The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-13
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ARE WE KEEPING THE FAITH?

ARE WE KEEPING THE FAITH?
A strange unrest pervades the thoughts
of all thoughtful and earnest men in all
lands today. There is a feeling that old
things are passing away; that there must
soon be a new alignment: that old tyran-
MES must be put aside; that such a
changeg must be as will give a new
position to the worlds masses; that his
century is to be marked as the one that
finally recognized manhood wherever
found. and gave to it, not only a new
character, but lighted for it new hopes.
saws Goodwin's Weekly. How it is 10
be brought about is something which is
still too much clouded to be read clearly,
but the dominant thought is that it is
coming.
The war in the east, where the brown
men and the white men are struggling,
is one factor; the volcano upon which the
government of the great White Car i
standing is another; the reports that
come from southeastern Europe that af-
fairs in Macedonia are intolerable is an
other; the clashing between Austria and
Hungary is another-it is everywhere in
the ir.
The humble manhood of the world is
clamoring for recognition and for justice
as never before; the inventions of the
last century are having their effect; the
1T I.-Lf xI;-s-n m thrnnnS and
s. courts is revealing that the foundations
of thrones are crumbling, and that the
taxes levied by kings to support their
courts are robberies.
But the lights are more still. They
lake on the functions of the X-Ray and
make clear that with those high in au-
thority and power, only hearts and brains
are revealed as solid matter. and the
highest brains and the truest hearts come
notsof royalty or nobility.
81 One by one courts and kings will cease
to exist; the higher royalty of real men
will advance to their proper stations. and
to the worlds peoples.
But it will be as it was when the earth
was rounding into form and being pre-
pared to become a fit place for the per-
petuation Of animal life. Storm succeed
ed storm; upheaval succeeded u~pheava1;
volcanoes were rending the earths
crust; the rivers we're blowing their
paths to the sea; gaciers were in flow;
49, rry;th me-
locked gates to restrain them. and all the
atmosphere was black with clouds. 1t is
a mighty work to fit a planet to become
a habitation for man; 1t is almost as
weary a business to fit men to walk up
rightly In the image of their Creator.
In the trial, nation after nation has
persisted; their bones whiten all the
shores of the Old World. dynasty after
dynasty has passed away; one religion
after another has been tried and discard
ed, but the light from the Cross has been
streaming over the world and pointing to
the reign of peace that is to be. The
miracles wrought by steam in pushing
the nations into closer contact, reducing
the oceans to ferries, causing the noun
tains to bow their c~rests, and exaiting the
valleys that smooth paths over the con-
tinents may be made for it's chariots;
the awful destructiveness of modern war
engines; the light that flashes from the
perfecting press; the ~tsll-tale of the tel
egraph and ocean cable; the immediate
friction of all the worlds brightest
minds-an these things combine to cause
men to measure their fell-men by their
manhood alone.
And in these upheavals that are yet to
be it is growing more certain every day
that our own free country must bear a
potential part.
sh Our statesmen should bear this In mind.
Enough notices have been served upon
us to make clear that a mighty destiny
2 was planned for our country from the
beginning. The triumph after Valley
Forge was one notice: the conquest which
gave US the unlimited treasures and the
sea coast Of the west was another: the