Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-09
the senate an ability and experience
rarely equaled in its history.

the senate an ability and experience
rarely equaled in its history.
To the Young Men.
have detained you too long; yet as
close want to say word to the
young men whose political life is be-
ginning. Anyone entering business
would be glad of the chance to become
one of an established firm with years
of success behind it with wide con-
nection, with unblemished character
with credit founded on a rock. How in
initely brighter the future when the
present is so sure, the past SO glori-
Gus. Everything great done by this
country in the last fifty years has
been done under the auspices of the
republican party. Is not this con-
seriousness q great asset to have in
your mind and memory? AS a mere
item of personal comfort is it not
worth having? Lincoln, Grant, Hayes
and Garfield, Harrison and Mckinley
names secure in the heaven of fame
they are all gone, leaving small es-
tates in worldly goods, but what vast
possessions in principles, memories,
sacred associations! 1t is a start in life
to share that wealth. Who now boasts
that he opposed Lincoln? Who brags
of his voting against Grant? though
both acts may have been from the best
of motives. In our form of govern
ment there must be two parties and
tradition, circumstances, tempera-
ment will always create sufficient
opposition. But what young man would
not rather belong to the party that
does things instead of one that OPP
poses them; to the party that looks
up, rather than down; to the party
Of the dawn rather than Of the sun
set For fifty years the republican
party has believed in the country and
labored for it in hope and joy; it has
reverenced the flag and followed it,;
has carried it under strange skies and
planted it on far-receding horizons. 1t
has seen the nation grow greater every
year and more respected; by just deal
ing, by intelligent labor, by a genius
for enterprise, it has seen the country
extend its intercourse and its influence
to regions unknown to our fathers Yet
it has never abated one jot or little OF
the ancient law imposed on us by our
God-fearing ancestors. We have fought
good fight. but also we have kept the
faith. The constitution of our faith.
ers has been the light to our feet; our
path is, and will ever remain that of
ordered progress. of liberty under the
law. The country has vastly increas-
ed but the great Drained statesmen
who preceded us provided for infinite
growth. The discoveries of science
have made miraculous additions to our
knowledge. But we are not daunted
By progress; we are not afraid of the
light. The fabric of our fathers build
e.. on such sure foundations will stand
all shocks of fate or fortune. There
will always be proud pleasure in
looking back on the history they made
but guided by their example, the
coming generation has the right to an
ticipate work not less important, days
equally memorable to man:sind. We
who are passing off the stage bid you,
as the children of Israel encamping
by the sea were hidden, to Go Forward,
we whose hands can no longer hold
the flaming torch pass it on to you
that its clear light may show the
truth to the ages that are to come.