Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-07-09

damehtal 1Eiiis as a Tree Isopie' anu
on the other band, causes us 10 override
the real social distinctions. We have
made wealth our sammHH b0aHas. Aud
shen ! say we, | mean not only the
men against whom socialism rants, but
also the rank and file OF socialism itself.
You can charge up the deprivation of
the rights to life, liberty and the Pu-
suit of happiness, in every illustration
that | have drawn, to this false ideal OF
wealth ; and you can account for the
failure of society adequately to esteem
goodness, wisdom, ability and zeal, for
their own sakes, by the same false ideal.
True, there are Instances of individuals
serving the public at the sacrifice of
great private gain. What, however,
shall We say when the public service If
self requires that its servants be men of
wealth? Have We not worshipped our
golden idol long enough, when men
like Reed, and more lately Spooner,
Jealous and able, solely by reason of
their lack of private wealth, are COM
PEELED to quit the service OF their
country? DO you believe that man of
Lincoln's relative pecuniary ability,
other things being equal, could today
attain to the presidency? Wealth, and
not the common wealth, is the thing
men are generally struggling for, and
thereby the country today is being i'm
peded in, nay diverted from, the way of
more perfect enjoyment of its inheli-
lance of independence.
Let us, then, no longer use the wealth
that our liberty has given us opportu-
nifty to acquire and possess, in further
distorting the principles upon which
that liberty is founded Let us revert
to the ideals that guided our first repre-
Sentatives, for, limited as the course of
history has shown those ideals in some
respects to be, in others they we're
broader than the ideals we are today
seeking. As our forefathers had par
ticularly in mind the adjustment of
hereditary distinctions of equality, so
let us abolish particularly all distinc-
tons based upon mere wealth. When
we make the common good our highest
aim and relegate private aggrandize-
ment to the background; when each
citizen becomes . worker for the hap
piness of all citizens; when we honor
virtue, wisdom, ability and zeal rather
than wealth without regard to its ac-
companying vice, ignorance, incompe.
tence and Incidence, then we shall at
tain to more perfect independence
than we today enjoy and more nearly
secure equality in those fundamental
rights upon which our nation was
founded and today exists.
Samuel Adams, Of Massachusetts,
speaking in the Continental Congress a
few days after the adoption of the dec.
laration of independence, said:
"The people of this country, alone,
have formally and deliberately chosen a
government for themselves, and with
open and uninhuenced consent bound
themselves into a social compact. Here
no man proclaims his birth or wealth
as title to honorary distinction, or to
sanctlfy ignorance and vice with the
name of hereditary authority. He who
has most zeal and ability to pro-
mote public felicity, let him be
the servant Of the publie";; and
his exhortation may well be needed to.
day.
The address closed the mornings
The first event in the at
.ernoon was the motor boat race which
was won by II. Edward Randall by the
close margin of two seconds.
Next came the horse races. The
green race was won by Charles J. Le-
ebvre's "Maytlower", Alex Stott's "Roy-
u Clay, Jr.' 2, Peter Paul's Girl 3.
The slow race, which afforded no end Of
nerrlment was won by "White Beauty"
y driven by Charles Willoughby, A. |
'tott 2, +. Markee 3, Joe Cote 4.
At p. m. the ball game between
.yndonville and Island Pond was start
ID and proved to be very interesting
came. An error or two NAV mean
lothlng in ball game and then again
me OF these things will throw the whole
work of team into scrap heap. Had
not been for several very costly errors
sland Pond had an excellent chance to
YIN the game over Lyndonvile. not
the excellent pitching
one by Thomas of the visitors. he al.
owing only 3 hits and striking ont II.
he Lyndonville journal says he is con-
dered one of the best pitchers in the
ate. WEIGH of the home team n;tohod {
hne game, allowing 7 hits and struck {
ut IL. For the day Hardy stands
romlnently forth as equal to the occa-
on behind the bat giving Welch superb
'pport' REILLY and Smith did all that Il
as required of them and Stevens made q !
cry pretty one handed stab of hot a
ner which had all the ear marks of 9
"sie' hlng made the star play of II
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