The aegis & intelligencer., 1902-03-28

VINO are converting IL lnto dSoVSLn-
ment of trusts, for the trusts and by
the trusts, and restore it to the hands
of those who will have some regard
for the rights of the people. The Re-
publican party is a syndicated party.
Arbitrary power is its motor. the al
mighty dollar its trademark. If it
be not checked in the gait it is going
it will in the end surely Mexicanize
the Republic.
"Once again in the White House we
have the man on horseback. Affect
ing the simplicity of the cowboy, he
conceals beneath the self-confdence
and queer manners of the bronco
buster the sentiments and ambitions,
if not the talents, of a Diaz. To him
a little thing like treating an admiral
ofthe navy, wearing the laurelleaves
of imperishable renown, as if he were
a baby in arms, now to be dandled
and now to be spanked, as merely an
undress affair begun and ended during
off moments between breakfast and
luncheon. To him the reprinanding
of the lieutenant-general ofthe army,
grown gray in the fighting of the
battles of his country, becomes an
amusing horse play, meant to relax
his muscles and illustrate his high
mightiness, while warning lesser off,
GERS of the army to obey orders and
say nothing.
"As these things go forward, par
taking somewhat of the character of
feats to divert and blinds to hood
wink public opinion, a bill of army
reorganization is prepared and urged
upon Congress which, if it becomes a
law, will make the power of the
President absolute and which it is not
too much to say ought to be entitled
AN Act to make the President of the
United States a military dictator.
Because the reprimanded lieutenant
general. answering the summons ofa
committee of Congress-as was his
duty-expresses an, opinion adverse
to this bill it sproposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in connection
with some other matters of more or
less sinister suggestion, these are
menaces of most ominous import.
"But turn from the White House to
the Capitol and look at the Republi-
cans in Congress. The trail of the
trademark is over them all. Old
High Tariff dances the can-can in the
House, while old Ship Subsidy does
the regulation cakewalk in the
Senate. Everything for the syndi-
cate; nothing for the people. And,
not content with their arbitrary
power in the White House and their
mercenary power in Congress, the
leaders of this party of federalism
and false pretension would rip open
Pandora's box to flch thence the
black, piratical flag of negro domi-
nation-the equally disreputable and
bloody shirt of sectional agitation
and in order to make sure ofthe next
House they are proposing to bring
forward another force bill to smite
the South, to blight the North and
to convert land teeming with love
and peace into a land reeking with
hate and strife. Such is the banquet
to which the exit of Mckinley, the
statesman, and the advent of Roose-
welt, the rough rider, has invited US.
81 am something of a jingo myself
1 believe in the expanding greatness
and glory of my country. l never
see the flag floating above the dome
on yonder Capitol that my heart does
not. throb with the proud, glad
thought-that my eyes do not fill
with happy exultant tears-that l,
too, am an American citizen. God
bless the flag and God bless the boys
that fight beneath it. l would carry
it inviolate. would keep it spot
less. And with this in view l want
to know what is going on way out
yonder across the multitudinous, the
mysterious waves Of the Pacific sea.
| want other witnesses than self
seeking politicians and selfexploiting
soldiers to come mere and tell me. l
refuse to hold my tongue. l refuse
to rest content. And if | am told by
a whippersnapper in shoulder straps
that unless l do ! am a traitor to my
country my reply to him shall be a
slap in the face.
Friends, brothers, Democrats, let
us have done with dissension. Let
us turn our backs on the past, our
eyes to the future, calling the old fight
off and the old scores square. He
who stands with me against these
things is my comrade, no matter
what he thinks or ever thought
about silver or gold. He who would
deny ME place by his side to fight
them must either be very perverse r
very blind. Let us cross no bridges
till we come to them But already
we can see far enough ahead to take
our reckoning. There will be but on
test of a Democrat in 1904. toe RI e