Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-07-25
LET ONLY THE TRUTH BE
TOLD.
Be Fair

NaUlOndIlSCS VINO Will III IlIu0 "OIA
great changes, If not a revolution in
our social and industrial systems, yet
at the same time. we cannot hear the
Republican party traduced and Will
fed as it is sometimes by Democrats
and Union LabOrites without enter
ing our earnest protest with an APP
peal to them to be fair. The party
has made some greviOus errors, and
some unscrupulOus bosses have got to
the front, and the rights Of the mass
es have often been lost sight Of and
! ignored, but the fundamental doc
trines Of the Republican party are
sound and good; the rank and file of
/ the party are patriotic and honest,
and there is more intelligence and pro-
gressiveness in that party to-day than
in any other great political Organiza-
ton on earth. Let the party's critics
be fair; let them be reasonable; evils
have plagued mankind in all the ages;
great reforms come slowly. The Re
publicans are not responsible for all
the evils that affiict this country.
With all it's short comings and
faults the Republican party did more
for humanity than any political move
ment that ever existed. It began It's
existence by declaring that freedom
is national while slavery is sectional
j and wrong. It opposed that iniqui-
tous doctrine that a negro has no
rights that a white man is bound to
respect; It repealed the fugitive slave
law; it used the power of the govern
ment to suppress the Shareholders re-
bellion; it gave the country free
schools; 1t gave homes to the home
less on the public lands; it gave the
poor man liberal exemption laws
never before enacted; it repealed
the law imprisOning men for debt;
it made all the laws that have con-
fered upon women the privilege to
own property and to vote; it has in
Iowa, Kansas, Maine and the Dako-
tas enacted prohibitory laws and is
fighting the saloons in other states; it
is the only party that has ever sue
cessfully fought the battle of the
home against the saloon; it has fost-
cred education; defended liberty; en-
couraged the developement of our
national resources; won for this re-
public the highest regard from all
nations of the earth, and in twenty
five years has helped to push civiliza-
ton to higher plane than ever be-
fore existed.
In its ranks may be found a great
er proportion of progressive. philan-
thropic, llberty-loving, tyranny-hat-
ing people, than any other political
organization. It has made some mis-
takes and left undone many things
which it ought to have done, but it
has done a grand work and its miss
ion has not yet been accomplished.
Even lately when the patience of the
people has been tried because of the
slowness with which it moved toward
needed reforms, it yet passed d iber-
al pension law, enacted a silver coin
age bill, ordered S7O,OOO,OOO of paper
reserve to be set afoat, admitted Wy
Oming with her constitution con
fering political privileges upon men
and women alike-aI by u strict
party Republicans voting solid
ly for these grand measures and
| Democrats voting solidly against
Not only that but the forces are
marshaling for an other great strug-
gle. The Republicans in congress
are fighting for the right Of State pro-
hibItion-for the home AGAINST the
saloon-while their opponents, backed
by the whisky power, are solidly try
ing to fasten the saloon system on
prohibition states.
Let US give honor to whom honor
is due In our criticisms let us be
fair. The Republican party is made
up of millions of individuals. The
average morality and patriotism of
the party is what the average moral
ity and patriotism is of the indivldu-
ais who compose it, For intelligence,
patriotism, and progressiveness, the
masses who make up the Republican
party are not excelled by a like num-
Der of people in the world In our
, criticisms Of party leaders and party
methods let US not forget this facti
. let US be candid and fair. The move
ment to dethrOne unworthy political
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