The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-25

hand to aid his country In any one of the hard
tasks with which 1t has been grapplngS When
has has there been one word Of praise or credit for
government or for any vi the mon who repre-
sent the dignity of the people by the peoples
choice When has there, been from him .aueht
Tut depreciation and disparagcment aud dis
credit for everything that Is. and everything that
Is done IN our country When has there come
from him one word OF encouragement or hope.
ohr word TO cheer the path Of labor to lire the
ambition of youth. to confirm or TO increase the
American peoples confidence In their institutions
and loyalty 10 their Hng?
Every business is best managed by its friends,
every undertaking Is best prosecuted by those
who have faith in It, Is It not tho wisesi coursc
OF the american people to leave the conduct cf
their affairs in the hands Of those who have faith
in it. Is It no, the wisest course Of the Amc,i.
rah people 10 leave the conduct OF their af-
iaiis in the hands Of those who believe that this
is not the worst. but the best government on
earth; that II l. not the most miserable. but the
most happy of lands; that we have before us not
the darkest. hut the most brilliant and glorious
future OF all the peoples who inhabt the earth!
Prophets of Discomfort.
To whom is the American people expected to
commit the momcntous interests which 1t is
asked to take away from President Mckinley.
nut to motley and incongruotis crowd gathered
from three parties. agreeing upon no single pln-
ciple or policy except the free coinage Of silver
and held together only for campaign purposes, by
sympathy of common detraction against all the
glorious achievements of American progress under
both political parties during the past genera.
tion? They are pedtllers OF political discomfort
who. with shitty eyes for the prejudices of each
community, draw from their pack, antitrust ar
gnments for cNpansionists, anti.cxpanson argn.
mcnts OF sound money men. and antigold ar
g,mcnts for silver men: and always and every.
where seeking to stir up bitterness and hatred
by Americans against Americans. They seek to
substitute for the old and happily.cndcd CON
ilict of section against section. a new conflict
OF class against class. They strike at the root
of free government witt, the dcisivc promises
of the denagog,c, leading the poor and the nm
fortunate to look to government rather than to
intelligence and thrift to make them rich and
strong. They strike at the life Of enterprise by
fruits Of enterprise. The strength of free in.
situtions in America has rested for all these
centuries past upon the fact that there no
classes in America: that all men were equal be-
fore the law-eQul in the rights Of citizenship,
equal in the dignity of manhood, unfctercd IN
the pursuit Of limitlcss opportunity; that the
poor and humble today, having the qualities Of
powerful tonrrow that the rich and powerful to.
day., lacking these qualities are the poor and
humble tomorrow; that all over the land tho
poorest workingmen who may no longer seek
to change their own condition are looking with
pride and hope upon their boys starting ou.
upon their careers with advantages their fathcs
never had with open pathways to distinction and
ways existed. and which exist today. there is no
such thing as class. No gulf divides American
citizens from each other. There is but o'e ideal.
one title of honor. of pride and of mutual re-
specific ideal and the title Of American cti
Zenship. All this these men would destroy in
order that they may ride into power as the
governors OF an unhappy and dscorlant people.