The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-10-30
Two Methods of Undermining and De.
stroying Popular Government

lily. Then there were those coming
up from the rough wanlcs of life crude
and unlettered, without either social
or political recognition. The one class
accomplished their evil purposes
through suIbtlety and secrecy, instill-
ing infiniteSimal doses of poison in
the daily food, watching the victims
heahth break day by day and week by
week, jeered and watched and fed un-
til at last, battling all the skill of ply
sicians, the crime was consmnmated.
More open, bold and brutal, the other
class would thrust their poisoned
stilettos into the marked individual
as they jostled him upon the streets
or met him under the shadow of
night. Between the two classes there
was nothing in common save that the
der.
Mr.. President, you may destroy this
government, bring ruin and chaos to
this sacred editice, you may uproot
its traditions and dry up the springs
Of national life just as effectually by
putting out for the daily food of our
youth contempt and derision, distrust,
and falsehood concerning its history
and it's institutions as you cam by the
bomb and red flag-both accomplish
the same thing, though achieved in
different ways. The professional
sappers and miners of national life,
the destroyers of national power and
glory may not recognize each other
the cultured professor may scorn the
rioter and the revolutiontst, but they
are brothers in the same cause. link
ed together by a common result. His
tory will finally associate them and
the scorn of mankind will finally treat
them as one. They will stand togeth-
er at the bar of the future as the CO.
conspirators against the peace and
happiness of the American people
and the destroyers and wreckers Of
the noblest institution for human
happiness yet conceived by the wit Of
man.
Mr.. President, not long ago visit
ed the place where Nancy Hanks,
prematurely old and broken, nursed
and nurtured and cared for the rar-
est soul ever born under the Amerd-
cam flag. As you stand and enter the
howell and reflect, as you will, upon
the squalor and wretchedness which
a century ago environed those i'm
provident inmates, and then call up
in memory the glory which came out
of that cabin, the glory which has
since filled the earth, you will ex-
perience a deeper reverence and a
stronger lowe for these institutions
of ours than you ever felt before.
There win come to you a feeling
which both humbles and makes you
brave, yearning to know what Is to
be the destiny of this government "of
the people. by the people and for the
people," and, above all, what Is to be
the fate of the human family should
this scheme of representative govern
ment fail. And as you drive away
over the sad red hills OF Kentucky,
for this is Kentucky's impoverished
spot leaving behind you the sensa-
lions, the reflections and the fancies
Of the brief hour, and turn your face
toward the real world, with Its bit
terness, it's turmoil and it's strife
social, economic and politdcal--you
will find yourself .involuntarily say
ing: Give us again in this supreme
hour OF the nations history men with
faith, faith In the justice. the effi-
cheney and the ultimate success OF
these free institutions, faith that
through our scheme Of government
and under our system OF orderly and
regulated liberty the human family
is to reach its highest progress and
enjoy It's greatest happiness, faith
that right, and right alone makes
might, and that upon this principle
alone we dare to build for the future