Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-05-26
GsssS County arrala.
ISLAND PoxD, May &c.
Go on to China.

let ms 60 ON. 90 on. 80 on NNlil
We hack Ny against the walls oi odd
China. W. have NO business a. ana
isolated nation. Our civilization
belongs 10 the world. The Amrri-
can soldier is uni the soldier of our
own land. hat the American Suldirr
is the soldier Of civilization. II yuu
please.
81 am not one Of ihOsr who are
frightened hy the ghost OF imper-
ialism and expansion; nor am ! oi
the opinion that this government
should be ruled or governed by the
utterances Of men who lived one
hundred years ago. because ! know
that in their widest dreams they
never foresaw the great and o'ernas-
tering destiny awaiting the govern
ment they had created"
The above extracts from the speeches
o., public men fifty illustrate the danger
uas tendencies of the times The men
g., lmdred years ago lin their widest
-nams" never foresaw the spectacle of
men who had sworn to support the con
stitution of the United States standing
before an American audience and max
ing such startling avowalS as the above,
md yet there are some who openly de-
clare that this impulsive movement is
stronger and more to he respected than
the simple constitution because the con-
5titution is not adapted to present con-
litions. The statement is that it was
made for a democratic form of govern
ment and was good enough to he used
by men hundred years ago to construct
that kind of government, but it is not
at all adapted to a Wholesale monarchy,
and this is what that revered school of
men one hundred years ago dill not fore
see sin their widest dreams" We should
no longer "be ruled Or governed by the
utterances of men who lived hundred
years ago" As monstrous and outrage
GUS as such a doctrine is. and as startling
rs this open avowal of it is, it is yet pre-
ferable to the language of many who
claim that the present proposed policy
and methods are in accord with the prin-
ciples, designs and methods adopted by
the fathers of the republic. Robbery is
less odious when it is open and bold.
Treason is less contemplate when open
to common observation than when covert
and when the actor is pretending to act
in accordance with the laws of his coun-
try while in fact he acts the contrary.
Conditions are ripe for men to say with
out creating surprise that it was really
the intention of the fathers to create a
republic in which the consent of the ppo-
pie should be the basic principle of all
public authority and run it on that the
DRY until it became strong and then con-
vert it into huge monarchy and buy
and sell power and dominion and rule mil
lions without their consent and against
their will. America was enough and good
enough for those old fellows but now
The American soldier is not the soldier
of our own land. but the American soldier
is the soldier of civilization, if YOU
please" Liberty was good enough for
those old waybacks, and one Webster
spoke some nice pieces about it, but he
is now excused for applying the terms
'now and forever" to it because he was
only stirring up those irrepressible old
fellows with some kind of a hyperbole
Men were created "equal then but it is
not so now. None are equal now but
vour father and l."
The old abandoned theory that was
yell enough for men who lived one
hundred years ago" was that govern
ments derived " their just powers from
the consent of the governed but now
government derives them from Spain
If these principles shall be adopted who
can fail to see that the country will be
come a wild swirling mob, breaking away
from all constitutional restraints, going
on and on and on until it backs up
against China and INDUCES in wilc
dreams of spreading Philippine civiliza
ton over all the earth!