The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-04

and protects his person and HE property
In his life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness.
The atmosphere OF his native land his
! intellectual and moral training, a free and
untrammeled press and rho privilege OF
worshipping his Creator according TO the
dictates of conscience, have combined to
I build up wonderful race. Heterogeneous
IN nationality still are they homogeneous
IN the one great underlying principle OF
individuality that has erected and sus.
! Gained the grand, beautiful and SYMMETRY
cal temple OF liberty, It's solidlty is by.
through and for those who have erected Il,
by the consent OF the governed.
Every race that lays claim to ciylllza-
ton has Its strain in the American veins,
and Its lifc-blood Is the one vital essence,
the undying Are, the virgin fame of free
dem, political and religious, No wonder
then that the dominant Engllsh-Saxon In
fusion has erected such a wonderful, en-
thusiastio and patriotic people,
Here is found tho grandest type of hui
man manhood. The splendor OF perfected
courage. bravery and daring. The acme
of Intellectual grandeur. out of which have
sprung the most brilliant military chief
lains, diplomats. statesmen, inventors.
sages, philosophers, poets, historians and
scientists The descendants OF the pm
grim and revolutionary fathers have
climbed into dizzy attitudes in mental
training and development In their race
Tor pre-eminence and their ambition to
excel
Their achievements are the wonder Of
The rulers--emperors. kings and princes
of the totterlng and top-heavy dynasties
% Europe and Asia, with their hereditary
SUGGESTIONS, their moneyed, titled aud
bioodod arlstooracy, that time makes ef-
iete, and ambition and conspiracy mark
with decay and destruction
Yet with all lis power and glory, its
civillzing and refining forces and in
iluences, its LOFTY intellectual ability. eT-
iulgenco and pre- emineuce, the Republic
seems about reaching the acme of modern
civilization. Wherefore?
Into 1t is creeping the gangrene OF tho
ages, the canker that has heretofore Slapped
the vitality and undermined the founda-
liens that have upheld Kingdoms and prin-
clpnlties. Human ambition has invoked
the lust OF gold and the greed Of gain as
the fulcrums Of power. Might Is over
riding virtue and right The glded hand
Of wealth lis invoking the corrupung in
liuences of it's lust and rapne to debase
and debauch the people. and stlll the voice
OF liberty II Is putting n price on the
boasted right Of that individual sovereignty
which is the mighty weapon OF freemen
Awed by influence and bribed by gain
even lne press is no longer pledged TO re-
ligon, liberty and law.
The conspirHoles of aggregated wealth
under the guee cf trusts and combines, is
storming tho very citadel of human lib
cry TO dethrnne. degrade and destroy It,.
There is but one foil, one safeguard to it's
insidous encroachments. That lies in the
masses, tho incorruptible producers, the
patriotic toilers who are tho defenders and
champions Of virtue--true worshlppers Of
God and passionate lovers OF native land.
The reckless robbery Of the producers
Of wealth, the unfeoling gambling IN lifes
necessities the wllfu assaults on the
rules OF political economy. the curtail-
mont Of supply tho enhancement Of prices.
the remorseless control OF values by ag-
gregated wealth, are gathering storm
clouds that viii prociptate an appalling
outburst of wrath Either tho might Of
law must be invoked or recourse had to
that final resort which teaches self preser-
vation
Trusts and monopolles must bow to jus
tice and public opinion, or, grown insoent
and over-conhdcnt in the reign OF gold,
become the victims OF anarchy and rovo-
lu'on, free people, such as the Amer
leans, will not tamely rolnquish their
blood bought liberty without a,desperate
and deadly struggle to retain it. The trusts
must'f 70. VIII II. Tunnard