The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-04
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course, But | oner In Justification 81
my own course nothing OF my oWr
save the deep ana abiding royerenc,
| have for those whose policies
humbly but most ardently support. ]
claim no merit save fidelity to Ameri-
can principles and devotion to Am
erican ideals as they were wrought
out from time to time by those who
built the republic and as they have
been extended and maintained
throughout these years.
In opposing the treaty / do nothing
more than decline to renounce and
tear out of my life the sacred tradi-
tons which throughout fifty years
have been translated into my whole
Intellectual n moral being. | will
not. | can not, give up my belief that
America must, not alone for the hap
piness of her own people, but for the
moral guidance and greater content
ment of the world, be permitted to
live her OWL life. Next to the tie
which binds a nan to his God is the
tie which binds a man to his country.
and all schemes, all plans, however
ambitious and fascinating they seem
In their proposal, but which would
embarrass or entangle and impede or
shackle her sovereign will, which
would compromise her freedom of ac-
ton l unhesitatingly put behind me.
Endured Many Taunts.
Sir, since the debate opened months
ago those of us who have stood
against this proposition have been
tainted many times with being little
Americans. Leave us the word Am
erican, keep that in your
tious impeachment, and no taunt can
disturb us, no gibe discompose our
purposes. Call us little Americans If
you will, but leave us the consolation
and the pride which the tenn, how-
ever modified, still imparts. Take
away that term and though you should
coin in telling phrase your highest
eulogy we would hurl it back as com
mon Islander, We have been ridiculed
because, f%orsooth, of our limited Wis
ion. Possibly that charge may be
true. Who is there here that can
the future?
Time and time alone, unerring and
remorseless, will give us each our
proper place in the affections Of our
c~ountrymen and in the esteem and
ndation of those who are to
after us. We neither fear nor
court her favor. But if our vision
been circumscribed it has at all
within its compass been clear
and steady. We have sought nothing
save the tranquility of our own people
and the honor and independence of
our W country, No foreign flattery,
possible world glory and power
disturbed our poise or come be-
tween us and our devotion to the ira
ditions which have made us a people
Or the policies which have made us a
nation, unselfish and commanding.
III we have erred we have erred out
,f too much love for those things
which from childhood you and we to-
have been taught to revere
res, to defend eve at the cost Of
and life. If we have erred 1t is
ecause we have placed too high an
upon the wisdom Of Wash
ngton and Jefferson, too exalted an
opinion upon the patriotism of the
Lincoln. And blame us not
therefore, If We have, in our limited
'ision, seemed sometimes bitter and
t all times uncompromising, for the |.
Kings for which we have spoken, ,
spoken, the things which we
endeavored to defend have been
he things for which your fathers =
nd our fathers We're willing to die. /,
Senator's, ever in an hour so big
18th expectancy we should not close |
ur eyes to the fact that democracy !
J something more, vastly more, than 7
mere form of government by which !
ociety is restrained into free and or ]
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force as well. And these !
re things which live only and alone
the atmosphere of liberty. The
'%undation upon which democracy -.
ests is faith in the moral instincts of :
he people. It's ballot boxes, the j
its laws. and constitutions /
re but the outward manifestations of Z
deeper and more essential thing-a :
'ntinuing trust in the moral pur- +
,ses of the average man and wo- I
When this is lost or forfeited =
,ur outward forms, however, demo- Is
attic in terms, are a mockery. Force G
ay find expression through institu- \
ons democratic in structure equal n
It'll the simple and more direct pro-
sses of a single supreme ruler.
Are in Eternal War. :,
These distinguished virtues of a -
al republic you can not commingle "
tn the d%iscordant and destructive W
rces of the old world and still pre- y,
We them. You can not yoke a gov W
nment whose fundamental maxim M
that of liberty to a government a.