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Contest oration by CYRUS CRANE.
[Dellivered at Topeka, March 12, 1886.]
SMITH.
Through oppression and tyranny through ignorance and vice, mankind is advancing to a condition where equality of right and privilege shall prevail.
Every wave that ruffles the ocean of time raises humanity on its crest and sinks m its trough the ambition of individuals
But this advancement is slow and gradual. Ignorance and vice have at all times rendered men weak, feeble and childlike in their natures; they have been subject to the powerful wills of strong men, who restrained their passions, guided their stumbling footsteps, and warded off the greedy cruelty of their fellow men. They have been preyed upon as well, by these strong men, who have used them as a means for their own elevation, who have retarded the progress and advancement of mankind, and over the prostrate form of human liberty have raised the selfish and ambitious standard of despotism.
Of such men was Ruenzi, the last of the ancient Romans; the last shoot that grew from the decayed trunk of that once mighty tree, which had sent out its roots to the soil of the furthest land and thrown in shade every city and nation throughout the known world. In his earliest youth he was touched when he perceived to what a depth his people had fallen. From the dazzling page of Rome's history he had read of the matchless eloquence of a Cicero, the mighty prowess of a Cesar; he had read how her sails had whitened every sea, how her arms had subjugated every land; but better than all, he had learned the noble and sterling virtues of her citizens. And now on every hand he perceived sloth and vice, woe and misery.
There are men who stand alone in their greatness, towering above their fellows like the pyramid which raises its lofty height above the sanded level of the desert. Again there are men great in their individual achievements who are but representatives of a class. In the darkest hours of the rebellion Abraham Lincoln was the one figure towards which the eye of the North was turned with anxious gaze, and nobly did he bear himself in that blood-red sea of care and trouble; yet Lincoln was but the ideal type of the brain and brawn which forms the front rank of the great army of humanity, whose camping ground is to-day on these wide and fertile prairies.
Not of these was Rienzi. Alone in the ruins of the eternal city he brooded over her departed glory. By the force of his eloquence he roused the drowsy population, and when the time was ripe and the word was given, he crystalized the rabble into an organized army; he put down the Barons, and on their ruins he reared his throne, styling himself Tribune of the people.
O Rienzi!
"How thou didst shake the slumbering soul of Rome
With the brave sound of freedom, till she rose
Burst by one mighty throe."
And from her giant limbs the shackles dropped.
Ay! this one man in three weeks raised a nation of slaves to a position of dignity. He caused the name of Tribune to be a terror to kings and princes. In three weeks this one man breathed the breath of life into a nation dead and decayed; he opened the choked arteries of her being, and through them commerce poured her vital streams. He silenced her enemies and made her name feared and respected. What wonder that the golden dreams of ambition filled his mind! What wonder that the shades of Caesar and Alexander sent wild visions through his dizzy brain! He had had tasted power, and like a wild beast that has tasted blood, his thirst was insatiable. But when he let the people feel the steeled grasp of his power, they rose in their might, swept on in their rage and overthrew their former idol. With his life he paid the penalty of his ambition. He died, and at his death Rome sank again into the mould of her decay; again her people donned the rags and tatters of vice and degradation, the shackles of servitude. Such was the career of Rienzi, an individual man, and in that career we see all the elements of the triumph of individuality over the masses. Like other individual men, he rose because the people were fettered in ignorance. Individual men though they sometimes indicate advances in the world of thought and progress are often great landmarks of barbarian
Alexanders grasping world-wide empire, and the people rearing thrones for them on their bended necks; of bard-sung knights with plumes and silken banners flashing in the sunlight, and the people battling in hovels, with fifth, pest and disease; of warrior chieftans plucking the laurels of victory from the men who died facing the raging ball of battle. Such has been the story; such the degradation of the masses and the elevation of the few, Aye! through all time men have bowed to the dust before the individual, and the dust has obscured their vision of the selfishness and hypocrisy of their idols.
