Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-28
THE NATION AND ITS DUTY.--A ]
Full PLEA FOR JUSTICE
On the Side Of the Oppressed.

held with that which. atte nds the mem
ory of Washington and Lincoln. But
Washing ton and Lincoln enco untered
while they were alive q stor m of politi-
cal hostility, which Presidents McKin-
ley has fortunately been spared. re-
peat that it see ms to me that Prcsid ent
Mckinley holds q place in the sffec-
tion of the people at large which po
on OF his predecessors ever attained
in his Lifetime.
THE REDEMPTION CT A PROMISE.
The promise which the President
| AMI the Senate made as to Cuba we
have. SO far, done our best TO redeem
When the Spanish neet was sunk and
the Spanish flag went down from over
| Havana, peace and order and content
mont and reviving industry and liber-
! ty followed the Amer ican flag. Some
| OF us had hoped for the same thing in
the East. We had hoped that like
policy would have brought like re-
suit in the Philippine Islands. No man
contemplated for o moment the return
| OF those islands to Spain. One of the
| apostles would as soos have thought Of
giving back q redeemed soul to the do
minion Of Satan.
The American people, so far as
know, were all agreed that their victo-
ry brought with it the responsibility
OF protecting the liberated peoples
from the cupidity Of any other power
| until they could establish their own
independence in freedom and in hon.
or.
stand here to day to plead with
you not to abandon the principles that
have brought these things to pass.
lmplore you to keep to the policy that
has made the country great, that has
made the Republican party great, thst
has made the President great. I have
nothing new to say. But / ask you to
keep in the old channels, and to keep
on the old roc.s laid down in the old
charts, ana TO follow the old sailing
orders that all tie old captains of 9th.
or days have ODE yed, to take yoar bear
ings, az OF old, from the north star,
or whose true hxed and resting
quality
There is ne fellow an the armament,
and not from this meteoric light of
empire.
e pecially, if could. would 1 per.
snsde the great Republican party to
come back again to its old faith, TO its
old religion, before it Is Zoo late.
There is get time. The Presidents has
said again and again that his is only an
ad interim policy until Congress shall
act. 1t is not yet teo late. Congress
has rejected. unwisely, az I think,
some declarations for freedom. Bot
the two Houses have not as yet COM
mitted themselves to despotism. The
old, Bafe path, the path alike of justice
and OF freedom, is still easy. It il q
path familiar of old, to she Republican
party. II we have diverged from it
for the frat time, everything in our his.
tory everything in our own nature calls
Us back. The great preacher OF the En.
glish church tells you how easy is the
return Of q great and noble nature
from the frat departure frem recti-
tude:
FOR so q taper, when its crown of
hame 10 newly blown of, retains q ma
ture 90 symbOlical to light. that it will
with greediness reenkindle and snatch
. ray from the neighbor fie."
THE PATHWAY TO PROPERTY.
/, for one, believed, and still believe
that the pathway to prosperity and
glory for the country was also the
pathway to success and glory for the
Republican Party. / thought tae two