The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-08-19

sntiy cease TO breathe and as our hearts
grow weaker and weaker, surreDdes
our So lis at last 10 the God VINO gave
them, with the grateful exclamations
Now Lord, they servant hath seen IL.
What a queer, oldtirne. childish
idea was that of our ancestors, that
the President of the United States Is
simply a chief executive and that his
duty consists in executing the laws as
they We're written. / need not tell
you. Sir, that If you should be elected
Vice President it would he one OF your
duties as sort OF heir apparent to the
crown to train yourself and to infiu-
ence your chief-Judge Parker-in
the way of usurping the other depart
ments OF the government Your op-
portunity will not be as great as that
of the President himself but. as Pres
ident of The Senate, you may have
some opportunity; the opportunity OF
changing the Senate on your own mo-
uon,-or doing some other revolution
ary thing, which, as play to the gal
leries. will make your good old Welsh
name famous, as that of one of the
most spectacular and strenuous Of
men. Men, Sir, are not responsible
for the size of their opportunities.
They are responsible for taking ad-
vantage of them-sometimes for not
making them-as I'm the Panama Re-
public, for instance.
1T will be your duty as a part of
the executive branch of the govern
menI to look down with contempt
upon the legislative branch. You
will soon learn that The cattle, who
inhabit 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 liItle, IL any, bet
ter than the other cattle who sent them
there-the farmers and mechanics
and doctors and preachers and mer-
chants of the United States. Infiu-
ence the President to feel AS you do.
He will be told, perhaps. that an ex-
ecutive officer can go too far and
finally outrage the feelings of these
cattle. He may be told that any man
who has a profound contempt for the
Legislative branch of this government
IS unfit to he the head of It's executive
divorcing itself from outgrown Ameri-
can landmarks. That, we are moving
and divorcing there is no doubt. Stand
ing now in the dawn of the twentieth
century; having forbidden the reading
OF the Declaration of Independe in
a part of the country's domain: with
courts ready to decide that the con-
stitution Is not written letter TO be
read and obeyed, but a dancing pano-
rama, changing itself to suit chdngin
conditions. having put our foot down
wisely and firmly, upon freedom of
speech and freedom of assembly and
freedom of the press in Colorado and
those 'appurtenant appendageS', where
freedom of speech, press and assembly
might be awkward for us; ha wing
joined the holy alliance of land grab
ra7
that Gods command against robbery
and theft does not apply to m:n in
the aggregate acting as natiOnaHties,
when robbing communities of their in
dependence or 'benevolently aSSimila-
ting their resources;-amid all these
reversals of historical blunders of our
past, 1 boldly aver that we need not
despair of the republic
branch What stuff! And yet this
last sentence is an actual quotation
from a member of Congress-! Tell
your chief that the man who uttered
the sentiment was only a Sountherner
and not even a -Soun therner of the
right sOrt-not an Image of God in
ebony-but just a white man of that
coarse and brutal strain, which
turned loose upon the world George
Washington. Thomas Jefferson. John
Marshall, Robert F. Lee, Abraham
Lincoln, General George d. Thomas.
Admiral ITarragut, Sidney Lanier and
Thomas Nelson Page.
"As to the common herd, who
send these cattle, to Washington, all
you need with them is to talk piati-
tudeS 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
opportunities.
Remember especially that all nros-
perity amongst the nennla Is due to
government; >that government. in
taking with the hand of taxation from
one man in order to hothouse the pros
perity of another, has, in some way or
other. benefited and enriched both.
DO not stop to explain how this is
possible. 1t would take too much
time. 1t might besides that, be en-
barrassing. II anybody is impudent
enough to insist upon knowing how it
could possibly come about, tell him
that you are not teaching a kinder
garten and tell him. moreover, that it
is your duty to do things and not to
be bothered with any consideration of
whether you are doing them right or
wrong.
I'm conclusion, Sir, pray for war
nobody can tell what great things war
Will Slio III WHSll oIlCe DeSun. i
might result in making of your chief
the first Emperor and Lord Protector
of the Western Hemisphere You
would, of course. in that event, as
heir-apparent, share his glory. Your
legal title might become Prince
d'Outre Mere know you would run
some little risk Of having him desig-
nate his secretary of war as his sue
cessor, but believe would chance it,
Besides, peace is tame and unslren-
uous thing. and 'Smothers out some
of the finest instincts of manhood
Shakespeare said: In thy right hand
carry gentle peace to silence envious
tongues Our forefathers, even down
through the times of Lincoln and
Grant, thought this sentiment sound
morality and sound policy, for nations,
as well as individuals. We know now
that the right policy is To tread
softly and carry a big stick