Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-09
AGAINST RED TICKET.


history and study the political
conditions that have existed from
time to time, we find it true that
where the will of the people has
been honored and respected we
see happy and contented people
Self-preservation is the first law
and principle of human liberty,
and when the powers that be be-
gin to usurp the rights delegated
to the people, then this usurpa.
ton stirs the pure, patriotic
blood of civilized and enlightened
men and lays the cornerstone as
it were, for disruption and revo-
luton.
All people will ultimatel y re-
possess themselves Of their rights.
The study of history bears out
this statement from Alpha to
Omega. When Adam was placed
in the Garden of Eden, he became
so much infatuated on his job as a
ruler that God sent him forth
from his exalted station to be-
come tiller of the soil.
The American colonists were a
satisfied people so long as their
rights were respected. When
these were usurped by tyrants
they refused to submit, and said,
"All men are created equal, -"
that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights. Thus they 60 on to the
end, and then pledge ether lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred
.honors. Attached to this sacred
declaration are the names OF those
noble heroes who were living for
principle and not the sentiment OF
a few rich lords, made so by pub
lie feeling. They were proud to
be called "rebels. They stood
for the common people.
These days and men have pass
ed and gone. Such sad change
marks our political conditions. 1t
seems that no longer does the Of
fee exist for the people. When
Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation ne
cut the last cord of legalized hui
man slavery.
Nations have stood the terrors
of foreign invasion and civil strife,
and yet by political corruption
have they sealed their own doom.
Where law is enforced the peo-
pie are happy. Of course, the
CRATER may not get so fat Il,
nancially, but the law is for all
the people. The Governor OF a
sister State a1short time ago In
refusing pardon to boodler sent
to the penitentiary, said: "The
punishment is wholly inadequate
to the offense committed" The
stealing of personal property,
either by robbery of person,
breaking into houses or iron safes,
is insignificant as compared to an
offense which involves a breach
of official duty, the betrayal OF
public confidence and the under
mining of our social fabric.
A minister in a certain city,
speaking from his pulpit on a
riot trouble short time ago, SAID
a few words of reproduction. lie
said: "There were loafng spots
in that city, and there are in this
city, where the vilest gather, and
sin, open faced, glares at you with
out even a rebuke. Within a
stones throw of this church are
haunts of vice. They are not only
tolerated, but they are protected
by the government. These condl-
lions come about through lax
public opinion with respect to
lesser crimes; through lax en-
forcement of law. AS loyal Amer
lean citizens we must support the
officers in the discharge OF their
duty to vote the men out who are
untrue to their oaths and false to
the best interests of the people.
We must out with the men who
are more concerned for party
than for principle, who think
more of their obligations to par
ty leader than their oath of office,
and whose desire and greed for
place overrides their sense OF