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THE IMPROVED MAN. 1
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WALL STREET SPEECH. 3
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"MEN, WOMEN AND GODS." (PREFACE) 9
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A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN. 14
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Bank of Wisdom, Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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The Works of ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
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THE IMPROVED MAN.
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THE Improved Man will be in favor of universal liberty -- that
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is to say, he will be opposed to all kings and nobles, to all
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privileged classes. He will give to all others the rights he claims
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for himself. He will neither bow nor cringe, nor accept bowing and
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cringing from others. He will be neither master nor slave, neither
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prince nor peasant -- simply man.
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He will be the enemy of all caste, no matter whether its
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foundation be wealth, title or power, and of him it will be said:
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"Blessed is that man who is afraid of no man and of whom no man is
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afraid."
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The Improved Man will be in favor of universal education. He
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will believe it the duty of every person to shed all the light he
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can, to the end that no child may be reared in darkness. By
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education he will mean the gaining of useful knowledge, the
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development of the mind along the natural paths that lead to human
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happiness.
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He will not waste his time in ascertaining the foolish
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theories of extinct peoples or in studying the dead languages for
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the sake of understanding the theologies of ignorance and fear, but
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he will turn his attention to the affairs of life, and will do his
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utmost to see to it that every child has an opportunity to learn
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the demonstrated facts of science, the true history of the world,
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the great principles of right and wrong applicable to human conduct
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-- the things necessary to the preservation of the individual and
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of the state, and such arts and industries as are essential to the
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preservation of all.
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He will also endeavor to develop the mind in the direction of
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the beautiful -- of the highest art -- so that the palace in which
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the mind dwells may be enriched and rendered beautiful, to the end
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that these stones, called facts, may be changed into statues.
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The Improved Man will believe only in the religion of this
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world. He will have nothing to do with the miraculous and
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supernatural. He will find that there is no room in the universe
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for these things. He will know that happiness is the only good, and
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that everything that tends to the happiness of sentient beings is
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good, and that to do the things -- and no other -- that add to the
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THE IMPROVED MAN.
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happiness of man is to practice the highest possible religion. His
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motto will be: "Sufficient unto each world is the evil thereof." He
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will know that each man should be his own priest, and that the
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brain is the real cathedral. He will know that in the realm of maid
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there is no authority -- that majorities in this mental world can
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settle nothing -- that each soul is the sovereign of its own world,
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and that it cannot abdicate without degrading itself. He will not
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bow to numbers or force; to antiquity or custom. He, standing under
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the flag of nature, under the blue and stars, will decide for
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himself. He will not endeavor by prayers and supplication, by
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fastings and genuflections, to change the mind of the "Infinite" or
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alter the course of nature, neither will he employ others to do
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those things in his place. He will have no confidence in the
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religion of idleness, and will give no part of what he earns to
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support parson or priest, archbishop or pope. He will know that
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honest labor is the highest form of prayer. He will spend no time
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in ringing bells of swinging sensers, or in chanting the litanies
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of barbarism, but he will appreciate all that is artistic -- that
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is beautiful -- that tends to refine and ennoble the human race. He
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will not live a life of fear. He will stand in awe neither of man
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nor ghosts. He will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will
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bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of
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death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will
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end as serenely as the sun rises.
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The Improved Man will be satisfied that the supernatural does
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not exist -- that behind every fact, every thought and dream is an
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efficient cause. He will know that every human action is a
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necessary product, and he will also know that men cannot be
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reformed by punishment, by degradation or by revenge. He will
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regard those who violate the laws of nature and the laws of States
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as victims of conditions, of circumstances, and he will do what he
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can for the well-being of his fellow-men.
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The Improved Man will not give his life to the accumulation of
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wealth. He will find no happiness in exciting the envy of his
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neighbors. He will not care to live in a palace while others who
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are good, industrious and kind are compelled to huddle in huts and
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dens. He will know that great wealth is a great burden, and that to
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accumulate beyond the actual needs of a reasonable human being is
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to increase not wealth, but responsibility and trouble.
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The Improved Man will find his greatest joy in the happiness
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of others and he will know that the home is the real temple. He
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will believe in the democracy of the fire-side, and will reap his
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greatest reward in being loved by those whose lives he has
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enriched.
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The Improved Man will be self-poised, independent, candid and
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free. He will be a scientist. He will observe, investigate,
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experiment and demonstrate. He will use his sense and his senses.
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He will keep his mind open as the day to the hints and suggestions
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of nature. He will always be a student, a learner and a listener --
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a believer in intellectual hospitality. In the world of his brain
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there will be continuous summer, perpetual seed-time and harvest.
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Facts will be the foundation of his faith. In one hand he will
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carry the torch of truth, and with the other raise the fallen. --
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The World, New York, February 23, 1890.
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
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1880.
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FELLOW-CITIZENS of the Great City of New York: This is the
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grandest audience I ever saw. This audience certifies that General
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James A. Garfield is to be the next President of the United States.
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This audience certifies that a Republican is to be the next mayor
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of the city of New York. This audience certifies that the business
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men of New York understand their interests, and that the business
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men of New York are not going to let this country be controlled by
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the rebel South and the rebel North. In 1860 the Democratic party
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appealed to force; now it appeals to fraud. In 1860 the Democratic
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party appealed to the sword; now it appeals to the pen. It was
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treason then, it is forgery now, The Democratic party cannot be
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trusted with the property or with the honor of the people of the
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United States.
