Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 August 1900 — Page 7

THE TRUE RELIGION. Dr. Talmage Says It Must Be from Heaven. Makeshifts of Homaa Maaofaetavo ▲re Vseless When Measured hr God's Plumb Line—The Wall of Character. * [Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington, August & From Trondhjem, Norway, where Dr. Talmage is now staying, he sends the following discourse, in which he shows that the world can never be benefited by a religion of human man* tifacture, which easily yields to one’s surroundings, but must have a religion let down from Heaven; text, Amos 7:8: “And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? ind I said, A plumb line.*’ The solid masonry of the world has for me a fascination. Walk about some of the triumphal arches and the cathedrals 400 or 600 years old, and aee them stand as erect as when they were built, walls of great height, for centuries not bending a quarter of an inch this way or that. So greatly honored) were the masons who builded these walls tl^at they were free from taxation and called “free” masons. The trowel gets most of the credit for these buildings, and its clear ringing on stone and brick has sounded across the ages. But there is another implement of just as much importance as the trowel, and my text recognizes it. Bricklayers and stonemasons and carpenters, in the building of walls, use an instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fastened. They drop it over the side of the wall, and, as the plummet | naturally seeks the center of gravity in the earth, the workman discovers where the wall recedes and where it bulges out and just what is^^e perpendicular. Our text re^rese^ts God as standing on the wall of character

which the lraentes had built ana in that way testing it. “And the Lord 6aid unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line.” ■. What the world wants is straight up and down religion. Much of the socalled piety of the day bends this way and that to suit the times. It is obRque, with a low state of sentiment and morals. We have all been building a wall of character, and it is glaringly imperfect and needs reconstruction. How shall it be brought into perpendicular? Only by the Divine measurement. “And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line.” . The whole tendency of the times is to make us act by the standard of what others do. We throw over the wall of our character the tangled plumbline of other lives and reject-the infallible test "which Amos saw. The question for me should not be what you think is right, but what God thinks is right. This perpetual reference to the behavior of others, as though it decided anything but human fallibility, is a mistake wide as the world. There are 10,000 plumb lines in use, but only one is true and exact, and that is the line of God’s etgrnal right. There is a mighty attempt being made to reconstruct and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans ov^r about 13 feet from the perpendicular, and people go thousands of miles to see its graceful inclination and to learn how, by extra braces and various architectural contrivances, it is kept leaning from century to century. Why not have the “■.ten granite blocks of Sinai set a little aslant? Why not have the pillar of truth a leaning tower? Why is not an ellipse as good as a square? Why is not an oblique as good as straight up and down? My friends, we must have »a standard. Shall it be God’s or man's? The Divine plumb line needs to be thrown over all merchandise. Thousands of years ago Solomon discovered the tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man beating down an article lower and lower and saying it was not worth the price asked, and when he had* purchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck and how he outwitted the merchant. “It is

naught, saith the buyer, out when he is gone his wayv then he boasteth” (Proverbs 20:14). Society is sp utterly askew in this matter that you seldom find a seller asking the price he expects to get; he puts on a higher value than he expects to receive, knowing that he will have to drop. And if he wants $50, he asks $75. And if he wants $2,000, he asks $2,500. “It is naught,” saith the buyer. '‘The fabric is defective; the style of "goods is poor; I can get elsewhere a better article at a smaller price. It is out of fashion; it is damaged; it will fade; it will not wear well.” After awhile the merchant, from overpersuasion or from desire to dispose of that particular stock of goods, says: “Well, take it at your own price,” and the purchaser goes home with light step and calls into his private office his confidential friends and chuckles while he tells how for half price he got the goods. In other words, he lied and was proud of it. Nothing would make times so good and the earning of a livelihood so easy ae the universal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargain making. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money.^^hirchasers know not whether the gbods shipped will be according to the sample. And what, with the large number of clerks who are making: false entries and then abaconding and the explosion of firms that fail for millions of dollars, honest men are at their wits* end to make a living. He who stands up

