The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-09-07
THE REPUBLICAN BULL IN
THE NATIONS CHINA
SHOP.

the Interior motives If INSCRIPTIONS
bosses and the Janus-faced blandish-
ments of plutocratic magnates in their
constant efforts TO deceive the people
into the worship of false Gods and to
undermine, weaken aud ultimately
destroy the nulwarks OF liberty canuot
BE- watched too closely nor resisted too
stubbornly. These damnable workers
Of iniquitous mischief have made
alarming Innovations upon the primi-
tive virtues, time-honored traditions
and cherished policies of our beloved
republic
The patriotic fathers, who sub iued
the wilderness, won our independence
aid established our government, were
consented to the achievement and
preservation Of human life, human
liberty aud human happiness, and
their lofty purposes were st 9th with
gittering boldness in the d claration
of Independence by the genius of one
and ratified by the devotion Of ali in
manner and form thus described hy
the imm rial Lincolu-"All honor 10
Jetlelsou''-to a man who, in the con-
crete pressure of struggle for nat
ional iudep ndence 10y single people,
had the ,olness, forecast and capacity
to Introduce into merely revulu-
tiOuary document an abstract truth,
applicable to all men and all times,
and 50 TO embalm it there that today
and in all coming days it shall be re-
buke and stumbling block to the
hhbingers of re-api caring tyranny
and oppression. Among the abstract
truths euunciated by jefferson, ra fled
by the others and thus eXtolled by
Lincoln We're these: 1--WE hold these
truths to be sef-evident: that all men
are created equal; that they are endow-
ed by their Creator with certain un.
alienabe rights; that. among these,
are life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap.
piness, and that to secure these rights.
governments are instituted among
men; deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed" Our pa
triot fathers recognized these great
truths, said Lincoln, las beacon
light to guide their children and their
children's children and the countless
niyriads who should inherit the earth
in other ages" They also held that
taxation without representation is tyr
amy, and cherished the Monroe Doc
trine as a fixed principle of our gov
eminent which should be honored and
enforced always in our national policy.
This famous doctrine declared that
the United States will not NEEDLE in
European politics nor take any part in
European wars-will acquire no ter
ritory in the Orient and will not suffer
any foreign power to gain a foot.hold
on the American continent
But the Republican party under the
manipulation and machination of
Hanna and Mckinley, has become a
veritable bull in the nations china
shop and set all of these great princi-
pies at naught. 1t has usurped upper
ial power in government aud exercised
1t in legislation. Without commission
or authority from the people, it has ac.
CURED territory by purchase and
treaty aud made it an integral part of
the domain of the United States and
subject to the Constitution thereof,
ana then Disseminated against the
people OF. such territory in ouerous leg
station. 1t has made Porto Rico a
part of our public domain and sub
ect to our Constitution, and then vio-
lated that provision of our Constitution
which declares that all tariff and in
-ernal revenue taxes shall be uniform
throughout the United States by inn
posing tariff OF Is per cent on all
Porto Rican products brought into the
States and on all products of the States
shipped into Porto Rico. 1t has de-
destroyed the vital principles which
formed part of the foundation of the
that all men are endowed
by the Creator with the unalienable
rights of life, liberty aud the pursuit of
happiness and that all governments
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of The governed, by making the
people of Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico
and the philippines vassal subjects of
bis Imperial Majesty, William the
LIST, to be governed by him outside of
the Constitution, against their consent
and without their representation, and
to be shot down ifthey dare object to
the arrangement. 1t has paralyzed
that reliance against tyranny which
said, sis in the spirit of lib
erty which God has planted in Us.
Our defence is in the spirit which
prizes liberly as the heritage Of all men
in all lands, everywhere" 1t has pur-
chased l0,O0O,00 vassal subjects from
an alien monarchy at 81 a head, to be
governed outside of our Constitution
by an American Emperor, and to be
put to death like so many dogs, if they
object to the bargain, 1t has invaded
the Orient and mixed US up with Eu-
ropean politics and European wars,
and it has absolutely destroyed the APP
plication in the United States of the
principle that all men are created