The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1902-07-18

at midnight with "Jim-Jams' Like Belshaz
Ear of old they will read strange handwriting
on the wall and send for the Daniel of the plain
people to interpret its meaning. He will tell
them it means that. even yet, this govern
ment of the people, by the people and for the
people" and they will regret to have forgotten
this fundamental truth.
Just one hundred years ago, when our govern
ment was weakest its flag was insuted by
France. Our ENJOYS sent to Paris TO negotiate n
treaty were met by proposition to be given a
hearing for a large sum of money. Charles
Pinkney main tanned the honor of his country,
and made himself immortal by replying, mil
lions for defense but not one cent for tribute q.
Hardly three years ago, when our government
strongest, we sent our armies to Cuba for
the purpose of liberating and oppressed people
They were met by Gen. Gomez witt the PROPOSE
ton. for twenty-five thousand dollars l Will not
oppose you To the eternal shame of this giant re.
public General Wood replied, We will pay it
Light Horse Harry Lee would have cheerfully
surrendered his iife in the use of all honorable
methods of to have captured Aguanaldo
the patriot leader of the home-loving Phillip
than have been guilty of the base treachery by
which that cheftain was deceived and made a
prisoner. CORVALLIS was not captured by
General Washington that way; Packenham
died at the mouth of General Jacksons breast
works OF Cotton bales at the New Orleans rather
than make such an offer that old hero !;
santa Anna did offer General Taylor gold, but
haughtily demanded his unconditional snrrend =
the reply rings throughout America today
General Taylor never surrenders; Jefferson
Davis was not captured that way-blessed 10y
the memory of General Grant. he would not
humiiiate Lee by taking his sword brave Gus
~ dace in he
wild Indian of the West. An imperialiStic
government at Washington made General Wood
Governor of Cuba and Colonel Funston
general in the regular army the people made
Washington. Jackson, Taylor and Grant Presi-
dents of the United States. In memory of Puri-
tan integrity and of Cavalier honesty in the
name of christian liberty and of all the sacred
traditions and nobier impulses of Anglo-Sa Aon
manhood, let US pray just and discerning God
To absolve those who truly love their country
and stand ready to die for her honor from the
burning infamy Those who fought under the
declarari ton and the constitution made the
pages of our history beam with glory, while
those who operated under the edicts of an i'm
perialistic President have burr ID them with
shame. We do not complain of the great
progress that is being made to impress the vir-
tuce of Anne rican institutions upon other peoples
and other countries. but to make 1t lasting and
To the uplifting of mankind. let US adopt the
methods by which this government was es-
tablished. II We mean to give them liberty it
must be founded first in the right of local self
government. If we mean to hold them as an
outlying part of this republic We must give them
our Declaration and our Constitution.
Our progress is abnormal one part of the ma
tional body Is of the giant while another Is of
the dwarf Such a condition is not sound or
healthful. Our ancestors adopted the teaching
of Jefferson and made the military arm of the
government subservient to the civil. The re-
verse is the ruling theory now. The Declara-
ton of Independence has been substituted by
the wild idea of Expansion. Under the Deciars 4.
ton our country stretched her domlDlons from
the Atlantic the Pacific aud encompassed a
homogeneous people. Under lmperialIstlc ex-
pansion have crossed the seas and shot liber-
nag over them and denied them the constitu-
ton. such policy makes shlpwreck of our
falsh-it is retfogression.
The Declaration OF Independence seems to
have been written under the power of a divine
insplra ton and entrusted to the Moses of Ameri-
high ideal of this republic sleeps in no stone
sealed sepuIchre: il IS not dead, il still lives
the hearts of q brave and chlvalrous people. In
tOxicated By the Incompatible Development and
richness Of the country tue government at Wash
ingtou has abandoned her goddess and joined
foreign power. But IL has been written. that
while mankind arc moro disposed TO suffer
while evils are siderable, liberation ceases at
aheoluee deopotism.
This country = the homo Of the Anglo Saxon.
He discovered II, he settled it. be esta blished
e: from tine 70 time, b has named her boun-
diaries: his ssed y becoming extinct in other