amid all the pressure and does right is accomplishing something toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sympathy for the laboring classes who toil with hand and foot. But we must not forget the business men who, without any complaint or bannered procession through the street, s'are enduring a stress of circumstances terrific. The fortunate people of to-day are thos^ who are receiving daily wages or regular salaries. And the men most to be pitied are those who conduct a business while prices are falling and yet try to pay their clerks and employes and are in such fearful straits that they would quit business to-morrow if it were not for the wreck and ruin of others. When people tell me at what a ruinously low price th^y purchased an article, it gives me more dismay than satisfaction. 1 know it means the bankruptcy and defalcation of men in many departments. The men who toil with the brain need full as much sympathy as those who toil with the hand. All business life is struck through with suspicion, and panics are the result of want of confidence. The pressure to do wrong is stronger from the fact that in our day the large business houses are swallowing, up the smaller, the whales dining on bluefish and minnows. The large houses undersell the small ones, because they buy in greater quantities and at lower figures from the producer. They^can afford to make nothing, or actually lose, on some styles, of goods, assured they can make it up on others. So, a great dry goods house goes outside of its regular line and sells books at cost or less than cost, and that swamps the booksellers; or the dry goods house sells bric-a-brac at lowest figures, and that swamps the small dealer in bric-a-brac. And the same'thing goes on in other styles of merchandise, and the consequence is that all along the business streets of all our cities there are merchants of small capital who are in terrific struggle to keep their heads above water. The ocean liners run

down the Newfoundland fishing smacks. This is nothing against the man who has the big store, for every man has as large a store and as great a business as he can manage. To feel right and do right under all this pressure requires martyr grace, requires divine support, requires celestial reenforcement. Yet there are tens of thousands of sqch men getting splendidly through. They see others going up and themselves; going down, but they keep their patience and their courage and their Christian consistency, and after awhile their success will come. There is generally retribution in some form for greediness. The owners of the big business will die, and their boys will get possession of the business, and with a cigar in their mouths, and full to the chins with the best liquor, and behind a pair of spanking bays, they will p*ms everything on the turnpike road to temporal and eternal perdition. Then the business will break up and the smaller dealers will have fair opportunity. Or the spirit of contentment and right feeling will take possession of the large firm, as recently with a famous businesshouse, and the firm will say: “We have enough money for all our needs and the needs of our children. Now let us dissolve business and make way for other men in the same line.” Instead of being startled at a solitary instance of magnanimity, it will become a common thing. I know of scores of great business houses that have had their opportunity of vast accumulation and who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the days of this generation the struggle of small houses to l^eep alive under the overshadowing pressure of great houses will continuer therefore, taking things as they are. you will be Avise to preserve your faith and throw over all the counters and shelves and casks the measuring line of divine right. “And the Lord said unto me: Amos, what seest thou? And I said: A plumb line.” In the same way we need to rectify cur theologies. All sorts of religions are putting forth their pretensions. Some have a spiritualistic religion, and their chief work is with ghosts, and others a religion of political econ

omy. proposing to put an end; to human misery by a new style of taxation, and there is a humanitarian religion that looks after the bodies of men and lets the §oul look after itself, and there is a legislative religion that proposes to rectify all wrongs by enactment of better laws, and there is an aesthetic religion that by rules of exquisite taste would lift the heart out of its deformities, and religions of all sorts, religions by the peck, religions by the square foot and religions by the ton—all of them devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the only religion that will ever effect anything for the human race, and that is the straight up and down religion written in the book which begins with Genesis and ends wtih Revelation, the religion of the skies, the old religion, the God-given religion, the everlasting religion? which says: *%ove uod above all and your neighbor as yourselfAll religions but one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place. The Bible religion demands that we first get right with God. It begins at the top and measures down, while the other religions begin at the bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of the wall,, up to their knees in the mud of human theory and speculation, and have a plummet and a string tied fast to it, and they throw the plummet this way and oreak a head here and throw the plummet another way and break a head there, and then they throw it up, and it cornea down fcpon their own pate. Fools! "Why stand at the foot of the wall rectify

