Biography and Speeches of William B. Sterling with Memorial Addresses and Resolutions (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... which the waves of oppression, avarice, hatred and injustice will beat in vain; and an ever present refuge for the weak and innocent, against the encroachments of the powerful and designing--I place in nomination Honorable A. W. Burtt, of Beadle County. REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN, 1892. The wheel of time, in its never-ceasing revolutions, has brought us once again to our quadrennial election time; when it becomes the duty of every good citizen, who loves his country, his State, his county and his home, to devote, at least a little time, to those great questions upon which the political parties of the Nation are divided, and upon the correct solution of which every citizen of the Republic has not only a National, but a personal interest. I am not here tonight, in the conceit that I shall be able to teach this splendid assemblage anything new upon these weighty subjects, or that I can say anything that you have not already heard during this, or previous campaigns, from the lips of men of far greater wisdom and experience than myself; but I am here in the belief that it is the duty of the people of this great Nation, and of the whole people, who constitute the supreme tribunal upon these questions, and from whose decision there is no further appeal, to consider them frequently and carefully; far more frequently, and much more carefully, indeed, than is their custom; and I am here in the hope that a calm and dispassionate review of these questions in plain and homely language, by one who is linked to South Dakota and her people by every tie of interest and affection, may not be unprofitable nor counted as time misspent. Although each Presidential election is important, the present one, it seems to me, is one of the most important, if not the most important, this Sta...