The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-18

Z
r one of your duties as sort of hcira
4 parent to the crown 70 train yourse
r and to influence your chief--Jude
!. Parker,in the way OF usurping II
5 other departments of the government
[ Your opportunity win not he as gres
| as that of the president himself, bu
, as president of the senate, you ma
have some opportunity, the opportun
] ty, OF. changing the senate rules o
your own motion, or doing some othe
revolutionary thing, which. as a pla
to the galleries, will make you on
of the most spectacular and strenuou
Of men, Men, sir, are not responsible
for the size Of their opportunities
They are responsible for taking ad
vantage Of them sometimes for no
making them--as In re. Panama Re
public, for instance.
Contempt for Congress.
1T will be your duty, as part O
the executive branch Of the govern
ment to look down with contempt up
on the legislative branch. You vii
soon learn that the cattle who in
habit the senate chamber and the
other wing Of the capitol-the lower
house (Which has been getting con.
stantly lower and lower every day for
many years ARE but little, If any
better than the other cattle who sent
them there, the farmers and mechan-
les and doctors and preachers and
merchants of the United States. In
fluence the president to feel as you
do. He will be told, perhaps, thai an
executive officer can go too far and
finally outrage the feelings of these
cattle. He may be told that any
man who has such a profound con-
tempt for the legislative branch of
our government is unfit to be the head
of its executive branch What stuff!
And yet this last sentence is an ac-
tual quotation from member of con
sress! Tell your chief that the man
who uttered the sentiment was only
southerner and not even south
erner of the right sor---not an Image
man of that coarse aLC brutal strain.
which turned loose upon the world
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer-
son, John Marshall, Robert Lee, Abra-
ham Lincoln, General George d. Tho
mas, Admiral Farragut, sydney La
nier and Thomas Nelson Page.
"As to the common herd, who send
these cattle to Washington, all you
need with them is to talk platitudes
about civic righteousness. and the
'strenuousness of life What they
want to do is to sit in the galleries
and witness the play. Make yourself
the star performer, according to your
Remember especially. that all pros
Oerity amongst the people is due to
government; that Government is taxi
ing with the hand of taxation from
one man in order to dollhouse the
Of another. has. in some
way. or other, benefited and en-
riehed both. Do not stop TO explain
how this is possible Ii would take
too much time 1t might, besides
that, be embarrassing. If anybody is
impudent enough to insist upon know
ing how ID could possibly come about.
Iell him that you are not teaching
/ kindergarten and tell him. more.
over. that II is your duty to 10
.hings and not TO be bothered with
any consideration of whether you are
ioing them right or wrong.
"Pray for War"
In conclusion. sir, pray for war
nobody can tell what great things
war will end in when once begun. 1t
might result i'm making of your chief
he first Emperor and Lord Protector
If the Western Hemisphere. You
would of course, in that event. as
share his glory. Your
egal title might become prince
l'Outre Mere. | know you would run |
ZONE little risk of having him desig-
late his Secretary of War as his sue
,essors. but / believe would chance
q Besides peace is a tame and I'M |
strenuous thing. and smoothers out !
ome of the finest instincts of man
rood. Shakespeare said: In thy |
light hand carry g-ntle peace TO
Hence envious tongues Our fore
athers, even down through the times
If Lincoln and Grant. thought this |
sentiment sound morality and sound |
policy, for nations, as well as for ind:- /
We know now that the right 4
'olicy is To tread softly and carry |
big stick
Who was the fool who said, War |
$ hell anyhow? My word for il, he
lever saw real war.
Remember above all things that our /
hief duty as citizens. but especially /
IS rulers, IS not TO be weddings 1
n towards A weakling, sir. is a /
trangely domesticated animal, who /
.stens before he acts, and who /
Weighs evidence before he decides. /
gho modestly venerates greatness
d others. who actually prefers piping
lines of peace TO the 'pomp and /
Of glorious war. Weak
.ngs are men who fear the s.renu-
us life. the only national life that /
s really worth the living'-the life of |
'rown-C Colony Conquest. the Life MIL /
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