tag up when you ought to etand at the top rectifying down? I waa in the country, thirsty after a long walk. And I came in, and my child waa blowing soap bubbles, and they rolled out of the cup blue and gold and green and sparkling and beautiful and orl> icular, and in so small a space I never saw more splendor concentrated. But she blew once too often, and all the glory vanished into suds. Then I turned and took a glass of water and was refreshed. And so far aa soul thirst is concerned I put against all the blowing, glittering soap bubbles of worldly reform and human speculation one draft from the fountain from under the throne of God clear as crystal. Glory be to God for the religion that drops from above, not coming up from beneath! “And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what aeeet thou? And I said, A plumb line.** I want you to notice this fact, that when a man gives up the straight up and down religion of the Bible for any new fangled religion, it is generally to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear of some swindle he has practiced in a special mining stock, telling some one if he will put in $10,000 he can take o\j>t $100,000; or he has sacrificed his integrity or plunged into irremediable worldliness. His sms are ao broad be has to broaden his religion, and he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul's darkness, as broad as hell. They want a religion that will allow them to keep their sins and th^n at death say to them: “Well done, good and faithful servant,” and that tells them: “All. is well, for there is no hell.” What a glorious Heaven they hold before usl Come, let us go in and see it. There are Herod and all the babes he massacred. There are Charles Guiteau and Robespierre, the feeder of th« French guillotine, and all the liars, thieves, bouse burners, garroters, pickpockets and libertines of all the centuries. They have ail got crowns and thrones and harps and scepters, and when they chant they sing: “Thanksgiving and honor and glory and pow’er to the broad religion that

lets us all into Heaven without repentance and without faith in those humiliating' dogmas of ecclesiastical old fogyismj.** My text gives me a grand opportunity of saying a useful word to all young men who are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a piumb line? W hy not build the wall by the pnaided eye and hand? Because they are insufficient, because if there be a deflection in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because by the law of gravitation a wall must be straight in order to be symmetrical and safe. One of the best friends I ever had died of delirium tremens at CO years of age, though he had not since 21 years of age, before which he had been dissipated, touched intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him off. Not ieeling well in the street on a hot summer day he stepped’ into a dTug store, just as you and I would have done, and asked for a dose of something to make him feel better. And there was alcohol in the dose, and that one drop aroused the old appetite, and he entered the first hquor store and staid there until thoroughly under tne power of rum. He entered his home a raving maniac, his wife and daughters fleeing from his presence, and at first he was taken to the city hospital to die. Remember that the wall may be IDO feet high, and yet a deflection one foot from the foundation affects the entire structure. And if you live 100 years and do right the last 80 years you may nevertheless do something at 20 years of age that will damage all your earthly existence. All you who have built houses for yourselves or for others, am 1 not right in saying to these young men, you cannot'build a wall so high as to be independent of the character of its foundation? A man before 30 years of age may commit enough sin to last him a lifetime. Now, John or George or Henry, or whatever be your Christian name or surname, say here and now: “No wild oats for me, no cigars or cigarettes for me, no wine or beer for me, no nasty stories for me,® no Sunday sprees for me. I am going to start right and keep on right. God help me, for lam very weak. From the throne of eternal righteousness let

down to me tne principles: by which I can be guided in bHilding everything from foundation to capstone. Lord God, by the wounded hand of Christ throw me a plumb line.” “But,” you say, “you shut us young folks out from all fun.” Oh, no! I like fun. I believe in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. Xo credit to me, but because of an extraoridnary parental example and influence I was kept from outward transgressions, though my heart was bad enough and desperately wicked. \ have had fun illimitable, though I never swore one oath and never gambled for so much as the value of a pin and never saw the inside of a haunt of sin save as when many years ago, with a commissioner of police and a detective and two elders of my church, I explored New York and Brooklyn by midnight, not out of curiosity, but that I might in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty and the horrors of underground city life. Yet, though I was never intoxicated for an instant and never committed one act of dissolute-ness-restrained only by the grace of God, without which restraint I would have gone headlcfftg to the bottom of infamy—I have had so much fun that I don’t believe there is a man on the planet at the present time who has had more. Hear it, men and boys, women and girls, all the fun is on the side of right. Sin may seem attractive, but it is deathful and like the manchineel, a tree whose dewrs are poisonous. The only genuine happiness is in a Christian life. \

