The Forrest City times., 1900-06-22
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.
rbere \, ONLY One Thing to BE Done
I'm the struggle for Honest
Government.

Those who are democrats have
lutv to perform. The first act is TO
declare u am a democrat" That done
there is no question as to who ana
what you are. The mighty revolution
which established liberty to all the
land and to the people thereof, bHthed
the first democrat. Centuries had been
waiting for him and his first notable
act was the writing of 1.-THE declaration
of independence" 1t was a simple
declaration of rights claimed and
wrongs imposed II made the contest.
All the issues were embodied in one
liberty. After a century of trial the
question is again presented, not as
new proposition, but as a continuous
proposition that the question which
vitalizeG the American revolution shall
continue to vitalize public thought and
public virtue. and that the splendid ex-
amples which lived and died at the
origin of and the final settlement OF
construction of organic law shall be
reproduced in the yirtuous doings of
men who live that their country may
be preserved and that liberty shall re-
turn and abide with the people. re-
turn to the methods and thoughts of
the fathers will cover all wrongs. in
vigorate all truth. crush out or drive
into retirement all speculative theories
which avarice has suggested and in
some instances has inaugurated that
thereby personal thrift may grow gross,
while public good is lost sight of in
the contention for power and the i'm
position Of expensive burdens on those
who are anxious TO live in love of liber-
ty. exact justice and precise equality.
In speaking of these men Daniel Web
ster said: They were not men made
great by Office. but great men on whom
the country for its own benefit had
conferred office. There was in them
that which Office did not give and which
the REIMBURSEMENT of office did not and
could not take away" One weighted
with years is filing the seat in the
senate of the state which gave to lib
erty and humanity John Adams. who
was second president. of the United
States. His voice fills 10 the zenith an
appeal for justice and mercy. Who
will play the role of Thomas jefferson?
Who has the ability and the courage
to stand forth as the apostle of liberty
and become the admiration of man
kind? Are we left to the ashes of the
dead for advocates fer liberty? Is
there not some man amid the granite
hills Cf Net.- ua,prel ,;ra ,-ba l--
bathed his feet in the rolling ocean
which lashes her brief coast. who is
imbueG with the spirit of Webster?
The hour is at hand and now is" when
voices must be raised in Jerusalem for
the preservation of liberty. They are
living. Why do they not come forth +?
If man is not a democrat then lie
must be something else. If he is not
a democrat he is not of the following
of Thomas Jefferson, nor of the house
hold of faith. Let no opinion be in
jeeted into the tables of faith which
Mr.. Jefferson did not approve. Cease
looking for eNtraneous matter. That
people which is governed least is gov
erned best. There is but one plank
needed in the democratic platform.
Declare for the simple ways. the hon
est methods. the equality before the
law, the administration of justice. the
protection of those who are weakest.
This done, all will be covered. The
people VIII comprehend the platform
and overwhelmingly approve it.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.