Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-15

adjusted, and the Spanish War behind
us, and new problems incident to
colonial expansion disposed of, the
people of the United States took up the
loose threads of industrial, commercial
and electoral advances and began
again to weave a better garment of
national prosperity with which to pro-
tect themselves and their posterity in
the continued enjoyment of the bless
ings of liberty inherited from their an
cestors. Let it not be supposed that
the interruption of the weaving will
affect the quality of the completed gar
ment, when, in the progress of time,
the day of completion shall arrive.
The weaving has been and will be
slow and many a rejected strand will
need to be replaced.
The sober second thought of a people
fit to be trusted will determine the
final texture, and the sad-eyed, sad
voiced prophet who foresees failure
and foretells disaster awaits discredit
and deserves disgrace. A thousand
years of progress in Individual liberty
will not be lost
Struggle Now Waging.
This people will not abdicate their
birthright. Unquestionably a great
struggle is now waging, and days of
stress are ahead of us, but the peoples
battle-line is well advanced and
patriotic leadership and courageous
following are not wanting. Surely we
may in this day, without irreverence
repeat the high resolve of Lincoln on
the field of Gettysburg-"That the
nation shall, under God, have new
birth of freedom, and that the govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people shall not perish from
the earth" Unless we utterly forget
the sacrificial blood of our country's
heroes and the sacred memories of our
patriot ancestors, neither demagogue
nor man on horseback will imperil the
permanency Of constitutional govern
ment in these United States or pull
down the structure of human liberty
builded by our fathers.
Party Ties.
While party ties now bind loosely it
is none the less desirable that parties
should continue, and, if the party de-
serves it, it is, in my judgment, de-
sirable that party allegiance should
strengthen. The party as an abstrac-
ton always represents principles ana
ideals which the voter, who has fixed
notions of the relations of government
and people in a constitutional democ-
racy can conscientiously follow. Fixed
notions of constitutional fundamentals,
whether such notions are the result OF
education, observation, or
even accident, are exceedingly desira-
BILE in the citizenship of constitutional
Democracy, and no true lines of party
division exist except they are formed
on differences in these fixed notions,
OF course, absolute agreement of view
of all citizens, or of even small num-
ber is, humanity speaking, impossible,
but agreement in essentials by many is
not only not impossible but is highly
probable.
In earlier days, the individuals COM
prising the membership of parties, were
not only in substantial agreement on
essentials, but were able to feel as
sured that the principles they agreed
upon would be faithfully represented by
the candidates selected to carry the
party standard.
The Party Habit.
Thus what may be called the party
habit was established and justified, and
the mass of the voters found them
selves allied in groups by natural ties
satisfactory to themselves and adj
vantageous to the country. There was
always a large body of citizens, either
actually Indifferent to permanent gov
ernmental ideals or modifying their
views in the light of events, sufficient in