The leader., 1905-08-23

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lmembering the glories of battles,
recalling the victories of York
town, New Orleans and Santiago,
our heart throbs in full sympathy
with bis, when, as a foreign pa
Itriot, be hopefully laments with
the fulness ofhis powerful nature:
sIhe mountains look on Marathon
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone
I dreamed that Greece might still be
free,
For, standing on the Persian.grave,
I could not deem myself slave"
Refined and elegant Greek |
proud and naughty Roman! how
bitter must have been your humil-
iation when, in meek submission,
you prostrated yourself before
the entrance of your absolute and
dehased tyrants. But bitterer
still is the modification of the
republican state of honesty, born
|of honor and toll, and rocked in
the cradle of liberty, when she
beholds as her rulers men abso-
lutely devoid of pride, principle
or honor; men through whose be-
ing the vein of selfishness stands
out in bas relief; men whose lives
are the personification of decep-
tion.
The usurpation of power by the
Turks and Austrians, cowardly
and disgraceful as it was; in valor
lowered far above the politicians S
victory over the American people.
The one was an open and avow-
ed enemy, the other assumes the
disguise of friendship, fawns him
self into power only to besmear a
nations honor with crimes incon-
ceiyable to the mind of the pa
triot.
Such is the condition Of affairs
that exists today in our own Re-
public. Legislative bodies are
openly bought and sold. Each
day brings to our notice some
public scandal, some officials un-
faithfulness unpunished, some
fibre in our flag has been stained.
Politics should be the field and
not the fall of man. It is the du-
ty of every honest citizen to right
this wrong; to win back by force,
If necessary, the grand old name
of statesman from the nsurpers.
Our literary institutions should
teach these doctrines; our in.
structors should personify these
principles.
This reformation will take place.
1t is as sure to come as we're Atti-
cas- sons to break the chains Of
Ottoman shackles; yes, even as
we're the Puritan heroes to free
themselves from the obnoxious
rule of George ".
Our belief in the honesty of the
people will never be diminished.
They have erredsin judgment not
in conscience. And as long as
the sun will rise, the earth put
forth new blossoms, the birds
build their nests and the mother
smiles at her cihld,o even SO
long will our faith in American
democracy remain unwaYering
and undying.
In after years the muse of his
tory shall write with an unhesi-
tating hand as the revolutionists
of thought most important, the
Luthers, Napoleons and the States
man. All are worldwide in IN
fuence. Each shall serve a pur-
pose. Luther's brought morality,
Napoleon's democracy, the Ameri-
cans purity.
The leaders of these pivotal
movements, have never been
pygmies, they have been of daunt-
less, unfinching character; men
who hearkened to the voice of du-
ty though they were surrounded
by cimmerian darkness Of ha-
tired, unpopularity, ignorance and
prejudice.
What fortunes were borne by
the Augustine Monk and his fol-
lowers, yet his ideas are alive to-
day.
The Man Of Destiny bore the
|calumny heaped upon him BY the
absolute monarchs of the conti-
|nent without a murqnur, ret the
Democratic ideas lived on. They
|are immortal. Seemingly extinct,
they would rise again, until today
Europe as we'll as America can
boast Of liberal governments. The
effect Of his ideas will run through
all ages.
Nicholas, his State reeking with
blood, feels their power today,
for soon Russian autocracy shall
pass from the stage, for the ever
loudening cries of freedom and
liberty have evoked the sympathy
|of the world.
The fall Of the American poll
tician is no idle dream. Forces,
though in incipient form, are now
at work, which shall eventually
undermine bis castle, and with its
collapse may the germs become
extinct.
Already several States have fall
len. Missouri has set the waves
| IN motion, has relegated policy
land permitted a Southern Achilles
| to scale her walls and plant the
flag OF principle over ber gates.
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