Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-22

from what the successful issue Of those
efforts have made it.
Compare the un-American and kingly
policy of William Mckinley with the
father of the Monroe doctrine. We
quote: To the President, October "a,
1923, he wrote. "Our first and funda-
mental maxim should be, never to en-
tangle ourselves in the broils OF Europe.
Our second, never to suffer Europe to
intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs"
To William Short, August 4, 1920, he
wrote: 1.-THE day is not distant when
we formally require meridian OF par
tition through the ocean which sepa-
rates the two hemispheres, on the
hither side of which no European gun
shall ever be heard, nor an American
on the other; and when, during the
rage of the eternal wars of Europe, the
lion and the lamb, within our regions,
shall lie down together in peace. The
principles of society there and here,
then, are radically different, and hope
no American patriot will ever lose
sight of the essential policy OF inter-
dieting in the seas and territories OF
both Americas, the ferocious and san
culinary contests of Europe. wish to
see this coalition begun"
December 26, 1926, he wrote to w. B.
Giles: 1.-THE younger generation hay-
ing nothing in them of the feelings or
principles of 1916, now look to a single
and splendid government of an aristoc-
racy, fouhded on banking institutions
and money interpretations unter the
guise and cloak of their favored branch
es of manufactures, commerce and navi-
CATION, riding and ruling over the plum
dered ploughman and beggared yeo-
many. This will be to them a next
blessing to the monarchy of their first
aim, and perhaps the surest stepping
stone to it,
January 9th, 1921, he wrote in his
autobiography: Our Judges are eff
fectually Independent of the nation.
But this ought not to be. | would not,
indeed, make them dependent on the
executive authority as they formerly
were in England, but l deem it indis-
pensable to the continuance OF this
government that they should be sub
mitted to some practical and impartial
control. They are, then. in fact, the
corps of sappers and miners steadily
working to undermine the Independent
rights of the States, and to consolidate
all powers in the hands of that govern
ment in which they have SO important
freehold estate. AS for the safety Of
society," we commit honest maniacs to
Bedlam, so judges should be with.
drawn from their bench, whose erron-
eous biases are leading us to dissolu-
ton. 1t may, indeed, injure them in
fame or in fortune; but it saves the
republic, which is the first and supreme
law"
March 9, 1921, he wrote; "The great
object of my fear is the Federal judi
ciary. That body. like gravity, ever
acting, with noiseless foot. and I'M
alarming advance, gaining ground step
by step, and holding what it gains, is
engulfing insidiously the special gov
ernments into the jaws of that which
feeds them"
Late in life. returning to the scene
of his birth and early life, in address
ing the inhabitants of Albermarle coun
ty, Virginia, he was able to say:
"Of you, then, my neighbors, l may
ask, in the face of the world. whose
OK have l taken. or whom have l de-
frauded? Whom have l oppressed, or
of whose hand have 1 received a bride
to blind mine eyes herewith" Can
the last few presidents say as much?"
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