New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-06-15
sJingoism."

The following is an extract from one
of Editor Brann's speeches, delivered
just before his untimely death:
..NVhat Is .jingoism?' It is a word
coined by enemies of this country and
used by toad-eaters. It is a term which
under various titles, has been applied tc
every American patriot since our gran.
'sires held the British lion up by the eau.
dial appendage and beat the sawdust out
of the impudent brute since they ap-
pealed from crack. Drained king to the
Justice of heaven and wrote the charter
of our liberties with the bayonet on the
backs of CORVALLIS buccaneers. Its
synonym was applied to Thomas Paine,
the arch-angel of the revolution, whose
pen of fire made independence impera-
tive-who thro' seven long years Of
blood and tears famed Libe1ty's flicker
ing flame with his deathless faith that
the Omnipotent arm of God would up
hold the banner of the free. From the
brain of that much-maligned and long
suffering man Columbia sprang full-ra an
oplied, like Minerva from the brow of
Oiympian Jove. And what has been his
reward? In life he was bitterly belied
by the foes of freedom and the slaves of
superstition; in death, mighty wave
of calummy rolls above his grave. Great
er men have lived and died and been for
gotten, but a nobler heart ne'er beat and
broke-a grander soul neer struggled
toward the light or bowed before the
everything God. When the colonists
stood debating whether to bear their
present ills or fly to others they knew
not of, he seized the gage of battle and
flung it tull and fair in Britain's naughty
face. When defeat followed defeat, when
the newborn nation was bankrupt and
its soldiers starving in the field; when
coward lips did from their colors fly and
men brave as Roman tribunes wept tears
of grim despair, his voice rang out again
and again like that of some ancient
prophet of Israel cheering on tho faint
ing legions of the Lord, and again, and
again, and yet again the ragged barefoot
contiuentals set their breasts against the
bayonet, uutil from the very ashes of defeat
dear Liberty arose Phoenix-llke, god
dess III her beauty, titan in her strength.
"The term sjingoist' was applied to
Washington and Henry, to Jefferson and
Jackson. 1t was applied to James G.
Blaine, the typical American of his time
"a man from beneath whose very toe
nails enough Intellect might be scraped
to make hundred Clevelands or Nc
Kinleys. All we're jingoes in their. day
and generation, because all preferred the
title of sovereign to that of subject; be-
cause all believed that Columbia should
be mistress of her own fortune, instead
of an appanage of England Or political
orphan under European protectorate;
because all believed that she should pro-
tect her humblest citizen from wrong
and outrage wheresoever he may be-,
though it cost every dollar OF the ma
TONS treasury and every drop Of the ma
TONS blood.
"Who are those who recalcitrate about
jingoism? They are the people who
have never forgiven Almighty God for
suffering them to be born American SOW
re,gns instead of British subjects. They
are those whose ideal man is some stupid
forked radish, stuck DER with titles,
hung round with strings, and anxious to
board with wealthy American wife to
avoid honest work. They are people
whose god is the dollar, their country
the stock exchange, and who suspect
that foreign policy with as much back
bone as a scared rabbit would knock
some of the wind and water out of their
bogus ssecurities.' And these unclean
.harpies of greed and gall have been too
long permitted to dominate this govern
ment. The result is that the greatest ma
ton known to human history-the sum
and crown of things-is an object of
general insult. If a fourth-class power
insults our flag we accept Alppant
apology. If our citizens are wrongfully
imprisoned We wait until they are starved,
shot or perish of blank despair in dun
geons so foul that a hog would die there
in of broken heart, then humbly ask
permission to investigate, report that
they are dead, and feel that we have dis
charged our duty. When the church
people of this country elect me president
Of this republic, I'll have ante mortem
Investigations when American citizens