The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-12-30
erty in the city where the American
republic was Graded.

erty in the city where the American
republic was Graded.
"There is much in all this TO recall
the days Of the anti-slavery conten-
ton, when vested interests and the
power of the government were ar
rayed on the side Of suppression and
slavery, and carried the newspapers
with them. Capitalism is ever vigilant
for the thing that intrenched power
desires to establish or to perpetuate.
The story of liberty as it has been
worked out in this republic is full Of
parallels to the situation of today, and
men with a background of knowledge,
stirred by conscience and filled with
the principles of liberty set forth most
Complementary by Thomas Paine
and afterward slowly and fully en-
bodied in our government by the peo-
pie, are merely moved by the old tao
tics of opposition to firmer stand
and more devoted labors.
''There is nothing new under the
sun, not even in the betrayals Of lib
erty. is the dollar only real-God and
truth and right a dream?' asked Whit
tier, and the vast waste and mighty
tragedy of the war Of the rebellion
made answer. The fashion of be-
littling and disappearing those who
oppose the now declared purpose to
imperialize the one true republic of the
world runs on all tours with the pol
icy of long ago. If the defenders Of
the vital spirit of republicanism are
right, if tie cause Of government by
the people is enwrapped with their
contentious, the men who opposed the
ratification Of the treaty with Spain
as policy alien to the United States
and sure to lead to the evils and perils
which England faces today, cannot be
suppressed or ignored. Time is on the
side of pure republicanism as definite
ly and inexorably as it always has
been. More than that, light spreads
and fundamental truth gathers mo-
mentum.
go back step by step over recent
history and note what has come from
the strange recantation Of American
history. There is nothing surprising
in tit was all forecast and it is but
the beginning of evil results. There
can be no compromise with the essen
tials Of liberty and the right of self
government without Unreasonable
moral loss, blink them as men and ma
lions may. The reckoning days fol-
low ever after, immutably and fast.
Senator Hoar says that we have
'dishonered our great history that we
have 'trampled on the doctrines upon
which our own institutions are found
ed and 'contradicted the pledges Of
our fathers Who will venture to say
otherwise? Is it Senator Lodge, who
reports that the senate committee on
the Philippines will keep steadily in
view,' under his Craftsmanship, the i'm
portance Of American interests in
Gilman There are the American in
terests at home, the historic principles
Of republicanism, that are greater than
the sort of interests in China for
which he proposes to keep watch and
ward. Time will differentiate them
and settle their relative values. Well
is it for Massachusetts that her senior
senator holds the larger ideal and
fights and cares for the essential mat
ter. The greater forces, the loftier
principles, the dictates of the highest
honor and right can be trusted to
work out their own salvation in the
long run. A new and threatening ir-
repressible conflict has begun in the
United States. 1t will have to be
fought out to the end and it will be,
however bitter the contest may prove
to be-