Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-06-06

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but if ~ read history Alright the Civil
war was one of the one great resort
TO arms in which the results Justified
The means. Twas a severe, heroic,
terrible surgical operation performed
on our national life, but it resulted inyd
Graduating from the body polite the
diseased national tradition of negrb
slavery, destroying the reatest con
tradiction possible IN a democracy go
slave labor While the INNS iate
questions over which the civil war
was fought were settled gby force Of
arms ending with the surrend ell at
AppomattoX, yet in the broad sense
the conflict in some form goes down
through the ages; and even now we,
havesin the great state Of Cal fornia,---
normally OF Northern traditi ions, III,
|spiritaatsl least, the assertion of the doc
'trine Of state rights in their 3santi-
alien legislation. Is; / }$S Il3#t
During, the past generation new riv-
ers Of gold have flowed through the
land and great and somewhatairre
! sponsible money power has grown up
in the nation, greatly increased effic-
tiency in the bushes world has Brought
about entirely new political and social
questions, and there is being develop
! ed in our democracy a tendency God
forbid) of antagonistic classes, all re-
sulting in the straining of the Stradi-
itional national: balance; so if we are
to retain our national health and
avoid another drastic surgical opera
! ton like the Civil war, we must give
thought to the demands Of the age,
that We may timely and intelligentlys
act together for the good Of all.@ Just
las vital today as when uttered by Lin
fcoln is his Gettysburg speech, when
he said: sys HI
j cit is for us the living rather to
Sbe dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here thus
+ far SO nobly advance ais rather
for us TO b. dedicated here to the
great task remaining before us, that
from these honored dead we take in
creased DEVOTION TO that cause for,
which they gave the last full meas
ures OF devotion; that We here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have
I died in vain s5$s$ VIA :}$
i AS each of us should dedicate the
7 Sabbath Of self-insp ection, to an en-
Edeayor to see ourselves as others see
Il us, to the aseertainmento of our; faults,
= so that we may correct. as best we
1 can the errors Of our private life and
square ourselves to our duty to- our
fellows and our God; so with the
1 Civil war, the worlds greatest5fratri
/ cidal strife, fifty years in the perspec
tive, and in the midst of the comm en-
#.!oration of a scenturn of peace among
) the English speaking peoples of the
! earth, it is good that we pause te
dedicate this great Sabbath of gu,
! nation to the measuring up Of the
: present and the contemplationSpf the
, future. x 4; ~ 81 /.
l K Before we can either lntelligentlJ
+ or effectively build fol. the future We
a must honestly and with nnpreiudiGet
, mind acquaint ourselves with exist
= ing conditions. We are not going t
anything decsiving our
+ selves waving the flag and firing thu
9 cannon while conditions exist Yin tht
i. lives of our. great middle Glass; ant
/ that term is broad enough toilet il
Il all of us assembled here, -thatsis driV
n ling large numbers Of them far belo:
:. / the level to which their honest effort
;, and intelligent labors en.itle them.
J. when the great city department
(. store, the office manager or the fac
a tory, take the labor, energy, the in
v ftelligence- too often the virtue
II Of our girls without ever The return
I. of a living wage; when he or sh
s who is the laborer and producer in tn
!. land-those who must bear the hea
# and the blunt of the Work-are doom
4 led to find no pleasure ir the passin
4 day, we are not going TO attain result
4 that spell for civic good or ;ndividua
q righteousness, for nature demand
L that every bit of humanity whelhe
u child or adult must have more than
r mere existence. 5S5
y Consider fora momen. the officia
vi Investigation of one Of the world
al greatest industrial organizations
le. worst perhaps than hundreds of OIL
w ers, but operating on a larger seal,
XII The Investigations Of the Unite
NJ States government into the financin
It and profits Of the great steel corpor;
.ettion, disclosed that during the som.
" Jthing like twelve Years of its exis
a. ence it had paid all the expenses /
operation, including its large offici;
" salaries, that it has paid a fair int
otEest and profit on its large capitaliz
FL ton and provided for depreciatio
"a and in edition ito all that it had had.
le further profit Of more than $50 III
le lions of dollars. # On the other han
re another branch of our goYernmel
leI about the same time engaged in 5inye
ryl tigating the conditions Of the lahore
employed by this gigantic concern
as most deplorable situation was disco
IL under such conditions to be? ?----wll