Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-31
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will all have entered the Camp Eternal
And shall it then be said that :, "a
deemed nation has forgotten ito nra-
servers? God forbid. Woe unto that
people which remembers not its saints
and martyrs.
But, my friends much as we have
progressed. mighty as we have become
we must not rest upon our laurels. Re-
SponSibility OF action is measured Nv
breadth Of influence and range of
power. How great. then is our respon-
sibility
| would indulge the extreme of nei-
Their optimism or pessimism. The on
tlmist paints everything in rainbow
spiendor: with him there is no evil. no
raise note. no inharmonioUs bit of col
orlnS; whatever is is right. The pessi-
Nit takes the other extreme. for him
f. there is no spring. with its promise. no
summer with its flowers, no autumn
/ with its fruitaee; but ever and always
the winter of discomfort Good citizen
ship suggests n golden mean
| | am not one who believes this gov
| ernment Is in serious danger from
! purely economic causes. nor do | be-
4
, 1nands that the government should
grant special privileges to any man.
Enough that it enables one to wear
upon an honest breast, the white badge o.
American citizenship.
| But do believe there are things which
| demand our serious attention. and to cor
| rect which may well enlist our best en-
| deavor
| There are other battles than those
| fought at the lannon's mouth; there are
other foes than those which are slain by
the sword; there are enemies to our fire
sides that come not with Haunting ban
ners and martial music: they lurk within
our very midst and carry on their meta
rious work under our very eyes.
| Society permits conditions. even profits
from practices. whose sure and logical
outcome are misery and crime.
We tolerate marriages whose fruit can
not do else than populate our prisons and
poor houses.
In some states We still cling to that
| tribal relic, the common law marriage.
and look upon divorce as the permissible
| breaking OF n civil contract.
In the centerS of population We see
without living protest. the hels Of in
| EQUITY of every kind sowing their seeds of
| restitution and death. because of utter
want of feeling of mora! responsibility. or
| because the public conscience has been
deadened by the giving and taking of a
! fee.
All around us are men, conceived in in
! Equity and born in sin. sealed in their
nativity the slaves Of nature and the sons
of hell. daily travelling the pathway that
leadeth unto destruction.-unto the doom
/ from which. unaided. there Is no escape !:
and We stay them not. Cruelty him; cru
cifv him We cry in a common voice. for
getful of the fact that. during every other
/ act of the tragedy. We have remained 81
| lent. We become particcps criminis
| through this Indifference to the causes
| that produce crime.
We have not yet learned that the policy
of our so-called penal institutions should
/ he corrective and not punitive. and that
the classification and education of our
! criminals is a duty we owe, not alone to
| them. but to the state. as we'll
What then. is our duty?
Am | my brothers keeper? Yes: and |
cannot escape the responsibility. What
does oar boosted Christianity mean?
| for? Do not they both teach the virtue of
| helpfuiness and the power of individual
life? Do not they both teach that if we
would receive we must also give? 1t has
been wisely said that the question should
be not what are We getting out of life, but
! what are we putting into it. 1t is not
who YOU are but what you are. The late
Governor Grcenhalge replied to his crit
| 4 =, an. ion, hat hp a
born in a foreign country. 1T is not so
much where you were born. as what you
have been doing since you were born.
| | am not speaking of these Things from
the obvious economic standpoint. but
purely as a matter OF sentiment; Tor SEN
| timent is the basis of all reformatory
| work 1t is that which if touched, can
| make the whole world kin. ana trans
| form the humblest soul into the image of
its Creator. God help the man who new
| er feels for another's woe; in whose heart
the well-sprngs of life have dried up, anu
| whose cheek is never moistoned by tear.
| Briefly, my friends, these are some of
| the questions which need our attention.
They are serious questions. Sooner or
later we must srapple and settle them, II
this government is to demonstrate lts
highest value and develop its greatest
possibilities for the common good. 1t Is
! really a Woodwork, but in this. as in all
the great humanitarian movements of the
future. America must take the lead.
| This means self-abnegation, this means;
sclf-sacrifice; but this is patriotism OF the
highest type.
| have not much sympathy with that
form of patriotism which says MY
Country, always right; but right or
wrong, my Country
| l much prefer. My Country. may her
sons unite. if wrong to make her right,
if right to keep her strong,
These things appeal to you, my friend;
of the Grand Army of the Republic. with
especial force: for they represent the very
essence of the principle for which you
fought. and for which you offered your
selves a willing sacriice,-the brother
hood of the human race: the central
tboueht which has so stimulated and
strengthened the power of this Republic
as TO give Il entrance to every court and
make its influence felt at every fircside.
Law in the specialization of public sen
,iment: and yet | well know that this
very crvstallzatiOn often results in rem
dering the principle totally imperative
either from lack of sympathy on the
mart of those whose duty it is to carry il
into effect or because of the indifference