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The city of New York owes a great debt to the country. Every
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man that has cleared a farm has helped to build New York; every man
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that helped to build a railway helped to build up the palaces of
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this city. Where I am now speaking are the termini of all the
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railways in the United States. They all come here. New York has
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been built up by the labor of the country, and New York owes it to
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the country to protect the best interests of the country.
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The farmers of Illinois depend upon the merchants, the brokers
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and the bankers, upon the gentlemen of New York, to beat the rabble
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of New York. You owe to yourselves; you owe to the great Republic;
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and this city that does the business of a hemisphere -- this city
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that will in ten years be the financial center of this world --
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owes it to itself, to be true to the great principles that have
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allowed it to exist and flourish.
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The Republicans of New York ought to say that this shall
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forever be a free country. The Republicans of New York ought to say
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that free speech shall forever be held sacred in the United States.
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The Republicans of New York ought to see that the party that
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defended the Nation shall still remain in power. The Republicans of
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New York should see that the flag is safely held by the hands that
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defended it in war. The Republicans of New York know that the
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prosperity of the country depends upon good government, and they
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also know that good government means protection to the people --
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rich and poor, black and white. The Republicans of New York know
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that a black friend is better than a white enemy. They know that a
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negro while fighting for the Government, is better than any white
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man who will fight against it.
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The Republicans of New York know that the colored party in the
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South which allows every man to vote as he pleases, is better than
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any white man who is opposed to allowing a negro to cast his honest
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vote. A black man in favor of liberty is better, than a white man
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in favor of slavery. The Republicans of New York must be true to
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their friends. This Government means to protect all its citizens,
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at home and abroad, or it becomes a byword in the mouths of the
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nations of the world.
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Now, what do we want to do? We are going to have an election
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next Tuesday, and every Republican knows why he is going to vote
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
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the Republican ticket; while every Democrat votes his without
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knowing why. A Republican is a Republican because he loves
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something; a Democrat is a Democrat because he hates something. A
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Republican believes in progress; a Democrat in retrogression. A
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Democrat is a "has been." He is a "used to be." The Republican
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party lives on hope; the Democratic on memory. The Democrat keeps
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his back to the sun and imagines himself a great man because he
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casts a great shadow. Now, there are certain things. we want to
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preserve -- that the business men of New York want to preserve --
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and, in the first place, we want an honest ballot. And where the
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Democratic party has power there never has been an honest ballot.
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You take the worst ward in this city, and there is where you will
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find the greatest Democratic majority. You know it, and so do I.
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There is not a university in the North, East or West that has not
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in it a Republican majority. There is not a penitentiary in the
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United States that has not in it a Democratic majority -- and they
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know it. Two years ago, about two hundred and eighty-three.
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convicts were in the penitentiary of Maine. Out of that whole
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number there was one Republican, and only one. [A voice -- "Who was
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the man?"] Well, I do not know, but he broke out. He said that he
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did not mind being in the penitentiary, but the company was a
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little more than he could stand.
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You cannot rely upon that party for an honest ballot. Every
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law that has been passed in this country in the last twenty years,
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to throw a safe-guard around the ballot-box, has been passed by the
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Republican party. Every law that has been defeated has been
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defeated by the Democratic party. And you know it. Unless we have
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an honest ballot the days of the Republic are numbered; and the
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only way to get an honest ballot is to beat the Democratic party
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forever. And that is what we are going to do. That party can never
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carry its record; that party is loaded down with the infamies of
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twenty years; yes, that party is loaded down with the infamies of
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fifty years. It will never elect a President in this world. I give
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notice to the Democratic party to-day that it will have to change
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its name before the people of the United States will change the
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administration. You will have to change your natures; you will have
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to change your personnel, and you will have to get enough
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Republicans to join you and tell you how to run a campaign. If you
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want an honest ballot -- and every honest man does -- then you will
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vote to keep the Republican party in power. What else do you want?
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You want honest money, and I say to the merchants and to the
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bankers and to the brokers, the only party that will give you
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honest money is the party that resumed specie payments. The only
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party that will give you honest money is the party that said a
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greenback is a broken promise until it is redeemed with gold. You
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can only trust the party that has been honest in disaster. From
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1863 to 1879 -- sixteen long years -- the Republican party was the
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party of honor and principle, and the Republican party saved the
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honor of the United States. And you know it.
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During that time the Democratic party did what it could to
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destroy our credit at home and abroad.
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We are not only in favor of free speech, and an honest ballot
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and honest money, but we are for law and order. What part of this
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country believes in free speech -- the South or the North? The
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
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South would never give free speech to the country; there was no
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free speech in the city of New York until the Republican party came
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into power. The Democratic party has not intelligence enough to
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know that free speech is the germ of this Republic. The Democratic
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party cares little for free speech because it has no argument to
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make -- no reasons to offer. Its entire argument is summed up and
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ended in three words -- "Hurrah for Hancock!" The Republican party
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believes in free speech because it has something to say; because it
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believes in argument; because it believes in moral suasion; because
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it believes in education. Any man that does not believe in free
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speech is a barbarian. Any State that does not support it is not a
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civilized State.
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I have a right to express my opinion, in common with every
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other human being, and I am willing to give to every other human
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being the right that I claim for myself. Republicanism means
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justice in politics. Republicanism means progress in civilization.
