Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-06-12

haps the occasional glory, success and
sacrifice Of war; wondrously luxu-
r1ous life into which the fortunate few
shall enter; an accumulation Of mag
nificence which, for term, will charm
and dazzle, and then the shadow Of the
awful question whether human nature
has changed, and the old law, that his
tory repeats itself, has lost it's force;
whether the ascending splendor Of i'm
perial power is to be followed by the
descending gloom Of luxury, decay and
ruin. The other Of a nation, where the
spirit Of the Pilgrim and the Huguenot
remains the living and controlling
force, devoting its energies to the de-
velopment of the inexhaustible re-
sources of its great continental terri
tory; solving the problem Of universal
personal and political liberty, of gov
eminent by the consent Of the gov
erned, where no king, no class and no
race rules, but each individual has
equal voice and power in the control Of
all. where wealth comes only as the
compensation for honest toll of hand
or brain, where public service Is private
duty; nation whose supreme value to
the world lies not In It's power but In
Its unfailing loyalty to the high ideals
Of Its youth, it's forever lifting its
strong hand, not to govern, but only to
protect, the weak; and thus the bright
shining which brightens more and more
into the fadeless eternal day.
Brethren, Ebal and Gerizim are be-
fore us. Might and right stand on
either side, with their great appeals.
Once to every man and nation comes the mo.
ment to decide
In the strife Of truth with falsehood for the good
or evil side;
Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages
but record
One death grapple in the darkness 'twixt old sys.
TENS and the word.
Truth forever on the scafold wrong forever on
the throne
Yet that scafold sways the future, and behind the
dim unknown
standeth God within the shadow keeping watch
we see dimly in the present what is small and
what Is great,
Slow of faith how weak arm may turn the iron
helm OF fate,
But the soul is still oracular and amid the mar.
kets din,
| List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic
cave within:
| They enslave their children's children who make
compromise with sin.
| Paraphrasing in part the fnvoca-
ton which attends the opening of the
supreme court, God save the United
States Of America and keep them from
the road SO often Travelled by nations
of increasing territory, accommodating
dominion, rapidly and easily acquired
wealth, luxurious splendor, growing
separation between the poor and the
rich, presaging decay and death, and
may we always hear the solemn pray.
er Of Abraham Lincoln borne upward
to heaven from the consecrated field
of Gettysburg upon the mighty volume
Of patriotic incense which ever rises
from that sacred spot, that government
of and by and for the people may new
er perish from the GARTH"
1t was very still while Edward was
presenting this part of his argument
for the quotation was from an address
so recent that it was not generally
known and, so far as Edward knew it
had hot been printed in any of thu
Raynor papers. One of the Judges lis
tened with a marked expression of sur
prise, as If he could hardly believe tina
judge Of the supreme court Of tn
United States could be the author O.
the sentiments attributed to him in tn
address. Address by Hon. Davit
Brewer, associate justice Of the SUI
preme court Of the United States, be
fore the Liberal club, Buffalo, Feb. 1G
TO BE CONTINUED.