The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-17

GO down, our banks will close. and there
will be no money to pay soldiers to support
our missionaries in preaching higher civili-
cation to the heathen!
This Is the Tory argument now, as 1t has
been from the beginning. Let us not believe
1t. Let us not make the least concession to
It. Let us resist it and advance from our
and drive 1t back to the Dark Ages!
Higher civilization, progress, all real and
permanent prosperity. are but q manifesto
ton of human nature, as the good in 1t finds
freedom to realize itself in action. 1ndivid-
uals may be tirne-servers. towards. buck
US to keep as trustees for the future of tn"
world. But in spite of the unworthiness of
men as individuals. man is divine in his
origin, in his soul and in his ultimate pur>
poses. The purpose of the human race on
earth is the purpose Of an omnipotent God.
Give It freedom to develop its noble Gre
from strength to strength as we have done
here in this Louisiana Purchase from the
time st. Louis was a frontier settlement un-
til now. when at the beginning of the Twen-
tieth Century we have the eyes of the world
upon us. ,. DIM. ,,oso ~,
chase that they might become sovereign
creators of sovereign Republics?
mo; 1t was Liberty-born not of Jefferson
or Of any man. but of heaven! Do we wish
prosperity to be permanent? DO we wish to
see bank added to bank. railroad to rail-
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school. church TO church, until the wonders
of our past shall be as nothing to the mira
cles of our future? Then let us trust lih-
erty and the truth in which alone men can
be either. free or just or prosperous! And
If we declare that our safety is born of God
let us not. think of him as that hideous
Moloch whose government on earth is ac-
companied by wounds. shrieks and tears
as the feeble are compelled to yield to the
strong! No: but rather let us figure him
to ourselves as the great Lberator. who
says to US. Put up the sword of coercion
into the sheath! and touches with his divine
and healing hand the wounds our folly has
made.
"But we have gone too far not to 20 on
It can never be that we will betray the |
freedom of the world. God cannot hermit
1t. He will vet raise some Grattan to rally
us to duty with the proclamation that 10y
cannot be that. liberty will fan. 1t cannot |
be that the worlds hope will be denied It, !
In the breast of the weakes and humblest /
of mankind there is a divine aspiration |
which heaven cannot %Gisappoint. The
wards! We will vet see how foul are the !
hands. white rs If with the leprosy of
Gchazi. which attempt to raise the standard !
of the worlds freedom as the banner of
their own oppression-the foul oppression
for which Toryisin and Imperialism stand
in Ireland, in India. in South Africa. anG
wherever else on earth coercion is made
the ultima ratio of government. This world
was not created to be a hell governed by
shines in its darkness viii NOT fail the
world. nor will it fail the United States of
America-this New Atlantis. which in these
centuries of growth through lib-
erty. has arisen from the Western seas to
lead mankin into its divine future
when by liberty upiifted-all the world at last
Saved from bloodshed and oppression bv the
truth that makes men free!'.