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Republicanism means that every man shall be an educated patriot and
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a gentleman. I want to say to you to-day that it is an honor to
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belong to the republican party. It is an honor to have belonged to
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it for twenty years; it is an honor to belong to the party that
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elected Abraham Lincoln President. And let me say to you that
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Lincoln was the greatest, the best, the purest, the kindest man
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that has ever sat in the presidential chair. It is an honor to
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belong to the Republican party that gave four millions of men the
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rights of freemen; it is an honor to belong to the party that broke
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the shackles from four millions of men, women and children. It is
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an honor to belong to the party that declared that bloodhounds were
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not the missionaries of civilization. It is an honor to belong to
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the party that said it was a crime to steal a babe from its
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mother's breast. It is an honor to belong to the party that swore
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that this is a Nation forever, one and indivisible. It is an honor
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to belong to the party that elected U. S. Grant President of the
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United States. It is an honor to belong to the party that issued
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thousands and thousands of millions of dollars in promises -- that
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issued promises until they became as thick as the withered leaves
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of winter; an honor to belong to the party that issued them to put
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down a rebellion an honor to belong to the party that put it down
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an honor to belong to the party that had the moral courage and
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honesty to make every one of the promises made in war, as good as
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shining, glittering gold in peace. And I tell you that if there is
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another life, and if there is a day of judgment, all you need say
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upon that solemn occasion is, "I was in life and in my death a good
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square Republican."
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I hate the doctrine of State Sovereignty because it fostered
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State pride; because it fostered the idea that it is more to be a
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citizen of a State than a citizen of this glorious country. I love
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the whole country. I like New York because it is a part of the
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country, and I like the country because it has New York in it. I am
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not standing here to-day because the flag of New York floats over
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my head, but because that flag, for which more heroic blood has
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been shed than for any other flag that is kissed by the air of
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heaven, waves forever over my head. That is the reason I am here.
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The doctrine of State Sovereignty was appealed to in defence
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of the slave-trade; the next time in defence of the slave trade as
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
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between the States; the next time in defence of the Fugitive Slave
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Law; and if there is a Democrat in favor of the Fugitive Slave Law
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he should be ashamed -- if not of himself -- of the ignorance of
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the time in which he lived. That Fugitive Slave Law was a
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compromise so that we might be friends of the South. They said in
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1850-52: "If you catch the slave we will be your friend;" and they
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tell us now "If you let us trample upon the rights of the black man
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in the South, we will be your friend." I do not want their
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friendship upon such terms. I am a friend of my friend, and an
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enemy of my enemy. That is my doctrine. We might as well be honest
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about it. Under that doctrine of State Rights, such men as I see
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before me -- bankers, brokers, merchants, gentlemen -- were
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expected to turn themselves into hounds and chase a poor fugitive
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that had been lured by the love of liberty and guided by the
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glittering North Star.
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The Democratic party wanted you to keep your trade with the
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South, no matter to what depths of degradation you had to sink, and
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the Democratic party to-day says if you want to sell your goods to
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the Southern people, you must throw your honor and manhood into the
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streets. The patronage of the splendid North is enough to support
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the city of New York.
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There is another thing: Why is this city filled with palaces,
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covered with wealth? Because American labor has been protected. I
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am in favor of protection to American labor, everywhere. I am in
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favor of protecting American brain and muscle; I am in favor of
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giving scope to American ingenuity and American skill. We want a
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market at home, and the only way to have it is to have mechanics at
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home; and the only way to have mechanics is to have protection; and
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the only way to have protection is to vote the Republican ticket.
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You, business men of New York, know that General Garfield
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understands the best interests not only of New York, but of the
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entire country. And you want to stand by the men who will stand by
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you. What does a simple soldier know about the wants of the city of
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New York? What does he know about the wants of this great and
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splendid country? If he does not know more about it than he knows
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about the tariff he does not know much. I do not like to hit the
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dead, My hatred stops with the grave, and I tell you we are going
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to bury the Democratic party next Tuesday. The pulse is feeble now,
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and if that party proposes to take advantage of the last hour, it
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is time it should go into the repenting business. Nothing pleases
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me better than to see the condition of that party to-day. What do
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the Democrats know on the subject of the tariff? They are
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frightened; they are rattled.
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They swear their plank and platform meant nothing. They say in
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effect: "When we put that in we lied; and now having made that
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confession we hope you will have perfect confidence in us from this
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out." Hancock says that the object of the party is to get the
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tariff out of politics. That is the reason, I suppose, why they put
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that plank in the platform. I presume he regards the tariff as a
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little local issue, but I tell you to-day that the great question
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of protecting American labor never will be taken out of politics.
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As long as men work, as long as the laboring man has a wife and
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family to support, just so long will he vote for the man that will
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protect his wages.
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
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And you can no more take it out of politics than you can take
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the question of Government out of politics. I do not want any
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question taken out of politics. I want the people to settle these
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questions for themselves, and the people of this country are
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capable of doing it. If you do not believe it, read the returns
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from Ohio and Indiana. There are other persons who would take the
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question of office out of politics. Well, when we get the tariff
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and office both out of politics, then, I presume, we will see two
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parties on the same side. It will not do.
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David A. Wells has come to the rescue of the Democratic party
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on the tariff, and shed a few pathetic tears over scrap iron. But
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it will not do. You cannot run this country on scraps.
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We believe in the tariff because it gives skilled labor good
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pay. We believe in the tariff because it allows the laboring man to
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have something to eat. We believe in the tariff because it keeps
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the hands of the producer close to the mouth of the devourer. We
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believe in the tariff because it developed American brain; because
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it builds up our towns and cities; because it makes Americans self-
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supporting; because it makes us an independent Nation. And we
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believe in the tariff because the Democratic party does not.
