Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-10-03
Temperance Notes.

No more truthful ana tender 4nQ
touching tribnte has been paid 70 the
memory Of our departed president,
VIM. Mckinley, BY any journal or
periodical than the one paid BY the
noble hearted Union Signal. the
national organ Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, winch
the following extract will show;
How profoundly thankful all
good citizens should be that the as
sassin has been spared to the fnll
process Of the which he aud his kind
so heartily hate! No doubt the
gentle. merciful, Christ.like William
Mckinley saved his country the aw-
full disgrace and crime Of the lynch
ing rope when he said in in his pain
and weakness, looking down at the
murderer by his feet "God forgive
him. Let no one hurt him."
"God tempers the spirit of
criticism and throws the mantle of
charity around the victim of disaster,
even when he is unworthy. How
much more when a noble citizen and
the distinguished representative of a
great nation suffers. For our
honored chief magistrate We mourn
with all true Americans. While we
do not forget that President Nc
Kinley has disappointed the temper
ance people Of this country, on more
than one occasion, we recall with
profound admiration and gratitude
his Christian example, his high
patriotism, his manly manhood, and
his spirit of devotion and chivalry
through wife and mother, to all wo-
manhood. The home, the material
relation, the social, moral and re-
ligeous status Of the sexes have been
uplifted and made more tender and
sacred by William McKinley's life"
"Truly God is wiser than we, else
the country, the world. would not
have been SO moved, as ;:y a single
common impulse to appeal to Him.
He knows the way He takes God
himself could not have been un-
moved by such an outcry from the
heart OF His earthly children. If
not our way, yet, on the whole in the
wide embrace, in the tar reach Of
cause and consequence, who dares
to doubt that His way is, beyond all
comparison, the better? The SUI
preme thing for nations as for indi-
viduals is the moral, the spiritual edu-
cation. There are lessons that must
be learned. There are lessons we
will not learn unless some strange,
some startling stroke Of providence
flash the truth upon the universal
mind and heart. : No,
prayer has not lost its gracious ef-
fcacy. The Heavenly Father has
not forgotten His children. The
good president whose dying lips
murmured the prayer, "Nearer My
God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee" has
gone home, but we have not lost
him. William Mckinley belongs tc
the American people more than ever
before. May he ever belong to a
higher company, the company of il
ustrious martyrs, whose memory en-
riches the worlds history.
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It would be impossible to find
! more reverend and exalted ex-
preston of Christian patriotism,
than this. A Southern gentle
man of business prominence al
few years ago said that the edi-
torials Of The Union Signal were
IS s.clear-cut, fGrceful and
brainy" as could be found in
any journal published.
This paper can be found in the
barber-shops of Cooperstown
where it is placed by the local
union that the men of Coopers-
town may know Of its rational
and practical views and methods
of dealing with the great ques-
lion Of the temperance reform.
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