The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-25

tenant general OF the army, grown gray
in the fighting Of the battles Of his coun-
try, becomes an amusing horse play
meant to relax his muscles and illustrate
his high-mightiness, while warning less
er officers of the army to obey orders
and say nothing.
AS these things go forward partaking
somewhat of the character of feats 10
divert and blinds to hoodwink public
opinion, a bill Of army reorganization is
prepared and urged upon congress which,
If it becomes law, will make the power
of the president absolute and which 1t 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 Of a
committee of congress as was his duty
expresses an opinion adverse to this
bill, it is proposed to retire him from the
service. Taken in connection with some
other matters of more or less sinister
suggestion, these are menaces of omt-
nous import.
Fears Another Force Bill.
Eut turn from the White house to the
capitol and look at the Republicans 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 regular cakewalk in the
senate Everything for the syndicates.
Nothing for the people. And, not con-
tent 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 fitch thence
the black, piratical flag of negro domi-
natiCn-the equally dIsreputable and
bloody shirt of sectional agitation-and,
in ORDER to make sure Of the next house,
they are proposing to bring forward an
other force bill to smite the South, to
blight the North, and to convert a land
teeming with love and peace into q land
rr.Hlyi writ hn "a trIf 70 71r.h S-
the banquet to which the exit of McKi1-
ley, the stateman, and the advent of
Roosevelt the rough rider, has invited
us.
lieve in the expanding greatness and
glory of my country. I never see the
flag floating above the domes 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 /, too, am an American citizen.
Z God bless the flag, and God bless the
boys that fight beneath it. I would
carry it inviolate. would keep them
spotless.
And, with this in view, I want to know
what is going on away out yonder across
the multidinous, the mysterious waves
of the Pacific ocean. l want other wit
nesses than self-seeking politicians and
seIf-exploiting soldiers to come here and
tell me- I refuse to hold my tongue.
| refuse to rest content. And, if | am
IOIQ ny ~ WulppST-SI1dpp6T SnOulQST
straps that unless I do, I am a traitor
TO my country, my reply to him shall
be slap in the face.
Pleads for Reunion.
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 a place by his side to
fight them must either be very perverse
or very blind.
Let us cross no bridges until we come
to them. But already we can see far
enough ahead to take our reckoning.
There will be but one test of a Demo-
crat in l94-toe the line-toe the line-say-
ing to arbitrary power and absolutism
Ihou shalt go no further; we, too, are
IN the expansion business; but our ex-
panslon is for the religion Of the consti-
tuition no less than for the religion Of
christ and Him crucified; our expansion
means peace, not war; the honor, not
Une degradation of the flag; and lust as
surely as Jefferson wrote the Declaration
or independence and Jackson fought the
pattle of New Orleans-to resist despot-
lsnE-shall We make a new Fourth of Jul
and celebrate another 8th of January. in
resisting this unrighteous scheme to
abolish the constitution and Mexicanize
the government.
Nixon Points Way to Victory.
Mr.. Lewis Nixon was next introduced.