Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-22

instead of improving the intelligence''
of the Members of its organization and
directing it's energies to the attainment
of the best ultimate results for the
country at large, Of looking beyond i'm
mediate effects and results, instead of
Withdrawing the gaze of the short
sighted from that which Is apparent on
the surface of events and things and
pointing out the causes and effects that
lie deeper and beyond casual observa-
ton. instead of seeking the naked
truth, be it what it may; instead of
appealing to the intelligence, honor, or
patriotism Of it's followers; instead Of
showing to employer and employee. cap
italist and laborer. that their interests
are largely mutual: that one cannot
exist without the other: that mutual
good faith and mutual concessions are
necessary for the common good and
benefit of both. it attempts to array the
one against the other in senseless hos
tility that is mutually destructive, SOW
ing the seeds of d~issension and class
hatred that react to the injury of the
commonwealth. 1t appeals to the lower
instincts. covers the truth from sight
with false promises. draws false conclu-
sions. cares nothing for ultimate re-
suits, and would wreck a nation and
NV oA yin oolS PSoPle loI ell
porary political success: and by it's yell
low journalism and still yellower polit-
ical leaders, lead the so-called people"
into ruinous theories. paralyzing indus
try. leaving waste and destruction in
their wake, and then, without regret or
remorse, except for the abandonment of
democracy by the people, who, in the
bitter school of experience, learn amid
the common misery the 'intelligence''
which democracy deluded them into be-
lieving they We're receiving.
Republicanism cannot claim that it has
within it's ranks all of the higher intelli-
gence. or that all of the lower intelli-
gence is to be found alone in the home of
democracy; but republicanism repre-
sents the higher intelligence, and de-
mocracy is representative of the lower
intelligence of these United States; and
just as the individual widens his view
n c~omprehends the relationship be-
tween the realities of life, unless tram
meled by party fealty. in the same de-
proaches the true standard of repub-
licanism as it exists today.
The schoolroom, the legitimate press.
the platform and. in fact, every avenue
of intelligence is the foe of this later
day democracy; the higher the intelli-
gence the higher is the tandard of
patriotism, morality n the respect for
the natural rights of mankind
Democracy has written itself down as
the enemy of natural progress and i'm
provement. without intelligent concep-
lions of the problems that have con-
fronted us in the past or confront us
now. 1t processes to be guided solely
by the wisdom of the few really great
men who in years agone have shaped
it's course. Re~publicanism has for it's
beacon light all the history and expert
ence of mankind. and selects for it's ma
tional leaders men of unfaltering cour-
age. who all their lives nave been true
to the republic in every ~exigency. and
with clearness of vision can look with UNI
erring eye into the future, anticipating,
meeting and solving our national prob
lens before leaden-footed democracy,
with lingering step. comes through the
Dogs and morasses of sectional and race
hatred, class prejudice, laundering lead
ership and deluded followers, to event.
ually acknowledge that the intelligence
of republicanism has triumphed over
the obstacles encountered in a manner
benefcent to the nation.
Lacking constructive or administrative
ability, the real utility of democracy
is, acting as a co~unterpoise, to criticise
and find fault with the real constructive
and administrative intelligence which
today. in the United States, is found
only in the republican party; under
the fire of it's natural ]ntagonis and
at the behest of the citizenship of this
nation. the republican party will con-
tinue in the future, as it has in the
past, with wisdom and foresight, to oc-
cupy the position which agrees with
the best economic thought, present O,
past, of both Europe and America"