Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-14
WHEELING, VA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1895.
nopoly which underlies both the gold
standard and the paper money trusts.

without abandoning the old. TIE Re-
publican party has demanded that the
standing army be increased to 100000
men. If citizens born in the United
States are ignorant of the burdens OF
standing army, they can receive in
structiOns from those born in Euro
pean countries. Many Europeans who
are now worthy citizens of this great
republic left their European homes be-
cause of the burdens imposed by the
enormous military establishments. A
great army may be a good thing for
the railroad companies which will carry
them from place to place and for the
large contractors who will furnish food
and raiment for the soldiers, but it is
a distressing burden upon the plain
people of the country, especially upon
the laboring men and the farmers, upon
whom an unfair share of the load has
fallen.
Upon the subject. of imperialism,
need only add a word. The idea of
forcible conquest and of colonization
after the plan adopted by European
countries cannot receive the support
of the people of this country, when
the principles involved are clearly UNI
derstood. In 1859 Abraham Lincoln
was invited to attend Jefferson ban
quet given by the Republicans of Bos-
ton. Those whose memories run back
to the ante-bellum days remember that
the declaration of independence formed
a large part of Republican speeches in
the early days. 1t was made a part
of the first platform on which Lincoln
ran. That Lincoln was welded to the
fundamental doctrines set forth in that
declaration, no one will dispute. In
expressing regret that he could not at
tend the Boston banquet, Mr.. Lincoln
used these words in regard to Thomas
Jefferson: All honor to JEFFERSON; to
man who in the concrete pressure
of struggle for national independence
by a single people had the cOOlness,
forecast and capacity to introduce into
a merely revolutionary document an
abstract truth applicable to all men
and all times. and so to embalm 1t
there that to-day and in all coming
days it shall be rebuke and STUN
bling block to the harblngers OF tyr
amy and oppression
"And vet the leaders of the Republic
can party are attempting to repudiate
the doctrine of equal rights and or SELL
government given to us by the fore
the monarchies of the old world in their
policies, but they are copying the IAN
guage of monarchs in carrying out their
policy
.sThe policy of imperialism is always
defended on the ground that it is for
the good of the people governed, but
we have never recognized the right OF
anv nation to benevolently assimilate
another nation.
Ex-senator John L. Mitchell. OF
Wisconsin. whose theme was Thomas
Jefferson" devoted his entire address
tn eulogy of the founder OF Democ-
racy.
John F. Doherty, of La Crosse, an
swered to the sentiment "The Young
Democracy; Thomas I. Cleary, of
Platteville, on Party Honesty is Party
Duty: Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago,
responded to Corruption in Politics.
Mavor David S. Rose, of Milwaukee,
spoke on imperialism; Judge Hiram
w. Sawyer, of Hartford, on Shall
Trusts and Corporations Ruler and
George w. Peck on "If Soldier Does
Not Like His Rations-What?"
DR.. Howard S. Taylor, of Chicago,
read an original poem on Jefferson.
Mayor Harrison said in part:
at lies in the power of the young
Democracy of the nation, if it will but
set to work in the first trenches. to
carry forward the crusade of purity in
notifies until corruption shall have
been driven from high places, until
honesty shall control in every depart
ment of municipal, the State and the
national government. Stalwart young
Democracy needs not look far for an
incentive. The example is set for it
in the person of our national leader.
Two years ago the party made its tight
under a leader with private life as
stainless, with personal character so
blameless. the people followed him
and follow him still, with such zeal
as the crusaders displayed for the
paladins of old.
ours is the party Of the people.
Unless we serve the people honestly
and fairly, we are faithless to our
trust. Duty requires us to strike the
first blow at corruption within our own
marty ranks. Let the word go forth,
the Democracy will not tolerate man,
no matter how profuse his professed
devotion to the party creed, who does
not place his obligation to the public
alton. In 1900 bitter struggle awaits
us. The old fight must be made again,
a fight along the lines laid down in the
platform of the last Democratic con-
vention for the rights of the plain peo-
pie; a fight against corruption and all
it's awful menace to the republic; a
fight against the trusts that seek to
make of this nation, founded upon the
theory of the absolute equality OF all
men. a serfdom submissive to the pow
err and the arrogance of wealth, a fight
for everything that will lift the people
higher. a fight against everything that
will restrain the public in the onward
march of its triumphant destiny. II
we remain true to the theory and the
practice of what Democracy means and
stands for, there is no need to doubt
the successful issues OF the COMBAT.
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