The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-01-30

nounced which did not blush to think
and speak of the pocket in such an is
sue-as if commerce and industry were
only on sufferance in this country, in
stead of having built up its power and
greatness.
Small wonder, for even judge, bear
ing n name of worldwide renown, had
taught the youths that American man
hood would be in jeopardy if the country
did not from time to time take dashing
turn in the death dance of war. The
fierce intolerance of Democracy when
popular passion is aroused went to the
length of insisting that in this emer-
gency it was its patriotic duty to commit
hara-kiri. ''The word of command" that
has gone forth from the president. de-
clared general, "must-be-obeyed," and
he who does not sustain the policy of the
government sis entitled to no right under
it." 1t was an awful spectacle, infinite
ly more in keeping with the ways of the
French republicans of hundred years
ago than with American republicanism,
to which the miracle is due that the 13
colonies of 1776 have in four generations
grown into an empire second to none in
power, glory and worth
There was n time wnen the abolition
lists were hunted down as criminals and
traitors, and even ropes put around their
necks by gentlemen mobs" for daring to
denounce slavery as 'the sum of all vii
lainies." Today the memory of these
men is revered and hallowed for having
dared to differ with the majority and
wage war to the knife against its opin-
| ions. The time will come when those
will no longer stand pilloried as "un-
American" who have deemed it their
duty to say that the Cleveland-Olney
| doctrine is not the Monroe doctrine
that the nation must not make itself the
slave of the Monroe doctrine, but that
| the doctrine has to be subOrdinated to
the nations true interests-that the adj
ministration has previously hurt the ma
tons true interests by overshOoting the
mark in every direction In Its manage
ment of the Venezuelan contr0versy-th
the nations true interest is not an ag-
gressiye foreign policy, but to keep alooL
from international entangements ana
ventures of territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
to mind it's own affairs, to devote itself
! to honest toll, to set up the highest ideals
for itself and to labor at their realiZa-
ton in education, in charity, in politics,
in all the arts of peace-that the admoni-
ton of Washington's farewell address
| to exclude permanent inveterate anti
pathies against particular nations" ought
still to be heeded-that Hamilton's word
still holds good: ""Tis as great an
error for a natien to overrate as to under
rate itself. Presumption is as great
fault as timidity."
The time will come when it will be seen
and acknowledged that they proved
themselves to be true Americans by dar-
ing to have faith in the American people
to trust that, no matter how unwel-
come the remOnstrances the people
would soon again listen, weigh them,
have the moral courage to revise their
Judgment and conquer their prejudices,
and above all. become again fully con
scious that self-governing nation is in
truth free only if it proves itself capable
of exercising self-control and self-re-
straint. The time will come-aye, it is
coming, and has come already with
many.--H. Won Hoist in Chicago Times
| Herald