Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-04

prices and under friendly relations But,
above ALL honor should follow the flag. and
that can follow only when Ii Ia moved by
the Christian and American spirit of what
ever We would that man shall do to you, do
We even so again unto them"
That the Republican party, IL successful,
would construe the consent of the governed
70 mean more conquest and a consequent
large standing army Is sure to be expected.
Only with a narrow margin did we escape
an authority given TO Mr. Mckinley to In
crease our standing army 100, 900 men. Such
an increase, If we are TO take the expert
ence of other nations, would soon mean
standing army of many times 100000 men,
and supremacy of the civil over the mill
tary authority" would be at an end. Power
is sweet and the military is always jealous
of civil authority.
Those who believe that the Republican
party will neutralize the viciousness of trust
combinations should consider that the trusts
are now In power; that they control the
machinery of the government; that their
high priests are now insisting that the
trusts are a good thing for the people: that
they claim it charity toward labor in pay
ing scant wages for honest toll as the re-
suit of the blessings of the trusts, for which
labor should be duly grateful. They might
also consider whether II Is because the Re
publican party is against the trusts that the
trusts are all In favor of the reelection OF
the Republican party
The Endorsement of McKinleyism in the
coming elections means Reputation of the
Declaration of Independence; it means an
increase In the line of Imperialism, militar-
ism and trust combinations; 1t means in
creased strife between capital and labor; be-
tween bankers, spectators, monopolists,
great corporations and moneyed institutions
on the one hand and the bone and sinew of
the country, the producing classes, on the
other; between craft, tyranny and over
reaching power, fostered and fortified on the
enc side, and freedom. justice and individual
rights dethroned on the other; 1t means to
bind upon ourselves and upon the genera
Of harla q mill I'd mud
consequent high taxation; 1t means that
capital shall rest in the lap Of luxury and
be within the control of the few, while tax
alton, hopeless dependence, suffering and
degradation shall pervade the homes of the
many.
In presenting these great issues to the
American people we need not appeal to the
prejudices of original nationality. The man
who rather sings God Save the Queen
than Hail, Columbia" is not the man TO
whom we can speak; he whose heart quick
ems more readily at the sound Of the ma
tional hymn of former fatherand than
when he hears the melody Of the star
Spangled Banner cannot materially assist
our cause.
No; it is the man who. above all things
upon this earth, loves America and Amen-
can institutions; the man who Is proud Of
his American citizenship and who is ready
to follow In the spirit of Washington, JEFF
ferson and Lincoln, to whom we shall ap-
peal. 1t Is upon the door of his conscience
where we shall boldly knock for admission,
and unless he Is ready to repudiate the his
toric American hospitality for righteousness
and liberty he cannot and he VIII not deny
us hearty welcome.
AS an abstract of the dangers that CON
front us we might say to the American OF
English extraction that he should renvesti-
gate English history. He will find that the
magma charta was often attacked and lg-
nored on the ground that 1t had outlived It's
usefulness and that one-man power was
better for the people, that ii took the blood
and hprOiSm of thousands to rp~pStaDliSl the
great bill of rights
We might lead the Irish American to
consideration of the beauties and blessings
of imperialism. as IL lis manifest In CEN
turtles of the sorrows and sufferings Of his
race. We might refresh the minds Of the
Americans Of Polish extraction In pointing
TO the destruction OF the Polish nation by
the brutality of the mailed fist. We might
rehearse the struggles Of the German people
for centuries past in their fight for ipdvid-
dal rights cpd liberty, when talking to
Americans OF Teutonic ancestry, and point
to the fact that in Germany to-day, on one
side Of the civilian marches the soldier and
on his other the tax collector.
We night say 70 the Fre9ch-Amerlcan,
remember how militarlsm made the prccla-
nation. of an emperor from mere corporal
possibility. And among others we could
point the way to the Americans Of Holland
origin, In the brutal destruction OF the
South African republics by the Imperial
hordes; to them the dollar stands as rhe
keeper of their conscience
But what does all the history Of foreign
nations amount to in reflection to the ex
perience OF the American people themselves,
when we remember Lexington, Bunker Hill,
Valley Forge Yorktown, New Orleans and
the unfortunate yet unavoidable conflict OF
the civil war;
The eyes Of the entire world have been
upon this great people, who, up to two years
ago had inscribed upon their banner;
within the shadoy Of old glory no fight but
for liberty no bloodshed but for human
~4s~ Sc a.4d dam for
subiugation" The question Is Shall we
remain true to ourselves or are we to tear
down the temples and monuments OF OUT
former glory?