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than any poor wisdom OF ours.

than any poor wisdom OF ours.
You may multiply election officers
and returning boards; you may pro-
vide for an appeal to courts of first
resorts or last resort. but in the end
you must somewhere come to a point
where the sense of public duty is
stronger than party spirit. or your
election is but sort of fighting: or.
il not that, sort OF cheating. The
same thing i true of the individual
voter or of the legislator who i to
elect the senator, or the governor who
is to appoint the Judge or the exccu-
tive officer. or the judge who is to
interpret the constitution or the
statute and decide the cause. or the
juror who is to find the fact.
SO III the last resort the destiny
of the republic, like the destiny OF
the Individual depends upon in
dividtal will. VIII the individual
choose what is right and not what
is wrong;
The choice OF the people in 1890
called that grand soldier and states
man, William Mckinley. to the execu-
tive chair. Whose skill in managing
government affairs give to the Amer
ican people a national ideal from
which 1t is not possible to fall away.
and to which every human life be-
comes sacrament of help and
mercy, and every true national life
stands willing to pour itself out in
the services of mankind
The greatest nations of the world
are the nations that bear the heavy
burdens of the world-upon whose
backs are laid the heavy responsible
ties and the appointed duties of these
passing centuries. Every man knows
with what motive the American peo-
pie brake the peace of the world. and
the time is coming when every man
shall know with what motive we have
taken up these burdens which are
not our own. ] do not believe that
the American Republic will be al
lowed to fail in the midst OF its duties.
honestly and manfully trying to per-
form them.
IL Is not hard to see the danger
that beset the American peopls. II
IS not hard to paint out the cases
that are upon us; it is not hard TO fiji
the future with the creations OF doubt
and uncertainty and fear; but none
OF these things can move us if. in
the midst of all dangers and all bur-
dens. and all doubts and fears. we
recognize the hand of God stretched
iorth from the stars, touching the |
american Republic upon the shout
ders and giving it high commiss sion
10 stand IN the arena of the worlds |
great affairs, living no longer to it.
sell alone, but in willing submission
90 the divine appointment. ready at
last to become the faithful servant
even of the lonliest and most helm
less of His children.
On the masterpieces of prose
notion you remember that on the day
OF waterloo. the supreme equity.
which III the nineteenth century. Wei |
'ington threw the wing of Napoleon's
downfall. That the time has come
10 make an end of his affairs. That
Is the CLEAN of lofty imagination
Bnt there is in the hearts of the
american people the steady light of
a faith more sublime even than that /
a faith in the greatness of our conn
try; faith in the future of humanitv.
a faifh IN the divine guidance which
has watched over the national life
from ITS infancy unto this hour.
we have heard it said that the
lays of the Republic are numbered.
Such speech belongs to the BLACK
ness of the darkness of a past gen. !
Grafton: The old union army made
It possible for people and their chill
dren to live in an atmosphere no
longer overshadowed by that awful
dread. Whatever may be in store
Tor us; whatever political party NAV
rise or fall, this government shall |