| Show IMPERIALISM The talk of imperialism In this campaign cam-paign the intimation that the President and those around him are planning anything that does not hold Inviolable this Government Is something HO de baaed and so Insulting that after the opposition Is whipped to a finish in I November we do not believe It will ever again raise Its hideous crest The Intimation that there la I an alliance between be-tween this Government and another Government Is another moat Insulting and shameful Invention and so utterly ridiculous that we would not notice It If I Mr Bryan had not In his recent formal for-mal letter of acceptance intimated a belief that something of that kind cx isle Away last spring In a I most public pub-lic manner the President declared that tho country was neither In alliance nor entanglement with any other power but on terms of amity and cordiality cor-diality with all And on the subject I of Imperialism he said I The liberated will never become the I oppressors A selfgoverned people will I never permit despotism In any Government Govern-ment which they foster and defend There can be no Imperialism Those who fear it i nre against It Those who have faith In the Republic are against I it And with that he summons the people to the great task of lifting up and assisting as-sisting to better conditions thlsdlBtant people who through the Issue of title have become our wards After that the petty Inventions of sneering discontents dis-contents in the East or the parrot echo of the same miserable falsehood by a great convention In the old West and even the Indorsement by a candidate can-didate for tho Presidency of these inventions In-ventions do not give them dignity Rather In fairminded mens thoughts they simply awaken contempt The country is Imperial enough hor people are Imperial enough her ships as they rldo the waves arc Imperial enough and wherever her soldiers march their tread is imperial In the great manufacturing manu-facturing establishments of the country coun-try the work as It goes on reminds the i watcher of an empire in full sway or I a world In full swing In tho other I There is an Imperial hiss In the respirations respi-rations of the steam engines on the I mountain tops that hoists the precious metals to swell the money volume of the country and to swell the prestige and the calth of the country There are Imperial cotton fields in the South while the worlds factories wait upon their product Tho wheat fields the North are Imperial In their own way for the world waits on them for bread The Republic stretchIng as it does from sea to sea roaring as it docs with all the Industries In full swing is about thb most august and Imperial presentation presen-tation that this world ever made There will l something most Imperial happen on the 6th of November when the fifteen 1 fif-teen million voters of this country deposit de-posit their ballots and through tHem r announce their will But every one who would reduce he splendor and the prestige our country by an Intimation Inti-mation that there are any here who would change that presentation and would if they could lift up that petty thing called a throne may be put down either a timid fool or a vicious knave |
