The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-23

a silver coinage tomorrow, if
we even debased our standard
of value, men say you would
still have the same property you
have to-day, you would still
have the same soil, you would
still have the same continent.
And it is true. But so did the
Indians have the same rivers that
roll past your cities and turn the
wheels of commerce as they
pass. So were the mountains
piled full of mineral treasures
four hundred years ago. The
same atmosphere enwrapt this
continent, the same soil covered
the fields, the same sun shone
in heaven, and yet there was
none but the savage pursuing the
pathway of war through the
trackless forests, and the rivers
bore no living soul except the
Indian in his canoe pursuing a
pathway of destruction. There
was no industrial cooperation
because the Indian was savage
and did not understand the prin-
ciple by which men aid each
other, by taking from the bosom
of the earth the wealth which
makes life bearable and devel-
opes the intelligence which
makes civilization. Anything
that attacks that basis of hui
man confidence is crime
against civilization and a blow
against the foundations of So
cial order. We believe that the
very essence of civilization is
mutual interest, mutual forbear-
ance, mutual cooperation. We
believe the world has passed the
time when mems hands are at
each others throats. We believe
to-day that men stand shoulder
to shoulder, working together
for a common purpose, benef-
cial to all, and we believe that
this attempt to assail wages,
which means an attempt to at
tack the prosperity of all, will be
resisted not by class, but by
the whole nation. The dweller
in the tenement house, STOPPING
over his bench, who never sees
a field of waving corn, who nev-
er inhales the perfume of
grasses and of flowers, is yet
made the participator in all the
bounties of Providence in the
fructifying of the atmosphere, in
the ripening rays of the sun,
when the product of the soil
is made cheaper to him every
day by the abundance of the
harvest. 1t is from this share
of this bounty that the Popu-
lists want to exclude the Ameri-
can workingman. To him we
say in the spirit of humanity, in
the name of progress, you shall
neither press a crown of thorns
upon the brow of labor nor place
a scourge upon his back. You
shall. not rob him of any one
advantage which he has gained
by long years of study, of pro-
gress in the skill of his craft,
and by the careful organization
of the members who work with
him at the same bench. You
shall not obscure the golden
prospect of a further improve
ment in his condition by a furth-
er appreciation of the cost of
living as we'll as by further
cheapening of the dollar which
is paid to him. The time has
come when the people of this
country Will show their capacity
for self-government. They will
prove that the men who have
led the world in the pathway of
progress will be the jealous
guardians OF liberty and honor.
They are not to be seduced by
appeals to their cupidity or mov-
ed by threats of injury. They
will forever jealousy guard and
trim the lamp of enlightment, of
progress. The government will
still shelter people indissolubly
welded to liberty and order,
jealousy forbidding any dis
tinction of burden or of privil-
ege, conserving property, main
tanning morality, resting forever
upon the broad basis of Ameri-
can patriotism and American
intelligence.
"AMERICA IN DIPLOMACY"
BY Frederick P. Frey.
''Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own-my native land?'
Were this rhythmic question
addressed to any true American,
it would be easy to guess the re-
ply it would receive. No. Such
men may breathe beneath the
folds of foreign standards, but
never beneath Old Glory. Every
strain of our national song fills
Americas sons with feelings of
pride and fellowship; every line
is indelibly impressed into their
lives. From the natives of this
continent we have cleaned the
fruits of patriotism; and the
murmuring brooks, the majestic