The Laclede blade., 1906-09-01
CHAUTAUQUA HAS CLOSED.
The Program Proved to be Especially Strong
and Drew Large Attendance.

The second meeting Of the Mea,
vile chautauqua assembly whie
closed last Sunday night was q graf
fing success in point of excellent a
traction and size of audiences, an,
more than probably in financial re
results. The program was filed a
promised as nearly as possible an,
where changes were made the audienc
was not the loser.
The most notable addresses wer,
those of Ex- Governor Taylor, Sena
tor. Tillman and Govern or Hanley
Mr. Taylor's address was warmly re
ceived and delighted the entire audi.
ence while that sof Senator Tillman
was just the opposite. The old geezer
launched into red hot political
speech, re-hashing the rate bill and by
his venomous thrusts at the admins
tration and Misrepresentation dis
gusted nearly every one who heard
him.
One of the best addresses was that
of Hon. j. Frank Hanly, the brainy,
broad, patriotic governor of Indiana
on Sunday afternoon.
Gov. Hanly began by compliment
ing the people and their success. He
said he was an optimist, and the
country a most marvellous one with
its broad fields, teeming cities, pro-
ductive mines and its Incompatible
commercial and industrial lines. But
after allEa nation consisted of some
thing more than all these. The real
assets of the country are the men and
women, the character of its citizenship,
and he was here to tell them of their
faults He told a story of the boy |
who came into the house while the |
pastor was making -cuii. una irrs
face showed he had been in a tight.
When the clergyman took him in
and suggested prayer, the kid retort-
ed: "See, here, if you must pray |
with some little boy for fghtin' you'd
better go home and pray with yours,
for his eyes are blacker than mine"
He told of the early days when in
dependence was won, when the nation
was a narrow strip, separated from the
old world by three thousand miles Of
ocean, and an immense and unknown
territory, ofprimeval forest and bound
less prairies to the west, with no rev.
enue and no treasury. i
License, he said, is not liberty.
True liberty, the true patriotism OF
peace, is founded on supremacy of law.
He told of the patriotism of war that |
won the battles of the revolution of
the war of 1912 and Of the civil war.
But true liberty is that buttressed by |
the patriotism of law. Men had given
up their lives, their identity to pre-
serve law and liberty. That was a
grand passion. But grander pas
sion was the patriotism of peace that |
led a man to live, to devote his life, to |
preserve the constitution. Alexander
Hamilton had written constitution,
John Marshall had given it judicial
Interpretation, and Daniel Webster
had made it familiar. The nation is
now in such. position that no great
danger exists from the outside, and
though all the rest of the world should
make war on us they couldn't get to
his city In hundred years. The
enemies of the republic are deceit and
false pretense, and it is often difficult |
to distinguish between the appeal of
the statesman and the cry Of the DEM
agogue. But there was one rule that
could always be relied on: "By their
fruits ye shall know them" There is
little danger from treason, but her
children are many and the three most
dangerous are Greed, Avariee and the
Lust Of Gain, which in the past ten
uaara haua dome rnnre 70 harm ms than