Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1898 — MUST STAND UNITED [ARTICLE]

MUST STAND UNITED

President McKinley at Red Oak, la.: "We have material wealth, we have rich and fertile lands, we have great shops and great factories that make everything. We have skilled workmen, we have genius for Invention, and in the last 80 years we have achieved commercial triumphs which have been the wonder of the world. We have much to be thankful for. We have come out of events of the last five months glorious in our victories and more glorious in the results which are to come. We are fortunate in the virtue of our people, and in the valor of our soldiers and sailors. We have been patriotic in every crisis of our history and never more patriotic than from April 1, 1898, to the present hour. Our patriotism must be continued. We must not permit it to abate, but we must stood unitedly until every settlement of the recent contest shall be written in enduring form and shall record a triumph for civilization and humanity.” The ripening fruit of the Pacific is falling into our hands. If the Democratic leaders have no appetite for it they will not be forced to partake. There are enough to enjoy it without their assistance. They will not be missed from the feast. The Democratic 7 party is a patriotic I arty—when it has the offices.