Blue-grass blade., 1908-05-31
BLUE GRASS BLADE
Against Political Tyranny
BLUE GRASS BLADE

the mother Of happiness; dethroned honor,
truth, justice, and virtue, without shame;
transformed the Church into a moral, mock
ing stencil to the conscience of man; or
dained Glass Capital Supreme Umpire over
the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, de-
partments of the nation; cunningly cooper
ating the ministry and subsidized the press;
transformed democracy into Capitalized
Class Conspiracy; ignoring and defying law,
thus creating strikes; ignoring pluralities,
the sovereign right of the people; sending
the Constitution to he'll and denouncing the
Declaration an old Philadelphia lie; paid
the Pope of Rome $7,5O0000, to get the
Catholic vote in the Republican party, under
the pretext of the infamous Friar Land
Conspiracy that cost McKinley's life, be-
cause he said the Friars must go, and the
lands go back to the people they were stolen
from; placed a hooking cross of gold on
the throne of power, a poisoning crown of
grating thorns on the utilities of the
masses.
The brutal subjugation of the Philippines
by the sword without hearing. or their
consent, thus depriving them of the right
guaranteed by our Constitution, is return
to tyranny, fragrant bane to the conscience
and honor of cannibals. Yet Taft, Teddy's
dictated successor to the presidency, has no
more respect for truth of the defenseless
dead, than to say THAT If Loncoln was
living today, he would be Republican 1t
may be affirmed without hesitation that he
would have approved he Philippine policy
from the beginning to the end, not as a
departure from but as indicator of the
principals of the Declaration of indie
pendence."
In reply we will say, that if Lincoln now
lived he would not be a Republican. because
he could not and be the defender of COM
mon decency that he always was, but would
say to such as Taft, Teddy, Peabody and
their class. Depart from me, l know We
not l never knew We, We are workers of
iniquities, We are wolves in sleeps clothing
devouring my people. Be gone We scamps.
Why are vile monsters thus allowed to
Islander the immortal Lincoln as violator
of the sacred truths he so faithfully defend
ed while livingY Here is what Lincoln said
about your Philippine imperial Expansion,
Mr.. Taft
Let no one be deceived. The spirit of
seventy-six and the spirit of imperial ex-
pansion are utter antagonisms, and the
former is rapidly being displaced by the lat
ter. FellOw-countrymen Americans, South
as well as North, shall we make no effort
to arrest this? Already the liberal party
throughout the world express the apprehen-
sion that the one retrograde institution In
America, the retrograde imperial policy of
America is undermining the principles of
progress and fatally violating the noblest
political system the world ever saw. This
is not the taunt of enemies, but the warning
of friends. Is 1t quite safe to disregard 1t
to despise 1t? Is there no danger to liberty
itself in disregarding the earliest practice
and first precepts of our ancient faithy In
our greedy chase to make profit OF the negro
of the Philippines, or the coolie, let us be-
ware, lest we cancel and and tear to pieces
Our Republican robe is soiled, and trailed
in the dust Let reDurify it, Let us