The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-21

They had heard all their lives of issues in
political campaigns but those of last year
were not questions of policies. or of men, as
they had been mainly heretofore, but issues
that involved the permanence of government,
the safety of society, and when these things
are reached and lost the true friends OF the
republic may we'll be fearful for its future.
The heresies that were loud and defiant last
year have not been. converted or subdued
They are active, hopeful and determined, and
desertionS from their ranks are few. Those
who are now falling down or retiring from
the fight or interpreting visions of their own,
come mainly from the ranks of those who
then fought for order and the supremacy OF
law. 1t is strange element in human ma
ture that cements together those who pursue
an evil object while the friends OF just
cause will soon grow weak and scatter:
Contests are now waging in many states
and cities of this country. The same army
that threatened us last fall Is again abroad,
under the same commanders, in the same
cause. with the same purposes but moving
In smaller groups. Every victory its soldiers
win now in separate companies every ele-
ment of strength you permit them to acquire
in detachmentS, will be used against you In
every contest hereafter, when their forces
are massed again in one complete and per-
chance victorious army. The issues now are
the issues Of last year. There has been no
attempt to change them, and they are not
even disguised by phraseolegy. In every spot
where the fight is on it is waged on ,. the lines
of st. Louis and Chicago. Socialism, an
archy, junk money, and every w1id-eyed ny
brid that stared through the Chicago plat
form of year ago will gather In Knots
next month around the polling places OF this
republic. He who pretends that anarchy is
dangerous only once in four years, that re-
pudiation is dishonest only in national cleo
tions, and is willing at other times to Keep
them company, is himself a dangerous c1tl-
zen and unworthy of his privileges. You can
not divorce city from the state, state from
the country, any more than you can dlVorce
a citizen from his community. All are inter-
uJn n A
realize this fundamental truth, self-ey1dent,
and SO necessary to our preservation and
our growth, does not understand the OASIS
Of the government in which we live.
Yet in these times we are told that pcl1ti-
cal contests should be fought upon non-po-
litical lines. utterly repudiate that declara-
ton. believe in the principles OF the Re
publican party, not for day or a year, not
with intermittent and varying fidelity, but
for all time, as the best expression OF po-
litfcal creed, and as the safest guide to those
who enjoying the marvellous rights 10 GU.
Zenship, would prepare themselves TO meet
its grave demands. 1 believe in partisansnlp
always, for, when devoted to noble purposes,
1t attains the plane of patriotism. 1t should
never fall into disuse through indinerence on On
our part or through the false persuasion OF
those who would overcome us when they nave
lulled us to sleep. -
A George meeting in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music tonight called forth
an audience which filed the big build
ing to overf1owing. The principal at
traction was the appearance in Brook
lyn Of Henry George, for the first time
during the campaign. Mr.. George was
received with tremendous cheering, at
the conclusion of which he began an
address that was interrupted repeated
ly by prolonged applause. He made his
customary appeal to the true Democ-
racy" in the name of Thomas Jefferson
A second meeting was held In the
Clermont avenue rink, Brooklyn, where
an immense audience was addressed by