Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-09

SUES, Out tuelr hearts peat true 10 the
principles of civil and religious liberty,
and they brought with them two accou-
trements of priceless value, the new
made Constitution Of their country and
the well-worn family Bible; for they
were God-fearing, Christian soldiers;
heroes in homespun as chivalric and
undoubting as mailed knights of the
cross; hating with holy hate the In-
dams and the British; revering the
memory Of the patriots and sages who
had made the Declaration of Independ-
ence, warm with the blood of the revo-
luton, the echoes of Lexington and
Bunker Hill, of Kings Mountain and
Yorktown still ringing in their ears.
Our lot has been cast in easier times,
has been laid on broader, larger lines.
We live in an age of miracles. We
gather the fruit of the treo which
these, our forefathers, planted. From
the ashes of their camp fires rise the
school house and the court house. The
church marks the spot where the block
house stood.
Marvellous Mctamorphosis.
Opportunity and peace and order and
law ore the portion of the poorest.
Struck by the wizard hand of Progress,
the sleeping beauty. Solitude, has
awakened metropolis; touched by the
finger of modern invention, the prairie
and the forest, as by encLantment.
have ,oyao1od fbnt, conrafc ava ,,,,,..I
their riches into the lap of labor. Upon
the loose cobble stones of what was
but huddle of small provinces, each
claiming for itself Il squalid sovereign-
ty, and held together by rope of sand,
rises proudly, grandly, securely ma
ton built upon the firm foundations
of an indissoluble compact of States,
cemented forever by the blood of pat
riotic, brave, homogeneous people.
We have become nation of mer-
chant princes. Money is SO abundant
that men are giving 1t away in sums
of startling magnitude. 1t seems SO
easy to get that men are on system
putting it in the way of Il kind of re-
distribution back to the sources whence
it originally came. Shall we see the
day when it will no longer corrupt?
If familiarity breeds contempt, we
surely shall. The earth's surface ap-
pears to be but an incrustation over
one vast mine of gold and silver and
precious stones. Life is lottery with
more prizes than blanks.
But in land where there are no
titles or patents of nobility, money is
bound to serve as the standard of
measurement; and precisely as consti-
tutional government, political aud re-
liglOus freedom, We're uppermost in the
minds and hearts of the pioneers who
sleep here, is the acquisition OF wealth
uppermost In the minds and hearts Of
their sons and grandsons. In other
words, as have elsewhere put 1t, the
idiosyncrasy of the nineteenth century
was liberty; the idiosyncrasy of the
twentieth century is markets. The
problom before us, therefore, involves
the adjustment of these two; the recon
Citation of capital and labor, of NOR.
atty and dollars, the concurrent cx-
pansion of the principles of the Consti-
tuition and the requirements of COM
merce.
The hunters Of Kentucky, the pio-
neers Of Indiana. united as brothers In
the bonds of liberty, fought the battle
OF Tippecanoe. 1t was not n great bat
tie as battles go, but it proved mighty
In Its consequences; the winning and
the peopling of the West; the ultimate
rescue Of the Union from dissolution;
the blazing of the way to the Pacific.
They were simple, hardy men. They
set us good examples. They loved their
country and were loyal to its institu-
lions. They were comrades in hearts
and comrades in arms. Be it ours to
bless and preserve their memory and to
perpetuate their brotherhood!
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