The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-14


signs and pOrtents. wave Of cheal
jlngoism, two-thirds mercenery an
one-third concet, has swept over III
country, borne upon the shoulders 0
the callow youths VINO call themselves
veterans of the Spanish-America,
war" led by very shrewdly self-seek
ing and very lucky child of destiny
Of the name of Theodore Roosevelt.
The time for counting the cost vii
come. But is is not near enough ever
for considering the cost The respec.
abe elderly gentlemen in gold.rimmel
specs who gathered about Judge Par
ker and in their wise way discoursed
of the constitution and other days ant
other things. will all be dead and gone
long before il puts in its appearance,
"Gray-beards TO the rear" shouts
4 young America, we bank this game.
and Wen play it to the limit, you
! bet" And they will; some of it good,
/ much of ii i'll, all of il a complete re.
versal of the republic as il was con.
| ceived and established, substituting
| for the moderator among the nations,
which il should be-a very torch Of
Justice and freedom among men-the
splendid government. dreaded by the
wisdom of the sages, a world power
terrible In its oppulence and rapaeity
Overwhelming in its resources and Its
greed, giant proud of being giant
and using its strength like giant
Well may the Kaiser Of Germany
send over a Latin message 70 his cou.
sin at Washington congratulating him
on his triumph and bespeaking his i'm
perial good will; why not the car?
n.
We repeat what we said yesterday
that, in the character of an organized
body in national affairs. the Demo
cratic party as ii is constituted and
led. can do little against the oligar-
ehism now fixed in power and hedged
by fences which nobody on the outside
Is likely to be able 10 scale.
1t is as helple as were the Federal
lists in 1904, as The Wings in 1858, and
not nearly so rich in leaders Nor
s there in sight any combination Civ
ing promise of better things. OF course
we shall have all sorts of schemes of
new parties. as we shall have al
eor.s of nostrums for resuscitating
the Democratic party There will, We
dare say, be a fight even for the la
bel. discredited even as this seem
TO be Populism has not yet had its
ling, nor Socialism its opportunity
These are also the accidents of for
.une-the possibilities and the chanc
% of the game-Ro0sevelt. may do %
he Republicans what Cleveland did 70 |
he Democrats-four years hence corn8
nay not be so high. wheat may fall to-
fifty cents, there may be cholera in
the Philippines and in Wall street |
smallpox in the stock yards-anything |
and yea. and yet, all the same, there
.ares us in the face the face
that. with the weapons and resources |
III in their own hands. and the will
and wit TO use them, the men in the |
iadd,e are not likely TO ride directly 1
10 hell On the contrary, they are !
likely to Strengthen their position |
70 barricade their power so that
ihor. of some dire convulsion-they
viii be hardly less potential in 190S !
That they have shown Themselves e
De in 1904 b
4 II MIR Bryan. with his el0duenee ana |
.south and promising layout. could !
not carry the country in 1896, or, in |
1900. nor Judge Parker. with SO much |
10 commend him. in 1904. it Is fair to |
assume thai ii is impossible to unite
the opposition upon any sufficient
plan of campaign.
For the moment. therefore. there Is !
nothing in sight for these sincere Am. !
orleans who believe. as we do, that |
many of the ends of republican govern. |
nent, as we conceive It, are being |
prostituted 10 the merest greed for |
money aud office; that party spirit |
iordid and relentless rules the hour; |
that close corporation of more or
less corrupt but very able men. are in
the ascendent; and that the warp and
wool Of politics as politics is conduct
ed are rotting to the point where
break in the thread may cost ms ali
that is beneficent in our institutions.
leaving Us only the nomenclature and
the externals Of republic, whilst in
point OF fact. giving US an imperial.
ism not much different from that Of
the Caesars.
All seems lost To organized DemOc-
racy VIC fear all IS lost AT least. all
is chaos. Shall We. on that account.
ay down our arms and accep. the sit.
uation2 God of the universe. forbid IL.
perish in the depths Of perdition 50
much as the thought of IL. Bat. what
shall we do? How shall We proceed?
In the south. al least. we are polit.
lcally jus whore we were at the close
Of the sectional war. much better of
n pocket. not out,awed exactly.
though II the president be given bis
way we shall partly be. but. touching
a place and force in national affair.
wiped cut, literally. absolutely wiz
ed out We have nothing left but our
racehoOd and our manhood. for. pres
I emily. We shall be robbed by the party
in power Of nearly forty per cent Of
our representation. What shall we do.
what can hold together and maintain
Our solidarity moi merely a. a means