The herald., 1896-10-11


as immoral" "Populism never prospers
save where men are unprosperous, and
your true Populist Is especially intoler-
ant of business success" 1T happens
that he (SewalD believes in free silver
just as other very respectable people
believe in spirit rapping, or in faith cure,
or Buddhism, or pilgrimages to Lourdes
Cor Canton) or the foot of graveyard
rabbit" I'm the minds Of most thrifty,
hard working men ooh, how he loves the
hard working men') who are given to
thinking at all about public questions
the free silver plank is very far from be.
ing the most rotten Of the many rotten
planks put together with such perverted
skill by the Chicago architects A plat
form which declares In favor OF free and
unlimited rioting and which has the
same strenuous objection to the exercise
of the government police power that is
felt in circles presided over by Herr
Most chow glad we are that Most and
Roosevelt are both in favor of Sound
money!, Eugene v. Debs and all the
people whose pictures appear in the de-
tective bureaus of our great cities, can
not appeal to persons who have; gone be-
yond the unpublished stone period Of CIV
ilization." THE man who objects to
what they style government by injunc-
ton are (the late Lyman Trumbull of
course included) asregards the essential
principles of government, In hearty SYM
pathy with their remote, skin-clad an
cestors," etc.
Furthermore, the Chicago convention
attacked the supreme court. Again this
represents species OF avatism-that Is,
Of recurrence to the ways of remote bar
barian ancestors" II am a good Amer
lean, with profound belief in my coun-
trymen, ('that Is" In those who believe
in Hanna and the gold standard) and
have no idea that they will deliberately
lower themselves to level beneath that
Of q South American republic by voting
for the preposterous farrago of sinister
nonsense which the Populistic-Dem
cratic politicians at Chicago chose to set
up as embodying the principles Of their
party, and for the amiable and windy
demagogue who stands upon that plat
FORM" 49, o. (N II i'
The foregoing are only few Of the
cfaste and lively intellectual offspring
of our eminent "civil service" reformers
brain which have selected out OF his
essay where the jewels were thickest
and grouped together for the purpose
Of establishing their authors claim
to an honorable place in Wall
street classics and gold standard
literature. While 1t Is to be regretted
that Mr.. Roosevelt's elegant and con-
vincing arguments in the Review OF Re-
views do not include that effective
phrase, "wild-eyed Populist," which no
genuine, latter-day Republican speech
or essay, and no Republican family
should be without" yet ne DID as well
as could be expected under the circum-
stances and there are more where these
came from. And 1t is but simple Justice
to admit that, taken as whole, his ef-
fort is the ablest that has yet appeared
onthe gold standard side, with the possi-
BILE exception of the inspired utterances
Of j. Sterling Morton and Herr Most.
Mr.. Roosevelt's two cardinal PROPOSE
tions, uttered incidentally, and probably
without a realizing sense Of how they
would look in print, constitute very
and craftsmanship Of the man and his
class. On those two propositions rest
the entire structure of Mr.. Roosevelt's
ideal civilization.
Nothing short Of civilization whose
foundation stones are, first, that "the
only method of preserving orderly lib
erty Is in seeing that the laws are en-
forced at whatever cost" and, second,
that "the police functions of the gov
ernment afe the essential attributes of
civilization" could possibly answer the
ends of the typical usurer class for
which Mr.. Roosevelt writes and speaks.
Exceeding wealth has made the gold
king bold, and he does not hesitate or
falter in the least In stalking out the
boundary line between the two forms Of
civilization 3ust now contending for
mastery on the American continent. A
gold oligarchy, backed by military des-
potism, on the one hand, and on the
other social democracy Of which the.
people are an inseparable part, and
which has no more use for standing
army-for domestic purposes-than
man has for an overseer to superintend
the movements of his hands and feet
and see that they don't strike and kick
each other.
Such a government as we are now
striving for-and propose to establish
and maintain-will be founded not in
force but in equity and justice, which
will render force an impertinent inva-
sion. Its essential attributes" will be
fraternity and voluntary peace and con-
tentment.