The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-26

give men redress from wrongs, are the
creatures OF the Legislature, and that the
Legislature is elected by the people, and
that the people are guided and controlled
through political agencies. Many people
are content TO approve or disapprove the
agency through which immediate results
are secured, but they are wholly inactive
and ignorant Of the formative processes
which lie behind these agencies. In illus
tration. the recent political robberies in
the Empire State may be cited.
"Suoh high-handed political crimes
have been unknown in the North since
the days of Tweed, as were perpetrated
during the last State election. The will
of the people has frustrated, and judi
cial thief has been exonerated bv the Leg
islature dominated by his co-conspirators
But the good people of that State made
such result possible when they neg
lected to sustain the Republican party.
which then aud there stood against the
possibility of such corruption.
There have been through all ages-therc
are now-irreverent souls, who breathe
Gods air; who bask in His sunshine; who
live and move and have their being in
Him; who boast their ignorance of Him,
and who even deny His existence THE
fool hath said in his heart, there is no
God. ~ Aud there are, In human society,
men who enjoy its blessings; who acquire
property under conditions of good order
securing and maintaining; who boast of
what their hands have wrought, but who
at the same time repudiate the agencies
which have made their success possible.
They despise the politician AS menial
servant-even rs dainty child in a par
lor car, might desplse the engineer and
the common train hand, with their be-
grimed faces and soiled garments. These
are they who say never meddle in
politics they are corrupt" They are
political loafers, they are tramps: they
deserve only reprobation in popular
wnsrs nov every esIsn snaSa
of these men, coupled with .heir indoent
disregard of ordinary political duties, Is
very closely related, in quality and in
results, to that of the blasphemer, who
denies God and repudiates his moral
government.
Young men, I warn you against these.
We have no use for any aboard our ship
OF State who are not able and willing to
work their passage.
Therefore, let women weave their
laurels and sing their glorias and give
their service TO that robust political ac-
tion which accepts the present as it is
found, but out Of il builds great boule-
wards of human progress. Women are By
nature heroic, and naturally come TO the
support Of "a party whose distinctive poll
cies have always been aggressive. The
Republican party does not invite to itself
the indolent of brain or the easy going In
action. 1t continually offends the slug
gish and disturbs the peace Of the conser-
vative
1.-The Republican party guards the at
tainments of the past, but Is always plan
ming new conquests. 1t sends its scouts
into unexplored regions of social econo-
mics. 1t holds the scales Of honest finance.
II raises the Stars and Stripes over the
fa.. h. -hAr nd Inf de a
eau labor Is 1t any wonder that women
rally to the support OF such party?
1.-The record of the party through the
reconstruct ion period the sound financial
policy which its leaders inaugurated and
It's Legislators have sustained; its support
OF the American industrial system by
which the dignity OF wage-women as well
as men is protected from competition
with the pauper labor of Europe. and
through which the material prosperity OF
every home in the land has been in
creased. With this current history Ameri-
can women are becoming every day more
familiar.
American women are bound to the
Republican party most strongly by It's
record on educational. humanitarian and
philanthropic measures. They hear the
loud-mouthed taunt OF the frothing
rabble that there is no difference between
the parties, that the leaders OF both are
in either. they see the so-called "indepeDd-
ente point, with arrogant scOrn, TO defects
in the civil and political service OF the
and hear him charge upon
the Republican party the responsibility
for these shortcomings. They know there
is peculiar class Of industrial agitators,
and certain type Of moral reformers,
who declare that the only remedy for the
evils of monopoly, Of industrial wrong,
and of the liquor traffic is to "smash
the Republican party" even IL political
chaos Is the result; and yet, intelli-
gent women know, and even some politi-
cal dynamiters admit that in the rank
found the bulk OF the moral and philan-
thropic forces in every community, by
whom the schools are established, hospi
tails are built, liquor selling Is suppressed
and the general social condition or com
is elevated. Well-informed
women also know that so-called advanced
legislation in these interests is very sell
dom championed by the Democratic
party Individual Democrats often vote
in support of these measures, but are
by their limited numbers.
Down deep in the hearts of intelligent
is the knowledge that the inter
ests which touch women's lives, are safer
under Republican administration than
under Democratic.
There is present encouragement in the
fact. that woman's work
was effective in the last campaign. In
many communities, they turned the
tide aud in all, they were influential.
Repnblican women can be relied on in
the next campaign.
"Womans faith has long been pledged
TO mans mastery OF the barbarism's OF
government. She has borne
no small part in maintaining the condi-
tions which made that mastery possible.
With the twentieth century will dawn a
new era. There are no new continents To
no untraveled oceans To cross
man has compassed the globe; dead mat
ter has yielded TO living power; space has
become transparent and light is vocal
with universal speech.
"Ths Is the fullness OF woman's hour
the slave, the servant, the comforter, the
friend, waits to be mans peer. She will
help To destroy the bad and to conserve
the good. This is, and still shall be,
relation To American politics,
and because the Republican party promul-
gates and enforces American principles
and an American policy-thereforc these
are the benefits which woman brings and
will bring in larger measure To the Re
publican party"
The Republican Party, Its Past, Pres
ent and Future" was responded To by ex-