West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-08-16
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FIFTEEN MILLION OF QUADRENSIAL
IDIOTS.


Is about one hundred and fifteen
years old. 1t has passed through
foreign and domestic wars, panics,
pestilence and strikes, meeting every
test without a feather of its tail
scorched, or even the loss of one.
Moreover, it has surmounted every
obstacle, and from anarchy and
lawless disorder, order, peace and
safety came bestowing its blessings.
Emergencies of cruciblc tests have
been mere shadows on Its mighty
arches, still growing. strengthening
and developing, till it is the most
powerful nation in all the world,
and its munifcence and Kindness
are also equal to its power and
greatness, overshadowing all people
of every tongue and color-even
reaching the far distant Republics
OF Africa away beyond the burning
sand of Sahara. Indeed, its agri.
cultural, manufacturing and CON-
mercial industries reach all parts of
the world, interchanging the pro.
ducts of labor in every cline to all
peoples.
From whence comes this stream
OF unclouded greatness Surely
from its magnificent and unexcelled
institutions which were devised by
wisdom and anchored by honesty
and patriotism. Now, then, in the
field of talent America can boast of
men who. have honored and AL.
vanced the standard IT all the pro.
LESSONS till results reached in some
OF them are wonderful. r.lent AID
research in other departments are
no less grand and startling, till The
American people eclipse the nations
of both modern and ancient times.
Enterprise, thrift, and most surely
invention, also come in .or an equal
share in the open field of thought
and research for an equal part To
swell the flow Of greatness.
Yet, in spite of this national array
OF talent and genius in its field of
usefulness and invention encirclinp
all the realms of amelioration of
labor, prophets arise by the tens of
thousands, predicting the end of the
American Republic at the opening
OF each Presidential campaign. This
should not be so. 1t is lie, a libel.
a falsehood on its founders. The
stump speaker, the statesman, the
minister from the pulpit also pro-
claims it, and the smooth flowing,
polished orator likewise declares il
to his auditors, each from his own
party station, that the American
Republic is in great danger and
must be saved from impending
doom. Yes, it is crumbIing it will
fall-fall into pieces.
This idiotic cry each insane bowler
declares from his own party view.
If his choice is favored, all will be
harmony over all the Republic, 9TH
erwise the bars of safety will be
broken and disturbances of a direful
character will follow. The mass
OF the body polite take up the echo.
till the land from center to circum-
ference resounds with this INSANITY
howl of anarchy, revolution and the
empire. Indeed, it is possible for a
President to prove himself a first
class nuisance and extremely OBJ
noxious as the chief officer of the
nation. But President occupies
about the same relation to the Re.
public that a gnat does to an athlete.
The gnat may produce some irrita-
ton, but he soon puts his finger on
the cause, which ends the smart
and the irritation soon subsidies.
The remedy is at hand to remove
all national irritations every two
years and the Republic moves on.
rejoicing in its great strength.
When Benjamin Harrison was
President, conspiracy arose in
Congress to deprive the Democratic
party of equal voice in all popular
elections by the passage of Force
Bill, which contained the seeds of
more potency than the entire range
of Mark Hanna and President
Mekinley's entire consulting ar.
mour, the Trusts, of which he is the
figure-head and voice.
In the aforesaid bill, Speaker
Reed, Mckinley and President Har.
rison were then interested in il. Al
the first opportunity the Electors
arose in their strength and drove
the conspirators into exile and
Reed from the Speakership, and in
due time President Harrison from
the White House by a disgraceful
defeat.
The idea that the country is saved
every fourth year is about the most