The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-02-14

were only four In active resistance.
We have Withdrawn 81 per cent of
the troops, and the people there are
enjoying all the constitutional rights
we do. The Taft commission is there
by appointment by the president of
the United States, sanctioned by con-
gress. President Mckinley said in HE
instructions that life and liberty must
be protectedc that cruel and unjust
punishment must not be inflicted"
Responding to the toast, Lincoln"
Hon. r. w. Tayler said:
TAYLER ON LINCOLN.
Because we do not live in ro-
mantle age, we live in an idol-smash-
ing age. Unworthy objects of public
alteration are falling. one by one from
the pedestals upon which an unthink-
ing and too susceptible age has put
them, but our success in thus S,llng
the bogus gods of our ancestors has
a most vicious tendency. The mo-
mentum of the movement has. | fear
carried us beyond the point of wise
discrimination and landed us where
OuCic uO IOOlI lOI ally vi Jut SOOu
and great to whom is due the high
est reverence. Not the least evil Of
the tendencies thus created Is one
which changes our standard of great
ness and inclines to assert that the
idea of An unselfish love of country
is but a dream of the enthusiast and
never had sure abiding place in the
SUBJECT EVER NEW.
"He is a subject always old yet ever
new. He is a fathomless depth and an
infinitely sided character. Every
sounding discloses new depths, every
heart of any public man. No man ever
lived who more richly deserves the
title of patriot than Lincoln. He was
natures son, calm. serene. absolutely
without elf-consciousness; and these,
with clear head, sound Judgment,
and an honest heart, snfficed to carry
a mountain of responsibility.
view adds new light. The deeper the
sounding the more beautiful the thing
disclosed; the more careful and dis
eliminating the view the more SUBJ
ifhto anu DcWliutIlue, tue ilHnl.
How inspiring, how ennobling, how
uplifting is the character of Lincoln.
How marvellous, indeed, was he. Here
was man sprung from lowly origin,
without training in the art of di.
plomacy Or of social functions, who
yet showed himself to be master OF
all-especially the master of those
who were pastmasters in diplomacy
and polite literature. In literary cul-
ture. in tact, in strength, though mod
est, he surpassed them all. When Mr..
Seward, himself most polished
scholar and writer, locked horns with
Lincoln respecting the closing para
graph of the first inaugural address,
1t was Seward who yielded, and the
literary world has ever since admired
Lincoln's splendid lines.
His strength and courage were
never more apparent than in respect
to the proclamation OF emancipation.
1t was opposed by nearly every mem
ber of the cabinet. To conciliatory
and modest man like Lincoln this
meant much. He could counsel with
no one on such a matter except his
cabinet. He took counsel therefore OF
his conscience and his God.
WHAT LINCOLN WOULD THINK
81 wonder what Lincoln would think
and what he would say If he were
among us at this hour. When We con-
slider what he was and what he lived
for We must hide our heads in very
shame. The negro has. it is true,
progressed much in the last thirty
years, but is he where Lincoln meant
him to be? AS ! look on him, in
these early days of the twentieth cen
tury, the enfranchised and disen-
thralled American negro is the most
pathetic figure in all history. The
fruits of his emancipation have fallen
far short of his and our just expecta-
tions. Bitter is the cup which he has
been made to drink. No avenue of life
is truely open to him. Merit ami in
dustry will not bring to him his just
reward. The doors are closed. II he
obtains preferment he obtains 1t by
chance. The barriers before him are
practically insurmountable. When he
begins the race of life 1t is but linn
tied horizon which bounds the reason
able possibilities of his achievement
The bright hopes which he harbored
generation ago have turned to ashes,
and he has tasted the bitter fruits of
oceial and political ostracism and
these are sometimes worse than the
fire and sword or plague and famine.
! am not here to say that this could
have been different. nor do comment
on it at this moment. mention only
the pathetic fact.
TACKLES SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY
THE southern Democracy by vicious
constitutional provisions, is gradually
robbing the negro of the rights Of
citizenship; while in some sections of
the south so-called Republican organi-
zations are being formed which aim
at the substantial disfranchisenep Of