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10 Conservative.
UNCLASSIFIED.
The clear old State Journal drops for a
moment the advocacy of its favorite can
didate for senator to laud a certain well-
known agricultural necessity. It says :
"it is the non phis ultra of axle greases. "
The editorials of The Journal have , for
time out of rnind , non-plussed its readers
while trying to tread the tortuous paths
of its alleged tariff logic. But we had
never before imagined it ultra enough
to non-plus axle grease.
When God's chosen people decided to
"loot" the Egyptians before starting
back homo , they called it "borrowing. "
The alleged chosen who are now engaged
in the same "spoiling" of the Chinese ,
and seem unable to find a word which
just exactly expresses this exemplifica
tion of Christ's teachings , may find
"borrowing" more euphemistic than
"loot" and at the same time no impedi
ment to its continuation. Just as the
politician quotes from the fathers of our
republic to defend the most unscrupu
lous looting of the treasury , the church
have always a text with which to burn
a witch , torture a heretic or rob a
heathen. The church today are borrow
ing the logic of the politician , but are at
least going from homo and are not bur
dened with the combined robbery and
treason of a ship subsidy and river and
harbor bill. Just as Jesse James was
more honorable in his methods than
those of the church in China , so is that
of the church compared to the cowardly
robbery under false pretenses attempted
in the late and long to be lamented con
gress.
The war for the sake of the poor
Cubans and to exhibit the beauty of
American disinterestedness is over. The
carpetbaggers have Cuba and Cuba will
have a "constitution" if it suits us.
Could suffering humanity and the spirit
of liberty ask a more beautiful solution ?
In the language of Job , "it is just too
sweet for anything. "
People who complain that this is a
"Godless nation" have evidently lost
track of the fact that the benevolent ,
fostering care of this people , especially
the poor and the laboring man , is now
in the hands of the republican party.
The full dinner pail provided for us
makes "Give us this day our daily
bread" a useless survival of the demo
cratic regime. Since oil the ills of the
nation were set to rest by the McKinley
bill , the Almighty has , evidently turned
his attention to loss favored nations
such as China , Africa and the Philip
pines. Five minutes will be allowed the
reader at this point to recall , if possible ,
any blessing wo now enjoy that is not
claimed as the direct result of republican
legislation , patriotism or God-like purity
and benevolence. Wo know that the
droughts of the early nineties were duo
to the democratic antipathy to water ,
a democratic secretary of agriculture
having overlooked the matter of moisture
entirely. On the other hand twenty per
cent , more wool grows on a sheep's back
now than did before the high tariff
measures of 1861. These are only given
as samples to show that under the Ameri
can system of legislation any interposi
tion of divine providence is superfluous.
There has , perhaps , never been a more
forceful picture of true republicanism
than that given by the State Journal in
a notice of Senator Morgan of Alabama.
' 'Senator Morgan of Alabama is the
best representative of the New South.
* * * To all intents and purposes he
is a republican , hardly disguised by the
small fragment of the ass * skin that he
wears from time to time to keep his con
stituents amused and contented. To
the State Journal , a man who is a hypo
crite , and false in his pro tensions to prin
ciple and is a traitor to his party and
misrepresents his state is "to all intents
and purposes a republican. " If the
Journal's picture of the great defender
of the "Nicaragua steal is correct , all
democrats will be pleased to know that
1 'he is to all intents and purposes a re
publican. " It is worth something to
know from an authentic , stalwart source
the republican idea of the "best repre
sentative , " and that hypocrisy and de
ceit preclude a man from being a demo
crat and raises an absolute presumption
that ho belongs to the party of subsidy
and cant.
Joseph Addison was a man who en
joyed a reputation in his time as having
quite a literary turn of mind. Note his
idea of newspapers. This too when the
' news letter" was the size of a sheet of
fools cap paper and was printed weekly
if there was excitement enough in
Europe to justify the expense :
"People are made politicians by the
publication of state matters by the
press. One cannot but be sony that
such a pernicious machine is erected
among them. " What would Joseph say
now were he to come in contact with
the brand of politicians we have on tap
today ? If ho con establish the fact that
the press is responsible there would be a
large falling off in subscriptions. But
today , instead of the newspaper pro
ducing pernicious politicians , he would
find the politician producing the per
nicious sheet.
As the governor of North Carolina
said to Mrs. Stanford , it is a long time
since a professor was fired from the
university. Mrs. Stanford appears to bo
losing her interest in education and
freedom of speech. She acts just as if
she was mother-in-law to the thing.
A republican paper , speaking of the
re-organization of democracy , remarks :
"What we need is not democracy , but a
rest. " There is nothing to indicate
whether this was intended for wit or
argument. The learned editor over
looked facts , as they are of little use in
republican editorial toyings with truth.
The main fact is that we have had a rest
from democracy now for four years and
everybody except republican managers
are tired of the rest and would like to
see a little democracy instilled into the
party that was fathered by Jefferson
and damned by Bryan. Even the pure
food act would appear to discountenance
the purveying of populism under a
democratic label.
General Rassieur , commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R. , works himself into a
fine frenzy because certain congressmen ,
he alleges , are false to their organization
in not voting for enough pension raids.
He even reflects upon the president , and
intimates that they are violating their
obligations taken on initiation. There
is an oath prescribed by the constitution
for the president and our representatives
and it might be interesting to have a
quotation of the obligation that is of
higher obligation. It is barely possible
these men were elected by another body
known as American citizens , whose
interests , by a legal fiction , are in the
hands of congress.
As the president is a creature of the
constitution and the constitution does
not extend to the Philippines , by what
authority and what name does he rule
the islands ? As Edward VII is king of
Great Britain and Ireland and emperor
of India , to show his absolute rule in
the latter , should not McKinley be
known as president of the United
States , dictator of the Philippines and
guardian ad litem of Cuba ?
T. M. S.
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