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t OKcopl In- form its action differs in days of pcaco
from its action in days of war.
rj'. "May wo break camp now and be at ease?
-sAra. the forces that fight for the nation dis
,ipereedf disbanded, gone to their homos forgetful
toX ,tho common cause? Aro our forces dis-
organized; .without constituted leaders and the
-might of. men consciously united because we con
Ktond, not with armies, but with principalities and
hpowors and wickedness in high places. Aro wo
content to lie still? Does our union mean sym
pathy, our peace contentment, our vigor right
action, our maturity self comprehension and a
clear confidence ill choosing what wo shall do?
'"War fitted uo for action, and action never ceases.
"I have beon chosen the leader of the na
tion. I can not justify tho choico by any
qualities of my own, but so it has come about,
and hero I stand. Whom do I command? Tho
ghostly hosts who fought upon theso battle fields
long ago and aro gone? Theso gallant gontlemen
v stricken in years whose fighting days are over,
their glory won? What aro the orders for them,
-and who rallies them? I have in my mind an
othor host, whom theso sot free of civil strifo
in order that they might work out in tho days of
' peace and settled order tho life of a great na
tion. That host is tho people themselves, the
groat and tho small, without class or difference
of kind or race or origin; and undivided in in
terest, if wo havo but tho vision to guide and
direct them and order their lives aright in what
wo .do, Our constitutions are their articles of
t enlistment. Tho orders of the day are tho laws
upon our statute books. What wo strive for is
their freedom, their right to lift themselves from
day to day and behold tho things they have
hoped for, and so make way for still bettor days
for those whom thoy love who are to come after
. them. Tho recruits are tho little children crowd
ing in. Tho quartermaster's stores are in the
mines and forests and fields, in the shdps and
;,actorios. Every day something must be done
to push tho campaign forward; and it. must bo
done by plan and with an eye to some great
..destiny. .
"How shall wo hold suoh thoughts in our
. hearts and not be moved? I would not have you
live even today wholly in tho past, but would
-..wish to stand with you in the light that streams
r.npoir Us now out of that grdatcday gone by.' Here
T.is tho nation God has builded by our hands.
- What shall we do with it? Who stands ready to
act again and always in the spirit of this day of
reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day
of our country's life has but broadened into
-morning. Do not put uniforms by. -Put the har
dness of the present on. Lift your eyes to the
great tracts of life yet to be conquered in tho
interest of righteous peace, of that prosperity
which lies in a people's hearts and outlasts all
wars and?orrors of men. Come, let us be com
rades and soldiers yet to serve our fellow men
in quiet counsel, where the blare of trumpets
is. wither heard nor heeded and where tne things
'.are done which make blessed the nations of tho
world in peace and righteousness and love."
GETTYSBURG
. The celebration at Gettysburg was a memor-
..ablo one on a battlefield which stands, out so
.conspicuously in tho civil war, a battlefield which
: later brought forth Lincoln's incomparable
jmcech. Such a battlefield is a fitting place for
tho commingling of the survivors of tho two
..armios who, once estranged, are tho more firmly
attached to each other because they tested each
other's loyalty to conviction. Mr. Bryan in tho
. Philadelphia Public Ledger.
I am told that in this county were fought
( more battles than in any county of like size in
thq world, and that upon the earth within the
,t limits of this county there fell more dead and
wounded than ever fell on a similar spae in all
, tho history of the world. Hero opposing lines
wore drawn up face to face; here opposing
armies met and stared at each other and then
sought to take each other's lives. But all theso
scones have passed away and those who once
met in deadly array now meet and co-mingle
hero as friends. Here the swords havo been
turned into plowshares, here the spears have
been converted into pruning hooks and people
learn war no more. Here the bands on either
side once stirred up tho flagging zeal with notes
that thrilled the hearts of men. These two bands
are now component parts of one great band, and
&g that band marches on in tho lead playing
''Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie" too, the war
scarred veterans who wore the blue and the
,ykr-scarred veterans who wore the gray follow,
side hy side, each vying with the other in the
effort to make this the greatest and best of all
the nations on God's footstool. (From speech
delivered by Mr. Bryan at Fredericksburg, Va.,
during the campaign of 1896.)
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A generation ago New England helped to free
the black slaves of tho south, and today tho
southern people rejoice that it was accomplished.
The time has come when the southern people aro
helping to free the white slaves of the north;
and in tho fulness of timo New England will
rejoice in its accomplishment. Thomas Jeffer
son, although a Virginian, favored emancipation,
and yet that sentiment, born in tho south,
ripened and developed in tho north until it came
down and conquered tho land from which it
sprung
The idea of commercial freedom had its birth
place in the north, but it has spread over the
states of the south and west, and it will come
back from these great sections and conquer the
land in which it had its birth. Let us not stir
anew the dying embers of civil strife. I did
not live through those days. It was not my
good fortune to be permitted to show my loyalty
to the union or my devotion to a state; and
there are over all the south young men who have
grown to manhood since the war, and they and
their fathers rejoice today in the results of the
war, achieved against their objection. These
men do not deserve your scorn; they do not
merit your contempt. They are ready to fight
side by side with you, shoulder to shoulder, in
making this the most glorious nation that tho
world has ever seen. I have no doubt of the
loyalty of the south, and I honor the sentiments
so eloquently expressed the other day by the
gentleman from Georgia (Mr; Black) when he
spoke in praise of the flag which he at one time
disowned.
