The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-10-15

That republican orator whose caprice
it once was to wrap himself up in
the -spangled banner, shake the
declaration of independence in your
faces and tell you how the republican
party saved the Union is content now
to heap abuse and ridicule upon the
party that is trying to preserve from
the corrosive acids of privileges and
the foundation on which
the republic rests. (Applause.) The
doctrine of the peoples right to rule
conceived in the days of jefferson and
developed in the days of Lincoln, has
been discarded by the party whose
only glory is that of the great emanci-
pator.
The republican party never quotes
the immortal utterances of it's found
er for it is too busily engaged in ad-
ministering the water cure to the
Goddess of Liberty and in transfixing
her worshippers on the cruel bayonets
of barbarism in the name of Christ and
civilization. The way to liberty is
strewn with the bones of heroes and
with the bones of Filipino patriots the
republican party has paved the high
ways of Luzon. (Applause.) And
while they are doing this the democ-
racy is appealing directly to the hearts
of the American people for the per-
petuity of the republic and the puri-
ty of it's flag. And this is the truest
patriotism The founders of the re-
public realized that this nation must
triumph, not through the absence of
but through the capacity and
the inclination to correct them. The
one great mistake of our history was
made when we made war on the peo-
pie of the Philippine islands and now
1t must be corrected, and he is the best
friend of our flag who votes to bring
1t home and he is the best friend of |
our army who votes to have it follow |
he flag back to a country too great |
% need expansion beyond the CONT
lent and to the people too humane
or wars Of conquest. prolonged ap-
)lause)
President Roosevelt said he pardon
ID some Filipino patriots on the
Fourth of July by virtue of power
rested in him by the constitution"
But the supreme court says the con-
titution does not apply to the Filipi-
los. Gaughter.) However that may
be the declaration of independence |
ioes apply to them and it applies as
veil to all men of whatever cline. CAP
)lause.)
Tyranny never dies. 1t must be |
shackled by Justice and imprisoned in |
he basement of the Temple of Lib |
erty. In the guise of Expansion" it |
has, within the past few years. enter
ed the republican party and, though |
history certifies that it never yet has |
triumphed for long, it never CLEANS |
wisdom from the past and when 1t |
tempted the republican party into. a |
war of subjugation none but the very |
highest order of that partys states
men could be brought, as the entire
nation-has now been brought to real
re the error and impotency of engag-
ng In struggle where all was to be
ost and nothing was to be gained: |
where victory, the heat of argument
being over, would be more melancholy
20 the patriotic American than defeat
could possibly be. (Applause)
on this question the democracy is
light as 1t has ever been right. 1t is
IN the side OF the starving coal miners
II pennsylvania and it is pleading for
Justice for the people of Cuba and lib
'rty for the far-off islands in the China
sea. 1t would turn this government
'ver to the rule of the people and If
would encourage the spread of repub-
lean government among the nations
II the earth. 1t says that once orr
starry flag has returned it shall never
lgain be in the van of an army of in
'asion. 1t says that our business 10
IN this continent while there remains
IN arid acre of American soil to be re-
claimed for the upbuilding of an Amer
can home. (Applause.) 1t saws we
shall send no more money from orr
latlons treasury and no more bovs
rom American f1resides to shoot civ
lization into the people of foreipn
ands while there is one hungry child
lnder the sacred shadow of freedoms
lag. (Applause)
The art Of government consists in
being honest"
We should take care lest the thrash
Did OF Jefferson grow cold to us. (Pro-
onged applause.)