Show THE FIRST STEP THERE THERE ARE GRAVE CONSIDERATIONS now novt n pend p pending THERE j ing fraught f l g t with weal v al or woe w e No citizen should approach A them by the ordinary froth and foam of a po political political political j campaign The United States stands at the parting of the ways Ono One road is the straight extension of that honest American highway over which the tue greatest republic known has traveled to its sta station station station tion or o glory The other is a new way leading far from safe landmarks entering a wilderness of intrigue and arid foreign com coin complications complications full of pitfalls without and creating elements of decay within If Jf the tiit th policy of this administration is sustained let us see what will have been affirmed First That the United States desires desire colonies to be ruled by military mi itar force outside of the constitution Second That the consent of the tile inhabitants is immaterial Third That the demands of commerce are to be backed up lIP by a standing army and a large navy wherever commerce calls rails The establishment of these three propositions will wil not con conert convert convert vert ert this tills country into an empire on Nov 6 But it will have haAre laid I down the tie foundations upon which empires empire and nd not republics lies are built t The thought flies ahead of the feet Your journey is not accomplished with the first fi st mile even though ough i the thought has lias reached its destination But the ening distance will be beas beas as ac surely traveled as your your first steps were guided and impelled by your original purpose I So SQ it is 15 with what is is called i We heard an indignant exclamation by a superficial but honest b nest partisan What That McKinley an emperor Ohno O but tile the affirmation by bythe tile the people of his acts will be a denial of the principles which underlie a republic It will be he a departure from our simple faith I It will Wil iU corporate incorporate into our national life and polity the same dt purposes from which our aUf forefathers fled those veri veritable yen table t ble doctrines by which exist cust every empire in in the world wor L |