ANSWERS ROOSEVELT Ex.-Gov. Altgeld Replies to the Charges of Republican Hero. Bitfatea Ckargc of Cowardice of Member* of Democratic Party aid Portray* Character of Hew York Goreraor. In an address delivered before the Ohio Association of Democratic Clubs at Toledo on the evening of August 1. ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld. of Illinois, replied effectively to the speech delivered by Gov. Roosevelt at Minneapolis, in which the republican vice presidential candidate accused the men of the democratic party of being cowards. Gov. Altgeld, in opening his address, said: . •’There are only two principles or systems of government known to man—government by brute force and government by consent of the governed. The one Is applied from without and is repressive, and. in the end, destructive, because it arrests growth; while the other works from within, is evolutionary and progressive. "Government by force has existed for thousands of years and its tendency is everywhere the same. It has checked growth, arrested development, cowed the nobler aspiration of men. stunted the intellect and covered the earth with suffering and misery. The constant tendency of such a government; is toward a lower and a lower level, and repressive measures become more- and more severe until finally conditions are created which result in dissolution and death. ^ Formation of Oar Republic. “The principle of governing by consent of the governed was* first applied in its broadest sense in the formation of our republic, and It worked a revolution in human society. It has given the world more progress in one century than it achieved in the 50 or 60 centuries of recorded time. By freeing the intellect, by encouraging the higher aspirations, man leaped into an activity in all lines of human effort that had been impossible in the past; there was a new birth in inventions, in the industries, in agriculture, in art. in literature, in government and in education. To this we are largely indebted for our shops, our railroads, our cities, our agriculture and everything that makes us great.

Moving: along tne lines or peace and progress, along the lines of evolution and development. It is mastering matter, it is annihilating space, it is uniting man with Jjls brother. It is bringing the human r&ce to its God. All of the nations of the earth have been affected by the principles of our declaration of independence. Incredible as it may seem, at the close of this marvelous century, which is the child of the declaration of Independence, we are asked to go back to those principles which have cursed the world for thousands of years, and which, if again given sway, will bring back the ‘dark ages.' You ask who are the people and whence comes the influences that make this astounding proposition. They are the people who represent greed, rapacity and corruption. Thgy are the same class of people and they are the same influences that have arrested human progress and human developmental" all lands and in all periods where they had sw&yr. The fates nave decreed that greed should be shortsighted and should hold the penny of Immediate advantage so close to its" eye as to shut out the sifn. It is a noticeable fact, verified by all human experience, that in no case does a policy that is dictated solely by greed prove successful In the end. On the contrary, it always destroys the very interest It was intended to serve and build up. “The successive steps toward destruction are always concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, universal corruption, subversion of the basic principles of government, oligarchical control, steady lowering of the conditions of the masses, degradation, debauchery, jlissolution and Democracy and the Trusts. The subject of trusts was given an exhaustive hearing and the history of republican legislation in their behalf thoroughly gone over. The panic of 1873 Is recalled: the distress of 1893 Is shown to have come before the democratic party had had an opportunity to remedy existing evils, before the democratic president had taken his seat; and the signs of distress that are becoming apparent again were shown to be from the effect of trusts. Of- the democratic party’s connection with trusts the speaker said: “Bear in mind that every trust In America Is fighting the democratic platform. Even the alleged democratic stockholders of the republican Ice trust of New York/ controlled by Tom Platt's son. are fighting our platform. Why? If they thought we would not overthrow the trusts they would not fight us. Trusts do not fight for nothing. We have declared that private monopoly Is indefensible and shall not exist In America. They know that men who are in earnest will find ^ wav to make the will of the people effective. The trusts know their friends. Even a casual glance shows you that there is a difference between the two great partied as regards trusts. The trusts constitute the head, the shoulders, the spine, the limbs and the soul of the republican party of to-day. They own, control and direct it. They have erased every great motto from its banners, and have substituted a vulgar dollar mark. The men who today speak for the republican party as a rule are mere tryst creatures, who have to change their song every moon in defense of their masters and secret employers. “On the other hand, the trusts are only a speck on the tall of the democratic party, and it is doing its best to lash them off. In order to perpetuate their power the trusts are now raising millions of dollars to help Mark Hanna debauch the American elections. Will vbu help them, or will you stand for your own independence and the independence and happiness of your children?” A careful history of the events leading up to the war with Spain was given, in which It was conclusively shown that the democratic members of congress were leaders in the demand for interference in Cuba, but these leaders did not anticipate the present poliev of imperialism that has grown out of that war because bf the policy of the present administration. Referring to the war in the Philippines and the subject •f expansion, Gov. Altgeld said:

