The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-01

have brother step into their shoes,
for they realized that upon Gettyburg
depended the destiny Of the civil
war. He told of the Bloody Angle"
the blue upon the grey and the grey
upon the blue, whole regiments
swept off the field in death. "The
true recorder of history" he said,
will write the valor of both the
blue and the grey, of the sublimest
fighting in the history of the world
up to the present. AS the
son of a confederate soldier who died
for the lost grey, I say all honor
to the boy in blue. Cannot you who
have mingled with us your blood
in the Spanish american war, who
are taught by the Divine Teacher to
forgive and forget, reply with All
honor to the boy In grey . The
manner and spirit of applause here
attested the oneness of the north and
south in the greater fact of United
States? The speaker assured his
hearers there never was sweeter,
gentler, more Christian character
than General Robert E. Lee and be-
lieved that If Grant and Lee could
have their wish they would stand
side by side i'm the hall of fame,
clasped hands. the two greatest her
oes of the two greatest armies in
the world.
The devastation of the South aft
er the close of the war was vivfdly
drawn. The horrors of battle were
In uf, Al 10 gt,t,,
ton days, for In battle the boys in
grey fought with brave men, brave
as themselves Now they had to
fight vampires and vultures, sapping
the very heart of their people and
there were only handful of fighters.
The sons of the South were no more.
Their prosecutors made warfare on
women women and children did Not
dare to venture on the streets for . dr.
of their honor; men went armed to
protect the virtue of their women.
Down on their knees the shattered
remnant of the men of the South beg
ged for their women and children,
only to be pushed back into lnfamy.
But brave as in battle, they did not
surrender-and then, their noble
brothers of the North came to their
rescue. There never was In the his
tory of the world such reconstruc-
tion and recreation as has taken place
in the South until today she stands
the equal of any part of the United
States. Some very interesting fig
| ures. figures that are a pride and
glory to the nation, were given by
| Governor Glenn to show the wonder
| of the reconstruction. He spoke of
| the tobacco the friendly smoke the
| social chaw and the gentlemanly spit;
of the cotton and the part 1t plays
| In dressing the world; he inquired how
| there could be the .Chautauqua the
fair the prizefght without the pea.
| nuts of the South the rice crop was
| cited, and the statement made that /,
with this hand the South didn't sue
| ceed, she did not deserve to.
| There is another blight threaten
ing our country today, which unless
controlled will strike into the tap
root and foundation of our country
| predicted the speaker. This is the
great evil of every man and woman
being a law unto himself. II there
are bad laws on your statute bool
repeal them; II they are good, don
allow a band of designing men tC
make you ashamed OF them; but gooC
or bad, as long as they are there
stand for them for all there is I'm you
| The man in office who winks ut tn,
law ought to not only be impeachec
but kicked out of the country Thel
there Is the divorce evil. Almos
every state in the union makes di
| yorce cheap and easy. Instead o.
| keeping the vow to bear and fore
bear men are frivolously swapping
wives, destroying the home, until i
is no wonder we see the class of wo
men we do as we travel over thu
country. The newspapers are fun o
the white slave traffic, a thing tina
brings the blush of shame to every
loyal American. Thou shalt no
steal says the law. And mothers ar'
teaching children by raffles and prize
getting to disobey its mandate; foI
some the disobedience Will grow
stronger until 1t ends I'm one of TIVE
courses. suicide or the prison stripes
There is n law that says Thou shal
not murder 1t does not mean alone
the pistol or the stiletto. The mos
dangerous murders of today are tn
proprietors who make necessary IN
sweatshop with its miserable fetit
air where helpless women and chill
dren try to buy their inalienable righ
to life, with the Doctors verdict o
three to five years hanging over thei
heads; little old men and women from
seven to fourteen years of age, wh'
should be home with their mother
and their toys, mind body and spiri
crushed to earth in the great mills
and all this that for the murderel
may be made wealth so vast Ii neVel
can be spent. There Is mandate
that No drunkard shall inherit th'
kingdom of heaven care no
whether you stand for liquor or higf
license, or prohibition, there is M
man can truthfully say drink Is no
| the greatest curse to himself, hi
wife, his state. his country, his GOD
| Statistics show that more thar
fifty per cent. or the moral mental anc
| physical degenerates of New Yorf
state are due to drunken mothers
and fathers. Sixty per cent. of the
stranded women of the country have
| gone through the vice mill, and have
started by the route of strong drink
Eighty per cent. of the male derelict'
| of society are the victims of drink