Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-10-07
THE RrprBL1cAN RncoRn.

have in preparation for the future
grand army of over a million children
In our public schools, with a flag over
every school house as an object lesson
in the love of their country and tina
we appropriate every year almost wice
as large a proportion of our state reve-
nues for the education Of the people as
az other state in the tininn2 Is It q
characteristic of those who enslave a
people that they would first educate
them. not only in intelligence, but in
patriotism? Is It a sign Of corruption
that in the years of Republican rule iu
Pennsylvania the public debt of the
state has been reduced from over $40.-
100000 to a little more than $1,000 O00r
Shall we lose sight of the fact. more
eloquent in its naked self than all the
adjectives of all the orators, that in all
the years Of Republican rule not one
dollar nor a single cent has been lost
to the state by the default or dishon-
esty of any public officer?
As Republicans shall we not be proud
of that record Of the men whom our
party has called to positions of public
trust, and confidently measure our eX-
pectations of the future by the record
of the past? AS Pennsylvanians, re
gardless of our party alliances, shall we
not exult in such a showing rather than
| join hands and votes with those whose
| sole mission seems to be to hold our
| great state up to shame before the
country and preach that our people are
slaves and that their representatives
| I'm public life are thieves? II seems a.
| first glance incredible that men should
take the position Of some who are as
| sailing the Republican party In this
campaign, but treachery is as old as
| Iscariot and the practice of denouncing
successful leadership dates back to the
Book of Exodus. Then, as now, there
were those in Israel who forgot who
had led them up from Egypt and out Of
the state of bondage and while Moses
was engaged with more vital affairs
they took advantage of the weakness of
Aaron and said: up, make us gods
which shall go before us, for as for this
Moses the man that brought us up out
Of the land of Egypt, we wot not wha,
has become of him." And Aaron hav-
ing levied an assessment upon their
earrings and other trinkets, made and
set up before them golden calf say
ing, "These be thy gods, o Israel"
PROUD OF THE COMMONWEALTH
1t gives me unusal pleasure to recall
| " yOuI llttAbilGo AiG SEQUEL AA0GE6
came back. He came down from the
mountain and he smashed the golden
calf that had been the instrument of
leading a portion of Israel astray into
million fragments and made the
shame of those who had worshiped ii
to envelop them as a garment. 1 do not
believe the Republican party can be de-
luded into bending the neck or crook
Ing the hinges of the knee to any such
false gods as are now set before il in
this campaign. gild them how they
may. We are facing forward toward
the land of PROMISE not backward to-
ward the desert of Democratic domna-
ton. We are proud of our imperial com
monwealth and have no part or sympa-
thy with those who would make its
name a byword of reproach. We glory
in the shining history Of the Republi-
can party in the state as IN the nation.
and we will not vote to deprive our
selves of any part of our glorious heri-
tage therein.
There are men, as there always have
been, whose eyes are so focused that
they see only the spots on the sun.
They look at the splendors of the uni
verse through smoked glass and regard
nineteen centuries of Christian civiliza-
tloii' as d ldliuIe eACepl NHeh lhey are
holding office. The beginning and the
end of their creed is that of the Scotch
man in Glasgow. who declared that he
had come to believe that there are just
/ two honest men in all this town, meself
and Sandy McDougall. and at times I'm
sore doubtful about Sandy" We have
had them from the time of the men who
stood upon the street corner making
broad his phylacteries and gave thanks
that he was not like other men, and ]
dare say we will have them with us to
the end Of creation; but, under a mer-
ciful Providence, we are not required
either to accept their carpings as our
} confession of faith or follow their blind
leadership to our undoing.