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What Common Americans Need

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Day
30
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Ou the ttoeshol-di af a new century tlie portal af the future, we see more clearly Mían, ever tlliat America is the hiomie of woirk, of emdeiavor, of tbe luiy eífortl ín ■whifcli. mían loses ttie hieavy sanisa oí self a3 he oaía ila no pleasure, aad tastes thO liappüiess of doilng scniuetltKÍbg, making Bomcttoiing, oTöatdiag sonietlniiig. Our pnobletm te Iucay to keep tJio chance of .tíhüis íre to all ; hiow to LSad work for all ; hiov to keep tha chiamce of freo all ; luow to fittiíd' work ïor all ; to reniler drooes iimposs:il)lc, eítihieír rilcih drones or poor droiies, ■Moluntary or Involuntary. Perhaps tJie Mastaess oí t'hdB pro:ble'iti iis -wthiat has reradened us less sel:'-satieíted fti tbe presence oí ottiers' diíficult -les, suca düiificulties as we 6unnounted willen left royalty and rank betuhnsd, aad trust-ed ocur Uves, our fortivrses, amd our sacred liionor to tlie oommon good-wiiJl o f common míen. Tliey are stiill eowPromted! over thOrc in the OLd Warld wiitdi questiloms wliócti Te solved a eem'tury ; bult O'ut probloni ia nonO tha less'serious Jor tluat. We dio ttcït feel the gay Ixrayaney oí our nomlags undter tlie boindeji, bub we are aait dtecouraged, thotugüi we are so muoli inore BerLo,ua Wo have been. a lúttle öraok wjih onir prosperaty ; our luck lna.il gone to our toad1) psrhaps ; bilt wie have nob íioigottem our d'uty, viiiiak IB nob th.e ctaty oif people to primee, of class to oDass, bu;t of mau mata. We vac.ogiiize íully that wo ai-e 5n each othieu''s keeping as ao people ever ■weve befare ; and that ií we are true to ourselves, equal to our opportunUtijes, ttorO íb no goad thab we ma y mot aohíiavie f oír tihe commoa advantBge. I tloílnik that nuiöh ot the self-criitbciBm whii&li has chairacberiaed us la Sueso latef, tüese wteer yoars íb aa efect oí th U'nía.tliO'ma'ble eonfidence ■we hiave im our djesitiüny, -whLch is orne ■wttti wur dluty as well as our glory. "Wei hiave it ladü upaa u tt leave no quiestiíioa ixmasked Whiibh, tí answea'ed, niay hielp us to kaow our duty. Wiíat has been. ouir faulb that wq ■hiave any kaotty pro'bleim, afber a; íimdred yeiars of absolute freedom, and oí almost umbroben prosperiity ? '.n whiat hiave we beem íalse to ourselvee ? How hiave we remeinbieir thiat tbiex is n.3 gotd but he g,ood cí all ? WJiiat the l'eoveirable chances that we have toom awi&y ? AYbat is the fceci'et of O'ur stupádity, our keedleswness, our bliindness ? We ask all tJiis ia terms of greatr ot less eaverdity, but wtatever we iiid tüie aniswer1 tj ba, no;t oaa of us üreams of lookóing for th,e remedy out'ide af democracy. Xo proposes fco revett to a former cotudstion of any sarti whatever. It lö mot pre tendled, evein. im th.e wildest bu-rlesque, feat w conild by arny niaauei' cf meaos help oarselves, oir save ourselvs, tihroug-h niioiniaxcihy or arieOödacy oir autocracy. These things are logii&aiHy so iimposisiible iar us tti&t ve are not even afraiidi of tihem. We atendí tihe giaod oí all ; toha te what wo undierstand AmenLaai to mean ; and tihiOBe fo'rms hiave beea found by [uite suffibienlt expei'inieat never to 1)0 Joir tlhe (jood of any. AVould ai IhanjgO (a who'lly uniniiaigïnable Ji,ange) tb ttonn pub food In tihaïr oKmttis, clO'tlhes on the backs, knöwledge in thje lieads of ooantmon peopl ? We ourselves are ttkc coanr mon péople, and we know wliab tlie

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