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then they have with practical unanimity devoted themselves to the common well fare in loyalty to the Empire. Now, asked my young friend, would 1t be patriotism" for the Boers, remembering their former condition and the cruelties suffered concerning the war, the desola- ton of homes. the scattering of the peo- pie, the exile of many, would 1t be patriotism if they should celebrate the associations of their old flag or flags, and teach their children to do the same? Granted that the sentiment is natural, is the word patriotism the most fitting name for it? He eagerly admitted that when the call comes he will die as read fly any for the stars and stripes, but yet he thinks that to describe the old hereditary instinct of southern feeling the word patriotism is good enough for him."
 But there can be no doubt that large part of the sentiment Is a most natural, passionate, still mordant, blazing resent ment for series of the cruelest wrongs ever wrought by corrupt system on a prostrate people. Not one in ten thou sand of American citizens has an ade- quate conception of that disastrous and humiliating experience, when greed. more ruthless than usual, pretended to pro- mote the cause of national union by trainpilng oH all tne uecencleS ana re- straints of civilization, liberty honor. I am equally sure that the same is true of the whole Englfsh-speaking world. Now and then the most amazing evidence crops up, showing the utter failure of English writers to get at the truth. MT. Thomas Dixon, Jr.. has tried to give 1t. but because he chooses fiction for his vehicle what he writes is easily set aside as special pleading and exaggeration. Other writers, serious students of his- tory, have summarized the period with
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A YOUNG friend says: "I have just
 A graduated from college. While 4 A there the courses of instruction required all of my time, and I feel that my general reading has been neglected VIII you suggest some Itinerary books for pie to read during my leisure hours?'
 Among many others thought proper to name Rev. Charles Kingsley's practical book on Health and Education. In thls book there are some very excellent things, whatever may be thought of the work as whole. AS an instance of good, sound sense, compactly and incisively expressed, we note the following passage, which sets forth Canon Kingsleys dis content with the ordinary, current view of ''contentment."
 1T would make men and women discon- tented with the divine and wholesome dis content at their own physical, frame, and at that of their children. would accus- tom their eyes to those precious heir looms of the human race, the statues Of the old Creeks; to their tender grandeur, their chaste healthfulness, their uncon- scious, because perfect, might, and say There, these are token to you, and to all generations yet unborn, of what man could be once; of what he can be again if he will obey those laws of nature which are the voice of God. I would make them discontented with the ugliness and close ness of their dwellings,; would make the men discontented with the fashion of their garments and still more just now the women, of all ranks, with the fash lon of theirs, and with everything around them which they have the power of im- proving, if it be at all ungraceful, super huous, tawdry. ridiculous. unwholesome. :"
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infamous and outrageous propaganda of the republican party that the manufac- turer shall be insured by Congress "a reasonablea profit then it follows that all of us must be guaranteed a living and that Is nothing but socialism. Did you observe that the socialists boiled S50, coo votes on November 8?
 Where does Congress get authority to levy tax that will give man profit? Some other American citizen has got to pay that profit. Here Is the fundamental law as the fathers made it: Section 8 of article l declares: Congress shall have power to lay and collect staxes, du- ties, imports and excses," . and if Con eress lays a tax with no intention to collect" it-and such Is every protec- tive duty-then it is a piece of pure fa- voritism, making one class the slave of another class. If Congress. insures the iron master, or the wool grower or the cotton spinner, "a reasonable profit" who is going to fix it so that the cotton grower. the stone cutter, the brfcklayer, the ditch digger, the coal beaver, the street cleaner. the policeman, the fire man, the lawyer, the doctor of physic, the clergyman, the merchant and his clerks. the railroad and it's operatives, and thousands of others, whom it Is im-
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therefore, all this noise about "solemn declarations to resist" and the purchase of arms is only tom-tcp tomfoolery. The success of the liberals at the polls means peace and prosperity for the English people. It means relief for the aged and infrm. It means opening the doors of parliament to the deserving men who are now barred out through being un- able to live without working. It means making the rich pay their share of the nations expenditure and leaving a cheap loas on the poor mans table, Success of the liberals at the polls Is the vic- tory of democracy over aristocracy and plutocracy; it Is advancing England well nigh abreast of the United States.