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That plank in the Democratic party was intended for a dagger
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to assassinate the prosperity of the North. The Northern people
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have become aroused and that is the plank that is broken in the
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Democratic platform; and that plank was wide enough when it broke
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to let even Hancock through.
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Gentlemen, they are gone. They are gone -- honor bright. Look
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at the desperate means that have been resorted to by the Democratic
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party, driven to the madness of desperation. Not satisfied with
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having worn the tongue of slander to the very tonsils, not
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satisfied with attacking the private reputation of a splendid man,
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not satisfied with that, they have appealed to a crime; a
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deliberate and infamous forgery has been committed. That forgery
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has been upheld by some of the leaders of the Democratic party;
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that forgery has been defended by men calling themselves
|
||
respectable. Leaders of the Democratic party have stood by and said
|
||
that they were acquainted with the handwriting of James A.
|
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Garfield; and that the handwriting in the forged letter was his,
|
||
when they knew that it was absolutely unlike his. They knew it, and
|
||
no man has certified that that was the writing of James A. Garfield
|
||
who did not know that in his throat of throats he told a falsehood.
|
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|
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Every honest man in the city of New York ought to leave such
|
||
a party if he belongs to it. Every honest man ought to refuse to
|
||
belong to the party that did such an infamous crime.
|
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|
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Senator Barnum, chairman of the Democratic Committee, has lost
|
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control. He is gone, and I will tell you what he puts me in mind
|
||
of. There was an old fellow used to come into town every Saturday
|
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and get drunk. He had a little yoke of oxen, and the boys out of
|
||
pity used to throw him into the wagon and start the oxen for home.
|
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just before he got home they had to go down a long hill, and the
|
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oxen, when they got to the brow of it, commenced to run. Now and
|
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then the wagon struck a stone and gave the old fellow an awful
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Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
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|
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jolt, and that would wake him up. After he had looked up and had
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one glance at the cattle he would fall helplessly back to the
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||
bottom, and always say, "Gee a little, if anything." And that is
|
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the only order Barnum has been able to give for the last two weeks
|
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-- "Gee a little, if anything." I tell you now that forgery makes
|
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doubly sure the election of James A. Garfield. The people of the
|
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North believe in honest dealing; the people of the North believe in
|
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free speech and an honest ballot. The people of the North believe
|
||
that this is a Nation; the people of the North hate treason; the
|
||
people of the North hate forgery; the people of the North hate
|
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slander. The people of the North have made up their minds to give
|
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to General Garfield a vindication of which any American may be
|
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forever proud.
|
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|
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James A. Garfield is to-day a poor man, and you know that
|
||
there is not money enough in this magnificent street to buy the
|
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honor and manhood of James A. Garfield. Money cannot make such a
|
||
man, and I will swear to you that money cannot buy him. James A.
|
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Garfield to-day wears the glorious robe of honest poverty. He is a
|
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poor man; I like to say it here in Wall Street; I like to say it
|
||
surrounded by the millions of America; I like to say it in the
|
||
midst of banks and bonds and stocks; I love to say it where gold is
|
||
piled -- that although a poor man, he is rich in honor; in
|
||
integrity he is wealthy, and in brain he is a millionaire. I know
|
||
him, and I like him. So do you all, gentlemen. Garfield was a poor
|
||
boy, he is a certificate of the splendid form of our Government.
|
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Most of these magnificent buildings have been built by poor boys;
|
||
most of the success of New York began almost in poverty. You know
|
||
it. The kings of this street were once poor, and they may be poor
|
||
again; and if they are fools enough to vote for Hancock they ought
|
||
to be. Garfield is a certificate of the splendor of our Government,
|
||
that says to every poor boy, "All the avenues of honor are open to
|
||
you." I know him, and I like him. He is a scholar; he is a
|
||
statesman; he is a soldier; he is a patriot; and above all, he is
|
||
a magnificent man; and if every man in New York knew him as well as
|
||
I do, Garfield would not lose a hundred votes in this city.
|
||
|
||
Compare him with Hancock, and then compare General Arthur with
|
||
William H. English. If there ever was a pure Republican in this
|
||
world, General Arthur is one.
|
||
|
||
You know in Wall Street, there are some men always prophesying
|
||
disaster, there are some men always selling "short." That is what
|
||
the Democratic party is doing to-day. You know as well as I do that
|
||
if the Democratic party succeeds, every kind of property in the
|
||
United States will depreciate. You know it. There is not a man on
|
||
the street, who if he knew Hancock was to be elected would not sell
|
||
the stocks and bonds of every railroad in the United States
|
||
"short." I dare any broker here to deny it. There is not a man in
|
||
Wall or Broad Street, or in New York, but what knows the election
|
||
of Hancock will depreciate every share of railroad stock, every
|
||
railroad bond, every Government bond, in the United States of
|
||
America. And if you know that, I say it is a crime to vote for
|
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Hancock and English.
|
||
|
||
I belong to the party that is prosperous when the country is
|
||
prosperous. I belong to the party that believes in good crops; that
|
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|
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|
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Bank of Wisdom
|
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
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8
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|
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WALL STREET SPEECH.
