The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-06-09


or skill or brain or all to the CONVEX.
sion of natures abundance into the
necessities and luxuries Of life or par.
| their transportation and exchange.
Far better . high cost Of living ana
ability to buy than q lowering Of cost
attended by destruction Of purchasing
capacity.
Square Deal for euslnsss.
No honest business in this country
is too big to be good and useful. or
too little to be protected and encour-
aged. and both big and little deserve
| the American shield against destruc-
ton by foreign competition. and pro-
lection from the raiders. political or
otherwise, at home. Business and it,
agencies of transportation are SO in
separable from each other and from
the common veal that the political
party which does not pledge them =
| square deal, no more and no less. does
not deserve the confidence of the peo-
| pie. The strength OF the business
heart shows in every countenance in
| all the land, and the weakness OF that
heart holds a nation i'll. We must
strengthen the heart of American
business in government cooperation
rather than official opposition.
1t is not inspiring to recite Demo
cratic failures. shall not dwell on
that party's insincerity or incapacity.
The country indicts and the record
convicts. 1t proclaimed the sacred
ness Of its pledges and then profaned
them. 1t protested economy and IL
staggered by its own extravaganza.
1t has turned adequacy or revenue UNI
der direct and unfelt taxes to insufh.
cheney and direct taxation.
The National Expansion.
The president has said ours 10 .
provincial party, evidently forgetting
the federalist founding OF our nation
| atty and Republican expansion to
greater national glory. The Demo
cratic party not only fails to grasp
our immensely and Importance. 1t 10
sectional on the mainland and unheed-
| ing Of our island possessions. Its W.
sion does not catch the splendOr OF
Old Glory in the sunlight of the world.
Right now when the devouring flames
of war are burning most fercely.
when our national view must be
worldwide to be comprehensive. the
Democratic administration has pro-
posed to set adrift an island empire,
in violation of our obligations to the
world. to the Philippine people and
| ourselves. No administration which
hauls down the flag and none which
proposes to haul 1t down ever can sue
coed in directing the affairs OF the
American people.
One century of marvellous develop
ment has led us into another century
OF international sponsorship. This
mighty people. idealizing popular
government and committed to human
progress, can no longer live within
and for ourselves alone. Obliterated
| distance makes 1t impossible to stand
aloof from mankind and escape wild
ened responsibility. II we are to be-
come the agency OF progressive civ
ilization and Gods great intent--and
to believe otherwise is to deny the
proofs OF American development-we
must assume the responsibilities of
influence and example, and accept the
burdens Of enlarged participation.
To meet the obligations we must
first make sure of maintained mental.
moral and physical health at home.
The American Spirit.
In the travail Of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness the Amer.
lean soul was born. Set aglow at
Bunker Hill, 1t was reflected in the
faces of patriots OF fearless repub-
liz w,haro mon dodycotad <hovnuolvos
to the solemn and momentous task
which was traced by an infinite hand.
They we're not all Americans BY
birth. but they were dedicated Amer.
leans In the baptismal rites OF a new
republic and new patriotism. They
could not all sign the Declaration of
Independence. but they committed all
Americans to It for all succeeding
time They could not all join in max.
ing the Constitution, but they pledged
the succeeding millions OF Americana
to its everlasting defense
The gates of our ports have swung
inward ever since, there has been Q
welcome to the foreign-born. whom
we asked to drink freely of the waters
of our political life and find their
places In the sun of American oppor.
tunity. They are an inseparable and
important and valued part of Ameri.
can citizenship, and the few zealots OF
any origin who violate our neutrality
do not and cannot impugn the loyalty
or the American patriotism of that
great body which adds to the swelling
chorus of
my country. tbs OF thee.
Sweet land Of liberty
1t Is not surprising that in their
hearts there is sympathy or partially
for the land Of their nativity when II
10 involved in q life-and- death struggle |