Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — THE STORY THEY TELL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE STORY THEY TELL.

till: ; U. Hje ■ robe. ■; ta?;ff, ■the'-<: hhi- s'-.- ae Ijop- ' press ’■.was' ;i; cr y > 1 CBB ■ owcrs during the -.••;v<:;i< ntia’caiuol • lStj.2^—Bail' ' as?iyct smashing precess !u 1 ' not -begun-,-"atthocgh’-Sfr; - - -rti • t-- fttwt —htspffciy . bm:’:i .in' uffie.v JiHlse thfty 4'. 11 ■ v - V is, 31 Gievehml. t’iieu. h able and siroi l ' ami bravedn nis own esti- : niaf; .is iilidi&g iLi.l It is c'isj' U>' cry sr ::sh, but ii is )”>! ?■<» easy to do tL<- smashing. G’hr/.-vcr <pinion he held hist year in regard ' to th tariff question; be now uhderefa; Is full well that 1:-rge.sums: of.ninr.ey are aeesssn# to mu the., government, and there is no way | of geu ' • g thia, nionpy’except" train ■ dutv ■ n imported ;. ■•cds. Hence,l the gp'.-.t in;:n, as pycGih-ni, is not j eo much inclirt d to smash “lliei infamous tariff” as he was when I simply a candidate for president. Indeed, he seems fully content just now to keep his hands off’the tariff :d let if quite alone. —Grover Clevelard is probably the greatest humbug in this country. For many years past he has been posing as a reformer, and yet the only reform which he cares anything about is that reform which will help him personally and secure votes whenever he is a candidate for'.office. He will clamor about reform in this thing and that, and yet whenever he can gain any thing for* himself, he does not hesitate to violate every principle of that very reform which he has advocated. For instance, in his inaugural of last March, while speaking of trusts, he used these words: “These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their, phases they are unnatural and opposed to the American sense of fairness. To the extent that can be reached and restrained by federal power the general government should relieve our citizens from their interference And exactions.” Now, these are brave words and noble. But let us see how Mr. Cleveland acts in regards to “aggregations and combinations” of of capital when he can make money by :■ jeans of them. In speaking of his money making the Wall Street Daily News of March 1 1893 says: “Grover Cleveland goes to the White House a much richi r man tlian when he left it. His I'iofits in Well street in Consolidated Gas, Chicago Gas and Sugar are estimated at nearly $1,000,000.” Here is this prince of humbugs crying out against “aggregations and combinations” of capital, and yet at the same time using these se aggregations and combinations” to build up his own private folium-and to gather the filthy lucre into his own private coffers. Away with such contemptible twofacedness! Surely, the great man cannot expect ‘to fool all the people all the time.”

How tho B.ir.ners an|(l Jloses Eecoll the ,„_i. of ttses.peat.l,

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purify and. strength'.And WEpgtke fed, wUr ?•; bhwxmy.rrrs-are- thrown into that IhrWilWt i f Flmmcaiy eo per- I dssf a ■nomxjthon-in-: ‘ ;■.:;:hi ; "■ ■ ' ~r? ; ;, 1: :;d :■>/: ' '.'BoWe sol-: I'i- r’s ; ; i .giUjmygJmg eoinr: as . ■ :>-Vi ; 1. ' .'i.larth&g Argn maxkn»>f.ttho .gravespf failure ‘ ' "'•' rrtrvsWTr; he ioos of ! ~re-enferectnrhS-Hts-tho story oI'.crptern. r.-'.d' ~f A-ction, rnd of victory ■ rcenllaVfaytfldtllloiiy wuatbang - ■ etudi cfeter of '■ ■ti Tight f: ■.? sitro with it the gen- j tla airs-pf haaven.— ' ■ '■ Natim'A.V' v.’E.never a soldier’s eye ■ lights -Gr-WF—tho-' starry Lanuyr --h:A - fewgtrea W-k to : m it a thepne borne in iroatj ;of liis iy;': l . v v i’i every charge. Yet it ; yas he-: 1::.. ' • MeSF the-w< <wk hr ii-lkwe-l i:. u> tiw ;w s or ni.i'./1 11. >;■ on " lino of batt! ?. [, ileni looked v-p toif esth;; npr :c: :;::'vo of what :h<? n:dlon v.-r.s ij.j’oiizg. for rather than a signal for combat, a ehal--1 lenge to hostility. Now t'nat the'strife i is a tiiirg of the far. past the Lntfleflags arert i ■ : : ■! iIF stars awl siripcs a live. All thi.j own, jin the inemi,/fial.oEseryanc&S; • Hag arid Its .k LVn■•h.rs are .honored ; through the sainp a&s and in the same i Flowers come in with settled peace,, and j. love, and tcndcmess.argthemeaiiingthey?: I convey. Thes-entiment3 of Decoration day are ■and- should be ■ intensely patriotic and not martial, conservatively peaceful and not aggressive. The dead are to be remembered mid honored because they -fought for. a principle.and not because by any word or act they betrayed a love of glory. It is the emblem of undying tiff. cli:>n. a s;vig .of ev.r run, that is first placed v; < n the warri<)r’s grave as a token froni-fhe living-W-llriidhe Gratal Army opens tho-eeremony.. Then follows the white rose, ..the. purity and unselfish devotion of the patriot dead. Lastly the laurel of victory, token of a triumph tha t is the reward of purity and a proof of devotion. Victory crowned the soldier’s trials and made tho memory of them worth preserving.

GEORGE L. KILMER.