The sun., 1907-04-14

examples to be found? Who ar the d0ers
and builders-the Hills and the Morgans. who
have opened the great West TO civilization and
won for our country the commercial suprenh-
| acy OF the world. or the Roosevelts and the
! Bryans. who from the beginning Of their
manhood have divided their time between
office holding and ONCE seeking and seem TO
| consider their sole mission in life to be the
regulation Of the affairs Of others?
But it is demanded. What hath our King
done that he should be condemned?" Rather
| I should ask, What hath he not tried to undo
that he should be praised7 The actual ac-
complishment Of either good or i'll may be
balanced by a feather. The roaring OF the
! lion invariably subsidies into the cooling OF
/ the dove. 1t is not the vain glorious boasting.
! a. In the latest speech at Cambridge, of much
already done. but the supplementary threat
| OF -glrding up loins to do more" that has
| caused havoc at home and apprehension
abroad II 10 not the enforcement of old
laws, however unwise, nor the proposal Of
| new ones however socialstic and uncon-
stitutional. that alarms. Despite Executive
assaults upon honest Judges. We still have
| an independent judiciary. and the time may
come when even Congress itself will cease
| to be supine. IL is the illimtable volume of
violent fulminations from the source Of power
that is choking uD tho fountains of industry
and drying all its streams" Already great
undertakings have been abandoned, new
enterprises have been halted. the business
world looks apprehensively to the future, and
all who have anything at stake or aught in
| anticipation thank God in their hearts for
the promise to forego a third term and de-
Voutly pray. though with no little misgivins.
for the keeping OF the pledge.
my POLICIES AND NE"
! say with no little mlsGiving" because
signs are manifest that the spear that knows
no brother" Is again to be hurled into the
arena. My policies" is the battle cry. and
who but Me" personifies them? "All cor
poratons should be accountable to some
sovereign" was the language Of the message
of December S. 1905 Immediately followed
by the gracious phrase. Il am In no sense
hostile to them" Now comes the unpre-
cedented and arrogant declaration. insulting
to a free people Of the right of President Of
these United States to name his own sue
cessor-the violent denunciaton of those
venturng to question that prerogative as
"conspiratOrs, engaged necessarily in treason
against usurping authority-the aging Of the
revolutionary instinct of a lawless mind
And thoughtful men look on. shocked and
terrified, vet nOn-resstant, What does 1t all
mean? That the American people, deluded
by the marvellous spectacle of blatant probity
yaWping from the pinnacle of self-apprecla-
ton. stand ready to welcome the destruction
woe. Indeed to the land
Yet so in truth II seems
In place OF the calm. sober government
By men oppressed by rather than revelling
in grave responsibilities. we are now in the
midst of a mighty melodrama. Rather call
IL a game. a great game, "a bully game"
some would say. a game so far reaching, so
pregnant with possibilities that it involves
the well being OF eighty millions. the saliva
tion OF a whole world Of human beings still
looking hopefully TO this marvellous asylum
for the helpless and distressed a game upon
whose result depends the outcome OF the
greatest political experiment ever tried.
that of proving the ability of a free people
to rule themselves successfully In the com
munities in which they live. instead OF sub
hitting to the despotism of centralized au-
thority. which even now, everywhere else.
is becoming a relic of past ages.
1t is in no spirit Of partIsanship. but in
infinite sadness. that we foresee abandonment
Of principle in a national campaign led by
two false prophets striving only to determine
which may raise banner most attractive
to the multitude.
But oh. the pity Of il all! The mendaCiOus
duplicity of those holding power! The noy-
ious demagogy OF those seeking iCl The
sordid trafficking in votes to be bought in
exchange for influence to be won The
shameless breaking of tact pledges in the
Of mammon and sanctimony in time Of need
Their ruthless enforcement when ambition
has been realized! The daily. almost hourly.
exhibition OF roaring catarRots of twaddle
The lava streams OF invcctive turned on to
wash away obnoxious evidences OF double
dealingi The cowardice OF those who resent
but dare not speak, The wretched fear OF
personal consequences manifested on every
hand! The refusal TO accept manfuly and
with 1srreeEde ele, ~ Fs4ltes o. IIR y
for the doing Of the right!
Is there no courage left in us? Must time
honored Democracy follow the Republican
party In voluntary submission? Is there
not somewhere to be found inspiration to
tear down the con glomeration of shreds
and patches now waved insultinGly in our
faces, and raise. whether for success or failure.
but everlastinRly for the right. the flag of
the fathers of the republic? May not one
final attempt be made to join hands with the
conservative South and blaze the way for
the entrance of living truth and real sincerity
to supplant the hollow sham and glaring
hypocrisy before which now in shame we
bow our heads? II government by the people
must perish and the pendulum be swung back
to autocracy. then woe. indeed. to the lands
But let us at least go down with our faces
to the front, trampling eXpediency under foot.
spurning compromise. defying mObs. follow
ing the fixed star of undying principle, and
trusting 10 the return 70 reason Oh the NlneTl-
can people and the working Of Gods immut-
able laws for a resurrection that shall be
glorious because deserved!
Mr. LttIetOn Saves the Con stItutIOn.
Martin w. Littleton talked about look
ing backward and forward at the Demo-
cratic party 1t seemed TO him that the
party looked equally well from either direc-
ton He did not think we'll Of the history
Of the Republican party. and he drew up an
indictment against it that contained about
l49 counts.
"Whon this Government first used is
power to help the manufacturing industries
by protection" said MIR. Littleton, 1T may
have provided for an artificial and transitory
prosperity. but 1t laid broad and deep the
foundations upon which rose the scheme Of
popuism and upon which Is rising gradually
the struc ture of socialism.
when the alliance between these pro-
tected industries and the Government was
firmly wrought it was inevitable that these
indust rieS should il need be corrupt popu-
lar elections in order that this alliance
should be maintained. If any political
party dared to strike n blow at this ini-
quitous union between oupdity and cor
ruptCd power IL was at once at war with
the business welfare Of the country. Tho
Government did not stop with this protec-
ton which il gave to the manufacturer.
but. taking 1t a. "A precedent and an au-
thOrity, it gave with prodigal favor to the