Show THE ALPHABET OF THE BALLOT in the tha old days men used to prospect in III non mineral bearing rocks the rocks made no elgi they her simply would not give eive up LID any t treasure q LL laa the years wt wat by one palo still atil lent flynt atter after another anwat picked up the alphabet ot of the rocks mid sot the letters to words ard though the it Is imperfect still stil ten men back over all the mista mistakes ces ot of the past at the ignorance of mankind in the early days but during all the coar and centuries the rocks ricks rave cave no sig ns tilt they simply wore the letters lettera on their crests and Ival ted for mail to i read ead the reta tion it is 11 so with nations the good god fixed certain letters in ilia awful alphabet ond and when those letters lettera are put tightly they spell out certain cartain messaged mess agea 3 to lo mank tind we have haie learned a few of 0 them even it if they sure are not always practiced one Is that the world word was founder foun deI on justice that hat absolute just juskie ce la is one of 0 gods mars laws and when nhen n hen it Is 15 viOlAt cI mankind has to suffer euter md and the suffering ll li even ji ors severe on the one who perpetrates the evil than on the on one e nho ho suffers the first penalties slowly slon ly through the minds of meet me there crystallized crystalli sed the thought that man being endowed with cert iUt divine girts here lit in his hie natural state would be it fr obedient to 0 o cert certain alln inviolable laws etile able to 90 govern vern himself and then it was thought ht that the ilia best wily way to give expression to the whole thought of 0 tile the people was through the ballot out of that parties 1 wei a born I 1 parties representing certain principles lea and so go an election its as 81 simply ply an aa arbitration on the part or of the whole nation to decide which set eel ot of principles ought to govern eald and the decision is rendered by the noiseless ballot that ballot gli elves cs no more sig 1 I than do the letters on the rocks only when men mori have ivan been prospecting in barren rock all the year the ballot represents that their labor has hag been in vain it gives out ro no other sign except to try some other fori formation ten years ago the ballot on its ils final count was simply a notice to the Ile republican Publican party parly that it had made mistakes in 1883 it t was again simply silmay a notice to the democratic party that ja it too had been weighed lu in the awful balance and had boon been found wanting again in 1892 2 the he same I 1 Incorruptible justice lifted alf ted up lip the disgraced ae servant of power and put the petted servant back bach in the dungeon this year the ballot decides that the dungeon dung reon door shall again be opened that the prisoner there shall come me forth in triumph and that the other servant which was given power two years ago while it cannot yet be removed la Is to have the notice served that it has failed and so that noiseless ballot keeps issuing its edicts to the american people it gives no more I 1 sign than does the alphabet on the rocks except it to Is a constantly repeating notice that neither party has yet found the right plan that the work Is not approved and now the question Is will the democracy learn any ally wisdom by its ita mighty reverse and another question Is has the reau republican alican party received reverses reverse enough in la the past to malic make it capable of seizing upon n and retaining its victory how low all the world n orld la Is moving as never before in europe a silent change Is going on comfere Com mcce mere that hits has its throne there la is looking tor for new unas lines on which to borte tho the orient 01 ton C after its sleep ot of cont tute Is starting into terrible life the modern steamship has pushed the continents closer together and made the oceans only terries ferries the electric telegraph maker wen speaking so nc quain ear car to ear and lip to lip Sat though seas roll between them and continents interpose their mountain mount peals and the quest question bon which comes backs la Is Is the ae aa arlean people capable mot only of self but capable bleff ot itai RIn LaIning itself in the iode competition which Is changing the aholo tace race 0 of the earth these tire are lays days for to be ba lifting up their eyes to see sec what the world otts oms sada sa as well BO as their own country Is doing there will trill come a time and it la Is not far on off when the in n Anit america irlon will have something else to do besides watching the unfolding of I 1 his 19 own country tow now in ill spite of him the lates L ates of all the earth 1 are I re open the laws of 0 trade we ore taking the whole world nor n or d in their sweep and the statesman vho aho himself aund nith the clarde of his own ourn self conscious ness and apt rpt to adsorb the visions which are painted anted pain tej around him who refuses to talce salto irto into I 1 the efforts which other nations are making mak ing to control the worlds iro rids trade a and ird tho worlds policy will be ba lost of late tho the bent of our coultry cou atry ny has been such that ihm as a n nation we have lost our in wo we axe ara 6 amply in the olour 0 our own affairs doing what Geere tary Wb whitney itney did to create a tavy navy sending abroad tor for plans and ana and for all the beav heavier ice parts of 0 the and we in a little while will be in the position that the secretary was waa han lie h the 0 of the battleship texas tex from england ISaf fland and the architects architect a looking oyer over it d drew ew the rule i alei j colvern ing ine such upon the secretary Secre nuil alla explained to him that it a ship built on oil that model would go to tile the bottom the moment it w aae launched aun ched our financial policy Is 19 in the same bame dilemma if we follow Enela nilar plans a little longer OUT GUT financial ship will and aad the lesson which the ballot has been trying to toach tenth us year by year yea r for the peat pe sc ten years Is that we should do with our finances fl nance what Secretary Tracy did eth our navy depend upon our own architects and artisans slid and when wo we do not I 1 have h ft the chops la in which to forge tho the 1 heels for our chips Ipa or of to forge the guns buns to trin arm those ships KO go to work to build thom the thing thine th the united states weeds neds Is it a policy of its ow own n it needs it new declaration of independence pen dence tt it need to go g o back to tile tho experience TOper lence of 0 the ages and to teach leitch tho the Ante american people tant 7 ant ans unquestioned money for four thousand years epars ought to be unquestioned now especially when our hills and deserts deaerts are filled with treasures and while were maln it a debtor nation the tha party that llast adopts these ideas quid and puts them in tome force will have tile reward when the ballot next entire its decree to una find that at last it ft has bail found the proper alphabet and it uslie the proper language lanau aBO in which to write its ita laws |