Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-28
A Ban ON FORMER Statesmen.

QUOTATIONS from the puDllS0eu utter
ances OF American statesmen. The
republicans, discovering that he had
compilation from the speeches of
Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington.
all denunciatory OF McKinleyism, be-
came panic stricken and refused
''leave to print" Here are a few ex-
tracts from the document, the whole
of which is in Senator Pettigrew's
hands:
Abraham Lincoln-But soberly, it
is now no child's play to save the
principles of Jefferson from total over
of compen stations; and he who would
flow in the nation. This is world
be no slave must consent to have no
slave. Those who deny freedom to
others, deserve it not for themselves;
and, under just God, cannot long re-
tain it.
All honor to Jefferson; to a man who
in the concrete pressure of struggle
for national independence by single
people, had the GOODNESS. forecast and
capacity to introduce into q merely
revolutionary document an abstract
truth, applicable to all men and all
times, and so 10 EN- balm it there, that
today and in all coming days it shall
be rebuke and a STUN bling block to
the harbingers of reappearing tyranny
and oppression.
0Labor is prior TO and independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruit of
labor, and could not have existed if
labor had not first have existed. La
Dor is the superior of capital, and de-
serves much the higher consideration.
Capital has its rights. which are as
worthy of y protection as any other
rights. Morris it denied that there is,
and probably will always be, a re-
lation between labor and capital. pro-
ducing mutual benefits. The error is
in assuming that the whole labor of
community exists within that rela-
tion.
As q result of war corporations
have been enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will follow
and the money power of the country
will endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated
in few hands and the republic is de-
stroyed.
| feel at this moment more anXi-
ETY. for the safety of my country than
ever before, even in the midst of war.
God grant that my suspicion may
prove groundless.
No man is good enough to govern
another man without that others con-
sent. When the white man governs
himself that is self-government; but
when he governs himself and also
governs another man, that is more
than self-government-that is despot-
ism.
The assertion that ''all men are
created equal" was OF no practical
use in effecting our separation from
Great Britain; and it was placed in
the declaration not for that. but for
future use. Its authors meant it to
be-as, thank God, it is now proving
itself-a stumbling block to all those
who in after times might seek to turn
a free people back into the hateful
paths of despotism. They knew the
proneness of prosperity to breed ty-
rants, and they meant when such
should reappear in this fair land and
commence their vocation, that they
should find left for them at least one
hard nut to crack.
Those arguments that are made,
that the inferior race are to be treated
with.
Let US discard all this quibbling
about this man and the other man
this race and that race and the other
race. being inferior, and therefore
they must be placed in an inferior po-
sition, discarding our standard that |
we have left us; let US discard all |
these things and unite as one people |
this land until we shall
once more stand up declaring that all |
men are created equal. l leave |
you hoping that the lamp of liberty |
will burn in your bosoms until there |
shall no longer be a doubt that all |
men are created equal.
Jefferson said that Judges are as
honest as other men and not more |
So" And he said. substantially, that |
whenever free people should give
up in absolute submission to any de-
oartment of government, retaining for
themselves no appeal from it, their
liberties were gone
Thomas Jeferson-Sometim it
s said that man cannot be trusted
With the government OF himself. Can
lie, then, be trusted with the govern
nent of others? Or have we found
Ingels in the form of kings to govern
lim9 Let history answer this ques-
ion.
Separated by wide ocean from the
nations of Europe and from the politi-
al interests which entangle them to-
-ether, with productions and wants
which render our commerce and
useful TO them and theirs
o us. ii cannot be the interest of any
o assail US. nor ours to disturb them.
We should be most unwise indeed
we're we so cast away the singular
blessings of the position in which
Isture has placed us. the opportunity
he has endowed US with of pursuing