Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-11
NONE.SUCH BROS CIRCUS.

chorus, America.
! 3anediction.
Selection by the band.
The Declaration Of Independence
was given with force and effect by
Mr.. Will Bohan, who had thorough
ly committed it to memory, and so
gave it without book or note.
The Grafton by j. G. Monahan was
powerful one. The speaker mainly
dealt with evils which threaten US as
a nation.
At the close of the exercises in the
park, came great sights which were
enjoyed by old and young. None
such Bros. circus was the great at
traction. It prese nted many humor-
Gus sights and pleasing fancies.
THE ADDRESS.
After some preliminary remarks
| along the usual line for Fourth of July
addresses, Mr.. MOnahan said that he
would take as his special theme indi-
vidual citizenship in its relation to
the national government; and while
this theme presented many phases of
. thought, there was one on which he
would like to dwell, and that was the
tendency of the people at certain times
to be guided and controlled by their
emotions rather than by sober and
calm reason.
He said that he could find many il
lustrations of this. Shortly after the
blowing up of the Maine in the har-
Dor of Havana, and the cry was 60
! ing up everywhere, Remember the
| Maine" he was at q theater in Chica-
go where there was a moving picture
of this scene, with all the necessary
Accomplishments of flags, etc. The
audience went wild and cheered to the
echo the old flag. Presently the calm
face of Mckinley, the president, who
was then standing between the people
and ruin, c5me on jhe scene, and it
was Missed. Why? Because in the
estimation of this wild audience he
was altogether too slow and too con-
sentative. They wanted fight then
and there and President Mckinley
was most numerically criticized for
his delay He was the subject of de-
traction and cartoons, simply because
he knew what at the time must be kept
! from the world at large and which was
profound national secret, namely,
that we were not prepared for war.
The truth was we did not have enough
ammunition to supply one ship. The
navy was scattered, it had to be
| brought tOgether-the whole issue had
been thrust upon US so unexpectedly
| that we needed few weeks for prepa-
ration and then, when the time came,
all we're prepared for the conflict, and
within three months we had won the
battle at Manila, Santiago and San
Juan, and Cuba was free. McKin-
ley's delay and wise precaution were
! justified and the reign of law, order
and reason saved the country.
This hysteria, this emotionalism,
this wild enthusiasm, which knows no
! bounds and in its course-withOut let
or hindrance-means misrule and an
archy, partakes Of lynch law, when the
mob takes matters into It's hands and
executes its wild will, regardless of
justice law and order. This spirit
made the French rebellion one of the
darkest pages in history of France.
The patriotic, calm reason, which pre-
vaded over American Revolution un-
! der Washington made it our glory.
From this the speaker passed to the
| state issues and referred to the rail
way rate question. Our state commits
sion had decided after a most care
full investigation that two and one
| half cents per. mile was the just and
| equitable thing. The railroads and
public accepted it; but hysterical.
politicians who saw in this acceptance
| something to their disadvantage, i'm
mediately agitated a twO-cent rate:
which means the opening of this whole
question; and, in the end, may defeat
! the object in view.
Among these hysterical people who
are controlled by their emotions and
the excitement of the hour. he CLASH
| fed the labor agitators, who were al
ways stirring up strife between labor
and capital: and while he believed in
unions, he thought it was an abuse of
the unions splendid purpose, when it
| became the means of advancing the
demagogue aud the CRATER, while it
kept the real workman in enforced
| idleness and poverty.
He here quoted from Edmund Burke,
whom view of the French Revolu-
ton, where passion and emotion only
controlled, and, thousands of persons
were executed in the wild excitement of
| the hour, when the mob's hero OF today
! became the mob's victim of tomorrow,
told the people that national safety
and life and liberty were only secured
| by the reign of law and order, not