Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-19
FIFTY YEARS OF
REPUBLICANISM
CONTINUED from page five.)

here are to be worked out the most
important problems of social science.
Here in America is fine sense OF
what is due from man to man. We do
not cringe to those whom chance has
crowned. We stand erect. Our SYM
pathie are strong and quick. The hand
of honest want is rarely left untitled.
Great calamities open the hearts and
hands of all. The highest test of civ
ilzaton is the treatment of women
and children. BY this tandard Amer
lea stands first among nations.
Let us then move upward and Oh
ward enrolled with the party which
has fostered the institutions of the
Fathers, the institutions which are
the fountains of plenty and strength
that will sustain the virtue and wis
dom of our people. Upon the lightened
integrity. the high patriotism. the lie
voted fidelity of our young men rear
ed among such influences (if they heed
them. and they wild our country may
securely repose. We may then fix our
view upon the future and with COM
posture go forward. We are rising on
the grandest current of the tide of
time. The prosperity We have, great
as it is, is but the promises of pros
perity that is to be. Dare We look for
ward another fifty years? Whose eye
can rest unflinchingly on the advan-
cling time of our national glory? Who
can picture to his fancy this continent
after another half century, when the
great west has been fully developed,
when two hundred millions of people,
seated on every road of the vast sur
face, with all the appliances by which
progressive invention will supply in
creasng needs. shall enjoy the magni.
ficient fruits Of the highest human
wisdom and liberty and illustrate the
noblest possibilities of humanity?
VINO shall with mortal power attempt
the glorious forecast. but to CRY with
the poet-seer:
"Oh vision of glory spare not Il
changed sight,
soul"
After the orchestra had played The
Star Spangled Banner Hon. J. D.
Waite was introduced to respond &c
the toast. "The Partisan.
Address by J. D. Waite.
Senator Waites address was brief
but was one of the most pleasing eff
forts of the evening. After relating
q story. Mr.. Waite said the grea
party whose fiftieth anniversary was
being celebrated owed its success to {
strict adherence to party principles
and to the loyalty of its members
in other words, to partisanship. Aftel
all, craftsmanship was only conviction
in principle and the soundness of .
principle was not to be determined
by geographical lines. To the speak
ers mind a nonp partisan was a non
believer. No non-partisan was eve
found upon an elevation unless raised
there by party. "My confidence ha:
never been gained by his professions
nor my admiration aroused by his
character. Ont upon the vast plain Of
human endeavor and sacrifice the
marks of the loyal partisan will be
found as long as men travel in the
foot prints of party"
c. e. Mckoin on "Plums."
Clarence E. McKoin, of Gilt Edge
Anl h. q
subject that called for something il
lighter vein, and that is what the
speaker gave. interviewer with some
amusing anecdotes. Mr.. McKoin paid
tribute to the splendid record made
by Messrs. Brassey and Eldridge in
the local land office and said that ii
he and Mr.. Hedges should do as we'll
and prove as satisfactory to the peo
we'll preserved
Louis Lehman Tells About "PickIes.'
Louis Lehman responded to the toast
Pickles. and related some stories
after which he presented statistics as
TO the expansion of the trade of the
United States, and told of the effort!
being made by Germany for CONNER
cial supremacy.
1.-THE Salt Of the Earth"
Salt was the toast responded t
by Albert Pfaus. and explaining tn
text "Ye are the salt of the earth,
he made it clearly appear that thi
applied TO Republicans. Mr.. Pfau
thought that one great reason for tn
strength of the Republican party wa
to be found in the fact that in its orig
in it contained what was best in
great number of parties. These ele
ments We're all welded together-th,
salt of the best coming into the organ
ization. The Democratic party hat
been likened to the vermiform appen
dix. 1t had no place in the economy O
the human system, and was a con
slant source of irritation. Many new
issues were coming up. and the speak
er did not know what the future Nigh
bring forth He believed, however
that the solution of these problem
would be found and annlied hv RI,