The story is as old as time, of marble temples and gorgeous palaces built by the woes and lamentations of slaves, toiling to swell a despot's pride; of philosophers and sages pondering the heavens, and the people groping in the darkness of ignorance and barbarism; of Caesars and
But to-day there is a reaction. The masses of the people are awakening to the great truth that the world was not made for a few individuals; they are beginning to assert that the strength and power of every government rests with them. Do you ask for proofs? The proofs of the statement are on every hand. Toiling, suffering labor is everywhere organizing and preparing to demand its rights. If these demands are not met and satisfied, soon you will hear the challenging note of its bugle, the tramp of its marching legions, and be brought face to face with its bayonet and cannon. Socialism, Communism, Nihilism—these are but the extreme and dangerous outcrops of this universal spirit. Remove their causes, or some day they will raise in every land the standard of war and revolution.
But the world is giving need to more rightful demands. On every hand it is thought and toil and care for the welfare of the greatest number. For this science seeks out the veiled truths of nature. Philosophy struggles with the problems of social science, and learning offers her truths to the lowest and humblest. The thrones of monarchies are crumbling, and the nobility of toil is gaining world wide respect. Men are learning that they will rise above the bondage of despotism and tyranny, only as they burst the shackles fastened upon them by their own lusts and passions. They have learned a lesson from the peoples of England and America, who wrested their political rights from kings and.princes, from nobles and priests who trampled in the dust that ancient sophism of the divine right of kings, and over it have floated the banner of haman liberty, and who were enabled to accomplish this because their masses were intelligent and moral. For without intelligence to guide, and morality to establish right relations between men, the masses are incapable of government, and will ever fall prey to the ambitions of intellectual giants. Remove the despot and you do not throw off the despotism.
Slay the individual tyrant, but know this—that individuality will assert itself in every hand and under every sun: will fill every throne and grasp at every scepter. Stab a Julius Cesar, and from out the shadow of his tomb there steps an Augustus to size and tighten the reins of absolute sway. Wage a war against autocracy, strike off the head of every royalist, slay and kill until the sunny plains of France are crunched in blood, yet a Napoleon establishes an empire with the armies of a republic.
No! War and murder, powder and dyn amite, these are not the levers that raise the masses, but every school-house that spreads intelligence, every church that teaches morality, is a barrier against despotism, a check on the selfish ambitions of individual men. Political freedom is not a flower that blossoms instantaneously from the hot bed of revolution, but it develops to maturity by the careful nursing of a high-minded people.
Rulers and leaders there must always be; but is it the right—may, the duty of the people to see to it that their leaders are men, who have the welfare of humanity at heart and are not prompted by grasping ambition.
So, if the masses would rise above the dominance of an individual few, they must first throw off the bondage of their passions and cultivate their virtues.
There is to day, as there ever has been in the past, a constant friction between the weak and the strong, between powerful individuals and the masses. Often men rise above the masses, and no sooner have they attained power than they block the way against their own class. Forgetting the circumstances which have enabled them to rise, they boldly assert their superiority, their right to rule and govern the world. The strong few have ever gloried in their strength. They have grasped every opportunity and have used every possible art and artice to hold the many in subjection, and to sieve for themselves the fruits and sweets of earth. Against them the common herd has arrayed itself, and these average men must win, for with them is the right. But think not that the victory will be an easy one. For talent and genius are the grandest gifts of a great Creator. They give even to selfish tyrants the courage and
aggressiveness of their mighty intellects,
They have nerved many a Mucobeth to cry,
"Blow, wind! Come, Wrack!
Abridge will gib a tooth in your neck!"
Against the Cassars and Napoleons, against the Rienzis and Macbeths, the rank and file must stand shoulder to shoulder elbow to elbow, for ordinary justice to the average man. I believe in the divine right of genius, but I believe also in the divine right of the average man to say, I too.
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Of the stars and the solar year.
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