Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1898-12-14
UNDER THEEQUATOR.


treat any subject that concerns the
public veal, religion. health, goo6
order, temperance, sanitary questions
science, Next to the Church, comes
ordered liberty, best government. Jesus
let fly sentence that disclosed Hi
opinion Of the pretty ruler Of His peo
PIE: Tell that fox."-Herod. Tht
people had no voice in the government
The crown of Judea was the gift o.
the conqueror. The Roman Tiberius
The placemen of the Idumean king
kept an alert ear and unwilling eye
near to the great Gahlean. Jesus
Stunned political themes and discour
aged tumults. Judea was not the Italy
of Garibaldi, nor Rome under the Tar
quius.
Among Americans, in theory the
citizen is the sovereign, and the Cleve'
lands and McKinleys are servants. II
is therefore, high duty to inform the
people either wrongs und their rights.
A sentiment OF Roman author. ut
tered in theatre lifted the uncounted
conconrse to their feet and the arches
shouted back the cheers. 81 am man
and humanity's affairs concern me-"
Since the flowers, now nippea by the
eager autumn frost, bloomed, a revolu-
ton in our government has occurred.
America has become an Asiatic power.
Providence hid this continent for CEN
turtles till the race had broken the fet-
tiers that bound the mind, and the Rel
ormation made ready people for the
experiment Of self government. Wash
ingtoD, by as great displays Of the out
stretched arm of God 40 Israel ever
saw, br ught deliverance. He inter
peted the purpose Of heaven-a repub-
lie on this continent, as separate from
all other nations as Isresl was, walled
in by worship Of Jehovah, by social
customs, aud even by prescribed bill
of fare, by making Jew disagree
able guest by reason of select vlands
and queer cooking, keeping him at home
by fear OF the sea and from conquest
Of distant nations by forbidding horses
,onfning him to the slow and stub
born mule.
This nstiod has cast aside the warn
ng of Washington and set at naught !
the decree of God. One year ago Con
yress shrunk from annexing the group
If islands on the highway to Asia-the
Hawaiian. In less than a revolving
rear they are incorporated as matter
# course. And mongrel population,
learly three times the numbers in the
Imerica of 1776, becomes Part of The
epubllc, as savage as Sioux and far in
'rior in social worth to the rice swamp
k-slaves. Our policy has been to
eep clear of entanglements by makingI
lis continent our limit. Asia is thel
estined Armagedoan-the battle
round of empires. America, like
lily, rushes to the fatal field and takes
'sition with challenging fists. Our
ission was peace. Our country was
g college to teach self-government.
The cautioning words Of Washing
gton, the lessons of history, the lead p
% of Providence have been discard "
secuted. And so did Isreal. When
e rulers of the chosen people aspired .
conquests and military allisnces'tben
hovah gave them over to ruin. -,
When students Of history and the y
'soned statesmen like Hoar.. of Bos- ~ ~
/, and Edmunds. of Vermont, protest =
the President and their party againt =
madness of incorporating the mil -
as of Malays six thousand miles :.
ay from our shores, we may shud- o
for ourselves. The industry and r
gality of Anglo-Saxons citizenship 49,
ct be confscated by taxes for army
ps and battle-ships to subdue oar ."
ow savages and protect them from W
ssia, Japan, England, each an Oori- w. w.
al Rmpire. Peace with Spain is ~
claimed. The war ended two Il"
nths ago, yet the extraordinary war ln'
enue continues and the party proph- 'ei
predict these emergency impcsts
remain permanent burden. -,
he army holding in subsection dis w
and restless peoples dictated the t -,
5 and the rulers to Rome. Our ''A
tic navy and our Asistic army will ,1a
o It's wishes to conventions and cam Va
ties. They may briog the Phil 90
no ballot on war ships to our shores :"