War in Philippines. “Llrng before we declared war against Spain In behalf of Cuba the people ©f the Philippine islands had been wagring war for their own independence. They continued this warfare and finally drove the Spaniards off the islands. And we are now engaged in a war to rob the islanders of their independence ar.d make the people subjects. not citizens, of this republic. “There is to-day no question of expansion before the American people, and all the talk about expansion is simply an effort to conceal the facts and to mislead the public. The sole question is whether we shall go into the colonial business with England and the despotic nations of Europe. Let me say here that the democratic party has been the party of expansion. It gave to our republic the Country west of the Mississippi and Florida, Texas, New Mexico and California. The democratic party believes that, moving along the line of natural growth and development and without violating the principles of freedom, that the time will come when by constitutional methods Canada on the north and the West Indian islands on the south will rap for admission to this republic. It believes that the time will come when, from the frozen skies of the north to the warm waters of the south, there will be one people, one flag, one civilization, one great brotherhood of man. But no such question is now before us. “What do the defenders of the administration say? At this point the speech made by Gov. Koosevelt at Minneapolis is taken up, and 1he arraignment given it is a scathing one. Of it the speaker said: cat. Speech Withomt an Argni -* Recently a gentleman In New York, Who nas become famous for having been atone in Cuba—a. gentleman who has adopted as his life motto or coat of arms two ‘P’s’ and a double “S.’ which four letters signify ‘pompous posing’ and *strenuous strutting —left the capital of New York and went to St. Paul and delivered a speech to an association of republican clubs. The speech has not, from beginning to end, a single argument, or a single accurate hisiMKti lejerence; a speech that Is made up of Invective, misrepresentations and vituMtfVHMl,' **0*<UhHrilr the speech would not be noticed even th a country newspaper, but in

aamuch as It was made by a mat* whom Tom Platt baa permitted i.o be governor ot New York, aa it was made by a man whom the trusts of America have selected to preside over the senate of the United States in order that their interests man be secured. Inasmuch as it was made by a man who is a candidate for the suffrages of the American people, inasmuch as it was made by a man who is relied on to secure the perpetuation of the regime of hypocrisy and revolution in the white house, who is relied on to help make the grasp and control of British influence over our people~still more complete. I will notice this speech to see the kind of misrepresentations that the republican party feels compelled to resort to. ' “Referring to the democrats, he said: •They stand for lawlessness and disorder, for dishonesty and dishonor, for license and disaster at home, and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad.* “This is a reflection on the intelligence and patriotism and the honor of every democrat in the country. It is a personal Insult to the six and one half-million of men who supported Mr. Bryan in 1896, and tp the 11.000.000 of freemen who arts going to support him in 1900. “The question arises: Is this the language of a sincere and discreet man. and therefore worthy of notice, or is it simply the hysterical rant of a political mountebank, and therefore to be treated with contempt? . “He gives no facts and advanoes no arguments in support of this charge. It is simply an assertion. He puts himself in evidence. Aside from truthfulness, it Involves his sincerity and discretion. Incidents of n Public Career. “Who. then, is this man, and what is his history? Personalities are offensive and I will not indulge in them. But. surely, when we are thus brutally assaulted we may ask who it is that is berating us. “t will notice only a few of the Incidents of his public career, which throw light on the question of his sincerity and discretion. I find it recorded that years ago he was a member of the New York legislature, and on one occasion he roused the hopes of the country’ by making a speech against a class which he called the criminal rich. But he at once dashed these hopes by turning around and voting with and for these Very criminal rich whom he had denounced. . L “In the years 1897-8 he held a federal office in Washington, and in order to escape paying his taxes In New York he signed an affidavit and swore before the everliving God that he was not a citizen of New York. If this was true, theri, under the constitution of New York he would not have been eligible for the office of governor of that state. By subsequently accepting a nomination and election to that office he showed that he did not believe his own affidavit. This being so, may it not be that he does not believe the charge that he has made against us?

