The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-05

IN guiding people toward the
heights? Or think of San Domingo
yesterday insolyenr and in savage
chaos; today peaceful and solvent.
Reflect on the multitude of problems
beyond our shores. viii any patriot
vote to turn them over to the men
who dominate the misnamed Demo
cratic party of today?
We fight not only the battles of
the people against the powers that
prey upon them. but also we fight the
battles Of civilization against the pow
ers that oppose it. With all my soul
l believe In the powers of light against
the powers. of darkness. Sometimes
those powers of darkness and OF light
are arrayed in a contest as broad as
the state: sometimes they are arrayed
In a conflict that embraces the ma
ton. But in the end they include all
nations and all humanity. Always
in one form or another old Privilege
holds his sway, yet always the peo-
pie advance upon him and his hosts,
and in the end the people triumph
To me public life has but one mean
ing: to me this republic has but one
meaning. 1t is this: Here are millions
of human beings. Not one of them
millions asked to be born, yet born
we were without our consent. Not
one of us asks to die. yet die we must
without our consent. And in the brief
space between birth and death all of
us. except the favored few. have a
hard enough time. What can be
done to make the load of these mil
lions lighter? That is what civilization
means to me. What can be done to
help the American people give an ex-
| ample to all the world of the progress
of civilization and human content
ment? That is all public life means
to me.
The success of party, as such,
means nothing; but the success of a
party as it is the agent of human well
fare means everything. / want the
Republican party to be that instru-
ment. 1t must be. 1t shall be. It
will be.
Away with the pleas of individual
profit, power or renown! Away with
the arguments for party advantage!
Up With the banner of Justice! Up
with the flag of human rights. And let
us carry it to the end of the conflict,
knowing that the welfare of the PEG.
pie is the only thing worth working
for, worth living for, and, as our faith
ers have shown us, the only thing
worth dying for. Up with the banner
of justice and human rights, and for
ward to battle. never doubling the out.
come and certain of victory.
| For the blood that founded and
saved the republic still pulses through
American veins. Americans will still
be masters and not vassals. Ameri
cans will stand for the flag unsullied
laws unpolluted and that righteous
ness which exalteth nation. Ameri
cans will stand for justice and against
privilege; for equal rights for all, and
against special favors for the few
Americans will stand for those eter
nal truths which MAIDS up the faith
of our fathers. blessed faith"
/ Would you know the spirit and duty
of the hour? Listen, and you will
hear the fife and drum of Bunker Hill
and Yorktown shrilling and throbbine
the spirit and duty of 70 and
that is the spirit and duty of today
Listen, and you will hear the bugle
of Vicksburg and Appomattox pealins
the spirit and duty of the heroic six
ties-and that is the spirit and duty
of today. For again we fight for JUS
tice and human rights as in those
splendid days of sacrifice and glory