The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-17

task. l began to look about me in Oh
der to see how the duty had been pei
formed by others. 1 found from re
cent performances of a similar char
acter in the Republican camp tha
| for notification speech historica
essay is. altogether the proper thing
absolutely necessary for the emerg
ency. We shall therefore entitle oui
notification address: "A Brief Histori
call Disquisition upon Some of the
Blunders of Our Ancestors as Viewed
from the Standpoint of the Wisdom
of Republican Statesmen, Who Have
Embraced the Strenuous Life
The greatest blunder in our early
| history consisted in their taking UP
| arms against King George and his
| forces, when the latter were actuated
as they themselves confessed, only
by the kindest designs of 'benevo.
lently assimilating' to themselves our
resources and our opportunities. You,
sir, who have a Republican son-in-law
and, therefore. possess culture by
affinity at least, will hardly believe
that our ancestors were stupid enough
to fight against the principle, which
we SO frankly recognize in the Phil
ippiness, viz: that it is perfectly
right, self-evidently proper, for a
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lirely different sorts of government,
one for ourselves at home protecting
individual, civil and political liberty
and pretending to furnish full and
equal opportunities for industrial de-
velopment, and another for another in
the colOnies-absolute and discretion
airy in it's character and avOwedly
limiting industrial development there
by the necessities of commercial ex-
ploitation for the benefit of the home
merchant and the home manufactur
er. We know, now, of course, that all
our ancestors talk about inalienable
rights OF lf-government, no taxa
lion without representation habeas
corpus and right of trial by jury, free
dom of the press, freedom of speech
and freedom of assembly, were only
pretext resorted to by ranHing 'insur-
gents in order to throw off the civ
iliZing influences of the best govern
ment, which the world had that far
witnessed We have not been stupid
enough to confine to mere words our
apology for this mistake in our his
tory; we have apologized by deeds
If confession. 1t seems strange that
?e could, as a people, have prosper
I'D industrially and otherwise, as we
have prospered. so marvelOusly, sir.
in ali our history, both as colonies
and as states, in spite of the mon
strous error-this unholy rebellion.
We have. however, made the am
ende honorable for this silly business,
by our governmental strenuOsity at
Indianola, Mississippi. Not long since
it was alleged, although not proven
Notwithstanding the fact that there
was a United States marshal to ar
rest, a United States grand jury to
indict and a United States petit jury
to convict, that certain people in the
town OF Indianola. Miss, had cOnspir-
IF rlrQ-
venting an incumbent of a federal Of
fee from continuing to hold that of
fee True, there is a plain statute of
the United States, writ large on the
pages of the Revised Statutes, pro-
viding punishment for those guilty
of that identical crime. 1t was, per-
haDs however, thought that the alleg-
ed crime could not be proven in a
court of jnstice under the ordinary
forms of law; that the forces of the
aw, as in the precedent cited in Bos-
ton. were too weak or not to be al
together relied upon by those in auth
Ority. The necessary and righteous
consequence was that recurring to
the precedent established by that
miracle of wisdom. George OF Hano-
yer and his cabinet, we promptly and
strenuously deprived the little town
of IndianOla of all mail facilities. pro-
ceeded 10 punish for the law-break-
ing intent of a few-if indeed such
intent ever existed-which | frankly
admit is questioned-al of the town.
men and women, doctors. lawyers.
merchants. black and white, by cut
ting of their mail facilities; thus. by
a White House decree. excommuni-
eating them from the intelligence of
the world. Our ancestors. incompre-
hensibly, even after they had had the
wisdom of the Boston Port Bill fully
explained. persisted in their madness
and folly. refusing TO be enlightened.
and still hung on with miraculous IA
naticism to the belief that only the
U,iltv 0uphf m he nalnighed and ey-