|
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|
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is glad when a fellow finds a gold mine; that rejoices when there
|
||
are forty bushels of wheat to the acre; that laughs when every
|
||
railroad declares dividends, that claps both its hands when every
|
||
investment pays; when the rain falls for the farmer, when the dew
|
||
lies lovingly on the grass. I belong to the party that is happy
|
||
when the people are happy; when the laboring man gets three dollars
|
||
a day; when he has roast beef on his table; when he has a carpet on
|
||
the floor; when he has a picture of Garfield on the wall. I belong
|
||
to the party that is happy when everybody smiles, when we have
|
||
plenty of money, good horses, good carriages; when our wives are
|
||
happy and our children feel glad. I belong to the party whose
|
||
banner floats side by side with the great flag of the country; that
|
||
does not grow fat on defeat.
|
||
|
||
The Democratic party is a party of famine; it is a good friend
|
||
of an early frost, it believes in the Colorado beetle and the
|
||
weevil. When the crops are bad the Democratic mouth opens from ear
|
||
to ear with smiles of joy; it is in partnership with bad luck; a
|
||
friend of empty pockets; rags help it. I am on the other side. The
|
||
Democratic party is the party of darkness. I believe in the party
|
||
of sunshine; and in the party that even in darkness believes that
|
||
the stars are shining and waiting for us.
|
||
|
||
Now, gentlemen, I have endeavored to give you a few reasons
|
||
for voting the Republican ticket; and I have given enough to
|
||
satisfy any reasonable man. And you know it. Do not go with the
|
||
Democratic party, young man. You have a character to make. You
|
||
cannot make it, as the Democratic party does, by passing a
|
||
resolution.
|
||
|
||
If your father voted the Democratic ticket, that is disgrace
|
||
enough for one family. Tell the old man you can stand it no longer.
|
||
Tell the old gentleman that you have made up your mind to stand
|
||
with the party of human progress; and if he asks you why you cannot
|
||
vote the Democratic ticket you tell him:
|
||
|
||
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that
|
||
shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our
|
||
soldiers, every keeper of Libby, Andersonville and Salisbury, every
|
||
man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter
|
||
yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty,
|
||
that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the
|
||
bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the
|
||
corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a
|
||
legal tender for labor performed, every one willing to rob a mother
|
||
of her child -- every solitary one was a Democrat."
|
||
|
||
Tell him you cannot stand that party. Tell him you have to go
|
||
with the Republican party, and if he asks you why, tell him it
|
||
destroyed slavery, it preserved the Union, it paid the national
|
||
debt; it made our credit as good as that of any nation on the
|
||
earth. Tell him it makes every dollar in a four percent. bond worth
|
||
a dollar and ten cents; that it satisfies the demands of the
|
||
highest civilization. Tell the old man that the Republican party
|
||
preserved the honor of the Nation; that it believes in education;
|
||
that it looks upon the schoolhouse as a cathedral. Tell him that
|
||
the Republican party believes in absolute intellectual liberty; in
|
||
|
||
|
||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||
9
|
||
|
||
WALL STREET SPEECH.
|
||
|
||
absolute religious freedom: in human rights, and that human rights
|
||
rise above States. Tell him that the Republican party believes in
|
||
humanity, justice, human equality, and that the Republican party
|
||
believes this is a Nation and will be forever and ever; that an
|
||
honest ballot is the breath of the Republic's life; that honest
|
||
money is the blood of the Republic; and that nationality is the
|
||
great throbbing beat of the heart of the Republic. Tell him that.
|
||
And tell him that you are going to stand by the flag that the
|
||
patriots of the North carried upon the battle-field of death. Tell
|
||
him you are going to be true to the martyred dead; that you are
|
||
going to vote exactly as Lincoln would have voted were he living.
|
||
Tell him that if every traitor dead were living now, there would
|
||
issue from his lips of dust, "Hurrah for Hancock!" that could every
|
||
patriot rise, he would cry for Garfield and liberty; for union and
|
||
for human progress everywhere. Tell him that the South seeks to
|
||
secure by the ballot what it lost by the bayonet; to whip by the
|
||
ballot those who fought it in the field. But we saved the country;
|
||
and we have the heart and brains to take care of it. I will tell
|
||
you what we are going to do. We are going to treat them, in the
|
||
South just as well as we treat the people in the North. Victors
|
||
cannot afford to have malice. The North is too magnanimous to have
|
||
hatred. We will treat the South precisely as we treat the North.
|
||
There are thousands of good people there. Let us give them money to
|
||
improve their rivers and harbors; I want to see the sails of their
|
||
commerce filled with the breezes of prosperity; their fences
|
||
rebuilt; their houses painted. I want to see their towns prosperous
|
||
want to see schoolhouses in every town want to see books in the
|
||
hands of every child, and papers and magazines in every house; I
|
||
want to see all the rays of light, of civilization of the
|
||
nineteenth century, enter every home of the South; and in a little
|
||
while you will see that country full of good Republicans. We can
|
||
afford to be kind; we cannot afford to be unkind.
|
||
|
||
I will shake hands cordially with every believer in human
|
||
liberty; I will shake hands with every believer in Nationality; I
|
||
will shake hands with every man who is the friend of the human
|
||
race. That is my doctrine. I believe in the great Republic; in this
|
||
magnificent country of ours. I believe in the great people of the
|
||
United States. I believe in the muscle and brain of America, in the
|
||
prairies and forests. I believe in New York. I believe in the
|
||
brains of your city. I believe that you know enough to vote the
|
||
Republican ticket. I believe that you are grand enough to stand by
|
||
the country that has stood by you. But whatever you do, I never
|
||
shall cease to thank you for the great honor you have conferred
|
||
upon me this day.
