Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-08
Lese Majestc.

JNHtc, anu uHuef MS successors 1Ur-
Their extensions We're made If the
relative of subject was executed. the
subject must exhibit delight else he
would lie held accountable under this
INV. One suspected of a sentiment not
in harmony with the throne must a..
particular as to the expression of his
eye. even sigh might be the undoing
Of a compassionate person.
Recently We have heard of Les
Majestic in the United States of Am
erica. Men who have dared criticise
d republican administration have been
Subjected 10 suspicion under this
Jaw. Men who have protested
against policy of imperialism. who
have objected to violation OF the
constitution who have insisted thai
the chief magistrate does not repre-
sent the legislative and the judicial as
Well as the executive branch OF the
government. men who have refused 10
applaud every act of administration
AGENTS have been branded as traitors
b. the administration press. and
pointed cut as disloyal by the admin
istration orators.
ortunately. however the admins
tlation press and the administration
orators have not framed the law OF
treason in this republic. The consti-
tuition. framed by the men who found
cd the republic provides that treason
shall consist only in levying war
against the United States or in al
herring to their enemies. giving them
aid and comfort
L is as much the duty OF a good Gill
zen TO protest when his country is
about to engage upon policy of wrong
as ii is for him to take up arms in dc
Tending his country from an army of
invasion.
Edmund Burke Pitt. and other Eng
lishmen of their time We're regarded
in the light of traitors by some AMI
let today no names occupy higher
places in the worlds history than the
lanes OF those Englishmen who dared
protest against wrong and speak in
behalf OF truth when the American
cGiChistS We're struggling for the prin-
ciPles of government by the consent Of
the governed.
No man protested more bitterly
against the war with Mexico than
Thomas Corwin and even Abraham
Lincoln repeatedly added his protest
ag2inst that war. and Vel tne names OF
Corwin and Lincoln are among the il
lustrious OF America s dead
The difference between q monarchy
and republic is that in a monarchy
tie people must acQuiese i'm the mon
arch's will but i'm a republic the pub
lie officers are supposed to acquiese in
the peoples Will The king can do
no wrong so long as he does exactly
as he pleases. The public officer in a
republic can do no wrong SO long ID
he adheres to the constitution and
the law When be violates that con-
stitutiOn and when trangresses that
law. he is in error. and il is just as
much the peoples duty to criticise him
then as it is their duty TO commend
him when he sustains the constitution
and upholds the law
Men who insist that this nation. in
its dealings with its new dependencies.
shall be governed by the same prin-
ciples which the founders of this gov
eminent claimed for themselves: men
who insist that the Declaration of Ia
dependence was written for all time
and provides q rule ~ which all mon
should he guided. men who insist thar
the prohibitions in the constitution
must prohibit. that the limitations in
the constitution must limit. and that
public officers and public bodies whose
existence depends upon that cOnSti-
tuition cannot ignore il and assume au-
thOrity and power not given by II.
men who insist that this government
IS too great and TOO strong To enter
upon an era of oppression 10 the weak
and the helpless. men who insist that
honesty is the best policy fOl nations
as we'll as individuals. men who in
sist that liberty was designed for the
brown man as well as for the white
man and the black man-these men
are not made of the stun of which
traitors are constructed.
No government has anything to feac
from citizens who adhere to the prir-
ciples upon which the government was
founded and through which il has
prOspered. No nation has anything TO
fear from citizens who insist that the
nation must be true to its own tradi-
tons and faithful TO its own profess
sions No nation has anything TO fear
from citizens who are willing to go
down to political defeat in defense Of
what they believe to be the truth. No
nation has anything to fear from citi-
ZenS who can bring TO the support OF
their cause the Declaration of lndepen-
dence. the constitution of the United
States. and the declarations of every
great American in every great politi-
cal party from the period of Washing
ton to the present dav
Ii is pleasant duty to correct mis-
take made in the first number. Ii was
stated that The Commoner entered the
field with an issue of thirty thousand.
After the plates were made the addi-
tional subscriptions and news stand
orders were sufficient to justify an is
sue OF fifty thousand. Since then
twenty-five thousand more have been
printed. making a total of Seventy-tive
thousand copies of number one. VOL
ume one.
The parcels post has been indefinite
ly delayed. Senator Platte is presi-
dent of an express company; with this
as a basis it is not difficult to reason
from cause to effect.
If some genius will invent a green
back with an interest coupon attached
1t is believed that Mr.. Secretary Gage
will soon be able to look ii in the face
without growing faint.
When the gas was turned on the
Delaware senatorial contest. Mr.. Ad-
dicks was discovered near the foot
lights.
The war in the Philippines Is so
nearly over that Secretary Root re-