These gentlemen from the south, ,sir, who
speak for union and fraternal love, ' and the
men from the north who echo their sentiments,
reflect the wishes of the people of this country
far more accurately than the political vol
canoes which break jntq active eruption every
two years. Welcometo these sons of the south!
We gladly join them in every -work which has for
its object equality, freedom and justice.. And. I
rejoice that the people of these once, estranged
sctions are prepared to celebrate the complete
reunion of the north and south so beautifully
described by the poetess when she says:
"Together," shouts Niagara, his thunder-toned
decree;
"Together," echo back the waves upon the Mexic
sea;
"Together," sing the sylvan hills where old At
lantic roars;
"Together," boom the breakers on the wild Pa
cific shores;
"Together," cry the people, and "together" it
shall be,
An everlasting charter-bond forever for tho
free;
Of Liberty the signet-seal, the one eternal sign,
Be those united emblems the Palmetto and the
Pine.
(From speech delivered by Mr. Bryan in house
of representatives, January 13, 1894.)
GOOD WORK
R'. W. Schug, Iowa To help the good cause
along I am enclosing a check for $12.00 to pay
for the enclosed club of 20 yearly subscriptions
to Tho Commoner. The Commoner has helped
us to turn a republican majority of 140 into a
democratic majority of 40 or 50 in this town
ship and what has been accomplished hero can
be done elsewhere. If every reader of The
Commoner would make it his business to got one
or two new subscribers each year there would
bo no question about the future of progressive
democracy. Best wishes for tho continued suc
cess of Tho Commoner.
AN OPPORTUNITY
The abolition of fire works for July 4th sug
gests an opportunity for the person who is cap
able of inventing some noise making implement
which, while creating all necessary turmoil, will
not endanger life or limb. Surely some one
should become famous through such an invention.
WILL STAND TUB TEST
The house committee is proceeding very
wisely in the consideration of the currency bill
The democratic members are meeting daily to
study the bill and compare views. The better
they understand tho bill tho more unanimous
will be their support of it
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 27
CURRENCY BILL GROWS POPULAR
The currency hill is making progress mb
who thought there ought to8 be curS
legislation at all are now willing for the lin I
bo passed, since they find that the bill is one
which they can indorse and which promises o
bo popular with tho public. "'iscs to
The change that has taken place in Dublin
sentiment shows how difficult it is to decide in
abstract question. The average man obiects in
the passage of a bill unless he believes that Hip
passage will do good, and no one can tell before
a bill is drawn whether it will do good or not
Especially is this true with a currency bill unon
which opinion is so radically divided; but now
that the bill is before congress there is a grow
ing belief that it is not only wise to pass such i
currency bill, but that the sooner it is passed
tho bettor.
The arguments advanced in support of the
bill become more weighty as they are considered
a fact which is true of all sound arguments
The objections that have been made to the bili
lose weight as they are subjected to critical ex
amination. It is safe to say that the principles
embodied in the bill have now been vindicated,
and all that remains is to make such changes in
the bill as investigation may seem to justify.
But theso changes will not materially alter the
measure. It now seems quite certain that we
are to have currency reform a reform which
will be permanent because it is a real reform.
MOSIAO AND MODERN LAW
A collection of facts have been gathered
by a writer in Harper's Weekly going to
prove that the sanitary laws of Moses were not
only on a line.with'the modem rules of hygiene,
but in omo cases, in advance of them. The Jew,
thousands of years "before Christ, settling in a
semi-tropical country, was forbidden to eat pork
or shell-fish, and milk wqs designated as a source
of contagion. In the Talmud a method of
slaughtering animals 'was prescribed which is
acknowledged today, in our markets as the most
sanitary. TTive "thousand years before Koch gave
to the world tlie results 'of, . his researches in
bacteriology the' Mosiac law pointed out the
danger o man from tuberculosis' in cattle, but
did not forbid infected poultry as food. It was
only a few years ago' that German specialists dis
covered that fowl tuberculosis was harmless to
man. The Mosaic law also enforced the isola
tion of patients with contagious diseases and the
burial of the dead outside all cities. These hints
the Gentile world did not fully accept until a
century or two ngo. The wise lawgiver pre
scribed not only fasting at certain periods of
the year, but the removal of whole families in
summer out to camps, where for a time they
could live close to nature. Many of the laws
of Moses were prescriptions intended for tho
health of both mind and body.
THE LITTLE COUNTRY TOWN
The trees are all in blossom in the little country
town;
The petals, white and crimson, are serenely
drifting down;
The people greet their neighbors in the good
old fashioned style,
And have timo to let contentment fill their
breasts a little while;
There are no commanding thousands, no com
plaints of selfish wrongs,
There is no restraint of freedom and no fright
ful clang of gongs.
There are no unlovely barracks from which
people madly rush,
Caring not for one another; there is neither
noiso or crush;
There is leisure and there's pleasure for the few
who como and go, ,
Pausing now and then to gossip, with good
wishes to bestow; .
There is peace and" there is patience, there 19
home and there is cheer,
All the scene is rich with beauty, free from
strife and strange to fear.
There is absence of the turmoil and the clash of
class with class .
That disturb the roaring city where the anxious
millions mass; , v
Every garden is an Eden that grows fairer aay
by day -hn
There are no mad monsters crushing those fl
linger in the way; aAv
Happy children play, untroubled by a greeay
master's frown, , . llA
And there still is faith and friendship m i"
little country town.
S. E. Riser, in Chjcago Record-Herald.
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