the weak. The strong
could take care Of themselves. Anarchy
lifting it's hand against the state in the
name OF the unfortunate IS an infant |
blinded by passion in its mothers arms,
tearing the breast that feeds it.
Leader after leader may fall, but the
majes ic Republic moves on with unfal-
tering step to the ful6lment of her des-
tiny. What shall be able to separate us
from the love of our country Shall fire
or famine. poison or lead or steel? No
harm shall overtake thee, 0 Ny Country
Thousands shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand ct thy right hand, but it shall
not come nigh thee!
What were our lives without thee?
What all our lives to save thee?
We reck not what gave thee;
We will not dare to doubt thee,
But ask whatever else and we will dare !"