The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-15


money getting and the promotion Of
great enterprises. which. as everybody
knows. are the evidences OF nations
prosperity and influence great many
people and a great deal OF time are
necessary TO patriotically care for these
things; and somehow II is more pleas
ant 20 promote the countrys good and
at the same time our own financial pros
poets in this way, than by habitually
meddling In political operations
URGES VIGILANCE
The withdrawal OF wholesome senti-
ment and patriotic activity from political
action on the part OF those who are in
different 10 their duty or foolhardy I'm
their timism open the way for ruth
less and unrelentlng enemy OF our free
Institutions The abandonment of our
country's watch towers by those who
should be on guard and the slumber OF
! the sentInels who should never sleep. d.
| rectly invite the stealthy approach and
the pillage and loot OF the forces OF sell
ishness and greed. These baleful ene-
niles OF patriotic effort will lprk every
where as long as human nature remains
unregenerate. but nowhere I'm the world
can they create such desola tions as In
free America. and nowhere can they SO
cruelty destroy mans highest and best
aspirations for self lf-government. IL is
useless for us to blink at the fact that
a close interdependence OF interest and
purpose among those who make up the
body OF our people. Let US be honest
with ourselves. II our nation was built
too much upon sentiment. and N the rules
OF patriotism and benignty that were
followed In It's construction have proved
too impractical. let us frankly admit ~.
But II love Of country. equal opportunity
and genuine brotherhood In citizenship
We're worth the pains and trials that gave
them birth. and II we still believe them
To be worth preservation and that they
have the Inherent vigor and benehcence
10 make our Hrepublic lasting and our
people happy. let us strongly hold them
IN love and devotion. Then IL shall he
given To US 10 plainly see that nothing
rs more unfriendly To the motives that
underle our national edihce than the
selhshness and cupidity that look upon
freedom and law. and order. only as so
many agencies In aid OF their designs.
Our government was made by patriotic.
unselfish, sober-minded men for the con
Ash and sober.minded people. II Is suit
/ ed % such = people, but for those who are
\ selfish, corrupt and unpatriotic II is the
worst government on earth.
NEED or LOFTY PURPOSE,
II Is SO constructed that n needs for
| It's successful operation the constant care
! and guiding hand OF the peoples abiding
| faith and love and not only IL this un
| remitting guidance necessary TO keep our
\ national mechanism true 10 It's work. but
! the faith and love which prompt N are
the best safeguards against selfish cit-
J zenship. Give 10 our people something
that will concentrate their common af-
| fection ana solicitous csre--and let thcm
be their countrys good give them a pur-
pose that stimulates them 10 unite IN
! lofty endeavor-and LEI that purpose he
demonstration of The sufficiency and
| benehcence OF our popular rule-and We
shall find that I'm their political thought
there win he no place for suggestions of
sordidness and self
Who will say that this Is now our happy
condition. Is not our public life saturated
with the indecent demands Of selhshness? :?
More than this can any of us doubt the
existence OF still more odious and detesti-
bic evils which. with steady. cankering
growth are more directly than all others
threatening our safety and national lifef
7 speak OF the corruption Of our suffrage.
open and notorious. ~ the buying and
selling Of political places for money. the
purchase ~ political favors and privileges
and the traffic In official duty for personal
gain. These things are confess-dy com
mon Every intelligent man knows that
they have grown from small beginnings
until they have reached frightful proper
tions of rnalevolencei and vet respectable
citizens by the thousands have looked on
with perfect calnness and with hypo-
critical ca-lt have declared they are not
politicians. or with silly pretensions OF
faith IA our strength and luck have lam
glidly claimed that the country was pros
porous equal To- any emergency and proof
against all dangers.
POOR DO NOT SHARE IT.
Resulting from these conditions In
matter not difficult 90 trace wholesome
national sentiment IL threatened with ut
ter perversiOn. All sorts OF mlsconcep-
tions pervade the public thought. and
iealousies rapidly taking on the complex
ion OF class hatred are found IN every
corner of the land a new meaning has
been given 20 national prosperity. with
hardihood that savors Of insolence an
! Old pretext. which has preceded the doom
~ ancient experiments in popular rule.
| ~ daily and hourly dinned In our ears.
We are told that the national splendor We
nave Nuil' uron the SNOWY ventures OF
speculative wealth is a badge % our sue.
cess Jnsharine ccntenment is enjoinsd
upon the masses Of our people and they