Killed d Spaniard. “It is next recorded that he' entered the Spanish war in Cuba, and, although his regiment was commanded by another man. he succeeded by means of that modern weapon of warfare known as a newspaper bureau in winning more renown In a week than Gen. Grant did in four years of hard fighting. and he seems to be the oniy man on this continent who^boasts of having with his own hand shot down and killed a Spaniard that was fleeing from the battlefield. In his book he says: ‘As they turned to run I closed in and fired twice, missing the first and killing the second.*" He then boasts that he had considered this l'eat unique, and so it la. He is the first brave man to shoot an enemy in the back. "Again, the modern historians tell us that it was he who first demonstrated to mankind that however useful the camera may be to science, to art and to industry, its true mission is to develop tin plate heroes. “The records at Albany show that the governor got the legislature to pass a law taxing the franchises of eorporations-^a most righteous law. But the records also show that at the demands of Tom Platt and the corporations he reconvened the legislature in extra session and had it change this law as the corporations! dictated. "The canal fund of New York had l4een robbed of about $9,000,000 by republican politicians. and, although he talked loudly of prosecution, the governor has not brought one of these men to justice. , “History records the fact that the governor has never lost an opportunity, when standing in the temple or the market place, to make loud protestations of heroic virtue, but the historian has searched in vain for any evidence of performance. The volume of profession is full, but the page of performance is a blank. Vulgar Assaults Ijrnored. “I wish to avoid even the appearance of severity, and. as I have not: the language to properly characterize this man’s career, I shall not attempt it. He is the right man to defend criminal aggression and the abandonment of plain duty by the president. He is the right man to defend a war of conquest, the burning of towns, the slaughter of people and the assassination of liberty. But the democratic party will pay no attention to his vulgar assaults. “Let us read again from his speech; ," ‘After infinite labor they finally did decide at Kansas City that they still believed in free silver. This decision was reached in their committee by a vote of 26 to 24, so that it appears they only ha ye 52 per cent, of faith in their 48-eent dollar after all.’ "Had the governor stuck to the truth, as a candidate for so dignified an office as the vice presidency should do. he would have told his audience that there were two sets of delegates at the Kansas Citv convention. One set wanted simply to reaffirm the Chicago platform, claiming tha t inasmuch as that platform contained as strong aitd clear a plank on the financial question as coufd be framed, a reaffirmation was all that wlis necessary. "The other set of delegates insisted on having a special reiteration of the financial plank, and they prevailed. Had they failed and the Chicago mat form simply been reaffirmed, the principles for w hich the party stands would have been the same. It was pot a difference of principle between the delegates, but simplv a difference of opinion as to the most effective wav of stating that principle to the country. The governor certainly knew this. "Now. when a democrat stoops to misrepresentation he is called a pettifogger and a demagogue, but I suppose that when the republican candidate for the vice presidency stoons to do this it will be called strenuous The administration’s" PhHipjftne policy was carefully investigated, and showed clearly how that policy was leading on to militarism, and then fn closing he said: Lincoln's Immortal Word*.

