Show MOCK PATRIOTISM PATRIOTISI The Deseret Evening News administers admin-isters a severe but merited rebuke to those administration sycophants who put on the cloak of patriotism to serve their party in and raise the cry of I copperhead whenever the old doctrine of imperialism that the king can do I no wrong Is disputed The News says In this free country coun-try the public acts of all public officers cots are open to criticism It is not treason to find fault with any public I functionary From the president of the United States down to the smallest official of-ficial of the general fr local government govern-ment every one is a public servant and is not above comment from the commonest com-monest of the common people In a republican form of government a free and open discussion of public I questions is absolutely essential As such governments derive their powers I from the consent of the governed men I have a right to their opinions and aright a-right to express them so long as they I do not cone information to the ene to my as to the movements of the army and navy and expose secrets which properly belong to the state The man who disapproves of Hanna and his methods his designs upon the government and his manipulation of McKinley to the accomplishment of selfish ends has just as much right to be heard as has the one who blindly assents to every plan that iIaflna proposes I pro-poses and every scleme the president lends himself to further Millions of people in this land pf the free and home of the brave are just as ready to lay down their lives for their country as ever Hanna or Alger was they arc just as patriotic a McKinley Mc-Kinley Is and they do not believe in submitting without a protest to every policy outlined by these professional politicians who happen to be drest in a little brief authority Patriots are with their country right or wrong But they are not necessarily with the Hanna aggresa ton right or wrong No administra ton which exults 1 man with Algers military record has any right to com i ilaln of criticism in this country where soldiers are brave and true Al gem refused to stay at the front during the period of his enlistment in the i civil war If he is McKinleys Ideal lead for the war department criticism of the administration is not a reliec ton upon the nation Silence rather would refiect upon the Intelligence and 1 patriotism of the people ptrotsm ICPc The News says further j j The word treason is frequently used without understanding of its slgnlll cation Pretended patriots hose love of 1 fseI J I country consists chlolly I in shouting and j lagwaving are in the habit of yelling reason whenever the Wo of the powers I hat be are called in question I is to be hoped that our contempo rays words will strike home to some of the featherbed heroes whose courage cour-age consists mainly in building Up a campaign structure on the bodies of their neighbors at the front The patriotism pa-triotism that announces itself by clIng cl-Ing someone a traitor or a copperhead i like the courage that hides behind a rock and shouts Go i boys to the I men who flo the fighting |