The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-31

that he is bearing that burden with
SURPRISING patience, with splendid 10y
| alty and patriotism, and with the abil-
ity that comes from long years of mill
| tary training.
PROPHET AND PEOPLE.
| Portland Oregonian: I'VE shall not
depart from republican form of gov
| ernment.''
| 1t is the voice of Bryan, prophesying
in the Georgia wilderness. He has in
mind the active campaign of Dewey
and Roosevelt to destroy the republican
form of government and substitute for
it monarchy, theocracy, oligarchy, an
archy, or any old thing. Bryan is not
the man to keep silent when anything
of that kind or of any other kind is
going on. Given an assemblage of peo-
pie and Bryan, the result is speech
With prophetic vision he looks at the
political situation, and he says to the
expectant Georgians, eve shall not de-
part from a republican form of govern
ment."
Oracular as this utterance of the Ne
4 braska prophet appears, there is the
same amount of pertinence in it as if
he had said: We shall not elect An
drew Jackson President next year; or,
we shall not move the National Capitol
| to LoncOln; or, we shall not cause two
parallel lines to meet; or, we shall not
| hereafter require water to run uphill
But what Bryan means to imply is
that conquest is incompatible with re-
publican form of government. He seems
to imagine, or to think he can induce
4 others to imagine, that if the nation is
! to extend its borders it must first cast
off it's republican form of government
| He does not know, evidently, for it is
to be presumed he knows history pre-
| cisely as thoroughly as he knows
| finance, that Rome under republican
form of government, conquered about
| everything worth while within its
reach. After the fall of the monarchy
and the establishment of the republic
came the conquests of the Aequians,
the Volscians, the Etruscans, the Sam
mites, Sicily, Carthage and Greece. The
republics dominions in three CONT
nents embraced Italy, Sicily, Sardinia
Corsica, Cisalpine Gaul, Liguria, most
of Spain, the center Of Northern Africa,
Northern and Southern Greece and the
best part of Asia Minor. The Mediter-
The cause of Rome's decline is vari-
ously interpreted. The anti-imperial-
| list embraces the opportunity to find
that cause in the colonies. Colonial en-
pire, it is true, was followed by Rome's
| decline But it does not follow that
the colonies were the cause of that de-
cline. Not that which entereth in, but
that which corneth out, defileth a man.
The causes of Rome's decline lay with
in her.
DISLOYALTY BORDERING ON
| TREASON.
| Alameda Encinal: There is in Bos-
ton an Anti-Imperialistic League which
| bids well to gain for itself as bad a
reputation as did the Hartford Conven-
ton during the late war with Great
Britain Edward Atkinson. a free-tr
writer and anti-expansion agitator,
seems to be the piece of this nest
of mischief makers. as he is the author
of several pamphlets and articles
| against expansion and what he is
! pleased to call imperialism. If the ar
| ticles he and his associates have pub
| lished and are sending to the Philip
| pines be not reasonable they border
upon treason, and sedition very closely
and seem to have for their object the
| stirring up of discomfort among the vol
unteers who have been doing such hero
| ic work in and around Manila.
| For the first time in many years the
| government has interfered to stop the
! sending of such literature through the
mails. and large numbers of the Atkin-
son pamphlets. addressed to soldiers
and officers of the navy at Manila, have
been seized at San Francisco. The men
! engaged in this dastardly business
should be held in remembrance, as were
the members Of the disloyal Hartford
Convention. No man should live long
enough to outlive the odium of such dis
| loyalty. The army and navy are fight
/ ing to maintain the honor of this ma
ton and the supremacy of it's flag
where it has a right to float, and where
! it will float until the blessings of civil
and religious liberty have been con-
ferred upon the misguided Filipinos
Atkinson,i Hoar. Boutelle White, Ma
guire and others who are lifting up
their voices to condemn the policy of
! this government, could frame no differ
ent policy which would not disgrace the
nation at home and abroad. The time
|
herself amongst the nations of the
earth. 1t is doing it and it will show
to the world, in the fullness of time
that it means what it says when it
promises liberty and good government
to all the people over whom the flag
of the Republic floats. Edward Atkin-
son has won some considerable distinc-
| ton as an economic writer. Hoar, Bou-
| telle and White have some pretensions
| to political celebrity. and Mcguire, with
| his friend Barry. went down to defeat
| last fall before an avalanche of Re-
publican votes All these men are in
some degree noteworthy, but their OPP
position to the Spanish war and their
continual denunciation of the policy of
upholding the American flag and Amer
| lean supremacy in the colonies wrested
| from the cruel tyranny of Spain, will
| condemn them to obloquy for centuries
| to come, if they shall carry it to the
| extreme which Atkinson and Hoar and
few other members of the Anti-Ex-
pansion party seem determined to do,
No good American ever ,forgets Bene3
dict Arnold or Aaron Burr. No patriot
ic American will forget the disloyal SEN
timents and active opposition of such
men as now, for political purposes, try
! to SOW sedition and discomfort in the
| American army and navy now in the
| Philippines. They may as we'll give
open aid and comfort to our enemies.
1t is much the same. and that is trea-
! son.
| THE YELLOW MOB.
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