The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-11


party had wandered away from Its early
principles. and it was the habit of I'm
coin to confront its degenerate representa-
tlves with the example and utterancss Of
r rel Ike the derelictions of Republican
leadership by citing the words of Lin
coin AS he then appealed to Democrats
to come to the salvation of the country In
peal to Republicans by the sacred mem
cry of Lincoln. In his speech at Peoria.
Sept. 16. 1854, referring to the support of
NE pro-slavery Nebraska legislation by
certain Northern Democrats, Lincoln
declared that they had drawn their ilrst
breath and every other breath Of their
slavery in the Northwest territory:
Now said he. they live In dread Of
absolute suffocation if they should be re-
stricted in the sacred right of taking
"That perfect liberty they sigh for. the
liberty of making slaves of other people.
Jefferson never thought Of their own ia
theirs never thought Of; they never
with equal truth may we today declare
of hundreds of thousands of Republicans
that are obsequiously obeying the behests
of despotic party leader: They who
drew their first breath, and have drawn
every other breath of their lives, under
the dispensation of liberty achieved by
suffocation if they should be restricted
in the sacred duty of carrying sub
jugation and slaughter into the Philip
pine islands This duty they prate about.
the duty of conquest. the duty of making
slaves of another people. Lincoln never
thought of; their own fathers never
thought of; they never thought of them
selves year ago.
LINCOLNS PATRIOTIC WISDOM.
The utterances of Lincoln are verita-
Bile mine Of patriotic wisdom applicable
! to the present situation This whole
evening might be spent in recalling them.
Let me invite your attention to only d
few of them. What he said of the policy
of slavery extension might have been
spoken OF the Mckinley policy of sub
jugating the Tagals and negotiating a
treaty with the poiygamous and piratical
slave-ho1ding sultan of Suiu: Il hate 1t
because of the monstrous injustice OF
slavery itself. hate 1t because 1t de-
prives our republican example of its just
influence in the world; enables the
enemies of free institutions with plau-
sibility to taurt us as hypocrites; causes
the real friends of freedom to doubt our
sincerity; and especially because 1t forces
SO many really good men among ourselves
into an open war with the very funda-
mental principles OF civil liberty, CRITICS.
ing the Declaration of Independence, and
insisting that there is no right principle
of action but self-interest."
Let every American remember that no
suggestion OF selfish advantage can safely
be permitted to weigh in the scale against
the dictates of righteousness. Said Lin
coin: 1.-The doctrine of self-government is
TIRnJ, absolutely dIlu 6teIIidlly
But the observance of this principle Is
demanded by consideration of even our
own selfish Interest. Let no man fancy
that tyranny may be practiced by our
government without danger to him be-
cause II Is practiced ten thousand miles
away Liberty Is not a matter OF latitude
or longitude and the nature of unre-
strained authority is to grow by what 1T
feeds on. Accustom a president of the
United States to the exercise of irrespon-
sible power in the Philippine islands and
it will speedily become habit nearer
home He cannot play the tyrant In one
hemisphere and remain patient under
constitutional limitations in the other. Ii
he becomes an emperor there he must
cease to be a president here speak or
the facts of power and not Of mere names
and appearances. The Latin word I'M
perator," whence our word emperor Is
derived, at first meant simply the COM
mander-in-chief of any army, and 1t came
& to designate the highest officer in the
state only when the army had become
supreme.
Moreover, God has so fashioned us that
we cannot Cypress others without brutal
izing ourselves No man can long forge
letters for his, fellow men without be-
coming himself either a despot or slave:
Lincoln gave utterance to fact Of
human nature and truth OF history
when he declared; They who deny free
dom to others deserve 1t not for them
selves and, under a just God, cannot long
80 sATURNALIA OF RIOT.
Today we witness in the United States
a veritable saturnalia of special privilege
rioting and fattening on the substance of
the people. The great speculative banks
openly aim at the absolute control by law
Of the money of the country. while the
administration, through It's chief financial
officer, becomes the tool of private
money corporation. Trusts, monopolies
and combines, OF such magnitude as to
dwarf all preceding examples. are moving
like vast invading armies to an occupa-
ton of the whole field of industry.
, Side by side with this progress Of in
dustrial monopoly there proceeds also the
consolidation of political power. The
dominant party no longer commands. 1t
obeys; It's leaders are not It's servants but
its masters. The majority of its member
ship has ceased to think and only asks to
be given programme. 1t marches, coun-
ter-marches, wheels deploys and retreats
as mechanically and obediently as COM
pany of infantry. Congress Indicates It's
constitutional functions The executive
becomes daily more independent of not
only control but of influence; not only of
influence but even of criticism. The pub
licity of republican procedure gives place
to the secrecy and legerdemain of abso-
1utism. Treaties requiring the moon
venient assent of the senate are replaced
by International understandings. The
ancient reliance of our institutions upon
the benign force Of liberal laws and IDEAS