The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
LIMOGES ARE PATRIOTS.
Stirring Words From Old Red, White
and Blue Joseph MedilL

Chicago, March 3.-The Tribune pub
fishes the following editorially:
The jack rabbits and the mugwumps
have deliberately and persistently mis-
represented the attitude of the jingoes
in the present crisis of our relations
with Spain and especially since the ex-
plOsion of the battIeship Maine in Ha-
vana harbor. They have sought to
make people believe that the jingoes
were forcing the country into war This
might be expected from the jack rab-
bits because they are scary creatures,
afraid of their own shadows. The
mugWumpS, however, have been the
most conspicuous and deliberate liars.
The mugwumps are Tories, but they
differ from the English Tories. The lat
ter love England. The former do not
love the United States. If a war were
threatened between England and any
other nation, the English Tories would
rally to the defense of their country.
Now that there is possibility of war
with Spain the mugwumps rally to the
defense of Spain and clamOr VOciferOus-
ly that we are in the wrong. That is
the kind of a puSillanimOUS creature
the mugwump is. He differs in this re-
spect from the jack rabbit. The jack
rabbit is opposed to fighting any one.
He simply wants an illimitable area for
the display of his running capacity. The
mugwump, if he must fight, would
rather fight for Spain.
But both the mugWumpS and the jack
rabbits have lied about the limoges
They are agreed that the lingo is like
the Irishman at DOnnybrOOk Fair and
they give out the impression that he is
going about with a club in his hand in
viting some one to tread on his coat
tails that he may have the pleasure of
knocking him down.
The jingO on the other hand is the
patriot when his country is in trouble
or when it is threatened with trouble
by an alien power. If it is in actual
trouble he is ready to fight for it. If it
is menaced with trouble then he be-
HeVes in getting ready to meet and
overcome that trouble. George Wash
ingtOn was the original lingo in this
country and there is not much danger
of going wrong by following his advice.
In his farewell address he said:
1.-The United States ought not to in
dulge a persuasion that, contrary to the
order of human events, they will for
ever keep at a distance those painful
appeals to arms with which the history
of every other nation abounds. There
is a rank due to the United States
among nations which will be withheld,
if not absolutely lost, by the reputation
of weakness. If we desire to avoid in
suit we must be able to repel it; if we
desire to secure peace, one of the most
powerful instruments of our rising
prosperity, it must be known that we
are at all times prepared for war;
This is the platform of the jingO-tO
avoid insult by being able to repel it, to
secure peace by being at all times pre-
pared for war, to secure the rank
among the nations que TO the united
States by not exposing ourselves to the
reputation of weakness. The original
English lingo was a patriot. His senti-
ments are expressed in the well known
verse:
We don't want to fight. but. by jingo. if
we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men,
we've got the money, too.
The lingo does not want to fight
merely for the sake of fighting, but if
he is forced to fight he wants to be sure
that we have the ships, and the men,
and the money, too, and that we are
going to use them. He doesn't want his
country to live, move, or have it's being
upon the consent or at the mercy of
any other country. He wants it to
stand on it's own feet, independent of
all other countries, and to be ready to
take the initiative in defending its
rights without asking permission of any
one. He does not want to be an ag-
gressor, but he wants to stand up for
the cOuntry'S cause and not only give
as well as receive blows but give hard
er blows than he receives. That is a
statement of the lingo creed, and the
Tribune believes that it is a good,
sound, patriotic creed and worth the
consideration of any man who is not
physically jack rabbit or mentally a
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