Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

AN APPEAL TO VOTERS. “'Come let us reason together." (Kipling) "Take up the white ! man’s burden.” Just so. Isn’t i that what we republicans ar i doing? Such as Mark Hanna and | Fairbanks, don’t they lay awake ' nights planning for the poor heathen? True, Neely and Rathbone and that sort hunting flesh pots I put a darkening color on righteous plans: but look at the motive underneath! Who will pulldown I the flag? Says Teddy: “We stand at the parting of the ways!” What ways? Why the old ways. We have I turned over a new leaf and as republicans we are proud of it. The old pages are venerable because i they are old and not because of i'any inherent virtue. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were well enough in their day. “Not to engage in entangling alliances” was good advice when we were an infant, but what's the use of being strong if you can’t bully some one? And so Ted says: “Everyman will support us in this new way who is worthy the name of American.” Is that plain enough? Hurrah for Ted! We lammed the Spanish, and good actions should bo oft repeated. \\ e are progressive you see. We give medicine to the peo- ' pie of “far away Isles.” Patrick I Henry said; “Give me liberty or give me death.” What is liberty j worth to a people with a large army and navy unless you can “lam” the other fellow? It is all right to have the consent of the governed, but if they Won’t consent the only way is to take it by force. As McKinley

says: “We won’t flinch from our duty.” True, the heathen never did us any harm, but the “White man’s burden is our’s” and “Who’ O, WHO! will pull down the flag?” As Teddy says in his speech of acceptance, “For ns to fail in the coming election would bring misery and shame.” Of course it would. Every republican “worthy the name of American” understands this. Ten thousand times ten thousand men, good and true, would be miserable, yes and ashamed to lose the place of honor and trust confided to them by a gracious people. To very many it would be absolute ruin, or it’s alternate, “manual labor.” An American should be an American. Over one hundred years this nation has plodded bn with it’s feet in metaphorical fetters, riveted fast by the advise of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Lincoln, who, could they have seen the glorious future, as Dewey at Manilla, Sampson at Santiago, and Teddy’s charge at San Juan, would have tempered their advise with a proviso to, “go slow till you learn to peddle.” England's navy makes the great powers of the earth prudent and obsequious; the weaker ones to tremble. Asia and Africa yield tribute to her. Her law of commerce is the law of the world. Even the liberty-loving “Yankee” conforms—through republican laws —to her “golden” rule. What? What is that ruledid you ask? It means— well according to McKinley it means, “we must do our duty.” In plain English it means, “Keep what you’ve got, and get all you can.” Curious you democrats can’t comprehend things so plain. Didn't we pay 820,000,000 to Spain for her claim on the Philippine Islands, including fighting rights? And haven’t we taken thousands of lives and spent $200,000,000 more to secure the plunder? As we interpret international law, that people and country is ours. In moral law it means such liberty as we have to spare—on obedience —may be theirs. What more, in reason, could they ask ? What? Want to rule themselves, do they? But they are a blessed minority and minorities don’t govern —Kentucky excepted—and bet ter than all “Beverage” has publicly assured them of honest administration in government. The Cubans are learning what that is, and think it a little mixed, but a bad beverage is better than none in a dry time, and liberty may be a versatile quantity, not always on tap. My Dear Voter: The democrat may think of the joy a democratic victorj’ may bring to the people offer away isles, but be you mure patriotic, and think of the happy homes in this land, I when republican liberty is as-] sured to us, and not only that but the honor and profit we will have | in dishing out liberty to others. And if we should fail, think of the misery and shame of it. Why. unborn millions might howl through all eternity and the burden of ages be ours.

REPUBLICAN.