Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17

or justice or equity they propose to
compel the government to take their
silver and fix the price which the gov
eminent shall pay therefor?
1t is the doctrine of pure selfishness,
II not sin.
The air has been full of charges of
conspiracy. Conspiracies of the capital
list against the laborer. Conspiracies of
the classes against the masses.
Conspiracies of the rich against the
poor.
Conspiracies of the east against the
west.
Conspiracy! Conspiracy!
Periods of panic are prolific OF
charges and countercharges. Conspir-
acy is one of the first charges to make,
and the last charge to prove.
If such conspiracies exist, then they
have miserably miscarried, for the east
has suffered even more than the west
the classes have been punished along
with the masses-the capitalist along
with the laborer.
1t is easy enough to hurl rocks any
coward can do that.
1t is easy enough to point the finger
OF scorn; any hypocrite can do that.
1t is easy enough to throw mud; any
blatherskite can do that.
1t is easy enough to charge conspir-
acy; any demagogue can do that.
Where are the proofs? They do not
exist.
Sectionalism! There is no room in
the air of America for the flag Of Sec
tionalism to float.
The only banner Americans can toll
crate is the glorious stars and stripes
Down with the flag of sectionalism! Up
with the flag of the union!
We need more patriotism and less
sectionalism.
The west cannot get along without
the east, nor the east without the west.
This is true also of the north and south.
The prosperity of the magnificent
east, is the prosperity of the wonderful
west. Her misfortune is our calamity.
We are all members of the same house
hold; dwell under the same star-gemmed
roof and blood-stained flag, and while
we occupy different compartments of
the same mansion, yet all gather at
the same altar, and worship the same
Heavenly Father.
We are not enemies.
We are friends.
Nay, more, we are bretheren.
State lines and sectional jealousies
have drenched this fair land in the
blood of her bravest and best.
Let it be proclaimed, wherever our
flag floats, as the Gospel of our New
Testament, that any man, or any set of
men, who shall SOW the seeds of sec
tors to their country.
We need a revival of patriotism in the
United States of America.
Why not free coinage of patriotism
sixteen to one.
A word on capital and labor.
Capital and labor should not be enc
mics.
Their interests are inSeparable.
They are voyagers together and mu-
tually interested in the success of the
expedition.
The blow which cripples capital Grip
Piles labor, and the converse of the prop
osition is true also.
Each has its part in making the~en-
ture successful.
Each should receive a full share of the
rewards.
Useless each without each other.
They are joined together in the
worlds domestic economy.
Their nuptials have been solemnized
on earth and sealed in Heaven.
Amicably and equitably they should
settle their family differences without
the Intervention of divorce court or
demagogue.
Whom God hath joined together, let
no man put asunder."
Let us stop our appeals to prejudice.
Let us cease tanning the fires of dis
content.
Let us no longer seek to array the
classes against the masses.
This is no country for classes or