| Show S A lectures at the society last evening mr kenner one or leading journalists addressed of this on the science 0 government the mark twain of conr fair state was welcomed with a smile which invariably follows him wherever he goes bat he assured the audience before hand that in this instance abey donld not get anything of a humorous nature the science of government has from the beginning of civilization civilisation held a leading place in the thoughts of men and yet the greater part of the population of the world are to day ruled by a few the 0 the many ia centered in a group ot noble men noble but more often unseemly it isa hundred who domineer over a hundred million persia russia china as we sea them to day and as they were centuries ago are fair samples but these same laople even at the name of republic they seem to asya an inborn hereditary propensity for following the same road that alcada through all the ages when the united broke away from tha mother country over a hundred years ago then was established tha model of government of all time great men of wisdom aroah and overthrew the last of feudal system in our land and organized the overn ment of the people for the people and by the people other nations have tried the same but never were the same results obtained wa have since been divided by civil war the powers of england have tried to sunder our unity political leeches and grasping men have laid their envious traps but did we eyer fall no our government was built to stand and stand it will throughout all time tho war between the north and the south was not tho evidence of weakness but the evidence of strength irre nud when those bond slaves laboring under their weary chains were freed thia land was made more than it had ever been bufore the land of the free and the home of the brave the statesman of a nation bespeak the sentiment af their own time and people if one were brought to this land from abroad oven if he held in hia land the highest position he would here be a commoner bat it ia not alone political men who influence the forming and perpetuity of government there are the churchmen and the ones who linger always by the fireside the hand that rocks the cradle Is tho hand that rules the world this coullet has often been sneered at but look deeper into the mere ou t ward form of that which it refers to and you will see the chvatal truth at which it aims in our land and time government has lost the name of science and we in speaking of it should no longer call it abs tbs science of government we have taken from it its cold form that held it faraway from the people it has in very ased become so simple B A pica for the sparrows poor little sparrow bird here let my voice be heard in thy defense bs is right it should be outcast outlaw decreed hard ie thy lot indeed shame on the treatment accorded accord bd to theo in this land of the tree vaunting its liberty thou art denied of thy breedom and rest merely bacasse thou haat for a faw seasons past lived on the diet that suited thee beet in thy dear native land free from the spoilers hand thou wert as happy as wee bird could be till some knaves thought it wise to bung thee as a ariza sore thy will oer the wild raging aea 0 what a parody on boasted liberty dragging thee hither to such a bad fate offering for thy head bounties alive or dead sanctioned alike by the humble and great but grieve not hapless bird nor be by anger stirred een man himself who ia greater than thee has all that he can stand at the oppressors hand no ear cave heavens to pity his plea in the bright future near hope points to better cheer here on the earth as in heaven above justice and equity to all shall meted be and life be sweetened with mercy and love J onnatal Ony aTAL |
