The Irish standard., 1898-11-26
OUR LITTLE MAN OF DESTINY.

OUR LITTLE MAN OF DESTINY.
Years ago. says the Boston Pilot, before
Major Mckinley was thought of for pres
ident Of the United States, the diverting
| playwright, Mr.. Charles Hoyt. wrote a
| farce comedy called "a Milk White
Flag" the same being biting satire on
| orable artillery company of Boston, the
| Eoston Lancers, the dandy" stay-at-
| home 7th regiment, of New York, and
| other crack corps"--we do not know the
| plural of CORPS" but are sure it isn't
"corpses." for they never risk their pre-
| cious bodies in battle. Among the lead
ing characters of that comedy was per-
| sonage who proudly declared that Ma
poleon the Great resembled me-" The
| actor who assumed the part was made
up to look like the great emperor. and
bore himself as such throughout the play.
Was Mr.. Hoyt unconsciously a proph-
ct? We ask the question because the
present exalted ruler of the United
States appears to be aiming to fill the
! tragic-comic role. He is told by his fiat
terers that he resembles Napoleon in
person. The un-courtier eye fails to dis
Germ the likeness. but Mr. Mckinley
seems to recognize in his own lineaments
the counterpart of the Man of Destiny.
Hence he speaks, with impressive SOL
emnity Of destiny" So spake and acted
the pinchbeck sovereign Napoleon the
Little emperor of the French. So spake
and acted William Walker "the Grey
Eyed Man of Destiny whose destiny
led him to destruction before a file Of
riflemen at Trujillo, Honduras. on GER
tain memorable day in the year 1860.
Wiser than Washington. who was not
wholly a fool: juster than Jefferson. who
knew something of human rights: loftier
than Lincoln. who trusted the common
people from whom he sprung, Mr.. Nc
Kinley purposes abandoning every ira
ditiOn oil the fathers of the republic and
subverting the constitution itself in or
der to carry out the DEGREES Of his Can
ton. Ohio, DESTINY"
Has the republic, founded by the wis
est of patriots and cemented by the blood
of the bravest of men. come to this pass,
and are all the hopes of human liberty
to be sacrificed to the silly ambitions of
the Hanna Alger-McKinley combination
placing the several members of the
combine" in their due order OF pre-
cetlence? 1t was hot for such result
that the men of the continental congress
pledged their lives, their fortunes. and
their sacred honor.
Should SEain refuse to surrender the
Philippines. 1t is said that the admins
tration will Immediately resume hostii-
ties against SPAIN Will the administra-
ton dare take up such a position. and.
if it should. will the people sustain it?
We trust not.
We say. weighing the full meaning Of
every word that it is not the duty of
any American citizen to enlist in the
military service of the country for any
such nefarous purpose. On the contrary,
1t is the duty OF every honest American
to oppose such policy by word and
deed. The constitution and the fare
we'll address OF Washington both forbid
MS from adopting such a fatal policy.
James Russell Lowell inditing his
Hosea Bglow" papers. made his hero
remark that
John p. Robinson. he.
Says they didn't know everything down
in Judee.'
The doctrine of mine and thine was
forgotten in our lust Of conquest during
the Mexican war. 1t appears to be equally
ignored now in our ostentatious war
for humanity But the standard estab-
lshed down in JUDGE" is the standard
of Christianity, and by it we must and
shall he Judged if we transgress Gods
law by stealing the vineyard of Naboth.
even to the extent of the smallest vine.