Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-22
OF IOWA STATE BAR
ASSOCIATION.

en- as a whole his address would
rank among the very few grand
orations, which a person would be
apt to hear in lifetime.
Our space will not admit Of a re-
port Of the session, Or even a mention
Of it's principal features, for we have
decided to make room for response
to toast-by Hon. NJ. F. Healy, Of
Fort Dodge, which touched the
hearts of the more than two hundred
lawyers who gathered around the
banquet tables at the Slavery Thurs
day evening.
Response by Hon. M. F. Healy.
Mr.. POSTMASTER AND GENTLEMEN
1t was Finley Dunno, speaking as
Mr.. Dooley, who said that at all well
regulated banquets there were two
toasts always on the list as a matter
of course, 1.-THE Day We Celebrate
and "The Ladies, God Bless Thelnp
On this occasion, with no ladies
here and where 1 can speak with
comparative freedom, I feel like say
ing God help us trying to get
along without them!" Were it not
for the ladies there would. be but
few Of us here--and as matter OF
fact we are a lonely looking crowd
in their absence-How beautiful il
would be, were this room lighted UP
by the sparkle in woman's eye and
this stubble field Of wrinkled faces
whiskers and bald heads frightened
by the color of lovely gowns and our
innocent jokes greeted by sallies Of
women's cheerful laughter.
1t was Walter Scott who sang
ooh Woman! in our hours Of ease
Inconstant, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made
When pain and anguish wiring the
brow,
A ministering angel, thou!"
The ladies! mother, sister, wife
daughter, all these in life's chang
ing scenes hang around us like al
angels benediction.
I pity the man who has never
known the pure and holy love Of
sister Some Of the sweetest recol.
lections Of happy childhood are lost
to him forever, and he can never
feel the Joy Of his boyhood's happy
Of what he was going to
do for his sister-In his childish
griefs and sorrows that seemed to
him SO heavy, he has never known
The gentle touch and loving kiss of
a little sisters sympathy as she beg
ged him not to cry, and she would
help him back to grace in the affec-
tons Of the parent who was lovingly
severe.
1t was Shelley who said,
"Our sincerest laughter with some
pain is fraught
Our sweetest songs are those that
tell Of saddest thought"
IN tins VEN we speak OF oul
mothers-Twenty years ago I saw /;
great audience in a Boston theatre
hushed, and then break INTO tears
ana sops, as an actor hu !9 an ur,
to ms bosom ana sang lis a hand
full Of earth, from the land Of m
plftn, rom the grave where my dea
mother hes. VINO iofgets the loS
OF mother! II Is the love that nevf
dies. but when ,mother ales, goo
qulckenlng ana puisaung IN
heaven, mere 70 plead fof me erin
OF mlsgulded soma mothers 10!
is lessened by no Jolly, is soured !
no CRIME, but is sweetened by mi
fortunes, made more sacred by a
Hlctlons, ana when II seems that a
IS lost and the overwhelming ioa
Will beat one down forever the
SIDE ny slde with loyal WIFE, Is no
mothers love to breast the storm :,
beat BACK the waves ana gl'
consolation ana undylng suPpo
when all else mas Wlthefed ana dle
Lit up your hearts, ana the
AMID the darkness OF sun az
the quaklngs OF earth at the maze
nc Tragedy OF calvary, see u
Mother at me 1901 OF me eros
1alth1ul' yes laithIui anu cilalgeie
unto death. ;.
NO man ever 1elt nor can ne fe
the priceless wealth OF a mothel
love, unless he mas known 1.S the II
ness OF the mystery OF lie ana n
received from the arms m Of VIE .
crown OF MANHOOD 1atherhooo' whf
ms lips hrst touch his hrst DO
chlla. n, :
our wives! blessed are they I
What tney nave done 1or US: D
what OF nm VINO mas no VIE! a
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