The herald., 1893-09-15
NEEDED "A REVIVAL OF THB DgMO.
CRATIC SPIRIT.


The United States just now are shock
ingly in need OF one thing. OF course
our people need many things, but they
need this thing superlatively. Without
it the grand Republic is neither more
nor less than whited sepulcher, fair OF
exterior, but within all rottenness and
corruption.
What lie this thing that the country is
in such deadly need Of?
We answer unhesitatingly, the spirit
OF Democracy. The country is rotting-
sort OF dry rot-through the prevail
ence OF the spirit OF subserviency. The
suddenly enriched proletariat OF the
United States-the smug and greasy
plebeians OF the nouceau riche class
have polluted the old time simplicity
and democracy OF the nation at its foun-
tain head.
The United States could be, if they de-
sired to be go, at the head of all the ma
tions OF the earth. They could them
selves sound the keynotes which the
whole world would gladly follow. The
august prestige which in the old days
attended the mention of the name OF
Rome might attend that of this coun-
try and people in every clime OF the
globe il we only cared to live up to our
national possibilities.
As it is, how do we stand? We must
have fallen low indeed in the estima-
ftny Of thn ,,naN1a 0f kha xuh hov
a tritie of over one hundred thousand
Mongolians, resident in the United
States. took it into their heads that thsy
could defy snd spit upon law OF this
country. Nothing could more strik-
ingly prove the low estimation in which
the United States are held by the Ash
attic people than this fact.
Hundreds OF times great nations have
plunged into war on mere punctilio of
international honor. and it is doubtful
whether they ever lost anything by the
resultant expenditure of blood and
treasure, no matter how great that may
have been.
We do not admire England in her ag-
gressions upon weaker nations, or in her
spirit of conquest and spoliation. which
have given rise to the aphorism that the
sun in The diurnsl turning Of the earth
never goes down on the drum beats of
her armies. But we do unhesitatingly
approve OF that dauntless spirit that
never permits her flag to bs insnlted
wantonly, or an English subject to be
injured without redress.
Well we may call for resurrection OF
the old Democratic spirit-thia time with
capital d. The old Democratic party
never permitted the flag OF the Unitsd
States to be insulted or the laws OF the
country to be ignored.
Every now and then President Cleve-
land has succeeded in digging out OF
some silurian rut in New England come
person as cabinet officer who ia as
much of Democrat as Rameses Ill.
wss Mohammedan. Attorney General
Olney is one OF these persons. Secre-
tary OF War Endicott was another in
Mr.. Cleveland's first administration
These people have about as mach OF
genuine American or Democratic spirit
among them as had the New England
Federalats who hung out blue lights
along the coast OF Massachusetts, to
guide the British ships in the war of
1912.
Tbs country needs and desree Dam
ocratic resurrection. There is enough
vitality in the west and south to assure
its advent, and we may ss we'll insist
upon it now. Laws are made TO be en-
forced and not to be suspended.