The Democratic advocate., 1908-11-06
"ovERsIzED THE SPIRITUAL" )"
How Editor Henry Wattersen Sizes
Up the Defeat.

Up the Defeat.
Louisville, Nov. 4.-Henry Waiter
son in the Louisville Courier Journal
says:
1.-The idiosyncracy of the time is com :
merce. As III the last century, it was
liberty reaching out after institutional
freedom-and measurably attaining it
it is now materialism reaching out after
markets. The average voter of better
education and intelligence takes no
thought of the hereafter and is even
more Indifferent to the heretofore.
He is completely engrossed by the
present. That which Bacon calls The
Wisdom of Our Ancestors makes as
little appeal to his reverence or reason
as that which Burns calls Light from
Heaven makes to his imagination. He
would not exchange the current crop
reports, with rising price list, for all
the books that were ever written upon
political economy He is either the
fool of the vicinage with him or else
raises enough dust to blind his eyes and
disarm his suffrage,
''It is the part neither of common
sense nor of upright manhood in the van
quished to kick against the pricks. Let
hope and believe that despite its phaus-
saism and deflement, politics is not war
nor party lines, yet lines Of battle. The
electorate has declared for a high pro
tective tariff; it has declared for an in
vincible armament, embracing navy
unsurpassed upon the seas, along with
corresponding military establishment up
on fixed war footing on the land; it
has recorded vote of confidence in the
chieftains of the two branches of the
national Legislature as they are known
to be constituted and controlled, and he
has given them carte blanche to make
billion dollar Congresses the rule and not
the exception.
''That the Republican party cannot
compose the irrepressible conflict between
capital and labor is certain as the old
historic Democratic party could not COM
pose that between freedom and slavery
But neither the chiefs of the system nor
the victorious party leaders need trouble
themselves about that just yet. With
such men the rule is sufficient unto the
day and 'eat, drink and be merry,
though tomorrow ye die.
''The result shows that we. diversified
the spiritual and undersized tho material
in the hearts and minds of the people.
They were deaf alike to the precedents,
to reason and to eloqucnce, for nothing
could surpass, as nothing has ever equal
ed, the personal canvass of Mr.. Bryan,
its wondrous lucidity and power Of state
ment, its splendid intellectual and phys
ical endurance, its unanswerable argu-
ment.
"Nor did Ignatius Of -Loyola sweep
through world Of incarnate evil, bear
ing the cross of Jesus to triumph with
greater force of inspiration and truth
than did the. heroic son of Nebraska
traverse land gaping with curiosity,
but too busy over its work and play to
consider any danger to the immortal
soul of its constitutional fabric.
"Old-time Democrats will wait and
keep their powder dry. If they should
despair, if they should break apart, the
country would be exposed to political
anarchy leading through radicalism and
excess Of every sort to practical irrespon-
sibility on the one hand, unregenerate
debauchery backed by resistless force on
the other hand.
'We may be power for good,
though beaten and in opposition. Seven
million of voters are never to be despised
in case they hold together. Many
States remain to us. The Constitution
of the united States has net been abol-
ished yet, nor institutional freedom, nor
wise and upright administration, and
ithaca ara stil1 worth ,fuhtinu for -