. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. This man meets his in-debtedness promptly, supports his family and gives of hisgains a pittance to the church and the heathen, but what doyou think of his Christianity, my friends; do you believethat it will, in the last great day, upon the unerring scalesof the Ancient of Days measure up to the requirements ofhis Master? Is it full, just and true—will it measure up?In this manner he went on until he had pretty thoroughlyexhausted his subject, and then he painted a glowing word GROVER CLEVELAXD. 73 pictu
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. This man meets his in-debtedness promptly, supports his family and gives of hisgains a pittance to the church and the heathen, but what doyou think of his Christianity, my friends; do you believethat it will, in the last great day, upon the unerring scalesof the Ancient of Days measure up to the requirements ofhis Master? Is it full, just and true—will it measure up?In this manner he went on until he had pretty thoroughlyexhausted his subject, and then he painted a glowing word GROVER CLEVELAXD. 73 picture of the man, brave, noble, simple, true and honest; theman that in all of the requirements of life did measure a man is Stephen Grovcr Cleveland, who in everyposition to which the voice and votes of the people havelifted him has measured up to the occasion. Elected Mayor of Buffalo to reform the abuses of themunicipality,he set about his task and made a clean sweepof the Augean stables of thievery and corruption. Therings had the city by the throat and they held on with the. THE MAN WHO WILL NOT MEASURE UP. tenacity of their prototype,the sea octopus or devil-fish, but one by one he broke loose their grasp and drove them fromtheir prey. He was one of those who knew his duty, *And knowing dared maintain. His address on the occasion of the semi-centennial celebra-tion of the city of Buffalo, July 3, 1882, gives in a prac-tical and not unpoetical manner his ideas of the duty thatthe citizen owes to his government whether State, county, 74 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF municipal, or national. We here re-produce the address infull, and every honest man will find it good and wholesomereading, which, in addition to its good sense, possesses themerit of patriotism, simplicity and brevity: *Ladies and Gentlemen: I ought, perhaps, to be quitecontent on this occasion to assume the part of quiet gratifi-cation. But I cannot forbear expressing my satisfaction atbeing allowed to pa
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