|
||
|
||
|
||
NOTE. -- This being a newspaper report it is necessarily
|
||
incomplete.
|
||
|
||
END
|
||
|
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**** ****
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||
10
|
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|
||
"MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."
|
||
|
||
PREFACE TO HELEN H. GARDENER'S
|
||
|
||
NOTHING gives me more pleasure, nothing gives greater promise
|
||
for the future, than the fact that woman is achieving intellectual
|
||
and physical liberty.
|
||
|
||
It is refreshing to know that here, in our country, there are
|
||
thousands of women who think, and express their thoughts -- who are
|
||
thoroughly free and thoroughly conscientious -- who have neither
|
||
been narrowed nor corrupted by a heartless creed -- who do not
|
||
worship a being in heaven whom they would shudderingly loathe on
|
||
earth -- women who do not stand before the altar of a cruel faith,
|
||
with downcast eyes of timid acquiescence, and pay to impudent
|
||
authority the tribute of a thoughtless yes. They are no longer
|
||
satisfied with being told. They examine for themselves. They have
|
||
ceased to be the prisoners of society -- the satisfied serfs of
|
||
husbands, or the echoer of priests. They demand the rights that
|
||
naturally belong to intelligent human beings. If wives, they wish
|
||
to be the equals of husbands. If mothers, they wish to rear their
|
||
children in the atmosphere of love, liberty and philosophy. They
|
||
believe that woman can discharge all her duties without the aid of
|
||
superstition, and preserve all that is true, pure, and tender,
|
||
without sacrificing in the temple of absurdity the convictions of
|
||
the soul.
|
||
|
||
Woman is not the intellectual inferior of man. She has lacked
|
||
not mind, but opportunity. In the long night of barbarism, physical
|
||
strength and the cruelty to use it, were the badges of superiority.
|
||
Muscle was more than mind. In the ignorant age of Faith, the loving
|
||
nature of woman was abused. Her conscience was rendered morbid and
|
||
diseased. It might almost be said that she was betrayed by her own
|
||
virtues. At best she secured, not opportunity, but flattery -- the
|
||
preface to degradation. She was deprived of liberty, and without
|
||
that, nothing is worth the having. She was taught to obey without
|
||
question, and to believe without thought. There were universities
|
||
for men before the alphabet had been taught to women. At the
|
||
intellectual feast, there we're no places for wives and mothers.
|
||
Even now they sit at the second table and eat the crusts and
|
||
crumbs. The schools for women, at the present time, are just far
|
||
enough behind those for men, to fall heirs to the discarded; on the
|
||
same principle that when a doctrine becomes too absurd for the
|
||
pulpit, it is given to the Sunday-school.
|
||
|
||
The ages of muscle and miracle -- of fists and faith -- are
|
||
passing away. Minerva occupies at last a higher niche than
|
||
Hercules. Now a word is stronger than a blow. At last we see women
|
||
who depend upon themselves -- who stand, self poised, the shocks of
|
||
this sad world, without leaning for support against a church -- who
|
||
do not go to the literature of barbarism for consolation, or use
|
||
the falsehoods and mistakes of the past for the foundation of their
|
||
hope -- women brave enough and tender enough to meet and bear the
|
||
facts and fortunes of this world.
|
||
|
||
The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of
|
||
man, do not, and cannot, by offering themselves in evidence,
|
||
substantiate their declaration.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||
11
|
||
|
||
"MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."
|
||
|
||
Yet, I must admit that there are thousands of wives who still
|
||
have faith in the saving power of superstition -- who still insist
|
||
on attending church while husbands prefer the shores, the woods, or
|
||
the fields. In this way, families are divided. Parents grow apart,
|
||
and unconsciously the pearl of greatest price is thrown away. The
|
||
wife ceases to be the intellectual companion of the husband. She
|
||
reads The Christian Register, sermons in the Monday papers, and a
|
||
little gossip about folks and fashions, while he studies the works
|
||
of Darwin, Haeckel, and Humboldt. Their sympathies become
|
||
estranged. They are no longer mental friends. The husband smiles at
|
||
the follies of the wife, and she weeps for the supposed sins of the
|
||
husband. Such wives should read this book. They should not be
|
||
satisfied to remain forever in the cradle of thought, amused with
|
||
the toys of superstition.
|
||
|
||
The parasite of woman is the priest.
|
||
|
||
It must also be admitted that there are thousands of men who
|
||
believe that superstition is good for women and children -- who
|
||
regard falsehood as the fortress of virtue, and feel indebted to
|
||
ignorance for the purity of daughters and the fidelity of wives.
|
||
These men think of priests as detectives in disguise, and regard
|
||
God as a policeman who prevents elopements. Their opinions about
|
||
religion are as correct as their estimate of woman.
|
||
|
||
The church furnishes but little food for the mind. People of
|
||
intelligence are growing tired of the platitudes of the pulpit --
|
||
the iterations of the itinerants. The average sermon is "as tedious
|
||
as a twice told tale vexing the ears of a drowsy man."
|
||
|
||
One Sunday a gentleman, who is a great inventor, called at my
|
||
house. Only a few words had passed between us, when he arose,
|
||
saying that he must go as it was time for church. Wondering that a
|
||
man of his mental wealth could enjoy the intellectual poverty of
|
||
the pulpit, I asked for an explanation, and he gave me the
|
||
following: "You know that I am an inventor. Well, the moment my
|
||
mind becomes absorbed in some difficult problem, I am afraid that
|
||
something may happen to distract my attention. Now, I know that I
|
||
can sit in church for an hour without the slightest danger of
|
||
having the current of my thought disturbed."
