The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-08-06
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who could exact them from the pow
eriess and appropriate them from the
defonaelees. There was no Mexico.
But, ahi day by day the country
grew prosperous without this high
protective tariff demanded. There was
no dfstress. Mills hunmed, industry
advanced. labor was content. riches
increased. harvests became abundant,
wealth distributed. ard IN every part
Of America the greatest prosperity
that has blessed our land since the
republican form of government had
settled upon 1t.
PROPHESIED PANTCs IN
U. 8. FAIL TO MATERALIZE
The prophesied panics. the sure dis
asters, the hoped-for distresses, the
prayed-for distinctions have not
realized. God In heaven and the
Democracy on earth In America set
tied the destinies of the people OF the
United States. No longer the kings
of vicious finance or the slayers of
honest industry and the despoilers
OF peace and content were in power.
America was America, as dreamed of
by the fathers who founded It. The
declaration upon which our land was
established was fulfilled. This was a
republic of life. liberty. and the pur-
Eult VI IhpplItSS. lI1tTelOEt, t1c
hope OF an issue builded upon dis
tress and arraigning class against
class. the poor againste the rich, and
crying out to the poor that 1t was
Democracy that made them poor, all
went by. and the last spark flashed
for the moment in the hope and died
I'm the borning.
Twas desolate to behold the retreat
From false light to sure darkness
Something must be done. An issue
must come forth. 1t must be born
Of something from somewhere. some
how. That It should be the offspring
Of truth or falsehood is tmmateriaL
That II should be created from fact
or fancy Is indifferent. That II should
be fair or foul would not matter. All
Is beside the necessity. "An issue! An
issue" Is the cry. Office is the desire,
power the gain. Masters wiring their
hands in terror: their disappointment
In the presence of each other that they
no longer coil the lash over the souls
of toll and dictate the destinies of
freemen. This must be restored The
kings must be put on the throne,
There must be an issue by which they
must be returned. Remember that IT
Is time.
There has broken out in Mexico an
explosion of lawlessness between the
bandit followers of VILLA aroused now
to resentment by having been suplant-
ed by Carranza These assaulted
American citizens who were then In
Mexico conducting mining operations
at Isobel. Tnhappily these Americans
were killed from that race hatred
through which Chinese miners were
killed at Wyoming, at Rock Springs.
by Americans: which through race
hatred Italians were killed in
Louisiana: and negroes killed in the
Republican States OF Ohio and Illinois
through no fault of any government.
but through race hatreds Ali This
massacre at Isobal gave the clue. Hear
them rnuttering. Gould not something
be made Of it7 Could not the blood
Of our countrymen be coined into po-
litlca1 advantage Hear Thorn ask.
Gould we not from the fallen forms
OF tho murdered dead bring forth the
spirits of a. resurrected political
hope?" Mr. President. the ENDORSED
monarch exclaimed. MY kingdom for
, horse: but these issue inventors cry
out, MY country and my honor for an
issue They reasoned that America,
quick TO resent an injury to her Pho
pie. quick to ayenge a wrong TO her
countrymen. need only be appealed to
in the name of the oirtrages in Mexico
while the Democratic administration
Is In power in America This might
give the Issue. The councils were
called. and when the State OF New
York was on the eve Of its State con-
vention the first OF the great agencies
OF Republican politics to declare its
policy met. Then. as chairman. Ser.
ator Root announced Mexico as the
issue. building upon the unfortunate
conflict between the American miners
In Mexico and the Mexican murderers
at the mines Senator Root. once Sec
rotary of State. remembered es having
travelled through the South and Gem
trail American countries. pledgfng the
administration of Theodore Roosevelt
10 every measure for their people. was