Show The Imperialism cry Is the silliest that ever was presented to the American Ameri-can people There are certain things that are always Imperial The eagle on the standard I of our soldiers sjjm sym hols Imperialism The moment a man nun takes command of other men on shore or oa shipboard the rule Is the Imperial Im-perial rule The captain of a ship In i n storm does not stop to consult with his sailors what he should do neither does the officer of any army stop to consult with the soldiers when a battle Is on and when men are glvn high ollcos In the Republic7 it Jsidr fhum in their hell own imperial way to carry out the decrees of the people for It w sfor thin purpose that they were given those olllces but that the captain on the ship or the captain on the shore or the officers ot the Cov ornmcnt who are carrying out the lcoplcs will have the slightest Inten tion of flying In the face of the millions mil-lions ol this land to reduce In the slightest measure their freedom Is 0 cry so ridiculous and Improbable that those 1 who are raising It are atthe same lime we believe glad that the election is so near that they may no longer expose their Ignorance of the true principles of our Government by casting doubt upon those who under I their oaths are performing their duty i and preaching doctrine of such little I faith hi the I people as to for one moment mo-ment Imagine that should those officers I offi-cers ot I exceed their powers and become the least possible menace to the free dom of this Republic the peopf vVould I not hurl Ufen l uiftbV There is very much in hc YCr IheuUk otrcommercaIsui t mler IaJIS1 because that I oneofiAhc lhot ona o the means of carrying on progress In tit world The I lntp1 nrp of a people in mnlJnrn I times Is rated by their commerce Tho nation that has the most men at work I on shore that pays the most generous wages to Us workers that has the greatest nnd swiftest ships on the sea carrying away the products from the shore and bringing back other products pro-ducts from foreign lands that nation stands first In the worlds estimationt for the reason that it Is first and that such 0 nation ought not to bo the first to light the lamps of their en lightenmentin other land Is a false I assumption because the shrewdest traders know that the lands where the I people are most enlightened are tho best lands not only for men to live In i but for trade And so the Democratic and Populist light against what this years Is called Imperialism Is not only a fight against manifest destiny but it Is the fight of Ignorance for It reveals re-veals that the men who engage In it have no true conception of our free Government or of Its mission among the still oppressed nations of tho earth |