 But look on the other picture and its probabilities. Behind the unionists stands the house of lords, trembling for it's fate and tottering to it's fall. The house of lords consists of 627 members, of whom 596 take their seats, as the his- torian says, by the production of their birth certificates. These 596, true to their selfish and conservative instincts, have for centuries shirked and shuffled out of their duties and debts to their coun- try, and now, at last, that they are be- ing compelled to bear their burden. they ale bowling that the nation is in dan
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fully ingenious legal Fraternity will evolve plan for ejecting from the bar every member of it who conspires to de- feat by technicalities the ends of justice
 In a word, let 1t be said that partiality, prejudice, the influence of perverted genius, low cunning, dirty money, are the modern equivalent of the carpet -bagger. These are none the less destructive, none the less ghastly, when employed by a loyal democrat for the glory of his party than when they worked such havoc in other days. If the medical fraternity can cut out the swindling advertising quack and make his profession disreputa- ble, so the legal men can work out plans for the protection of the American courts from the mockery they have too often invited. So, also politics can be purged of scoundrelism, and they will be. For something is still lacking when in spite of evidence that would hang a 'snigger'' or send a poor man to the pen" for life, one defendant leaves the court amid ap- plause and another leaves 1t unchallenged because the state declines to prosecute
 Here then Is the conclusion: The thing we call patriotism must be more than a memory. If it's emphasis Is on the past it will be something musty, sour, deca- dent To be fit for use 1t must be free. flowing emphatically eager modern. 1t hath its burnings, it's indgnations, but even these tend to be new every morn ing. Its heroism can perform as doughty deeds as any in the storied past. Some- thing is gained when we have learned that the foe of the fathers is our foe, a hydra-headed. sinuous, insistent beast, rearing his cursed crest in all sorts of unexpected places. Wanted: the new St, George!
 Here is room for undivided allegiance. challence to that great idealist, the bow
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N WANT to say as emphatically as 1t is
 given me expression to declare any A thing, that I am for Champ Clark for speaker of the Sixty-second Con- gress, and with my poor and puny pen I want to raise my little voice-excuse the bull-in warning. This day the dem- ocratio party is in precisely the same fix 1t was 20 years ago, when it achieved a much more signal victory than it did this year.
 Practically, the position of the democrat ic party then was Identical with what 1t is now. My good friend Ollie James says:
 II am enthusiastically for Champ Clark Of Missouri for the speakership of the next House Of Representatives. He de- serves to be, and, in my judgment, he will be, elected Speaker.
 ''It was under his splendid and un- equaled leadership that the democracy of the nation, for the first time in nearly 20 years, have control of the House of Representative. No patriotic army in the history of the world ever turned upon a victorious general
 So say I, but Ollie is at fault in his history. To confine ourselves to modern American politics, and not go away back to thousand instances in military his-
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rule to Ireland Home rule has been so often and so fully explained of late that it Is unnecessary to refer to 1t further. The laborites are also an in- dependent body, representing the work
 ing and industrial masses especially, with a view single to their interests. The liberals are in sympathy with the objects of the nationalists and labor ites, hence the support. The unionists, also called the conservatives, represent wealth, aristocracy, 1andlordism, the established church, and the liquor in- terests. The policy of the liberals and their allies Is progress; the policy of the unionists is to let things stand as they are. The policy of the lib- erals is to help the poor man to rise: the policy of the unionists is to keep him down where he is. Wonderful to relate, there are thousands and thous- ands of poor men in England who voted for the unionists at the general election year ago, and will vote for them again at this election
 Unless the unionists can engineer a landslide the position of political parties at the opening of parliament on January 31 will be very much like the formation of the regiment to whom the sergeant gave the order, "As you were before you
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care, but it is to be doubted whether they have made much impression on the minds most in need of them. There is room for writer who will gather ma. terial for sketches of actual experiences. giving the lightness of narartiye and the firm strength of historic guarantees In harmonious combination. Room for one such writer? Room rather for a score! For the world should know the sufferings and the humiliations and the wrongs en- dured, not in general terms, but in mod ern journalistic detail The world should get into sympathy with the burning heart of the Alabama Carolina boy who watches the trembling ranks of the Con federate veterans, so brayely but pa thetically passing beneath the old torn colors to the last bivouac, where the grass is green What are the pictures that the vibrant notes of Dixie weave in that lads brain? It Is the worlds business to know, to understand. to sympathze. For what else is the real domain of art than this, the promotion of understanding? And what is the region more In need of intelligent understh hnding than the human souls who. with us, go to make the mind of the age? Here Is a field for those mas ters of English who are growing in our high schools. academies, universities. Having lost the personal rancor. they re- tain the hereditary memory of 1t, and that hereditary memory is part of Amer ican national sub-consciousness. Let 1t get noble, restrained. convincing expres sion!
