Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1912 — Advocates Loyalty to The Party of Accomplishment [ARTICLE]

Advocates Loyalty to The Party of Accomplishment

It is quite natural for live people to be restless, to ever seek to improve. No matter what our condition may be we want to make it better. Whait a large per cent of people there are though who, on the evening of life, can look back over the path they have trod and, viewing the starting point, realize that all these years they have made nothing, better for themselves or their neighbors. So it is in nations, with our own republic, the birth growth and development of which every school boy and girl is as familiar as they are with current events. We do not appreciate, we do not know what we have. 1 v —/-A Our constitution has stood the test of time, and the day laborer stands higher here and is better clothed, sheltered and educated than under any flag that floats under the dome of heaven. That great protective tariff wall that has set the American laborer on the high pedestal where he now stands, is largely responsible for this condition. Let us not be too eager to leave this well-trodden path. Let us not be too willing to follow after a wiLl-o’-the-wisp. Let us ever remember the words of the immortal Lincoln, when he was advised to start a party new, because his ideas did not accord with those of his party, “Looking back over the past, over the record of that grand old party of our fathers, we see the golden halo that time has thrown round it and we may say with all the world. ‘Well done.’ ” Had we the work to do again where would we make a change? California, that proud example of the more than one half century of settlement, is not self-supporting. Remove the emmigrant and the tourist from this golden state and you have a different scene. California is a land of wild dreams, fond fancies and withered hopes. Optimism rdns rampant. Sixteen to one looked good once for a very short time. * . , “Let the people rule” sounds good. That is what we have ever done since 1776. We still do it. The recall of the judges would mean the destruction of the strongest pillar on which our nation rests. What made England the nation she is? Wherein lies the strength of Germany? Recall of the judges means that law suits may be prolonged indefinitely. Recall of the judges means an unstable court. An unstable cburt means an unstable government. An unstable government means ruin. It is the restraint of a nation that makes it strong. Wild liberty and freedom makes a nation like Cuba and Mexico. In Mexico it is customary for the defeated party to start an insurrection. With the recall of the judges’ doctrine, the defeated party at the court can busy himself to have this judge and his decision recalled. Let us avoid the ruts of Mexico. “A house divided against itself shall fall.” Let us rally back in line, let us remain ever loyal to the principles of.Jhat grand old party that has so caused this nation to shine. That party of Abraham Lincoln, that party of James A. Garfield, that party of Wm. McKinley. We have too many parties now. If we divide and subdivide, all the while we grow more weak. Strength to do good comes in union. We may become like the singlecelled amoebe, when every voter has one party of his own. Boys, have your outing now, but in November the American Eagle, that broad bird of freedom, will welcome you back, and shall expect all her sons to stamp once again, and stamp well as in the good old days, a star under her spreading motherly wings. Yes, in November, a EVERETT HALSTEAD.