The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-09

| dnl11lJy WHICH springs llCAiA NtA~
conflicting emotions of solitary man
We would not have our harmony III
single harness. We. too, love the SUI
| of q strenuous life: but we beneVe III
| equal strenuousneSs for all ana sPS-
| cial strenuousness for none. we w
not derive our power from the Setde
| of the mighty, but from the sous ne, , 20
! the humble. We do not ask loI inI'ilS
agreement springing from lal.li,1SS
fire; but rather outburSts OF dlsSGilo l,l
issuing from robust freedom. we d!
rot i'm executive session. but IatheI III
the committee of the whole. w we're
| sent here by the people 10 go,
! candidate We were not sem lIOiC ~
the candidate to notify the peoPLe.
| our adversaries, by Dwelling tel5ueIlS
| or the simplicity of the laAlerilcu W.
Kinley managed to enouIe ~ tiil d. %
DAYS the strenuosity OF ltooseFel'' Py
accounting in affectionate terms the
| aobievaments of the one they evoked
an enthusiasm which they immediate
H., cradited to the other. Through
| toars that were shed for the noble
dead they saw larger outline OF the
irving Driven by lash and lured by
luck they called on all the sacred dusl
| to keep their spirits up. Set to run
for three full days the pendulum pc
tered out, the hands stuck fast and
| only a strenuous shake could make the
| wheels go round. SpiritlesS in the
| sullen task they worked up hill the
grain and gravity of the hour With
/ cut the master whom they had learn
ed to love they fingered listless UNI
| der the whip of one whom they nave
| learned to fear. Stripped of prerne-
ditated pomp and shorn of soothing
| phrase, the occasion meant no more
! o.. less than an era of boots and spurs.
Take away the tribute to the dead
and all that is left is horseman on
/ the slopes of San Juan. Remove the
| reverend black that tells of nation s
| grief and underneath is KHAKI uni
| FORM Withhold the record made by
hands and hearts now still and all
| that is left is usurpatiOns bold ac-
| count Pull off the mask that wears
the kindly smile of peace and see the
| grim and firm set teeth or war. IL
was the change from sure and certain
ways to the shifting, eddyinS currents
of the wild unknown. 1t was a leap
| il the darkness of Republican eclipse
and four years hence will find them
vainly looking for the light. 1t marks
| the peace where a party which In
years of service forsook the beaten
| path and went on a winding way or
untraVellcd roads. 1t makes the gap
between the era of the conservative
and the radical. 1t looks good now
| because they do not see where the
| old force ends and the new begins
But as they drive away to sea the
| overwhelming span 'tWiXt craft ana
land will set many a life boat toward
the shore.
There is much talk of twisting ten
dons in the race OF life of running out
| of breath toward Che open grave. me
old and honored way is still the best
but not so strenuous as to strain your
self, nor yet SO simple as TO Iall
asleep. There is much said by those
who sit on cushioned chairs about
towards and weaklings in the nation $
life The sunburnt farmer is just as
| brave as the star crowned soldier. me
man of natural peace is hero a nun
dred times to where the man OF artl-
fetal war is hero once. Somehow OF
late the atmosphere of our national
life is filled with a spray OF DIood;
/ somehow the march of progress
| sounds of hammered steel; somehow
although the sunlight of peace is all
about us, there is now and then the
CLEAN of bayonets in it's radiant lire
and flash of swords in it's silver beams;
somehow, although the constitution is
still in force there is sense OF fail-
ing power~and growing disreSpect,
which makes US feel that the Vener-
able old man-So to Speaks matt
y
strenuous household of his grand
children Somehow, at times there
| runs a sort of shock right down to
the foundations OF this Republic which
makes the structure tremble ana all
| the country pauScS ana listens ana
| then returns to work. Somehow, al
| though the future welcomes US, 1t
does so with a mailed hand; some
how, although you cannot put your
| finger on the cause, there is uni
VersaI fear: the mother watching
| while her children sleep, now and
| then she hears the bugle call, the
tramp of soldiers, and staring in the
| darkness of q dream she sees the
rigid upturned face" The toiler,
turning all his time and sinew TO gain
which others get, begins to doubt that
the government is just. The man of
means, who puts it out in the active
currents of tide and sees the peril of
this doubt and the government S
compromise with both, begins to feel
that it is better boarded than en-
ployed.
The North and South, each wearing
scars that tell of war, almost forgiven
and forgot, feel the fear again that
a problem which only time can settle
wrongly. Behind these fears and
doubts and startled dreams and vague
| misgivings is many a hidden cause.
| But over them is one at least revealed.
| For Lincoln said in the sadness of
his great soul, with malice toward
none, with charity for all, with faith
in the right as God gives us the wis
dom to see it, And Roosevelt said,
in the glory of his self-contempla ton,
tread softly and carry big stick"
/ And between these beginnings and
the end of Republican growth, in
time and temper, is all their wild, de-
| scendng flight. With all they know
and feel of the countrys question of
their course, the Republican party
vet claim every fruit of soil and sun,
of brain and soul. They say that by
a wise administration of natures laws
they brought abundant harvest from
the soil. They say that by careful di-
rection of scientific search they added
untold volumes to the store of COM
mon knowledge. They say that in
vention, under their control, has lifted
loads of labor from mankind. They
say that religions long asleep We're
broken by the stimulus of Republican
virtue and they point with pride to
the churches all over the land. They
say, that education was unpopular
until they took it up and that now
| Iy,ooct aJrorv ono willing to be