The Alliance-independent. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1892-1894, September 01, 1892, Page 17, Image 17
THE ALLIANCE - INDEPENDENT. 17 RESPONSE TO THE TOAST, "AMERICA." Delivered by Col. Jesse Harper at Michl gan City, Ind., 1870. America! the agis of liberty: the bea con light of hope. Land of the free church; land of the free school; land ol the free man. The divinely guided Magi came from the East to worship In the manger, the Omniareh of the world. His star moved west until it bathed in the silver waters of the ocean of setting sun. Then its burning corruscations shown back upon the track where man had taken his weary march, and the glory of that double shining made brighter than halo America. America! baptized in the ravishments which heralds the Messianic day. America! Sweetest name shibboleth of the race. America! the land of heroes; land of God's planting. Here, the trees stretch forth their giant arms, as though to snatch the star-gems from the blue above to adorn these glorious plains. Here the silvery lakes are shenic beau ty; a dazzling shimmer; a silent laugh. Here, roll the grandest rivers of earth, upon whose swelling Hoods float a commerce, countless in riches, endless in extent. Here are soils outrivaling, a thousand fold, the famed valleys of the Hungar mud; and here are gold and silver and ores; where: "Old Ophir in her haughty pride, This triad sets aside." America! to the new-born glories came the noblest shock: Pilgrims, Hugcunots, men: and on thy teeming bosom planted the tabernacles of empire. Here, swelled from the heart the diapa son of the ages their undying anthems. "Those daring men, those gentle wives; say wherefore do they come? Why read they all the tender ties of kindred and of home? 'Tis Heaven assigns their noble work, man's spirit to unbind. They come not for themselves alone, they come for all mankind. And to this empire of the West, the glorious boon they bring. A church without a Bishop, a State without a King." America! the Hazalei held back for nearly six thousand years. America! the Ilesperidcs of the times. America! Nobler than freedom's home. My countrymen, fail not in your high mission. Let not history repeat itself in you. Make, indeed, this land the fruition j ust pictured. If the temple of liberty fall then all shall be lost. If Its fruitage of hope, more sweet than the grapes of Eschol, perish, then shall all die. If this last hope of roan fails, if the work unequaled, burns to ashes on our fallen alters, then will be actualized into history: "Death upon the pale horse and hell following after him." In this murdering America, blood shall flow to the bridle bits. Egypt eclipsed in cruelty by making the bondsman's tears more scalding. Babylon outdone in hauteur by making the toilers' chains more- galling. Persia be overshadowed in the ravish ments of wealth by making the excise on labor more unbearable. Greece, with her silver isles; 'Where burning Sappho loved and Sang.' Be more than rivaled in making the down-trodden more wretched. And Rome, old iron Home, be made to pale in her crime against God's workers, when contrasted with this modern oligarchy of evil, where man's right to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is denied by law, and he re duced to a beggar. My countrymen, it shall not be. The God of our fathers loves us too well to permit it. The spirit of our dead ones is incense to the lire of liberty, fanning it to a flame. Even now the heat of their coming is felt flashing against the face of tyrants. The arm is raised to strike; and when the blow falls, once for all and forever shall it settle the grand question of human history rights of man. America is the battle ground, Chris tian civilization the issue. A million hearts feel the glow of the coming regencsis, and ten times a million strong arms are rising in its defense. If justice is not done to all by the persuasive in fluence of love, avenging swords shall leap from the scabbard, no more to rest till red handed wrong has been burled in the grave to whieh eternal ages shall bring no resurrection. The new child of glorious destiny Is now ready for the birth. The sky is bright with the rising of the Anastatic j day. The flre-wrapted Elijahs are in a thousand forms being caught away. The mantles of promise fall upon the Elijahs of premise; the ark of liberty is being raised; the consecrated hand of manhood Is bearing it to the hill tops of freedom. There amid churches whose spires are bathed in blue, and whose bodies are filled with truo worshippers, rings the te deum laudamus. There,, amid a school system broad as earth and free as air, rings the te deum laudamus. And there, amid govcrment of the people, by the people, and for the peo ple, rings the te deum laudamus. There nations as one brotherhoood stand uncovered, and hand in hand give universal greeting. America, last found, longest hid, is the center gem. America has closed the march of mis rule and brought perennial day.: Ameiica has become the empire of the setting sun, whose sceptre at last shall "rule from sea to sea, and from thf rivers to the ends of the earth." What the Old Party Papers are Saying, Chicago Tribune. Gen. O. O. Howard discusses the bru tal punishment inflicted by a martinet clothed with brief authority on Private lams on the line of precedents. Gen. Howard might find a precedent for even greater degrees of cuelty. But he will not discover anything that will mitigate the scorn of decent folk for an act that was so clearly prompted by subservience to the class represented by Carnegie and his man Frlck. vllege as a proof of the viciousness of the strikers. To plain people of com mon sense it seems to be a proof of the viciousness of the Carnegies and Fricks who import foreign workmen because they are cheap. - Chicago Tribune, Sep. "The two old parties will pursue their own course, and the Farmers' Alliance will pursue its path until enough of its members recover from their mid-summer madness, when the organization will crumble to pieces, as the old oath-bound-secret-know-nothing , party did. If it should appear that there was real danger of the People's party holding to gether long enough to do great mis chief, the Democrats would unite with the Republicans, from whom they differ chiefly on the tariff and offices, and the two would fight against a common ene my. When that job was ended, the two parties would separate and resume their dispute on the tanir as or oia St. Louis Tost-DIspatch. The assault upon non-union workers at Duquesne was led by two aliens who had not been in this country more than six months. This Is dwelt upon with much satisfaction by the organs of pri vate Journal, Reno, Nev., Rep. There Is not a sincere advocate of the rcmonetizatlon of silver In Nevada who docs not agree with Senator Stewart that we should have but one ticket where the silver question is involved. Any division on that proposition at home lessens the influence of our Sena tors and Representative at Washington. For Nevadans to elect men to any posi tion who uphold Harrison or Cleveland, when there is a silver party candidate in the field, would be to stultify them selves and subject those who are bat tling for the cause of silver at Washing ton to the suspicion of not repicsenting the sentiments of their constituents The free coinage of silver at the ratio tl 16 .grains of that metal to 1 grain of gold, as the founders of the government de signed, is for the first time an issuo be tween political parties. Those whe favor 6uch coinage cannot consistentlj or conscientiously support Cleveland nor Harrison, therefore there should be, as Senator Stewart expresses it, onlj one party in Nevada. Sintl for our complete book list. Sped al rates to Alliance clubs. ' rL- - i I i L ' - - - - U " '. f . ..sag ' Willi-: nil mr-i l .lljl,i;.nitl)ll,J, l I IJL,.!!-,-'. LI I .1 II II .l,.MWWJ'.HH.l.J 1 L 1 -JJ v V ,V . -'..-j I i- - . r u . ' ' .'. .' ' !.."'-3 j 1 FURNIT URE. LARGEST STOCK; nmnuummnutinmnHmmnni IoweTrTces" Solid Oak Three Piece Chamber Suit to Match his Cheval Dresser. taun H ARDY& PITCHER 211 SOUTH 11TH STBEET, LincoLq, - - - Nebraska.