The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-20
..THERADICALs MUST Co,

80 says the IenSacOla commercial
in common with many other papers
whose advice will influence many.
Blu: our brothers are not broad en-
ough. There ale radicals in both
parties. III times of danger and
real work these will slough themsel-
YES naturally off the body polite,
but in days of parade and gainful
peace they are like the worm which
eats into the ship lying at anchor in
summer seas. So when the roar of
cannon echoed through the land no
''fre-eater" was in range; when the
wild license following a complete
upheaval of society pushed into yio-
lent collision the ignorant of both
colors, those who made the conflict
necessary deserted the people and
only lodged bitter tales in Washing
ton; so now, in accordance with one
of natures laws the same "radicals"
will weaken the good ship of state,
if they are allowed, It'll she will foun-
der as certainly as do the ships of
our national navy made rotten to
the core that these same extremists
who do the yelling and march on
the parades may fill their pockets.
But we trust the people have
learned a little wisdom at last. Gro
yer Cleveland will administer our
government on business principles,
and in Florida, Governor Perry will
strive earnestly that laborers worthy
of their hire,not those who cry loud
est, shall enter into the kingdom.
The et-bagger must go because
he is a radical, not because he is a
republican; the yell of the fre-eater
has long ceased to be music i'll our
ears, and the answering charge of
treason only provokes laughter at
the north. With the political death
Of Blaine and Dorsey ct al fell, not
the republican party, but sectional
hate and partisan bitterness.
The southerner who does not cher
ish in his heart of hearts holy Nom
cries of generous longings and noble
impulses of patriotic devotion which
once urged him to peril life and
land, public honor and private faith
to the Lost Cause, is traitor to the
mother who bore him; the federal
soldier who does not exult over the
prospect of land redeemed by his
valor and now glorying in the unity
which puts her in the front rank of
civilized nationsis unworthy to wear
again the uniform Of free people.
Aud the citizen who fails to appre,
ciate the motives of each is unwOr.
thy to bear part or parcel with us in
the grand triumph of patriotic love
over the horrors of war and the bit
terness of dead past.
''T'he radicals must go. They
linger superfiuous on the stage
And we thank God therefor. But
no augury of good to the people is
to be drawn from this fact unless
we have learned to beware of the
extremist; to have faith in ourselves
and our undivided future; to believe
in the great lesson taught by all his,
tory since the world began, and in
our strength to fit ourselves for the
place we now occupy in the van.
guard of progress to which we as.
pire. Our duty to ourselves, to toll
ing millions whose eyes light up
with hope when they hear of the
wonders we have wrought, and om
duty to unborn millions who will
find happiness or misery in reaping
the harvest we are sowing now, urge
us to tread unfalterlng the path
marked out for us, at the end OF
which is the goal we can only hope
to attain by continuing in peace and
concord. Let the radicals of what.
ever color or party deceive US nc
more, that the people may achieve
the victories of peace more glorious
than those of war, in our onward
march together
1t has been learned by scientific hives
tigation that if Atlanta bores through
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