The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-07-27
WORDS OF WARNING.
Prophetic Utterances of Washington
and Webster Concerning
Imperialism.


warned his people against the time
when aggregated wealth should be-
come arrogant and tyrannical. His
prophetic spirit foresaw the day Of
McKinleyism and trusts.
No less clearly did Lincoln foresee
and foretell the very times that have
come. upon the country. His. words OF
warning were:
Il see in the near future a crisis APP
preaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my coun-
try. AS a result of the war, corpora tions
have been enthroned, and an era of cor
ruption in high places will follow, and
the money power of the country will en-
deavor to prolong it's reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until
all the wealth is aggregated in a few
hands and the republic destroyed. I feel
at this moment more anxiety for the
safety Of my country than ever before
even in the midst of war. God grant that
my suspicious may prove grOundless.'
His fears were not groundless. They
have been realized in more terrible
form than ever he imagined possible
His anxiety for his country was we'll
founded. There remains but one ster
in his prophecy unfulfilled-the de-
struction of the republic. All this, is
not past believing, unless the people
shall rise in their might and overthrow
the tyrant wealth, before it has SUBJ
Jected them to its power so completely
that there is no relief except through
the frightful method of war.
There was another great American
in his day, now scorned and scoffed
and held in contempt as little Amer.
lean by the Hanna-McKinley quality
His name was Daniel Webster. He
too. with prophetic spirit OWNED the
day of McKinleyism and warned the
people against it. The seeds of i'm
perialism had been sown in his day
Though he wrought nightly to eX
terminate them. up to the last day
of his life he could not do so:
Arbitrary governments may have ter
ritOries and distant possessions, because
arbitrary governments may rule by diff.
ferent laws and different systems. We
can do no such things. They must be OF
us. part of us, or else strangers. I think
I see course adopted which is likely tc
turn the constitution of the land into q
defOrmed monster, into a curse, rather
than blessing: in fancy, a frame of an
unequal government, not founded on pop
ular representation, not founded on equal.
ity. but on the grossest inequality; and
think that this process will go on, or that
there is danger that it will go on, until
this union shall fall to pieces. Resist II
to-day and always! Whoever falters OF
whoever flies, I continue to contest"
Either this must become an arbi.
trary government or we must give ur
colonial possessions. The genius of the
constitution and law of the United
States is opposed to different form.
of government for different peoples o,
the nation. The constitution will be
come a deformed monster if it is made
to mean one thing for part of our peo-
pie and another thing for others. An6
once it becomes deformed monster il
may turn and devour its creators.
Webster foresaw that McKinleyisn
would come. though he never ceased
resisting the tendency. He foresaw, a.
Lincoln did, the ultimate destruction
of the land of liberty, the land botf
loved so well. unless there was a radi
cal change in the tendencies of theiI
times. Both saw the dire fate in stor.
for our people. and both had sufficient
ground for predicting it.
Voices from the past warn the voter:
of the United States to rouse them.
selves before it is too, late. The &C
cumulated dangers .foreseen by WASH
ington and Lincoln and Webster are
upon the people of the United States
Helena Independent.
The republicans are somewhat
alarmed over the political situation in
Wisconsin, caused by what one of