Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-12

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| grateful people, thereby adding to
his immortal fame as soldier imper-
lshable renown as a statesman.
Upon this broader financial issue of
whether the government shall retain
the function of issuing money or shall
abdicate in favor of the National Bank
association thou ands of honest and
patriotic men will rally under our ban
ner who fought US in 1896. These,
Mckinley Republicans, viii give ux
the victory, consummation devCuuy
to be wished
Startling Mefamorphosfs.
As an exercise in mental philosophy
1t is interesting to trace the tortuous
steps by which the Republicans have
advanced from the position once held
by Senator William b Allison of Iowa
in favor of the free coiElge of silver to
that of Lyman J. Gage in favor of the
single gold standard without quaIifica-
tion and without disguise. Nothing in
the entire history of the human race
more thoroughly demonstrates the
truth of Alexander Pope's famous
quatrain:
Vice is monster Of 50 frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
The startling metamorphosis of Re
publicans from free silver advocates to
gold standard propagandists is not the
only illustration of their capacity for
somersaultiBg. If Abraham Lincoln,
William H. Seward and Salmon 2.
Chase could revisit the gEimpses of
the moon, they would fail utterly to
recognize the men who are now run
ming the party as Republicans. The
plain, unyarnished truth is that the Re
publican party resembles a hill of Do
tatoes more than anything else, for the
best part of it is under ground. The
newfangled and un-Ameriean doctrine
of Asiatic imperialism has led the Re
publican party into repudiating every
idea for which Lincoln stood.
Forty-three years ago the great God
and Morality party started out to ex-
tirpate 'the twin relics of barbarism,
slavery and polygamy" Everybody
thought that it was definitely settled at
place called Appomattox, in the state
of Virginia, in April. 1865; that one of
the twins-to wit, slavery was effectu-
ally and definitely done for, but that
everybody was mistaken on that sub
ject is thoroughly demonstrated by the
following dispatch from Washington:
ed at the state department today to present a
statement relative to the i'll treatment OF cody
labor in the Hawaiian Islands. He asserts that
the supreme court Of Hawaii, by its rulings, is
sustaining a system of slavery of the worst kind
in the islands, in violation Of the constitution
of the United States. He asked that the attorney
general be requested to declare whether or not
the constitution applies to the islands,
So, after 43 years, we appear to be
going in at the same hole we came out
of. Nor is Hawaii the only portion of
our new possessions in which the first
of the twins fiourishes, for in the realm
of the sultan of Sulu not only that
twin fiourishes. but the other also; for
our treaty with that pygmy potentate
provides that he shall be permitted to
practice poIygamy and slavery within
his realm wherever that may be. How
are the mighty fallen! The early Re
publicans deluged the continent in
blood to emancipate "our brother in
black latter day Republicans pursue
policy which reintroduees human
slavery in the Sulu and Hawaiian Is
lands under the protection of the Amer
lean flag hitherto fondly called the
banner of the free. / submit that If it
is wrong to hold a black man in
slavery it is equally wrong to hold a
brown man in slavery If enforced
servitude is a sin in America, it is also
sin in Sulu and in Hawaii.
Polygamy Protected.
For half century the American
people waged a war of determination
against polygamy in Utah. and now
polygamy is to be protected by Ameri-
can law and American guns in the far
away Sulu islands. l submit that po-
| lygamy is a sin against God and an
outrage upon decency in any latitude
and in any cline, and what is vice in
America does not become virtue in
Asia. If Brigham Young was a crimi-
nal because he INDUCED the luxury of
possessing 26 wives. our new fellow
citizen. his sultanic majesty of the Su-
| lu islands, is criminal for keeping up
| a harem. James Buchanan, the last
| Democratic president. sent an army to
thrash the great Utah polygamist-
| William Mckinley, the latest, and let
us hope the last, Republican president.
! pays tribute to the Sulu polygamist.
/ Christian America is UP in arms to
| prevent Brigham Roberts from sitting
| in the house of representatives, be-
cause it is alleged that he has quartet
OF spouses. The Repupncan ImpeIai-
lists propose to annex 100000 polyg-
amists in the Philippine archipelago.
Consistency is very rare jewel, whose
beauties American voters will do well
| to consider.
Imperialism has led us into tolerating
slaveEy, into tolerating polygamy, into
toIerating a press censorship, into
scoffing at the Declaration of indie
pendence, into splitting upon the CON
| stitution, into a practical abandonment
of the Monroe doctrine. A century ago
Alexander Hamilton derided the con
stitution as "a mere makeshift,' "a
| weak rope of sand" Last year Gen
eraI Wesley Merritt exclaimed. ''The
constitution is played out. There is no
use to discuss it. For 123 years Amer
leans, without regard to political af-
filiations, have regarded the Declara-
tion of independence as the greatest
state paper ever written by the hand
| OF man. Last week the Washington
Post. an ardent supporter of the pres
ent administration, denounced as "fap-
doodle the great central truth Of
| the Declaration, Governments derive
their just powers from the consent Of
the governed, proposition which, to-
| gether with its twin. "all men are ere
ated equal. has revolutionized the
world and which constitutes the
foundation on which we have erected
our entire governmental superstrue-
ture.
Press CensorAhfp.
| In 1900 the American people arose In
their might hurled the old Federal par
| ty from power and buried It in grave
upon which there was inscribed, No
| Resurrection, because 1t had dared TO
abridge the freedom OF speech and the
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