 Who were responsible for the old wrongs? Was it the north? Was 1t party? Say rather it was rotten politics! Say 1t was the same thing that puts Cincinnati under Boss Cox, that gives power to the police sometimes, some where, to employ the sixteenth century device known as the third degree" that uses public franchises for personal gain,
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wholesome life, a city of beauty and dignity and broth erh ood to which loy- alty shall be their natural, inevitable instinct. When the new patriotism gets in It's work we shall see that what ever happens to Highland avenue or the beautiful streets abutting thereon, the sprinkling wagons must first be sent to where the negroes live or where neglect hovers on the heels of pov- erty. The old idea was that to him who hath should be given the right to hog all the rest. The new patriot ism has for its motto, From each ac- cording to his strength to each accord ing to his needs. It is, for instance, a more vital thing to Chicago wheth- CT her garment workers are underpaid and underfed than whether her mayor has a bed to sleep on. For he Is one They are many, and their lives are as precious as his. So terrible is the grip of that force which we call the solidarity of the community that neg lect of the negligible poor and ignor- ant drags down and impregnates with moral and even physical disease the rich and the famous, making their chill dren a y-word It is safe to say that according to the political economy of the new patriotism every inch of un- productive land -n this district costs a human life every year and perhapS also, the honor of a home.
 When, therefore, the new patriotism grips the more fortunate among us the ladies will one and all be more eager to drive out tuberculosis from our city boundaries than to drive the finest auto that can cross them or own the finest home that can adorn them. One of its sayings is this: "The life is more than meat"
 When 1t grips the conscience of law yers and courts, the great and wonder
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Dean Swift says that the supreme felicity to which man can attain is to be a fool among knaves, and there are fools in our country herdng with the knaves, who ask the American Congress to tax the American people to subsdize an American merchant marine-that Is, the fellow who is growing a patch of potatoes in Iowa, or Mississippi, must take a part of his crop to help the fel- low who is building a ship in Maine Of Pennsylvania. That Is what it is and all it is-the policy of taxing one citizen to enrich another citizen.
 And 1t is up to the democratic party, as 1t was just twenty years ago" How goeth the scripture:
 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this tihe, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place."
 Esther did not fail Mordecai; but the democratic party failed Grover Cleve- land. Will 1t fail Champ Clark? We shall see.
 This country intends to be rid of the infamous and atrocious tyranny of a protective traiff Again it has set the democratic party to the task, and If 1t fails, lookout for militant and tri- umphant socialist party that will
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ger. But their champions, the unionists, fearing the efficacy of the lords howls. have attempted to turn the English democracy against their fellows in Ire land and have made Redmond and American dollars take the place of Ger man invasion. In Buffon's natural his- tory there is a story of mouse that so terrified an elephant as to cause him to dash his brains out against the bars of his cage, yet that story would not be a bit more extraordinary than the story of such a powerful and wealthy nation as England being driven to des- peration at the sight of a man with s260.000. It would be well if Balfour and his friends were to consider that the answer to Redmond's next appeal might be $2,O00O0O
 But there is matter for greater and grayer consideration attending the possible success of the unionists at the polls. The unionists are the jingoes, the war party. The jingoes in both houses have been necessarily clamor- Ing for an increase in the navy. They have taunted Germany almost to the point of war; they have stirred up strife and i'll will among European powers and, even now, do not hesitate to charge the United States with some
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s election ss sns in s',s. ss.s s' ar 's.
 W tain and what will be the re- suit of the result? The first part of the question Is largely conjectural, all though the concensus of opinion Is that the liberals will be returned to office, but whether with an increased or re- duced majority 1t is difficult to say; the second part of the question is the part that really calls for consideration, since. no matter which party is re- turned to office, there is certain to be an epoch making change in the English constitution, and possibly consequences much more serious and far-reaching
 Before entering upon the field of conjecture let the situation as 1t is at present, or rather was a week ago, be briefly outlined. At the time of its dissolution the house of commons was made up of 275 liberal members, 273 unionists, S2 nationalists, and 40 labor ites, a total of 670 members. As the nationalists and labor members sup ported the liberals, the liberal ma ajority was 124.
 The nationalists are an independent body, having for their main purpose the passage of bill granting home
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tory, including that of Hannibal himself, the greatest captain who ever set squadron in the field, let me warn Ol- lie and warn Champ of the gigantic mis- take the victors of 1890 made when they assembled in this town in 1s91-December O. that year.
