The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-10-05

NOtcr can Hnu neltner glory ior Hlui
self nor benefit for his country by
supporting them in either effort.
The great sectional issues, slowly
ripening from the foundation of oul
Government, were fought out by the
men of a quarter of century ago
Every question submitted to the
arbitrament of war has been settled
and settled SO indisputably that 9
search warrant could hardly find, in
all the land, corporal's guard who
do not understand and fully ac
quiesce in that settlement The
exceptions, if any such there be, are
found among the old and the non
combatant. The generation on whom
the storm burst met its fury are con.
slant and brave men. Honor and
abiding glory are with the men who
fought real battles and made real
sacrifices. But for those doughty
warriors who defy foes that no Ion
ger exist, who delight to insult the
vanquished and to reopen wounds
that time has healed, and who fill
the arena with their vaporings and
imprecations, there should be only
contempt to-day as there will be
only scorn and derision in the flu
ture.
History is always on the side OF
the magnanimous. Her laurels are
lavishly bestowed on those who are
sturdiest in the fight and most gener.
Gus in the victory, but she will waive
into deserved Oblivion and disgrace
the whole host of tonguevaliant,
post bellum heroes, who still vex
our ears with their sectional cries.
But if there are no titles or brevets
in the army of the bloody shirt,
which a self-respeeting young man
should aspire or consent to wear,
are the general policies of the Re
publican party worthy Of support?
There, too, he finds reaction. These
policies may be summed up in one
word, Capitalization of political
power in the Federal Government.
Capitalization of wealth in favored
classes. 1t is difficult TO say which
portends more evil to free institu-
tions, which is the surest corrosive
of individual manhood and individu-
al freedom.
The history of the growth of free
institutions is history of the de-
velopment of local self government.
That is their vitalizing principle.
Under no theory or practice do we
reach the goal of government by the
people, that government that belongs
to the people, not the government to
which the people belong. That
government that deals with citizen
at long range becomes his master no
matter what its name be, or how its
machinery may work. That govern
ment which he can hold Immediately
under his eve, on which he can con-
stantly keep his hand, that is his
servant.
Our constitution, growing out of
the voluntary union of independent
States, made it possible to combine
the two, sovereignty for local
affairs-federal sovereignty for feder-
al affairs-a combination that has
been weightily pronounced the
highest reach of constructive states
manship. The party that overrides
the autonomy of the States, that
seeks to have the general govern
ment interfere with and assume to
control matters which the States
should and ought exclusively to
deal with, wars against the funda-
mental principles of our institutions,
the law of their life and of their
health expansion. Yet such is the
steady, unrelaxing gravitation of the
Republican party, and to-day we
find it not only, as ever, striving to
gather all political power to the
federal government, but even tc
bestow upon it that worldly
omnipotence that annexed to the
power of dealing out wealth and
poverty"
Its chief existence, as avowed by
itself, is to MAINTAIN system Of
taxation that hampers national
progress, represses production, clogs
trade and makes war on commerce.
and that, having in all these ways
diminished the earnings of labor, in
terposes with cruel favoritism tc
divert part of those earnings into
the pockets of chosen beneficiaries.
And worst of all false pretcnses
it imposes on ignorance and plays
with patriotism, by calling this
policy the american system" wher
in truth it is but the cast-off gar
ment of British craftsmanship.
More than 40 years ago, wher
England sought to widen the bounds
of freedom, she decreed the extinc
ton of her system of class taxation
In lifting the burden of unequa
taxes from the backs of her laborers
she lifted a political and socia
pressure which was equally as heavy
and to freeman far more calling.
| This so-called american system
makes the American laborer more
of serf than his English brother
From the current earnings it gathers
not only the bulk of the taxes need
ed for the support of Government
but even creator sums to be bestow
ed in free and unearned bounty OF
those who are already so rich tina
they are his employers. Out of thes'
bounties are springing up monopo
lies, monster combinations of capital
and the trusts that wrap themselves
about with the mantle Of conceal
ment while they WELD the power o
swelling millions.
/ The Democratic party appeals tt
the youth of the country to rally t,
its standard and fight against thes
sentiments and policies of the Re
publican party. Over against th
banner Of the Bloody Shirt it plant
the flag Of restored union and
reconcilcd people; flag that repre-
cents no primary Of section, NJ
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