Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-01


sets, speech made in the House Of
Representatives On March 5, 1899. 1t
can be found On page 1874 of the Con-
gressicnal Record of that date, and
oblige,
AN OLD-TIME REPUBLICAN.
Following is the excerpt asked for:
In the masterpiece of Ae2chines,
which was second only to the master
piece Of Damosthenes, the Athenians
were warned that in granting crowns
they were forming the character of
their children. Let us apply the
thought OF Ae3chines to our own times
as We pronounce his words:
Most OF all, fellow citizens, if your
sons ask whose example they shall imi-
tate, what will you say? For you
know we'll it is not music, nor the
gymnasium, nor the schools that mould
young men; it is much more-the pub
lie proclamation, the public example.
Ii you take one whose lie has NO high
purpose and crown him in the theatre,
every boy who sees it is corrupted. Be-
ware, therefore, Athenians, remember
ing Prosperity will rejudge your judg-
nent, and that the character of a city
is determined by the character Of the
men it crowrs."
recommend this page Of Aeschinss
to William Mckinley If American
boys and American soldiers see that
the king crowns only catering servility
and toadyism, then what will remain
to promote valCr, courage and heroic
sacrifice On fields of battle? If cring
ing political manipulation3 by ingrat-
ing themselves on the President can
achieve the highest military and naval
hCnors, then what inducement will re-
main to the honest, stern and stead
fast soldier to seek promotion along the
legitimate lines of his high calling?
When the emperor makes his mouse a
consul, honest men will decline to
snare IN the COESulS1lQ.
l repeat The thought and reiterate
the demand that we return to the con-
sideration and prosecution Of the great
business and mission Of the American
republic. Let us look after The better
ing and enrolling of our own 100000
of people and their posterity. Let us
remember that q chain is no stronger
than its weakest link; and let us re-
member that the republic will be no
stronger against the foreigner than
our weakest and most remote island
possession. And let Us never forget
that it was Abraham Lincoln, who had
no desire for ponlp or glory, VINO saw
no hope in empire and militarism, who
gave it as his judgment that
All the armies CT Europe, Asia and
Africa combined, with Napoleon for
commander, could not by force take
a drink from the Chic river or make a
track on the Blue Ridge Mountains in
a trial of a hundred years. If destruc-
ton be our lot, we must ourselves be
its author and finisher. As. a nation
of freemen we must live through all
time or die by suicide. For the past
two years it has been conspicuous that
the party which to-day arrogates to
itself the name OF Lincoln, and pro-
claims itself the guardian and conser-
vator of honesty and national honor"
does not dare to quote from Washing
ton, nor jefferson, nor Jackson, ncr
Lincoln, or any of the great questions
which are before the American peo-
pie. And with the hope that the des-
potism and tyranny Of a boss-ridden
majority may not destroy free speech
and free thought, let US turn our at
tontion to the heather after we have
cared for our own family; let Us create
new pensioners after we have settled
with the soldiers who saved the In
ion; let us Christianize the Filipinos
after we have taught our own people
not to tolerate man in the United
States Senate who secures his seat by
bribery and fraud; let us Christianize
the Filipinos after We have secured
equal opportunities for the sons OF the
poor with the sons of the rich; let US
Christianize the Filipinos after the bu-
siness man Of small means shall be re-
stored to equal opportunities for exist
ence with the syndicates and the
trusts; let us Christianize the Filipinos
after We have established in America
that democratic doctrine OF the labor
organizations, AN injury to the least
Of us should be the concern Of all OF
us" Let US attend to the business OF
the Filipinos after we nave no business
of our own.
For these reasons l want to go on
record as fayoring the $4,000, 900 ap-
preparation, because we can not afford
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