Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-07

OLIVER c. MUNsoN. Editor sl,l es,. .a,a-.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST Z, 1907.
rae cIrlzENsHlP or WISCONSIN.

In every emergency which arises
there is always the cry raised for a
strong hand at the helm the ship OF
state is invariably declared to be hope
lessly drifting. But it is in just those
times of crises that widely diffused
Individual proves the greatest possible
safeguard the only reliable safeguard.
1t is then with the state as it is with
strong, seaworthy ship manned by a
hardy and experienced crew, in no way
depending on the one pilot who may
chance to be at the wheel. In any
stress of storm, the ships company will
prove equal to the occasion, and some-
how provide for its own salvation.
Under similar political conditions,
community asserts, in the long run, its
superiority to the accidents of fortune
the alterations due to the influence
of individual genius, those winning num-
bers in the lottery of fate. and evinces
that staying power which, no less now
and here than in Rome and Great
Britain, is the only safe rock of empire
The race thus educated and endowed is
the masterful race the master of its
own destiny, it is master of the destiny
of others: and of that browning repub-
blican quality. Wisconsin, during our
period of national trial showed herself
markedly possessed. While individuals
We're not exceptional. the average was
Enthusiastically high.
And this hold to be the highest tr-
butte which can be paid to a political
community. 1t supplies all else. I'M
less greatly err. this characteristic
has, in the case of Wisconsin, pro-
found and scientific significance of the
most far-reaching character; and so |
find myself brought back to my test
As nave already more than once
said, others are in every way better
qualified than to speak intelligently
of the Wisconsin Stock of the elements
which enter into the regions lying be-
tween Lake Michigan and the waters of /
the upper Mississippi between the
State Of Illinois on the south and Lake |
Superior on the north | speak chiefly I
from impressions, and always subject |
to correction, but my understanding is /
that this region was in the maip peopled /
by men and women representing in !
their persons what there was of the |
more enterprising and energetic of |
three of the most thoroughly yirilc and, /
withal, moral and intellectual branches |
of the human family refer to the !
Anglo-SaXon of New England descent, /
and to the Teutomc and Scandinavian /
families, tough of fibre and tenacious /
of principle, the mixed descendants /
from those races were we'll calculated /
to illustrate the operation of natural /
law; and have quite failed in my pur-
pose if I have not improved this oc-
casion to point out how in the outset of .
their political life as community they
illustrated the force of Stoughton's ut
terance and TIE truth of Darvin's re-
markable generalization. BY their at
titude and action, at once intelligent
and decided, they left their imprint on
that particular phase of human evolu.
ton which than presented itself. They
in SO doing assigned Wisconsin it's spe.
cial placo and work in the great scheme
of development and forecast its mis-
sion in the futdre - Hon. CHARLES
FRANCES ADAMS in an address at the
Semi of the Wis. Historical
Society.