Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-22

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Time alone will tell us. His nomina-
ton and election look very like des-
tiny. The times need a man; they
need a schoolmaster; they need an
academician; they need one who knows
and can discriminate; who sees and
can do; who is honest and not afraid.
Roosevelt had some great qualities. No
doubt of that. But Roosevelt Is yet a
boy. He is a boy crazy after birds
nest 1t is not good for him to have.
Events will show us what Wilson is.
Meanwhile the Republican party is
dead. It's leaders with Taft at their
head may not think so; but 1t Is as
dead as a door nail. AS the institution
of African slavery killed the old DEM
ocratic party, has the protective tariff
system killed the modern Republican
party.
Like slavery, protection laid in false
economic theories Is untenable. 1t has
outstayed it's welcome. The American
manufacturer will find protection a
Chinese wall, as the southern planter
found slave labor a broken reed. The
vast income required by the govern
ment to be got through the custom
houses will upon a fairly adjusted rev.
enue tariff furnish the manufacturers
all the protection they could ask
against their foreign competitors, who
have to cross the seas to bring their
wares to market.
It is inevitable that the Bull Moose
party, under the leadership Of Roose-
Welt, will swallow what Is left worth
having of the Republican party. BY the
advent of Wilson and the Democracy,
the Bull Moose becomes the party OF
protest. Slowly, but surely. all the
elements of discomfort will gather
about it. While Wilson is giving the
people "the marble heart" Of enlight-
ened practical and orderly administra-
ton, Roosevelt will be giving them the
song and dance" Of .Armaggedon.
Take out Of the Democratic party
the "Progressives," as they call them
selves and join them to the Progress
sives" who rally to Roosevelt, and no
man can predict the state of the coun-
try and complexion Of the congress. AS
Wilson strives to fulfill the promises of
the Democratic platform and to met
the requirements of national progress
will the standards Of Progressivism be
raised.
BY 1916 it will be a contest between
the possible and the impossible In gov
ernment. complicated by Democratic
factionalism and the ghost Of Repub-
licanism, unknowing or unwilling to
admit that it Is dead.
The Bull Moose propaganda Is a re-
ligious cult, not a political programme.
The one tangible thing embodied by Il
in the campaign just ended was
third term for Theodore Roosevelt.
That could only mean life tenure ard
an absolute autocracy. The contention
that it would not Mexicanize the gov
ernment and Diazify the presidency Is
the milk and water which conspiracy
employs to dupe the immature and
credulous.
That the zealots Of the woman sui.
frage crusade should be caught by i!
attests their incapacity to discriminate
and their untitness for political leader
ship.
Yet the visionary and hysterical are
carried away by the sheer passion of
Onward, Christian Soldiers" just as
during the war Of sections they march,
ed to battle chanting John Browns
Body" the song Of the shibboleth, not
any fixed coherent idea in their minds.
There is nothing fanatical about
either Democracy or the new leader 1t
has elevated to the chief magistracy.
The country has come to a parting of
the ways between the government of
organized corruption which we have
had and "a new birth of freedom
which we seek. Before we attain this
latter, we shall surely pass through
fire.
The horrible story Of how the presi-
dency term in and term out has been
bought and sold will go far and for
long time to protect US against the
Vaccinations of the money devil. The
dangers ahead are of quite a different
kind. They will spring from the senti-
mental and .impracticable who call
themselves Democrats and fancy that
now the skies have fallen the poorest
will be able to catch larks.
It has been observed that we are
teaching everybody to read and nobody
to think while steadily enlargihg the
area of suffrage. That means that the
law of force which has ruled so long
will be succeeded by the law Of num-
bers. Woodrow Wilson will be the first
among American presidents to meet
the revolution and to adjust its prob
lens to the actualities and possibilities
of government "by the people, of the
people and for the people"
God give him wisdom and grace and
send prosperous gales to the ship of
state about to be intrusted to his keep
ing.