Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-11-02

JEFFERSON III TlulnK OIL nOTSeUHCk W tuo
capital on Inauguration day, dismounting
without assistance, and quietly and UNI
attended, going before the chief justice
in his private chambers aud taking the
oath Of Office. The glory Of republican
simplicity, Of moral, Chrstlike character,
would have destroyed the popular admir-
alton for the glttering gewgaws Of snob-
ocratic imperialism.
l am no milk and water religionist or
emotional sentimentalist. admire phys
ical courage as much as anyone, but
admire moral courage infinitely more;
and I know that a physically brave man
may be moral coward. believe in the
sword, just as much as does Gov. Roose-
welt, or Rudyard Kipling, or Henry NJ.
Stanley. recognize the great work it
has done for God and humanity in this
world; but recognize also the work it
has done for the devil In the hand Of
Cromwell the sword was Gods thunder
bolt. In the hand Of the Duke Of Alva it
was the DEVILS pitchfork. l believe in
the sword when justice and right demands
that it shall be unsheathed. Justice and
right demanded that 1T should be un.
sheathed against Spain and Gods bless
ing was on it, as much fer Spain as for
the United States, as will yet be demon
strated. But justice and right did not
demand that it should be unsheathed
against the Filipnos. 1t was in violation
OF justice and right that it was unsheathed
against the Filipinos, and, therefore. not
Gods blessing but his curse is sure to at
tend it. i believe in God the Father AL
mighty, maker Of heaven and earth. He
is living God and rules the destinies of
men and nations now as always. He
rules through law, and His law is perfect
justice. The punishment which ineyita.
bly, follows the violation Of that law may
seem to us, in our ignorance, long delayed,
but is as certain as life, as certain as
death. He who doubts this an atheist.
History attests it on every page. The
world is the graveyard Of dead empires,
destroyed by Gods curse for infracted
law. Shall Uncle Sam dare the vengeance
Of the Almighty? Are those OF us who
tremble for Uncle Sam when he draws his
sword in an unjust cause, towards and
traitors? Are we "the friends OF Aguin-
aldo" because we seek to save our country
from the wrath OF Heaven? 1t is not
love Of Aguinaldo or the Filipinos that
moves us, but the love Of Uncle Sam,
and the knowledge that his sword, drawn
in an unjust cause, will some day be
turned, by Gods hand, and made to en-.
ter his own vitals.
There are some OF US these days who
are getting little apprehensive that I'm
Gle Sam is not going to fulfill the promise
Of his youth, that his head is being turned
by having such big bank account, and
that he is getting ashamed Of his home
spun clothes, and is yearning after foreiga
toggery, and epaulets and plumes. He
appears to be getting fonder Of hob.nob-
bling with money bag-scrubs, epauletted
gods and bedizened diplomatic monkeys
than with the horny-handed sons Of toll
who have made him all he is. o, Uncle
Sam! Uncle Sam! If Abraham Lincoln,
the rail-splittcr, was the power behind
your throne today in place Of Mark Han
ma. we would have better hope OF you.
When the backwoodsman and the rail.
splitter in your character entirely disap
pears in the dollar.marked plutocrat, then
a long farewell to all your greatness.
Prove true to your birth and antecedents,
to the tutelage Of Washington, and JET
ferson and Jackson, and you will develop
into bigger man, in character if not in
body, than you promise to do at this writ
ing. Prove true ito the dreams of your
YOUTH" and let your national anthem be
"a mans man for a. that" Animated
by that spirit you will refuse to bludgeon
baby. You will have the manliness
when you have committed a mistake or
done wrong to admit it before the world
and to set about repairing it at once. You
will introduce the schoolnaster al d the
Declaration OF Independence to the Fill.
pinos and withdrawing your Mauser guns.
will protect the untutored children Of
nature from the civilizing influence Of
saloons, syphilis and shylock. Do this,
Uncle Sam, and God, if not the newspaper
press, will bless you. The children will
be taught that jesus Christ and George
Washington are our true heroes, and not
the little creatures Of the present hour.
"Seek God and His righteousness (that
is, do justice and right, Uncle Sam) and
all these other things Chat is, material pos
sessions, commercial development, etc.,
will be added unto you," with no need to
employ the sword. You have Gods word
for it. That is the "White Mans Bur-
den," the "Anglo-Saxon responsibility"
that you ought to take upon yourself.
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