Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-02
NATIONS HOUSECLEANING
From MIR. Justice Brewers Address III
Milwaukee July IS.

There has been a good deal of distur-
bance in the body polite for the past
year, and this condition is likely TO con-
tinue. The nation is in the business Oh
cleaning house. l have beaten many
Garnet and | was always astonished that
as long as | be some Just would come
out. This housekeeping OF Uncle sam
is disturbing a good many. We nave de-
voted ourselves to beautiful front yards.
and have neglected the back yards Just
NJ this time we are going into them with
the purpose of making them as present
able as the front yards. We are trying
10 lift slum life to better and happier
condition. We are going to places usually
unseen by the general public and saying
that we want them as clean as the puohc
places We do not mean to nave 81 10
10 per cent. poor alcohol in our patent
medicines and we do not mean to buy
opium in our soothing syrup If we know
it. nor poor whiskey if we can detect
the cheat We want honesty and truth
in the conduct and output OF every factory
and grocery.
a great many men viii be unlustly con-
denlned. 1t becomes every intelligent man
not to accept a charge of crime as proof
of guilt. Let every person have every
constitutional and legal OBJECTION, and
when he has been 70 nd guilty. God pity
him, let him take the punt .rent.
| 4 multitude of loud mouthed dema-
lCogues will attempt to ride into power on
popular sentiment. When YOU find dem
lagogue do not answer him. pass him by
| An objection that is made TO our house
cleaning is that 1t interfe"as with pros
| perity and hurts bushes, II may cause
a temporary embar-a ssr:ent of prosperity,
| and some people may be disturbed; but
nothing will build this country up like
the assurance that whatever the foreigner
wishes to buy or whatever bears tho
American stamp is Jus. what it purports
| to be- The mtn Who now complain
| would profit by tins fullest tnvestiea-
| ton.
Troubled condi..c' We led mar.y to
say that we shall never more have peace
here. and that the country is thoroughly
| rotten. At every exposure they say. 'Oh
dear, Oh, dear; what county, They
believe that all honest men are gone anc
that the country has gone to what Dick
ems called the "dcmiton bowwows,'
The great American people is not I'M
sound Before the war the South SAID
| that the North was composed of selfish
| shopkeepers and unpatr!ot!c farmers who
| would never 80 to war but when the
grand old liberator heard the guns of sum
ter and called volunteers, YOU rcmem
Der how the shops apd farms resoundco
with, 1--WE are coming 'ather Abraham
Nothing could stay that wave. There
may be those to-day who are looking a
the golden calf and who respect the dol
lar more than the mar 1ut among the
plain people of the shops and farms 6
conservation to duty exists now and then
There are sculptors who are chisellns
the commands "Thou shalt not steal
land Thou shalt not bear false witness.
When the time calls again the peopl'
will rise and renew their allegiance TO tn
great Jehovah. -ou can never make M
believe that the heart of tho American
people is unsound. To-day appeal /
you as men and women Of this great re
public. who are part Of the republic