The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-30

fty. pitiful as persisted greatness The
American people will have no such gov
eminent as that We want government
strong enough to obey It's own constitution,
strong enough to execute its own laws.
strong enough to be supreme in It's own do
that it does not have TO await the
command of some cowardly or treason
able or mistaken Governor to act. We
want a government so wakeful that its
thunders will not slumber until some local
demagogue awakens them we want TO
know that about every citizen. however
poor, about every home. however humble.
about every farm. however small. about
lie there circles Columbia's protecting and
defending sword. We want a government
bines to starve the people and lawless an
archy throws bombs and burns cltles.
Uncle Sam can and will take piutocracy
by the throat in hand and anarchy
by the throat in the other hand ana KNOCK
their heads together until 1t knocks law
out of the other and American common
sense and patriotism into TIE neaos VI
49," ..BLIGHTING SISTERS"
Anarchy and plutocracy are the blight
ing sisters that stand upon the horizon OK
our future, and there is only one power
that can hurl them into the sulphurous ana
bottomless pit, whence they came, ana that
power is the general government or the
whole people of the entire Republic, from
ocean to ocean and lake to gulf. Blightins
sisters! No. No. The general government
and the Supreme Court are the guardian
angels of our liberties-angels that have
guided us through the troubled past, angels
that guard us to-day, angels that onward
point our way to civilizations last and best
estate They shall not be blasphemed as
blighting sisters They shall not oe clh ha
CARRIED in the black or piracy. lnes sliall
Wear what they wore when God sent them
to his chosen people, the stars ana stripes
Gan we afford American citizens. to try
the experiment OF oilng me spI,n ~ ,cnp-
oclasm Mr.. Altgeld offers us? Can we az
ford to trfe with the gift the goes NAYS a,
eminent of the American Nation. Ihsse
principles are offered us in the name OF d
new declaration Of indepen6e,meei Of me in
dependence. The American peoplS TtJece IT,
1t is nc child of theirs; me oiiiy D tba Old
and sacred declaration, WnIcn ti'e ~
tongue OF Liberty Bell voiced TO the wor re,
l2o years ago. by that declaration oi,, We
stand 1t is the child of all humanity .
love and hope. 1t means that properly
shall be protected that man snail hot ar .oii
that neither king nor mob shiiii ueSe,os ,n a
1t means all the blessings n eaNeh i!be
shoWered upon the American people no
American people have only one cretu. we ne
Declaration OF 10 and the Constitution OF
stripes of the American Nation, ana 'nny ,
pledge their lives to tate, tnat lioi n9
stripe shall be by treason ta lTr, tsr,c,,o
nIatform's new declaration OF inuSpcn,
dence! What an insult TO IN, ,is,,, iaS What
What proclamation OF patrlo'isih' "S
on since boyhoods days have had
dream of what this land shail pe-a urSad
and capital just, or temples OF lsatl'iinS ~
every hilltop. of industry happy IN every
ringing of ships of the Repupnc salmnis 4.
every sea: a dream OF mighty people
whom no dissensons can disturb, put Mnoso
militant wrath is ever ready 10 strife
foreign foe; of an imperial American Rs.
public bounded only by the oceans, PeopIu"
only by the citizens OF SINCE fnrtros.
where blow the bugles Of freedom, from
Alaska's silver horn to Florida $ keys, shali
dream of a continental Republic, washed
by the waters of the world on every siue'
carpeted by the 9wers SD Of TNd With
the trailing clouds of gory-the new EDEN
of mankind's new birth. And believe It
will come true. believe it, because ! am
a Republican. A Republican is the optimist
future A Republican has the imagination
of logic the hope that creates, the bel1et
that builds. No desert so drear put ina. u
Republican can find oasis there. NO
faith Cannot carry him over No task Of
destiny too hard for him to accomplish.
That is why he is Republican. Democ-
racy is perpetual groan of calamity; Re-
pubIicanism an eternal smile of JOY
And that is why believe that my dream
make Il se Across the distant Years ring
happy bells of joy! Welcome, echoes OF the
reapers song, cleaning the futures golden
fieldSi Hail, mutual confidence returning.
Hail. the Constitution enthroned and treas
on chained! Hail, the Nation omnipotent
future with the flag of liberty floating DER
it! Hail. Columbia! Happy land Hail,
the glad dawn whose early twilight WASH
ington saw, a thousand years"