Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-08-27

wanton freak of his strange imagina-
tlon, wrote two essays on Murder |
Considered as one of the fine arts"
This man, Reid, actually puts looting, |
in express words, among high ethics"
What shall we thinkN-for speech can
hot compass it--of this development
OF what calls itself christianity? 1
take refuge in Shakespeare:-
Can such things be,
And overcome us like q summers
cloud,
| Without our special wonder?
l wish the record closed here; but
Carlyle has told us: "Calamities. too,
must be rated, at least as tolerable
and intolerablc." The intolerable ca
lamity remains to be told-the. loss of
our national good name-of our re-
pute of honor and justice toward the
rest of the world.
When William Mckinley entered up
on the presidency, | think it may be
said that the United States stood to
the world as an honest republic. 1t is
true President Cleveland had lately
tarnished his high record and fame
by an uncalled-for and temerarious
attack on Great Britain in the Vene-
| off aty. l,,tf N tyo In, ho
modern world, we were esteemed
true republic, living within reasonable
limits true to our professions and re-
spectful toward other nations. In can.
dor, let me ask, how Is 1t now?
! answer: No man or men can call
: us an honest republic; for we have
denied our faith, fouted the memory of
our founders, and given ourselves
to the bloody and dastardly work Of
: destroying the peace, the prosperity,
the lives and the hopes of a people
: struggling for freedom and self-gov-
{ ernment. Entangling ourselves, neces-
/ sarily, in pursuit of our new imper-
lalstic policy, in the meshes Of Europ-
. can or English policy, we have lost,
stitied as in the stiffness of the grave,
f: our voice of sympathy, once so loud
and clear, with other republics; and
t while England has been writing one
1 of her gloomiest and wickedest pages
, in South Africa-a page far from its
Q end yet-we have stood stricken with
5 dumbness. In the startling words of
Isaiah: "Our watchmen are blind,
!, they are all ignorant, they are all
| dumb dogs, they cannot bark" The
0 land that rang with the great oratory
: Of Webster and Clay, when Greece
+ and South America We're fighting
v for independence, that applauded the
n bold diplomacy of Monroe and Adams,
i is silent when better men, better re.
8 publicans, actual republics are crush.
q ed by English arms, pushed to the
o combat alone by greed Of gold and
r empire, 1.-The far-flung line of battle
z cheered on by the great brute force OF
d Kipling's genius.
8 Our noble Monroe doctrine-an item
v of international policy, If not law
r worthy of the best days of our repub
n lic--from being a respected and re
n pectable policy, has become in thu
II hands of our Davises and our Lodges
h and our Forakers, the contempt of tn,
~ world, robbed of all its justice ant
q dignity, and capable of defense only
Z, by sheer force of arms. Crossing the
widest oceans to grasp lands in an
II other hemisphere, on what possible
~ ground, except naked force, can W,
o. now demand that European powers
N shall keep clear of this hemisphere?
"a But In our rating of calamities, as
# close second to our apostasy from tn,
fundamental tenets and faith which w,
:, have heretofore proclaimed, and OF
- which our greatness until 1893 ha(
- grown, l put our Reputation of tn
% national faith pledged to Cuba and t,
:, the world, in the Teller resolution
Bad faith is deadly in any relation O
. life. 1t is not less than deadly IL
public affairs or affairs Of state. Tb
sentiment of good faith is one hallowe,
and honored from the beginnings
~ l will not say Of civilization, but from
% the beginnings of society, of socia
life. There are two lines of the mos
a., glorious poem ever sung by morta
lips-immoral strains poured fortl
+s in the entranced ear of young, heroi
Greece, nearly 80 centuries ago, pei
~ haps full 10 centuries before Chris
tianity dawned--I wish all could hea
them today in their original beaut
:, and power, which that greatest of a
- Homeric translators, Pope, thus rer
ders:
Who dares think one thing, and an
=, other tell,
,., My soul detests him as the gates @