|
||
|
||
Most women cling to the Bible because they have been taught
|
||
that to give up that book is to give up all hope of another life of
|
||
ever meeting again the loved and lost. They have also been taught
|
||
that the Bible is their friend, their defender, and the real
|
||
civilizer of man.
|
||
|
||
Now, if they will only read this book -- these three lectures,
|
||
without fear, and then read the Bible, they will see that the truth
|
||
or falsity of the dogma of inspiration has nothing to do with the
|
||
question of immortality. Certainly the Old Testament does not teach
|
||
us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New
|
||
is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few
|
||
small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and
|
||
satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the
|
||
absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its
|
||
fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or
|
||
heart.
|
||
|
||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||
12
|
||
|
||
"MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."
|
||
|
||
There are but few who do not long for a dawn beyond the night.
|
||
And this longing is born of and nourished by the heart. Love
|
||
wrapped in shadow -- bending with tear-filled eyes above its dead,
|
||
convulsively clasps the outstretched hand of hope.
|
||
|
||
I had the pleasure of introducing Miss Gardener to her first
|
||
audience, and in that introduction said a few words that I will
|
||
repeat.
|
||
|
||
"We do not know, we cannot say, whether death is a wall or a
|
||
door; the beginning or end of a day; the spreading of pinions to
|
||
soar, or the folding forever of wings; the rise or the set of a
|
||
sun, or an endless life that brings the rapture of love to every
|
||
one.
|
||
|
||
"Under the seven-hued arch of hope let the dead sleep."
|
||
|
||
They will also discover, as they read the "Sacred Volume,"
|
||
that it is not the friend of woman. They will find that the writers
|
||
of that book, for the most part, speak of woman as a poor beast of
|
||
burden, a serf, a drudge, a kind of necessary evil -- as mere
|
||
property. Surely, a book that upholds polygamy is not the friend of
|
||
wife and mother.
|
||
|
||
Even Christ did not place woman on an equality with man. He
|
||
said not one word about the sacredness of home, the duties of the
|
||
husband to the wife -- nothing calculated to lighten the hearts of
|
||
those who bear the saddest burdens of this life.
|
||
|
||
They will also find that the Bible has not civilized mankind.
|
||
A book that establishes and defends slavery and wanton war is not
|
||
calculated to soften the hearts of those who believe implicitly
|
||
that it is the work of God. A book that not only permits, but
|
||
commands, religious persecution, has not, in my judgment, developed
|
||
the affectionate nature of man. Its influence has been bad and bad
|
||
only. It has filled the world with bitterness, revenge and crime,
|
||
and retarded in countless ways the progress of our race.
|
||
|
||
The writer of this volume has read the Bible with open eyes.
|
||
The mist of sentimentality has not clouded her vision. She has had
|
||
the courage to tell the result of her investigations. She has been
|
||
quick to discover contradictions. She appreciates the humorous side
|
||
of the stupidly solemn. Her heart protests against the cruel, and
|
||
her brain rejects the childish, the unnatural and absurd. There is
|
||
no misunderstanding between her head and heart. She says what she
|
||
thinks, and feels what she says.
|
||
|
||
No human being can answer her arguments. There is no answer.
|
||
All the priests in the world cannot explain away her objections.
|
||
There is no explanation. They should remain dumb, unless they can
|
||
show that the impossible is the probable -- that slavery is better
|
||
than freedom -- that polygamy is the friend of woman -- that the
|
||
innocent can justly suffer for the guilty, and that to persecute
|
||
for opinion's sake is an act of love and worship.
|
||
|
||
Wives who cease to learn -- who simply forget and believe --
|
||
will fill the evening of their lives with barren sighs and bitter
|
||
tears.
|
||
|
||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||
Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
|
||
13
|
||
|
||
"MEN, WOMEN AND GODS."
|
||
|
||
The mind should outlast youth. If when beauty fades, Thought,
|
||
the deft and unseen sculptor, hath not left his subtle lines upon
|
||
the face, then all is lost. No charm is left. The light is out.
|
||
There is no flame within to glorify the wrinkled clay.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Hoffman House, New York, July, 22, 1885.
|
||
|
||
END
|
||
|
||
**** ****
|
||
|
||
A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN.
|
||
|
||
Camden, N.J., March 30, 1892.
|
||
|
||
MY FRIENDS: Again we, in the mystery of Life, are brought face
|
||
to face with the mystery of Death. A great man, a great American,
|
||
the most eminent citizen of this Republic, lies dead before us, and
|
||
we have met to pay a tribute to his greatness and his worth.
|
||
|
||
I know he needs no words of mine. His fame is secure. He laid
|
||
the foundations of it deep in the human heart and brain. He was,
|
||
above all I have known, the poet of humanity, of sympathy. He was
|
||
so great that he rose above the greatest that he met without
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arrogance, and so great that he stooped to the lowest without
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conscious condescension. He never claimed to be lower or greater
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than any of the sons of men.
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He came into our generation a free, untrammeled spirit, with
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sympathy for all. His arm was beneath the form of the sick. He
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sympathized with the imprisoned and despised, and even on the brow
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of crime he was great enough to place the kiss of human sympathy.
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One of the greatest lines in our literature is his, and the
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line is great enough to do honor to the greatest genius that has
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ever lived. He said, speaking of an outcast: "Not till the sun
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excludes you do I exclude you."
