Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-06

in early Rome, where the wealth Cree
sus and his lictors beat to death and
drove into the Tiber his opponents
who dared vote against him, and that
other polluting performance of the
Praetorian guard, red-handed with the
| blood of virtuous Pertanax, rushing
out into the ramparts of Rome to auc-
ton the world off to the highest bid
der, should each and all have been
repeated beneath their spirit eyes, ere
their children had been gathered one
generation to their bosoms, and in this
Republic, born in sacrifice, baptized
in blood and consecrated in the death
( of million lives. But alas, there it
is. Ballot-box deflled, the laws bullied
the judiciary corrupted, while $685..
100000 is openly and defiantly paid
out for the purchase of President
and the Office passing to the prodigal
bidder, while the impress is left upon
his country that in return for the
purple cast upon his shoulders he
would continue to return favors to the
privileged few who endowed him. In
the meantime the suffering millions
| from whom that 1926, 100000 spent in
the corruption of the virtue of a ma
ton had been wrung could have had
bread, secured comfort and peace
could it but have been justly admin.
istered unto them. Surely the in
dividual citizen must be restored to
his natural rights and the favored ag.
gregations dissolved Of their unjust
privileges.
Sirs, the scene just cited can not
often be repeated, and the Declare.
tion of Independence and Constitu.
ton of our country remain sacred
charter preserved, or mean anything
more than lie to the hopeful, a
delusion to the dependent upon Re-
publican promise of equal rights to the
individual; life, liberty and happiness
of all mankind. 1t will not do to con.
denim the man who strikes the note oi
alarm, nor suffice that they defile him
and hoot him with the owl-like echo
of demagogue and anarchist. He will
not be driven from his duty mol
frightened from the sense of danger
which threatens his countrymen, by
the vaporings of the vapid and empty
hearted, but will turn to each of these
slanderers and conjure and invoke the
true friends of the republic, as / turn
to this honorable society, reminding
them that as they were the founders
of the true Democracy, as they toe
have been defiled and slandered fol
the defense and sustenance of their
Government, as their fathers had
ordered them, that by the memory OF
oil their sacrifices, by the sacred recol-
lection of all their sufferings for
freedom, the country and the personal
rights of man, that they again cry out
that they are not to be thwarted in the
protection of their country and the
salvation of their fellow man by the
rapacity of the avaricious or the
cowardice of the wealthy.
So let us to-day, summoned within
this sanctified circle, the sacred shades
of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln
by their spirits, again pledged TO the
hopeful struggling citizen, the audience
of the civilized world that against and
despite all the enemies of free Gov
ernment, whether within or without,
we shall so maintain inviolate the
promise of the Republic that the land
of our fathers and the life of our
children may not perish, and consecrate
anew this Government to that i'm
mortal creed of equal rights to the
poorest citizen and sovereign citizen
ship to the humblest American.