Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-03-05


adjustment. Distrust of the capacity,
integrity and high purposes of the
American people will not be an in
spring theme for future POLITICAL
contests. Dark pictures and gloomy
forebearing are worse than useless,
Those only becloud; they do not help
to point the way of safety and honor.
Hope maketh not ashamed" The
prophets of evil were not the builders
of the Republic. nor in its crisis since
have they saved or served it. The
faith of the fathers was mighty force
in its creation and the faith of their
descendants has wrought it's progress
and furnished us defenders. They arc
obstructionists who despair and who
would destroy confidence in the ability
of our people to solve wisely and for
civilization the mighty problems rest
ing upon them. The American people,
intrenched in freedom at home, take
their love for it with them wherever
they go and they reject as mistaken
and unworthy the doctine of liberty to
others. Our institutions will not de-
teriorate by extension and our sense
of justice will not abate under tropical
suns in distant seas. AS heretofore, so
hereafter will the nation demonstrate
it's fitness to administer any new es-
tate which events devolve upon it, and
in the fear of God will take occasion
by the hand and make the bounds of
freedom yet wider" 1t there are those
among us who would make our way
more difficult, we must not be disheart-
ened, but the more earnestly dedicate
ourselves to the task which we have
rightly entered. The path of progress
is seldom smooth New things are Of
ten found hard to do. Our father,
found them so. We find them so. They
are inconvenient. They cost us some
thing. But are not we made better for
the effort and sacrifice, and are not
those we serve lifted up and blessed?
1--WE will be consoled, too, with the
fact that opposition has confronted ev-
cry onward movement of the Republic
from It's opening hour until now, but
without success. The Republic has
marched on and on, and it's every step
has exalted freedom and humanity.
We are undergoing the same ordeal as
did our predecessors nearly a century
ago. We are following the course they
blazed. They triumphed. Will their
successors falter and plead organic i'm
potency in the nation? Surely after
125 years of achievement for mankind
we will not now surrender our equality
with other powers on matters funda-
mental and essential to nationality.
With no such purpose was the nation
created. In no such spirit has it de-
veloped its full and Independent sover-
ignty. We adhere to the principle of
equality among ourselves and by no
act of ours will weassignto ourselves a
subordinate rank in the family of ma
tions.
"My fellow citizens, the public events
of the past four years have gone into
history. They are too near to justify
recital Some of them were unforeseen
many of them momentous and far
reaching in their consequences to our =
selves and our relations with the rest
of the world. The part which the
United States bore so honorably in the
thrilling scenes in China, while new TO
American life, has been in harmony
with it's true spirit and best traditions
and IN dealing with the results its pol
icy will be that of moderation and
fairness.