The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-21

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kept faith with the creditor. II saved
the nations name untarnished. 1t
| fought for humanity. 1t stands today
for the protection OF our helpless
charges everywhere. for the spread and
enlightenment Of civilization. for the
/ constitution and the flag. But as 1t
! finds no necessarily irrepressible con-
flct, but a true community of interest.
| inteIligently understood. between capt.
| tai and labor. so does II find the largest
ethical outlook. the best opportunity
for the development Of heart and brain,
in material order Of things that salts
hes the humble but natural and neces-
sary wants OF the physical man.
The moral elevation OF the race moves
along parallel lines with Its improve
ment in material well-being. Poverty Is
| the fountain OF innumerable crimes.
Industrial distress is not conducive to
spiritual evolution. The worklngman
who has no employment can spend the
whole day in reading. in spiritual re-
Elections. in the study Of aesthetics.
Does he do Il? Are the pangs Of hum
ger. is the sight OF want sniitten fam
ily OF dear ones, contributory to moral
elevation? Does the man who has not
had good meal for weeks turn for so
lace to Shakespeare and the musical
glasses. or to the higher criticism? Is
he broadened, enlightened, made more
genial and humane by the pinchings of
wDnt7 This and this alone is the fair
Interpretation OF Mr. Bryans scorn OF
the full dinner pail. whose piethoric
bulk stands between him and the white
house
The Republican party believes. with
all the great and good men of the earth,
with sages and philosophers and phil
anthropists and statesmen, that physi-
cal well-being is the first step on the
ladder that scales the highest heavens.
The most successful moral reforms OF
the day. the most benehcent systems OF
medical and moral treatment for the In
firm. start from the axiom that man
suffering from physical need is not the
best subject for intellectual and spirit
ual enlightenment. First make him
whole, satisfy the imperious needs of
nature. and the soul. that white lily
whose roots run TO the nourishing Earth.
may expand In perfect beauty The
greatest, best and wisest teacher who
ever came to humanity did not send
away starving the multitudes that hung
upon his words. He fed them that they
truth.
BY all knowledge, human and divine,
Is a nation justified in seeking by all
means consistent with truth and right
eousness. the material prosperity of it's
people. More, far more than that, as
we have seen, is the mission of the Re-
publican party TO the American people.
But that first duty II has performed.
1t has employed the idle. 1t has con-
quered prosperity. II has made COM
Portable and happy homes. 1t has filed
the dinner pail which Democratic poli-
cies had emptied MAN needs more
than three meals day." and he IS
getting II. But what does the promise
OF those other things profit him IL the
three meals are not 10 be had by will
ing labor9 The fun dinner pan Is
humble and material thing: but out OF It
grow the graces, the humanities and
the exaltatlons. without II they are
either withered and hcwerless stalks.
or the impossible decisions that visit
the sick brain OF the foodless The
Republican party counts IT glory and
ne shame to take that for its symbol