The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-24
MR., DIXON ON THE MUGWUMPS.
The Only Unpatriotic Element L.
Our NafinnnI Life

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al honor, and he says so as follows:
In times of peace and political rou-
tine. it is hard for nation to know its
true friends and foes. In the dust of our
political arena we see things in distort-
ed light and make many mistakes. The
Republican calls the Democrat traitor,
and many foolish ones believe it. The
Democrat calls the Republican traitor,
and tho crowd cheer The PopuIist calls
them both traitors. and the former
chuckles. Tho Prohibitionist shouts that
tho whole crowd is hellward bound. and
the pious say amen. This is campaign
talk and we know it. a great crisis
must come to show us men as they are
Such a crisis has been produced by the
Cuban struggle and the destruction OF
the Maine.
The flash of that explosion has been
the searchlight that has laid bare the
secrets of our peoples souls. Some in
teresting facts have been brought to
light.
we have found that every section of
the union is loyal to the hearts core.
The only weakness of our nation has
L
War and came near wrecking the ship
of state. The old fear that it may still
shoulder in the hearts of the people has
haunted the past generation. The de-
monStration has come at last. We are a
united and invincible people. An ex-
Confederate soldier defends American
citizenship in Havana representing the
Union soldier who guards the honor of
the nation in the White House, while
from every nook and corner of North,
South, East and West rings the battle
cry of freedom-the mightiest cry that
ever rang over the mountains, plains and
seas of this tryant cursed earth. Seventy
millions of people, with a continent for
their home their resources exhaustless
as nature. one in sorrow, one in loyalty.
one in faith, one in the spirit of glorious
sacrifice.
I'VE have found that no dangerous
divisions of religion threatens US. Our
Roman Catholic citizens stand ready to
fight for the flag. The patriotic utter
ances of Catholic priests are not one
whit behind the most enthusiastic Pro-
testant. They stand today just where
that sturdy old American Archbishop
Hughes stood when he said: If a for
eign foo should invade America with the
pope at their head, 1 would meet him at
the narrows with solid shot"
The workingman has shown, that no
class hatreds or divisions can separate
him from the land of his love. He has
barred his breast and shown himself the
bulwark OF the nations defense.
Our nation is swept today by the
| cleansing fire of a revival of national
life. The spirit of humanity, of justice,
! of sacrifice as a sublime spiritual ex-
! altation fills the souls of the people.
| consuming greed and selfishness and
! pouring into the heart the sense of fell
| lowship and solidarity. Even a little boy
! seven years old sends his store of forty
eight pennies to the Secretary of the
! Navy with this letter: I have been
wanting to do something for my country,
| ! think now is the time, so | send you
all the pennies l have to help build u
new ship.
In all his grand oratorio of patriotism
and humanity there is but one discord.
1T is the voice of the SNUG slime
tongued Pharisee. the Mugwump. From
the beginning of the Cuban struggle for
| liberty, through all its horrors of blood
| ashes and starvation down to the last
| moment OF our own national crisis. this
| sulking traitor has been unpatriotic,
Apologize, brutal, cynical He has sys-
tematicalIy cursed and reviIed every
manifestation of American manhood
and sneered at every expression of hui
| man sympathy for the weak and the suf-
fering.
"He has shown himself an animal
| without Il soul, a brute without a coun-
| try. / did not say man without q coun-
| try. ] said brute. Manhood is the basis
| q 4 Is "a q
! patriot. Nor would | SANDER a dog by
| this comparison. A dog loves his home
! aye, even a yellow cur dog that skulks
the streets.Thi creature has fallen lower
| than the ycllowish yellow dog that ever
| died an exile whining for the memory
of home and better days. Nor would l
SANDER the monkey by alleging atavism
! as explanation. At the nenagerie
! people who look at the monkeys are al
ways laughing. But the monkeys who
look back at the people are always sad.
This fact has puzzled the scientist. We
understand it now. These monkeys are
sad because they know there are Mug
wums among US, and that we claim kin
| do not blame them for looking serious
| for while the monkey took to the tree
and man to the library. the ugliest ba-
boon from Africa can truthfuIly swear
that no child of his ever fell so low.
Monkeys at least retain some sense OF
Mugwump tioclls alone, unique in the
infamy OF his devlish spirit
Ills case is hopeless. because it is
leprosy of tho soul He eats the bread
Of liberty, while he curses Democracy
and fawns at the feet of titled fools.
He poses as a teacher and claims the
authority of learning. He has a veneer
of mediocrity that passes for wisdom.
and deceives the thOughtless. His learn
ing is humbug-hiS scholarship is a
sham. Some of these reptiles infest our
colleges They rattle their brains in their
little empty heads and scott at humanity
and justice in the next. Humanity is the
basis of international law Humanity is
the largest word this century has evolv-
ed. 1t is not in their vocabulary. Hear
this little fool professor: 1T is impTOba-
bic that the Spanish blew uD the Maine.
International law will not allow us to
; recognize the independence of Cuba The
/ Turks can massacre the Armenians as
long as they don't kill our missionaries
The Spaniards can Kill the Cubans at our
] doors so long as they do not modest us
If we all keep cool war may be averted.
| Undoubtedly. if we crawl into the cellar,
! get into the refrigerator and shut the
door there will be no war
? The Spaniards can kill the Cubans
2 | so long as they do not kill u.s. And
I | when they blow up our ship and kill two
: hundred and fifty of our sailors wearing
I our uniforms-then what? Then. merci-
| full God, listen, we must all keep cool-it
was spontaneous combustion, Ye SER
pents, we offspring of vipers, how shall
We escape the damnation of hell They
9 cannot escape ii. He'll was made for the
Y devil and his angels. If there is no he'll
. somebody will have to build one in which
to consume such leper trash. The mar
who declares that international law for
bids the recognition of a struggling re