Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-01-04


his job his only schoomaster days of ceaseless toll
will pass into years. until the time comes when at last
his stopped shoulders will be Strengthened and Death will
give him rest.
When such things stir hearts to pity and angry
indignation rises hot within longer wonder that
the wilder socialism finds such advocates among
the very We do not wonder at their envy at the
ignorant hate against the wealthy which it breeds We
do not wonder the violence of strikes the bitter
anger of employe against employer. But rather
filled with alarm for the future. We catch visions of
anarchy and the spirit that overthrows governments
Already times of labor disturbances, of our cities
have the lighted torch in bloody hands and heard the
howl of the mob upon their streets. Are such to
be repeated with multiplied terrors in the future2 Are
the great strikes of the present only dread herads of
industrial revolution Should heed the words of the
socialist when he talks of a coming Reign of Terror?
Behind the government of country, controlling in
the end all its activities, the ultimate of appeal for
all problems of national life, the people of the
great conservative middle class Ask of them the answer
for theirs is the responsibility We the middle class of
America representing her average citizenship hold
counry's destiny in own hands. Never did common
people hold great trust Never before such in
spiraton to high endeavor and noble ideals presented
/, the average citizenship of any land.
If we could only realize that we, the business
and the aborng men, who to leave the of
government Others bear the responsibility of
tion's future there need be fear for her safety If
will only take little time from the engrossng of
daily life to perform the patriotic duty of reading our
newspapers and studying the great problems of national
welfare there will be less OF injustice less of oppression
and more of happiness in the land. We have a call to
patriotic sacrifice today just urgent McKnleys call
for volunteers in 49,. Our lives needed in fighting
ourco battle toda inst much thev
No foreign foe threatens land, armed
beon rises against the authority of government, yet
country needs men and lives. She needs who
will devote acute minds unchangng honesty and
failing enthusiasm to the preservation of her most vital
institutions 1t easy to lift the sword in her Defense
but America demands more than that from the patriotism
of today II is keen BRAIN educated thought unswerv
ing devotion that she appeals for her salvation.
Today there are aborers in the land who are cruelty
treated by their employers; there combinations of
capital which Cypress ALL there is dishonesty and rob-
berry among barons of wealth. On the other hand there
are strikers who show their violence and murders
there is poverty great that breeds degradation and
vice; there those anarchy the only
refuge from the expressions of wealth Our newspapers
too filled with condemnation of railway mergers,
beef trusts and grain monopolies Our magazines
yellow with exposures of high finance. One state is
gagged in fight against Standard OIL and the national
government in pursuit of fraudulent insurance. We
fail to the danger that the people may
time cast off the yoke of their OPPRESSION grown heavier
with the years. in violence and disorder, and amount
sneerng at Socialism" regard for the genius of
who have built up national industries argument
for the rights of property will restrain them, if they
thoroughly aroused by the selfshness the oppres
sion, the real tyranny of wealth.
There is no prophetic vision that pierce those
threatening clouds which veil future When look
the past there sign of hope for for other
nations have been drawn into this great struggle
before and have gone down in oblivion before it ended
We are only at the beginning OF contest whose outcome
of us may predict or live to We witness the
prologue drama upon the final scene of which may
never see the curtain fall But know that the great
Guide all nations who has been with His people through
many an hour of darkness, will lead u.s. And we-com-
mon, everyday people that are-knowing that within
the control of power hold the fate of empire
ourselves thus become of destiny forgetting
seshness in patriotism, must enroll ourselves
"solders the army of the good,' and stand in
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