Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — Our Country as a Nation. [ARTICLE]

Our Country as a Nation.

Judge D. P. Baldwin 1 * *<Mrc«sßt Logansport. Enthusiasm is emotionalized earnestness. The men of 1789 accomplished their 'great work, because they were enthusiasts. The heart must always go in partnership with the head to accomplish great deedß. There is more kindness in the United States to-day than in all the rest of the world. Onr flag represents the most accomplished and the best organized liberty, equality and fraternity of any of the nations of the earth. Liberty means that every man owns his own head, hand and heart. Fraternity means that every man, no matter how low down, when right and not wrong, is my brother. Equality means that the rights of all are not only exactly equal, but, what is infinitely more, are equally enforced and respected.

We in the United States have accomplished almost perfect liberty of head and heart, but liberty of the hands, of compensated and honored labor* is still an open problem. Why Should not the neople who do the work and create all the wealth'control it It is the nonproducer, the speculator and grabber that make trouble. The problem of equality is yet solved in the United

1 t Staten except in part. No one is a real American who thinks the man that owns the rail road ia better than the man that guides the locomotive. re not accomplished when usefulness of any, kind is‘ looked down upon and treated as an intruder. It is a mistake to suppose that all the are solved. The open saloon is yet to be closed. The ballots of 1,000,000 veters are yet to be coanted; 7,000,060 of Americans have yet to learn their letr ’ ters. That is the most desirable village or city to live in that makes the school house the best building in its limits. Power must be proportioned to humanity, not humanity to power.- This is the real meaning of success—“a government of the people, by the people and for the people.” v The highest fact in the world is humanity, and it is because that, here in ttye United States, human- . ity . means more than in any other nation, that we are still, with all of OHr drawbacks and faults, the hope and the inspiration of the World. '