The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-08

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Prem.I
The Kepuhfiran party was born q
protest 81 the human ronsci<nre
Certainly Is hsd . material body seek.
ing material ends. but . moral sdea
uAs IL soul and IL imp<lling force.
Without Il fmpul-e falls and forr<
o6zs idly away. Whist Il needs today
L e cry that VIII rori>e IL spui. snd
that once alert, the body viii uzcv<
forward fast enough 70 : triumph
that viii mean alike prosperity and
justice.
IL il q god thing for people %
sBete out justice in Just cause BE-
cause they are smzxnauimousfy' Eefse-
rous 70 an evil one The fashion oI
the day has been. and IL. % talk Of the
lore least that il spsead between Old
Toes. til At last ne Of the north and
they u the south are doing what our
forefasners did thirty years ago.
grasring hands across the prostrxte
body Of the negro. x:.d oszr pride OF
rare and insolent dIsdain Of the 'dar-
ky have hYoaght ns 20 embrace ss
men and hTefhren.s we'll beloved aud
honorable, sbc-e whom elsewhere and
under other conditions we would de-
noanee ax robbers and mursferers--
robbers Of the rights OF their fellows.
and murderers Of the real LIE OF their
government and mesherland
And another body has said. The
negro question Is settled. Now for
rum. The negro question. in It's old
phase, was settled. The negro qEes-
tion-that means the inv;oiabilify OF
the ballot box and the rights Of free
men as citizens and at the puiIs-has
not even been faced, much less faced
down and done II can be settled next
November, once and forever.
It's question OF government ard
statecraft that can be closed. The other
Is matter Of the appctites and pas
sionx OF every new generation Of men.
Fight drunkenness Yes. But don't
strike the life ont Of good cause b.
using II 70 club the breath cut of an
at,or1inahie one. You have no right
to close the saloon door by the man
gled body OF Southern Republican cit
ixenship. Fight n local issue on local
ground. You can do that. and yet
over every square inch OF American
soil and stand or fell on the issue you
make; but don't try to dragon men
who honestly differ with you into sup
porting your faith by the threat that
you will have your way because il t. q
Just way, wheE 10 have your way by
such q road Is to tramp!e on the slain.
Beaten, Yes. am glad we were
t.s. Tan ksxVx \ MI -
learns lessons OF justice by the suffer
OF the South that is hampering the
blacks thrust to TIE
background that have left the old
masters Mt the front To crack the whip
over Northern industry and forge
chains for Northern enterprise.
"Protection7 Workingmen The
place 10 honor labor Is in the South,
with its convict system. its chain
gangs, IFS leased labor, its 50 cents a
day, and the way to honor IL is by
every Northern workingman saying.
What degrades one of my order de
grades me, and ! viii sweep all this
Away How7 In November. The
way to protect the industries OF the
North IS by protecting the citizenship
of the South That one vote shall count
as one vote. No more. no less, every
where.
ssWill that VIM Yes, will it, The
East wants protection and that is the
speediest 20 its end. The West wants
justice always did fight for it, and,
giving a rallying cry, it viii respond.
Pass the watchword down the line:
Congress shall guarantee to every
State a Republican form OF govern
ment.' We, the Republican party of
the North, mean to elect by so over
whelming majority that the South
viii understand once for all that pro-
visions Of the constitution is TO be en-
forced and that she will submit to the
inevitable or she viii fight and take the
and on her own head be
the issue. May God defend the right
So be it and amen.