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His charity was as wide as the sky, and wherever there was
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human suffering, human misfortune, the sympathy of Whitman bent
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above it as the firmament bends above the earth.
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He was built on a broad and splendid plan -- ample, without
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appearing to have limitations -- passing easily for a brother of
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mountains and seas and constellations; caring nothing for the
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little maps and charts with which timid pilots hug the shore, but
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giving himself freely with recklessness of genius to winds and
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waves and tides; caring for nothing as long as the stars were above
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him. He walked among men, among writers, among verbal varnishers
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and veneerers, among literary milliners and tailors, with the
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unconscious majesty of an antique god.
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He was the poet of that divine democracy which gives equal
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rights to all the sons and daughters of men. He uttered the great
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American voice; uttered a song worthy of the great Republic. No man
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ever said more for the rights of humanity, more in favor of real
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Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN.
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democracy, of real justice. He neither scorned nor cringed, was
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neither tyrant nor slave. He asked only to stand the equal of his
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fellows beneath the great flag of nature, the blue and stars.
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He was the poet of Life. It was a joy simply to breathe. He
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loved the clouds; he enjoyed the breath of morning, the twilight,
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the wind, the winding streams. He loved to look at the sea when the
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waves burst into the whitecaps of joy. He loved the fields, the
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hills; he was acquainted with the trees, with birds, with all the
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beautiful objects of the earth. He not only saw these objects, but
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understood their meaning, and he used them that he might exhibit
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his heart to his fellow-men.
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He was the poet of Love. He was not ashamed of that divine
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passion that has built every home in the world; that divine passion
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that has painted every picture and given us every real work of art;
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that divine passion that has made the world worth living in and has
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given some value to human life.
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He was the poet of the natural, and taught men not to be
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ashamed of that which is natural. He was not only the poet of
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democracy, not only the poet of the great Republic, but he was the
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Poet of the human race. He was not confined to the limits of this
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country, but his sympathy went out over the seas to all the nations
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of the earth.
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He stretched out his hand and felt himself the equal of all
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kings and of all princes, and the brother of all men, no matter how
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high, no matter how low.
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He has uttered more supreme words than any writer of our
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century, possibly of almost any other. He was, above all things, a
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man, and above genius, above all the snow-capped peaks of
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intelligence, above all art, rises the true man, Greater than all
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is the true man, and he walked among his fellow-men as such.
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He was the poet of Death. He accepted all life and all death,
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and he justified all. He had the courage to meet all, and was great
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enough and splendid enough to harmonize all and to accept all there
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is of life as a divine melody.
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You know better than I what his life has been, but let me say
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one thing. Knowing, as he did, what others can know and what they
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cannot, he accepted and absorbed all theories, all creeds, all
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religions, and believed in none. His philosophy was a sky that
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embraced all clouds and accounted for all clouds. He had a
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philosophy and a religion of his own, broader, as he believed --
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and as I believe -- than others. He accepted all, he understood
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all, and he was above all.
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He was absolutely true to himself. He had frankness and
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courage, and he was as candid as light. He was willing that all the
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sons of men should be absolutely acquainted with his heart and
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brain. He had nothing to conceal. Frank, candid, pure, serene,
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noble, and yet for years he was maligned and slandered, simply
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because he had the candor of nature. He will be understood yet, and
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that for which he was condemned -- his frankness, his candor --
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will add to the glory and greatness of his fame.
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Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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A TRIBUTE TO WALT WHITMAN.
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He wrote a liturgy for mankind; he wrote a great and splendid
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psalm of life, and he gave to us the gospel of humanity -- the
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greatest gospel that can be preached.
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He was not afraid to live, not afraid to die. For many years
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he and death were near neighbors. He was always willing and ready
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to meet and greet this king called death, and for many months he
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sat in the deepening twilight waiting for the night, waiting for
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the light.
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He never lost his hope. When the mists filled the valleys, he
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looked upon the mountain tops, and when the mountains in darkness
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disappeared, he fixed his gaze upon the stars.
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In his brain were the blessed memories of the day, and in his
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heart were mingled the dawn and dusk of life.
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He was not afraid; he was cheerful every moment. The laughing
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nymphs of day did not desert him. They remained that they might
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clasp the hands and greet with smiles the veiled and silent sisters
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of the night. And when they did come, Walt Whitman stretched his
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hand to them. On one side were the nymphs of the day, and on the
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other the silent sisters of the night, and so, hand in hand,
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between smiles and tears, he reached his journey's end.
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From the frontier of life, from the western wave-kissed shore,
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he sent us messages of content and hope, and these messages seem
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now like strains of music blown by the "Mystic Trumpeter" from
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Death's pale realm.
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To-day we give back to Mother Nature, to her clasp and kiss,
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one of the bravest, sweetest souls that ever lived in human clay.
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Charitable as the air and generous as Nature, he was negligent
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of all except to do and say what he believed he should do and
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should say.
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And I to-day thank him, not only for you but for myself, --
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for all the brave words he has uttered. I thank him for all the
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great and splendid words he has said in favor of liberty, in favor
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of man and woman, in favor of motherhood, in favor of fathers, in
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favor of children, and I thank him for the brave words that he has
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said of death.
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He has lived, he has died, and death is less terrible than it
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was before. Thousands and millions will walk down into the "dark
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valley of the shadow" holding Walt Whitman by the hand. Long after
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we are dead the brave words he has spoken will sound like trumpets
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to the dying.
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And so I lay this little wreath upon this great man's tomb. I
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loved him living, and I love him still.
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Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201
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