The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-01-15
THE CATHOLiClTY OF PATRiO-
TISM.
(Denman S. Wagstaff)

There have been so many departures
from regularity of late, in both poll
tics and policies, one hardly expects to
meet anything following beaten tracks
| nowadays.
The progressves endangered the
safety of the republican party and
carried their improved methods so far
as to elect a democratic president.
Now another element of discord has
shown its head and shoulders among
the democrats, which bids fair to dis
rupt the democratic party, having
made the heinous Iblunder of underes-
timating the catholicity of American
patriotism in the democratic party.
Senator j. Sharpe Williams told them
about it in the u. S. senate chamber
the other day, much as he dislked to
tell his political confreres of the utter
J futility of endeavoring to pretend to
worship both God and mammon at
one and the same time.
| We, as Americans, understand
clearly that neither the democratic nor
the republican parties desire anything
but the betterment of every condition
among our citizens, and these United
States to be model among the ma
tons Both parties talk back in pub
lie, air their differences, ETC., until
their evident show of rancor has con-
fused the hybrid element somewhat
into believing it no crime to come
right out from behind and endeavor
to start something quite contrary to
either our politics or our national es-
innate of what real catholicity of
patriotism would imply.
/ would say these uncalled for dis
cussions, by those not whole citizens
of this country, have altogether lost
that delicacy of sensitiveness neces-
sary to American patriotism, and fail
to engender flag above all feeling in
the breasts of the rank and file of
our population. What we desire, and
are most surely in need of, these
! times, is a true catholicity of patrio-
tism, above party. above wisconsin,
above Johnsonism, above Lodgeism.
and all the personal equations of par
tisan politicians. Let the rank and
| file be RECALLED with a general exhibit
ton of pure motive and unquestioned
citizenship. Our statesmen are not
now leading the way to better things!
We are presenting both front and
rear, quite vulnerable, as far as both
foreign and domestic antagonism Is
concerned.
Our public men should follow John
Sharpe Villains little closer Let us
prevail upon them to aid us to bury
the hybrid in politics as well as every
where else This is the time to have
American eyes on two or three things
at once!
Let us not recognize England or
France or Italy or any section of
Europe as being or having a part in
our peace, our treaties or any part or
portion Of our policies, as far as they
may affect our home interests! While
We are busy on the one side pretend
ing to be pacifying an element of dis
cord abroad, we are tolerating boil
shevic sovietism at home by allowing
alleged Americans to express, in act
and public speech, whitewashed
Americanism. foreign to our written
and implied constitutional limitations
These are times when every man
and woman, born in this country OF
the Anglo Saxon or equally free peo-
pie, should be active Din citizenship. II |
is time to step in front Of the pretend |
err the perfunctory actor, the wolf in
sleeps clothing, talking freedom and
pussy footing among |
us. to see upon whom he can fasten
the shackles of slavery, represented