The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-22

snapiain or the penitentiary:
experts say there are nj ,arg. o.
our land scores Of thousands-sona mn,
the ngures at 200,OOO-of professIona,
criminals, who live at the EXPENSE os
me pubic. There are also multitudaa
sasrant and vicious ones who gain
rner livelihood by theft or beggarv.
&c" oi them are wage-earners. and all
are menace to the public only in a less
oesree than the professionals. Their
apooes, IL they have any, swarm with
chiidren who begin life with Inherited
moral and physical faint. They imbiba
impurity with their mothers' milk The
foul air they breathe deforms their bod~
les, and the companionship OF th,sve.
and drunkards and the obscene and
oaspnemous conversation which Is
ever dropping into their ears leave them
mithout any correct ideas on questions
OF morality. The evil that is born In
.nem is developed with their years and
'hey show themselves apt pupils in ev-
cry species of wickedness."
Here Is an army OF worse than Span-
iaros; they are not across the ocean.
they are mixed among US.
go
why don't some Of our warriors go
out to fight them? Alas! the reason
IL TOO plain. We can overcome this
army only as we overcome ourselves.
Ihey are TO be subdued only by daily
righteousness, liberality, purity and
self-denial by US We cannot meet them
with blare OF trumpets and beating of
tom-toms. but only by love and serv-
Ice. We cannot utilize against them
the cheap fury of race hatred or party
zeal, but our only enthusiasm must be
a genuine desire to help men. Let me
lnsinuate no reflection upon those who
nave gone to war for their country's
sake; but let me remind all that the
danger to this radiant republic lies not
in hostile nations abroad but in in
ward rottenness at home. 1t is always
easier to die for a noble purpose than
to live for it. If our country calls us
to go and fight a foreign foe there is
no doubt that plenty will respond. But
the deeper, silent cry of agony of our
dear land is for men and women who
will give life and money to insure clean
politics and honest councils, legislatures
and senates; for men and women who
will give up-not their blood-but their
greed and base ambition and petty
pride and dishonest practices, in order
that wealth may not be able to destroy
virtuous people, and in order that
the swarmiEg criminal classes may be
lifted by persistent, devoted effort into
true citizenship
Let us re-define patriotism. 1t has
been a willingness to go out with a
brass band and kill somebody for our
country's sake. Let 1t be also willing
ness to stay at home and save some-
body for our country's sake.
80
HERE'S TO WILLIAM MKINLEY.
The conduct of our president during
all these trying times of international
complication cannot fail to be source
of pride to every American. Never was
a ruler burdened with graver RESPONSE
bilities, never were questions more COM
plicated and critical imposed upon the
executive of any nation, and he has
borne all with dignity, GOODNESS and
courage Thoroughly equipped by a
long political intimacy with the Amer
lean public he has known how to dis
count the violent counsels Of the rash,
and how to penetrate to the sober sec
ond thought of the common folk He
has exhibited marks of that discretion
which made Lincoln so consummate a
statesman, and that firmness that was
Grants most admirable characteristic.
A certain portion of the public press
and of our public representatives have
done what they could to plunge the ma
ton into folly and coerce the president
ina tntemperate and unadvised haste.
But the true statesmen of all parties
In congress have rallied around him
and together they have assured the
people that our interests are in safe
hands. In times of national peril the
commander in chief, as exPresident
Harrison said, has duties that he can
divide with no one. For the time being
he alone must assume the entire bur-
den of responsibility. But he Is after
ward to give an account at the bar OK
public opinion for all his acts Sensible
and Just men of all political faiths should
wait until 1.-The incident is closed until
the evidence. much of which is now
necessarily concealed as a matter OF
public prudence, is all made plain be-
fore they condemn him. and in the
meanwhile they should everywhere pray
that that God, who stands for the deep
sense of honor and right among this
people, may uphold and guide him. The
insinuation that he is in any small de-
gree controlled by sordid or CONNER
cial motives at this time, is beneath
contempt. That such charges are made
is one indication of the utter moral
lesion which is one of the effects OF the
war spirit