 In the F'ifty-frst Congress John G. Carlisle was the leader of the minority Promoted to the Senate, he left that leadership to Roger e. Mills, just as John Sharp Williams, 'promoted'' to the Senate, left the leadership of the demo- cratic minority to Champ Clark. There sprang up opposition to Mills, not be- cause of his tariff views. however. He could have won in a walk on that is- sue; but he was irascible in temper. He absolutely refused to promise even a place-much less a charmanship-on a committee. These would not have defeat ed him; but he was relentlessly hostile to big appropriations for rivers and har- bors. That is what beat him, and it hurt the democratic cause from crown to heel, though great man got the plum of speaker
 Now, Champ Clark has but one lion in his path, and it is reserved for such men as Ollie James and Owsley Stanley to take the beast by the throat and throt- tie him, and that is the ''near-protec-
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The fiery General Eaton once more crossed the Atlantic and landed in Egypt. where he recruited an army of various tribes and nations, with which he marched into the territory of Trlpoli. At the city of Derne, city we'll fortified, he was successful in his assault. He cap- tured the city, and flung the flag of the west to the breezes over the dismantled Notifications in the land of the east. This was the first time that eevr the stars and-stripes foated over a city beyond the sea.
 The Bashaw was overwhelmed with confusion. "The American devils' were not only burning his ships at sea- but they were, also, destroying his cities as well. So hard pressed was he that one thing alone was left him, that was to captulate and let the new republic of the west trample to the dust an im- pudent arrogance that had flung defiance into the face of the Christian kingdoms of Europe for many long centuries.
 A treaty of peace was signed June g. 1sO5 All payment of tribute was abol- ished and an exchange of prisoners was effected. Into this course Algiers and Tunts were subsequently frightened. Not at once. however; for they were slow in yielding. They delayed negotiation and diplomacy for a long time, taking ad- vantage of every verbal obscurity that might have crept into the legal papers sent from this country; but finally peace came. It was peace not only with the American government. but with the Euro pean powers as well, though England and France were forced to scrap for ultimate relations of comity. However what had been accomplished by our brave men underline folds of the flag of the west made 1t easy for the two nations Just understand that their national life de- pended upon good behavior.
 The kingdoms of the old world were astonished at the temerity of the new republic and rose up and called us bless ed. The pope declared that the United States had done more for the cause of humanity than all christendom besides.
 Some years ago I was standing on the shore of the Mediterranean when the soft breezes of memory began to rustic the leaves of history. I remembered that over this very sea had fioated the ships of Tarshish. the navies of Carthage tho sullen galleys of Rome and Greece and the squadrons of the ancient world; that these waves had lulled to sumber the mighty Caesar. the fierce Hannibal, the Persian Xerxes and the Corsican man of destiny, who fell into his long slumber as the surge of another Sea moaned into his soul: 1t was easy to think how this same sea had place in the Odyssey of Homer, and in the history of Sallust. But more Interesting still was it to see the ships of every cline and nation, with their flags afioat and unmolested, bear ing their cargoes from the western world, or from the far east their fragrant spices, their costly fabrics and golden treasures, and to recall that. the freedom of this worldwide highway was purchased for the world by the heroic deeds of men who crossed the seas in ships of war that floated at their mast-heads the starr spangled banner
 And the star-spangled banner,
 O. long may she wave.
 Der the land of the free,
 And the home of the brave."
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tion' in the democratic ranks. If we arc going to be for protection for south ern raw materials, then let us go the whole hog and stand for protection for northern finished products. It is absurd that we should claim a tariff on wool and lumber and coal and iron ore and then say to the manufacturers who buy and employ these in their business that they shall compete with English and German manufacturers who have these things free.
 Let us come to the parting of the ways. Let every man who labels himself a democrat get out of the party if he wants tariff for the benefit of anything in his locality. Let us honor men like those democratic Kentuckians who scorned a duty on hemp. and like Champ Clark, who refused to vote for a tariff on lead and zinc.
 It has got to come to that, or this will follow: The insurgent republicans like Bristow, who is a free-trader without knowing it, as Deliver was, will take command and give us free trade. Of course, I employ the term free trade according as the constitution of the United States and common justice recog- nize it-an honest and a constitutional tariff, no schedule of which shall be for purpose other than revenue. If this
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possible to protect by a. tariff-who will insure these a job and ''reasona- ble profit?" I earn my food, raiment and shelter writing for newspapers. I am as much entitled to be ''protected'' by Con gress through its taxing power as An drew Carnegie or any other tariff-bloat- ed plutocrat; but I know that 1t Is ab- solutely impossible to advantage me by operation of a tariff. On the other hand, humble as is my financial station. l have paid thousands ito protect" the tariff barons.
 This question has never been discussed to frazzle-as Teddy was beat the other day-that the low tariff set did not triumph, for in dispute between hon esty and knavery before such a public as ours, virtue inevitably triumphs in the end. In 1857 a republican Congress gave us the lowest tariff we ever had, and James c. Blaine, In his book, declares that free trade would have been our settled policy if the war of 1861 had not come. Under free trade our merchant marine on the high seas was the larg- est in tonnage in the world, exceeding England's even. Now it is extinguished, not a tenth of little old Norway's or Denmark'S.