Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-01


but IN every opportunity and privilege Of
the state.
The obligation II the State 10 see that
every citizen has An education which shall
Nc him fof these duties and privilege
The abaoiute freedom and purity of
elections. The box where the American
citizen rasts his vote should t. a. sacred
a. saereme0tal vessel.
The standard Of wages ma.t be kept up
to the highest possible point TO that
end the poliry Of protection 70 American
labor must be- maintained.
PoIygamy. which destroys the sanetity
81 the home must he extirpated.
The drinking saloon, which corrupt-
and debaaches the soul and destroys the
health Of the body and mind, must be
suppressed.
The above ak essential Republican
propositions are embraced in senator
George y. Hoar's article In the November
North american Review entitled, Are
the Republican. 10 TO stay" Admitting
at the outset that prophecy ia not one
OF the exact sciences, and concurring with
the sage advice Of that great philosopher
Hosea Bigiow, that its never safe u
prophesy --onless We know" Mr. iloar
suggests some considerations which point
to the supremacy Of the Republican party
In this nation ~ likely To continue. He
coinbats At the outset the accusation 40
often made sgain-t the party, especially
by renegades, that 1t has become corrupt
and has deteriorated and lost its useful
ness A to the evils which actually ex-
i.t, the remedy does not seem
TO lie TO 20 over to the enemy.
"washington and the pure patriots
who were his companions set themselves
steadily to resist and suppress the evils
Of their times. But they did not send To
England for Benedict Arnold. They did
not restore the T ,ries To power. The y
did not go down on their knees to George
III and ask him to take them back into
favor" senator fioar's comparison Is "A
telling one The reforner Of die present
day. who imagiues that the evils which
he deplores are going to he corrected by
iDtrustIng the reins Of power to the Dem
ocracy, simply Invites his fellow citizens
to tiistrust his good faith or the soundnesS
Of his Judgment. TIE Democratic party
instead Of being refornalive agent j.
one of the things to he reformed
First If the considerations which In
iluenee him 20 believe that the Republi-
can party il 10 a. " n permanent tenure
Of power, senator lIoar Instances the
radical difference in quality and temper
between the two parties. There are good
men In both, but the men who give, and
have given, character to the Republican
party are mainly the men who have given
character 70 the great free States of the
North. The men who give character to
the Democracy are. In the main, the men
the south aud to the civil administration
of New York city. This difference, the
senator claims, gives the Repu blican party
the larger and stronger vitality and makes
1t more congcnial To the spirit of the
nineteenth century, and will. II is likely
make il more congenial to the better and
loftier spirit of the twentieth. The his.
tory of the one party Is history of sue
cess. the history of the other is "A history
Of failure. Am, riean human nature must
he largely changed before the people will
listen TO Democratic and Mugwump sp
peals to cease to judge of parties by their
records. A to the doctrines Of the two
parties, Senator Hoar maintains that tn,
Republican principles, purposes and meas
ures "touch the very life and health
of the republic They give promise ol
health, strength, vitality, permanence.
on the other hand. he argues that thu
doctrines of the Democratic party are II
their very nature temporary, short-lived,
perishable, trivial. eutaneou'."
4 party extending over near lift,
States and territories must tolerate much
variety of opinion in non-essentials. II.
members will sometimes differ with each
accomplish purposes that are essential
But the Republican party has its Greco
and its statement Of faith. from which n,
man can depart and maintain his Repub
licanism. Its bible. creed, thirty-nin'
articles aud ten commandments ar,
summed up in the six essential PROPOSE
tons which we have placed at the heaC
~ this article, and which all will sub
scribe. aud pin their faith to, who are
loyal to the principles of this grandest OF
political parties that ever had An exist
euce.
senator Hoar believes that the new
States and the new immigrants promise
large reinforcements to the Republicans.
That promise has already been fulfilled in
the Dskotas, Washington and even Mon
tant As TO the new i'm migration, the
steadfast. industrious. Intelligent Scandi-
usvian. lover of home. lover of country,
lover OF schools. lover of wife aud child
reu. finds his congenial place in the
Republican party" In conclusion senator
Hoar says: III the Republican party
be but true to its ideals, believe the
future OF the Republican party is as
assured as the future of America. 1t will
live. and grow, and rule until the south.
like the North. Is covered with workshops
where workmen get fair and ample wages
until the returns of the elections every
where represent the honest expression of
the peoples will: until. in America. the
soul of man is reverenced everywhere
without regard to the accident of his birth
or the color of his skin. until the drink
ing-ssloou is dethroned from its place of
power in our politics; until Mormonism is
extirpated."
Rev Edward Everett Hale. D D, on
the eo-called indian Problem"
In addressing an audience of several
hundred persons, recently assembled in
Portland In the interest of the Indians.
Rev. DIR. Hale presented some thoughts
that are worthy of widespread eonsidera-
ton lie said:
We have looked backward too much. II
10 not fair to speak as If our country had
tried for . century to wrong the Indians.
Washington did not intend to set in motion q
system Of outrage against them; neither did
Adams or Jefferson. To Us 10 given to solve
the dif{lcult problem, how shall an inferior
race be dealt With. not in an absolute mon-