The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-03

The city does rot want community and
diffusion. but desires accumulation and
localized dominion. The city tends TO
separation from the common body. and to
independence socially. commercially and
politically. The city instinctivsly strives
10 become an entity II augments its own
life more and more by the absorption of
the life of all things else soever. The city
tends to become al the last an overgrosn
social and political tumor. II becomes
proud and more provincial than any prov
ince- II organizes its owa intellectuai life.
and develops its idiosyncrasies Into such
vehement manifestations that the sym-
pathies between 1t and the country states
are cut off and obliterated- The city OBJ
structs and annoys the Union and threat
eEs its perpetuity-
A second fact dangerous to the republic
IS the bond. The city and the bond are
in league and amity. The country as such
does not know the bond. but feels it. The
bond came without calamity. and II IS
we'll pleased with Its reception as not TO
return, The bond and the crown 20 well
together. but not the bond and the cleo
ton. The bond cherishes a chrome dis
like of all democracy. IL the bond accepts
rspubllcanism. it is only that kind that
wears a plume and backs up against an
arsenal.
The bonded debt OF the United States
was Intended 10 suhserye temporary
purpose in our economy. and then to 20
away by payment Nobody wishes 10 re-
psidiate a debt made necessary by the peril
of the nation. What the people want is
payment. and what the bond wants Is eter-
nal life, The bond knows that Il has no
permanent place among free institutions.
The bond accordingly interests itself in the
latest tactics. IL promotes armoreSl ships
and 1G-inch rified cannon II eircHiates
and Of the supreme court As to the peo-
pie, the bond utters the same wish which
one of our distinguished financlers Ia New
York uttered about the public The bond
says that 1t is part OF the national hon
or and that an honorable thing ought to
live forever.
The creation of permanent fund-hold-
ing interest in a republic Is inconsistent
with IL The bond is a part of the mon-
archical apparafrs but u 4 nation OF free
men It IS a thing Of i'll omen. Once ad-
mlttet into the republic. the bond discov-
ers that the republic Is not strong enough
for its purposes. The coupons of a per-
petual debt become annoying. even TO
Christians and patriots. However SILENT
~ the coupons are clipped. and however
periodically they are paid. the time comes
when the payer wearies a little of the
semi tribute A true people such
as the Americans will never shrink from
the full discharge Of a debt that was con-
traeted for the preservation OF the Union.
II is only when the holders Of that debt
propose 10 make II eternal that the cit-
zen OF the Union begins TO consider
whether his inheritance Is worth the hav-
ing. A bonded debt that grows larger as
the people pay it. debt that has swal-
lowed the resources OF the American peo-
PIE for thirty years and still has as much
purchasing power as ever. a debt that In
trenches itself with false legislation and
iniQuit0us judicial decisions. is a fscS that
may weli be mentioned Ia the iitany with
the usual words. From this. also, good
Iord. deliver u.s. A perpetual bond and
a perpetual republic do not consist,
JOHN CLARK KfDPATH-