“Listen to the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln: “ ‘What constitutes the bulwarks of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements or bristling seacoasts, our army or our navy. Our reliance is in the love of liberty, which God has planted in us. Our defense :is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seed of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs no wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the strength of J our own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rlse%among * “ ‘They who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselve% and under a just God cannot long retain it.* “Now, my friends, we propose to stop this criminal aggression into which the syndicate and the British ambassador have launched us. We are going to slop bloodshed and devastation in the Philippines by saying to the Filipinos that, when they establish a government which in cur judgment is a good government worthy of recognition, that then we will withdraw on such terms as may be just. “We are going to do what the president called our ‘plain duty toward the Porto Ricans.’ We are going to' redeclare that King George was wrong, and that his prin ciples shall not disgrace our s tatute books. “This is not a partisan question it is an American question. In 1861 you were not asked: ‘Are you a democrat or a republican?’ You were only asked: ‘Do y,ou love the flag of your country, and will you fight for it?’ To-day you are only asked: ‘Do you» believe in free institutions, and will you help preserve them?’ “Are you a son of the revolution ? Then step to the front and help-save that for which your ancestors died. “Do you believe Washington was right when he led -his men over the icy hills of Valley Forge? Do you believe the fathers were right when they fought at Bunker ; Hill or fell at Lexington? Do you believe i Lincoln was right when he stood on the battlefield at Gettysburg and prayed that government of the people, fo.r the people and by the people might not wither from the face of the earth? Then join the free men of America in one supreme effort ta again establish a republican government at Washington—to forever drive Hanne and the syndicates from the temple, and put an end to imperialism, mi litarism and McKtaleyiam.’* , —

6TAND FOR EMPIRE. H >n. Champ Clark's Arraignment of Expansionists. Si «duess of Republican Asiatic Policy —Ffcklcucos oa Money Question —Roosevelt and llapoleoa Compared. At the opening of the democrat!# campaign at Boulder, Col., Friday, July 27, Hon. Champ Clark spoke at some length upon the various polit leal issues, paying particular attention to expansion, the money ques> tit m and Roosevelt, as follows: * The Issue Is squarely joined. It is the enpire against the republic. William Mt Ktnley and his cohorts stand for the en pire; William J. Bryan and his follow ’ers stand for the perpetuation of this be. tefleent republic, for which out fathers fo\ ght and for which thousands of them dl« 1. *' The Asiatic propaganda Is the most Pr< posterous scheme ever hatched in the bri in of man and is the rankest, sort of mi. '.summer madness. “ 5ne of two things Is true about ths Fli pir.os. either they are fit for selfgo\ ernment, or they are not If they ar fit for self-government, in God’s na. le let them govern themselves. ** f they are not fit. we do not want the n for fellow citizens. But whether the Filipinos arc fit to govern themselves * or iot, they are not fit to govern us. and j the is precisely what they will do If wo tat, > them Into political partnership with^ us, for the supreme court of the United'*’ Sta es has decided time and time and tin ) again that the only purpose for wh ;h we can acquire foreign territory is ;ia make states out of It, and if they are ever admitted as states they will cor rol the senate as well as the electoral col fge.

