Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-18

saloon. they proudly boast that ''rimmy.
he sticks to bis own and amt ashamed OF
them as made him. Jimmy keeps very
quiet as to how he lives in Washington
When a baby is born, it is brought to New
York to be christened becomes Timothy
Junior and the whole neighb0rhood. men,
women and children come in to drink It's
health. Jimmy is politician to the tips
of his fingers. Nobody ever saw him
drunk; in fact. it may be doubted whether
there is enough whisky in the world to
produce such an effect upon him. But,
oh, what disgrace it is A low, common
brute lacking i'll all decency. not knowing
the meaning OF morality or honesty, anu
he represents your husband and mine
simply because men think there is no use
in voting; that the toughs are going TO win
any how, and that the honest mems votes
will be counted out.
SIXTY YEARS AGO.
By-the-by, | was reading that famous
book oil Mrs. Trollone's about the Ameri-
cans. This was written in 1889, and there
is not one fault attributed to us III that
book, published over sixty years ago. that
isn't true to-day. Read it, my friend; it is
worth your while. Our representatives
then put their feet on their desk and spit;
SO they do NOWADAYS. Cur women then
were i'll many instances too lazy to make
homes, and they idled away their lives in
bOarding-houses; 50 they do nowadays.
Our streets then were bad and lily paved;
so they are nowadays Our table manners
in public then were decidedly bad, and
they are Just rs bad now. At the time
that this book was published, all the
people who did these things behaved like
the donkevs they were, and got up on
their hind legs and brayed. 1t would have
been wiser il they had sat down and
blushed, and tried to make things better.
1t is true that the pigs DO not walk in our
streets now, but IL is almost u pity that
they don't for then the streets might be
in a better condition. II you are at all
interested in evolution. read this book.
and see how little we have gained in all
the years. We are richer, the cities are
larger but
THE SAME FAULTS EXIST,
and in all the years there seems to have
been no effort upon our part to have i'm
proved. The finest patriotism is that
which confesses mistakes, and sets about
to mend them.
AS a nation. we haven't particle of
patriotism in our veins. Do YOU remem-
Der The story of the Englshmap who had
been Illegally convicted to death in some
far distant land? He was ON the scaffold;
he had no friends and the British consul
was away. just a minute before it was
time to pull the rope, the British consul
appeared on the scene. He claimed per-
mission to speak to the man; he stood
beside him, and the crowd saw him open
his coat and take out q small roll which he
handed to the prisoner. In second it
was unfurled and held over his head. He
was under the protection of the English
ilag and couldn't be touched. of course,
it all turned out all right, but how many
of us would think of such thing rs being
possible with the American tlAp2
| WE DON'T RESPECT IT
ourselves, and we can't expect anybody
else to. Every other nation regards its
| flag MS sacred we seem to look ON ours as
a something that will decorate bail rooms
| well, Ii we continue to put down all feel
1 ing of patriotism as we are doing. the re-
suit will be that there will be many men
without u country. don't blame think.
ing, intelligent people with such represent
tatives and politics degenerating for not
caring to call themselves Americans.
am not overprold of 1t. The riff raft OF
all other countries comes here and in less
time than it takes to tell it, are counted
citizens, while men whose ancestors made
this country an independent one are
counted of no more worth than they are
don't blame men for not valuipg their
votes. Why should they? 1t means moth
| ing, and the most mysterious thing to mt
is, knowing all about it, that wumpl
should yearn for it. You don't care to b,
represented as men are now, do you?
don't know any intelligent woman VIII,
does. And conceited enough to count her
self in with these proper thinking women
is BAB.