The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-22
aeyAL eAkse rowOss col. N1w voRs.

P+eiiicu itsSiA upoH tlle cIedtlon ol MI
the prosperity that has fallen to our
country's lot?.
Such arrogance is not new to the
party which now seeks at the hands of
the people a renewal of our governments
control; but it has so grown by what it
has fed upon as now shamelessly to as
sumo that the time has arrived when
popular heedlessness or dulness will per-
NIT boasting and reckless assertion to
pass for truth and reason. If this as
sumption is justified there can be no
doubt that the sober and responsible po-
litical thought and watchfulness, upon
which the true intent ande purpose of
our government depend, ar, in grievous
peril If, on the other hand this as
sumption is yiciously unwarranted, lit is
an insult to American manliness which
should arouse prompt and effective re-
sentiment.
Meyer before have our people been 50
belabored with party deliverances, which
in every line and every word, from plat
form declarations to>the last appeal of
party advocacy, are so saturated with
conqeited and tiresome claims of infalli-
bility, and with supercilious disdain Of all
political effects except such as are at
tempted under the banner of Repubi
canism. Shall this pass current at a
time when, at the parting of the ways in
our nations development, we are espec-
tally called to patriotic thoughtfulness
and careful contemplation. of party de-
signs and to vigilant watch against
dangers that beset us? Ny faith in my
countrymen will not permit me to believe
this, or to, doubt that they will insist up
on examining for themselves the accounts
of party stewardship.
when credit is claimed for securing a
route for a long-desired interoceanic wa
terway, it will not be in a carping spirit
that the people will look at the incidents
accompanying this achievement. They
do not undervalue the objectNgained, but
they keenly appreciate the importance
and value of our national honor, our ma
tional good name, and, above all, our ma
tionai morality. Not even the>g great
worth of the thing accomplished will
close the eyes of thoughtful Americans
TO the fact that in reaching the results
we have exhibited such international
ruthlessness and such selfish internation-
al immortality as have lastingly debilita-
ted our reputation for good faith, and es-
tablish precedent which, in time to
come, may be invoked to justify the most
startling and reprehensibe abandonment
of the high ideals which have made us
an example Of the best civilization-a
people. happy as we are intelligently free,
strong as we are serupulously just, and
everywhere trusted and honored asswe
undeviatingly follow in the, ways of up
rightness and rectitude.
Il have ventured to suggest the mis-
leading purpose of the yaingIorious
claims made by party organization
which seeks a continuance of political
control, and to intimate the humiliating
estimate Of our peoples intelligence and
patriotic which the exploitation of these
claims involve. 1t is surely not narrow
partisanship when | beg them to remem-
Der that the true greatness and glory Of
our nation cannot safely rest upon wealth
which finds it's way TO the few at the ex-
pense of the many, nor upon SUCH mater
ial success as eontaminates the purity or
blunts the potency Of patriotism. nor up
on expansion in disregard of our nation
al mission, and intent; nor upon achieve
ments that put in question our national
morality.
81 desire to. congratulate you, my old
neighbors, and the citizens of what l
love to. call my old State, upon the fact
that what Alton B. Parker is what he
represents in the nation, D. Cady Her
rick, is, and represents, in your State.
The time has arrived when there is need <
ed at the head Of your State Government
man as able, as fearless. and as in
corruptible as know your candidate for
Governor to be.
NsLet us hope the day is near when
all our people, having correct apprecia
ton of the value of the Institutions which
God has vouchsafed for them, and an
mated by the spirit Of Gue patriotism,
may see their highest duty in continually
guarding and defending these Institutions
against the decay which comes of neglect,
the wea akness Which Comes Of undermine
ing nlaterialisna, and the perversion which
e.,,,s.S f 7;<nIafl;1 ;1yacn 81, f6a Io1re nf olf.