i would not give the lire or on* het thy. brave, ambitious, moral, intelliCer white boy in exchange for all tha Fil. >lnos in the archipelago, or that may be ound until the crack of doom. **': hese jingoes say we are opposed to exr .nslon and call us little Americans. Th*; .name is an insult and the charge tha we are opposed to expansion is a lie. It is a lie made of the whole cloth, am made willfully, deliberately^ prelne< Itately and with malice aforethought. I ta ke it that all Americans are expan* sloi Ists on right lines, in the right direc on, and will strengthen Our institutloz 3 and not weaken them. lut a man does not have to be a fool nec ssarily in order to be an expanslot 1st. Rational people want to expand on rational lines. Thomas Jefferson's gre .test act was in making the Louisiana put.:hase. That was the most profitable ant stupendous transaction in real estai proposed on this earth since the dev 1 took the Saviour to the top of a hig » mountain and offered him the domi: ion of the world to fall down and wo: ship him. That one act alone would ha', e placed Jefferson in the ranks of the imt tortals, even if he had never written the declaration of Independence or Virgin a’s statute for religious freedom or founded the University of Virginia. “: am this day in favor of annexing evt ry foot of the North American British poi sessions clear to the frozen ocean. It Is contiguous territory, inhabited by mu :h the same sort of people that we are an< 1 ’ who would become good citizens; bus I am eternally opposed to holding As a tic territory 10,000 miles away, more thizkly inhabited than any state in the un.on, inhabited by people alien to us In color, race, thought and habits. I would keep only such places in Asia as we need for coaling and naval stations. Unchanged on Money Question. “We stand to-day on the money questloa precisely where we stood four years r.g». Truth does not change to falsehood in four short years. Consequently at Ki nsas City we readopted, not merely re. fflrmed, But readopted the financial ph nfc of the Chicago platform, in all Us in: egrlty and all Its force, in spite of all th f cajollngs, all threatenlngs and all temptations to do otherwise. From the bo atom of my heart I rejoice that we did so for if we were right then we are rij. ht now. ' , While the democratic party has not ch mged its position since 1S96, the republican party has changed its position ra lically. In 1896 it declared for international bimetallism: at Philadelphia & sh part time ago, it pronounced for the gc Id standard in all its baldness and badness. Not only that, but the latest re jubllcan platform States what is positively untrue wherein it reaffirms its al egiance to the gold standard, when as a matter of fact it never had declared fc .* the gold standard before. « ' The financial bill passed by this congress is the most monstrous measure ev et placed on the statute books. That b: 1 not only established the gold stands rd. which the republican party never piomised. but it retired the greenbacks, a: d let me say that if the, republican p; rty had promised to retire the greenfa. cks there never would have been a republican congress to enact such a law, a: id there would not have been a repubU :ari president to sign such a measure. B r that Atlantic City bill congress abdlca ted the paramount ’function Of geve: nment—the5- money making function— a id turned it over to an association of n itional bankers, a. function too vast and ti o dangerous to be given any citizen or

c-cporauon. Roosevelt Hd Napoleon. "The old proverb. ‘Great minds run ta llie same channel.’ tinds a new and startliig verification In the sameness of thought and language of a famous mot bir Louis Napoleon and a recent utterance by Theodore Roosevelt. Col. Roosev;lt is not only both a voluminous and voluble speaker, but is also an omnivorois reader. In his speech before the r epublican National ClQbs League. CoL I.oose\;elt earnestly enjoins his countrymen to ‘remember that expansion doe* cot brin’g war; it ultimately brings peace.* '* The empire brings peace,’ asseverates the dreaming, scheming, ambitious s>n of Hortense. ‘Expansion ultimately brings peace,’ echoes the dreaming, s :homing. ambitious governor-colonel of New York. “Louis Napoleon and Theodore Roosevelt, par ncbile fratrum—‘two souls with, but a single thought (to get there, Eli); two hearts to beat as one (to be the v hole show.)’ Two lovely berries molded tn one stem—the stem of imperialism: twin statesmen reveling" in iridescent (reams of peace—peace obtained by * (uantum sufficit : of throat cutting and Hood letting, the identical sort of peace which reigned in Warsaw on a memorable occasion and which 'damned to i ve rlasting fame’ the men who secured U 1 y sword and fire. "Louis Napoleon’s Bordeaux speech, i elivered 48 years ago this coming Octo1 er and Col. Roosevelt’s St. Paul speech, which is still ringing in the ears of men, t.re as much alike as two pea3 In a pod ■"[“he empire which the Frenchman was t fees creating lived a bloody life for IS oars and died 30 years ago in agony I lid. shame, amid the rejoicings of ail ; ! ivors of human liberty. A republic ros* icn Its ruins, growing stronger day v dayN seeming destined tor eternity, 'or 27 years Louis Napoleon has slept I - . foreign soil. He has found peace at I , si.—but he did not find it in his empire, i either will Col. Roosevelt find peace [ t x the theory or practice of imperial I . niTandlsement or universal conquest.*