Iron County register., 1898-04-28

Il all became apparent, the president not
/ knowing what the facts were, did not
know whether the Monroe doctrine was
/ involved. Congress let him down easy by
providing for the appointment of a COM
/ mission to find out whether there were any
| facts in the entire case which Were of In
pointed. 1t has not yet reported. and it is
doubtful whether it ever viii, and the en-
tire episode is almost forgotten.
| Another Solution.
| 1.-THE managers of the administration,
seeing that the country was condemning
/ its policy and seeing that their saturnalia
| Of bond jobbing and money making by
the aid of the federal administration must
| come to an end unless something was dones
and knowing that the American people ia
| vored the Monroe doctrine, hit upon the
| brilliant idea of having the president issue
| this proclamation, believing that 1t would
| arouse the patriotism of the country, cause
a movement among the people in his favor,
so to enable these managers to renom-
| mate him for the fourth time and reelect
| him for the third term. But the patience
| of the American people had run its limit
| and the scheme failed. The term drew to
| an end and Mr.. Cleveland, who originally
| entered the white house poor, now retired
| the possessor of great wealth.
He had thrice been nominated and twice
| elected president by the great democratic
party of this country. He had spit upon
every one of its tenets. He had trampled
every one of its principles into the ground
and he had succeeded in destroying its
hopes. A year before his last term ended,
| when the democrats began to cast about,
| they found that everything they held sa-
! cred had been turned over to the enemy,
| the country was weary and the situation
was hopeless.
Party in Despair.
MANY stalwart democrats doubted
whether they could carry a single township
| in the United States Hamiltonism had
| been put on horseback by the so-called
democratic president, and we were being
| cursed for it. In their despair the demo-
Gratis of America rose in their might and
overthrow this false god with all of the
money-making priests who hung about his
affairs. Then they kindled new fires upon
the altars of liberty, they raised again the
banners of Jefferson and they went forth
and fought the greatest battle for justice
and humanity ever fought on this conu-
nent, and to-day you see their tents all
over the country. They are In the nelos
they are eager and anxious for the Tray,
they are determined to redeem this land
and in this great fight we beholo GroVer
Cleveland joining hands with Mark HAN
ma for the destruction of the party that
made him. We see him joining hands with
the forces of corruption and debauchery
that are running our country, but che ca
rousal of the stall-fed classes, the long
night of dissipation Is nearing an END. DAY
is dawning and the democracy VIII soon
enter upon the morning of new and slori-
Gus career.
Contrast Summed Up.
"Glancing now at the administrations OF
Mr. Cleveland, we see the palsied hand OF
greed shaping the policy and marring the
destiny of a great nation; we see goloen
gods, bonded affairs, syndicate priests ana
interest-bearing gospels; we see the dol
lar made the master and man made the
slave; we see toll dtsheartened and hu-
manity weary; we see hypocrisy entnroneo @
and false pretenses sanctihed; we see pa
triotism sold and find honor on the market;
we see people betrayed and democracy
crippled, and, finally, we see it all amid the
contempt of the honest and the curses OF
the Door But when we turn to JEFFERSON
we breathe a different atmosphere, we
stand beneath a different sky and gaze on
a different sun. Here are the affairs or I'D
erty-equality and justice-from Which
radiate those forces that encourage the
toiler, that cheer the patriot, that ennoble
a people and that build state.
Here we see man who courted not the
rich, who served humanity, who faced OBJ
louuy who stood for principle, who be-
trayed no constituency and who shirked no
duty, and, finally, we see him loaded with
benediction, his memory encircled with
glory and his name enshrined in immor-
tality. On, my countrymen, comparison In
impossible, but contrast is instructive.
Since his day generations of public mon
equally learned, equally able and equally
Industrious, have lived and have gone.
whose names are forgotten and whose
ashes are lost. They did nothing for hu-
manity; they traded in influence they Jug
gled in politics and they lost a career.
Now, my friends, for nearly 1900 years
the disciples of Christ have gone to His
altar to get a new Inspirations stronger
faith-a higher purpose and loftier ideal,
and they have come away with a firmeF
resolve to maintain His standard and to
carry His Gospel to the ends of the earth.
So, after seeing the desolation wrought in
our country by the precepts of Hamilton
4 -, Al,ze g.,
at the affairs of Jefferson to get a new in
spiration, a stronger faith, loftier pur-
pose, and let US go away with a firmer re-
solve to maintain his standard and to carry
the principles of democracy not only to the
ends of the earth, but to the end of time"