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tnin goats arc robbed of a herdsman to
make a shepherd in the pastures or the
Lord. The true aim should be to rise in
a vocation and not to rise out of it. If 3011
be a mechanic aim to be the best me
chanic, if a physician, aim to be the best
physician, if a farmer, aim to be the best
farmer, if a professional politician quit
the business.
It has been said that patriotism is the
security of popular government. The love
of country, however, is but an instinct, the
love of humanity is a virtue. Away with
that patriotism that leads one half of our
country to seek the destruction of the
other. Out with that patriotism mat would
array the East against the West or the
North against the South. Down with that
statesman that cannot sec beyond the nar
row limits of his own native State. Shall
we live at peace with all the world and aj
swords' points among ourselves? If we
are to succeed us a nation it must be with
mutual forbearance and confidence. Hut
to-day we see towering far above State
jealousy and sectional prejudice, one sub
lime figure, forsaken by one 1111113 and
opposed by the other. And the Amer
ican people may still hope to again boast
of a president, not of the North, not of the
South, not of the East or of the West, but
a president of the whole country. And
you and I may yet live to see the Mason
and Dixon line a matter only of history.
It is not the heroes of great deeds that
we need, but the heroes of the common
affairs of life. The army never lacks a
leader. The stake is never without its
martyr. Erect the gibbet and you will
always find those who are ready to mount
it and die for their faith. Hut wc have
seen the general brave the cannon's open
mouth on the field of buttle, mid yet prove
false to himself, and false to his country,
when honored as secretary of war. What
the country needs, what it imperatively
demands, is a little practical ethics, a little
every-day honesty and business integrity.
I believe no government rests on a linn
er basis than our own. This security,
however, lies not. in the professional poli
tician, neither can it be found in the learn
ed professions. It is the great middle
class that is the bone and sinew of the
nation. Aiyl if our government is to be
preserved, if our national existence is to
be maintained, it must be by that large
and substantial class of citizens who sup
port our industries. And any public sen
timent that drives honest nion from our
industries must tend to demoralize society
and finally to overthrow the government
itself. ' II. II. Wilson.
OORTEZ.
To-day the 'name of Cortex has become
a synonymc. for recklessness, cruelty and
inhumanity. Why is it? i Because he
really was so merciless and cruel ? Yes
No. Yes. because by looking from our
standpoint he was cruel. No, for by re
garding his career through the light
which then existed he was not.
Mothers have instille iis idea into
the minds of their children through old
songs and ballads.
Teachers have expatiated upon the
crimes of Cortex before their pupils, and
in general, orators and writers of every
degree have ofttimcs.unitcd with the com.
inou throng in disgracing his name, never
for a moment, dwelling upon any of the
good which he accomplished. The rca
sou of this is (as I have hinted) that the'
cither do not wish or are 'not competent
to judge another by any standpoint other
than their own. Such persons, I verily
believe, had they been placed in Cortez'
time and position, would have been sati
ated only by the most inhuman practices.
This caution cannot too often beheld up
to view we must judge others by the
times and situations in which they live.
You would say that, to pass judgment
from our standpoint upon the acts of a bar.
barons chief, who had never seen or heard
of any thing which we call civilization
would be a gross act of inhumanity. Hut
