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Show THE CITIZEN their manifest duty to the American born, that their morale and their Americanism are being gradually submerged and woven into a net of foreign entanglements and home-mad- e sophistries, were the chief numerous speakers.; themes dwelt, upon From the vitriolic catechisement of the uplifters and regulators of everything pertaining to national, state and civic government, uttered by Senator Stanley, to a New York audience, to the humane and patriotic manifest by Governor J. J. Blane, of Wisconsin, in favor of immunity from prison walls for boys, who fought the great fight in the late war, all these July Fourth1 orations contain a vital lesson for our true American citizenry. . The; aftermath of Independence day still finds the country aimThe lessly drifting toward the rocks of educafundamentalists, many of: our: clergy, most of our free-trators in our big colleges, many-o- f our politicians and all of our foreign' born citizens and our alien population, together with hosts of foreign propagandists, are tirelessly working to bring about a change of some sort a change they fondly hope will benefit themselves in a more or less direct way. This country has witnessed the spread of uplift and smudge regulation gradually subvert and stifle a major part of their personal liberties; they have witnessed the all too evident fact that such laws eminate from sources bent upon accomplishing, through the courts, a system of government so unlike and so contrary to all sense. of justice or constitutional guarantees, that they have openly defied them. They have even come to the point of protecting our alien citizens, in many of whom contempt of law is an ingrained characteristic, from the hosts of government paid enforcement squads, laws have provided and spread life chaff over that the land, until there is a government commissioner, an inspector or a paid sleuth, lingering in the shadows of nearly every American man's by-the- . ; ex-soldi- er socialistic-internationalis- m. de . ulter-regulator- y. home. laws has This disregard for and contempt of begetted wholesale disregard for all law. It was the natural and result ..of trying to legislate the people into a state It has caused a revolt against bordering on heavenly perfection. nationalism and if continued may eventually drive the nation into the outstretched arms of predatory European and Asiastic empires now itching for closer and more absorbing political and domestic ties with that country once, proudly .heralded around the world as the land of the free and the home of the brave. Soon the United States must decide, for itself, whether it wants a government of hesteria and emotion, with laws devised to regulate nearly every social and personal activity of mankind; whether it wants to capitulate to foreign propagandists, importers of foreign goods and international bankers or whether it just wants to return to sanity and sail along, as in days, with the ship of state trimmed ready for a fight or a frolic, under the influence and with that calm serenity which obtained when our law makers paid more g attention to the fundamentals of democracy and less to manorities or intriguing foreign and wildly wailing home-grow- n politicians bent upon swinging the nation out of its constitutional orbit. ulter-regulato- ry . . . by-go- ne teeth-nashin- POLITICAL PYROTECHNICS COME NEXT. .With a more or less sane observance of the nation's natal holiday, reposing in the dim light of. past events, it is patent that will forge to the. front with rethe newed vigor and with an intensity which should keep the pot boiling until the close of the mighty contest on the first Tuesday, following the first Monday, next November. This campaign is significant from the fact that.it represents an insidious and glaring, attempt by the Democrats, ably abetted by internationalists and importers of foreign made goods, to tear down by innuendo and indirection whatever of good has been accomplished by the Republicans during their first year and a half of governmental direction. Theirs is a campaign of negation predicated upon false and alarming preachments to the people. .With a. hope born, of : all-absorb- ing topic-politic- al . t t ; , i Vi 't desperation the Democrats at Washington are staging an opt tariff measure, buster against the Fordney-McCumbeXj hinder of national so the and era to delay thereby, prosperity has ever followed in the wake of tariff schedules designed t tect the American workers and the American business man Republican congre they may point accusingly to the the most arrant body of law givers ever assembled one roof. And in a certain sense the Republicans will lay them open to this accusation unless they show more speed on the ' shipping and soldier bonus measures, during the next few than they have evinced for over a year. All three of these j ures are vital, to the best interests of every, citizen regardle political affiliation and are liable to cause a sweeping reducti the'ranks of the Republicans at Washington unless they are : ? well in advance of electionday i.,4 But it lies not within the, realm 'of- silver-line- d or golden sin eventualities for the Democrats to place too much stress uoon ' I, of dissatisfaction tne people, judging from past po suppositional happenings.' A resume of state primaries that have been held to date so really encouraging for the Bourbon hosts as their wild cacophonous clamor anent political unrest and political diss faction among the voters is designed to make us believe. Eight states have held primaries at which nominees for con were selected by all parties. In these primaries 92 Republican members of the present of representatives were candidates for renomination on the Re lican ticket. Of these 92, the vast majority were unopposed, those who were opposed in the primaries, only six were defea two in Illinois and four in Pennsylvania; Summed up, out of 92 publican members of the present house of representatives who gone before the people of their districts in primaries this year asked for an indorsement of their record and the record of the Re lican congress 93.5 per cent have received that indorsement, following is a detailed statement of the results in each state a Republican, primary has been held to date: South Dakota: The entire Republican delegation in the ent house, three in number, asked for renomination and all sei renomination. Illinois : 21 Republican members of the present house for renomination and 19 received renomination. Indiana : 12 Republicans of the present house asked for ren nation and all received renomination. Pennsylvania: 29 Republicans of the present house asked renomination and 25 received renomination. Oregon: The solid Republican delegation of the present three in number, asked for renomination and all received renoi er top-hea- vy do-nothi- ng . . i - 4 t 1 I , i h , w ICO ai hi ICO tion. asked Republican members of the present house renomination and all received renomination. Maine: The solid Republican delegation, four in number. a for renomination and all received renoinination. Minnesota : The solid Republican delegation, 10 in number, ed for renomination and all received renomination. The query naturally arises: If there were any widespread satisfaction with the record of the present house why does it manifest itself? If this congress were in fact the t gress that its Democratic critics represent it to be why don refuse to endorse its members? If the people of the countr) as dissatisfied with the present administration as the. Dein00 J leaders and publicity mediums claim they are, would nr this m faction show itself at the polls when the present Republican to hers of the house of representatives present them elves voters of their districts asking for an indorsement no: only individual records but of the collective record of- th they arc a member and of the record of the Republican and administration to which they have given their i n1'1 Iowa: 10 do-nothin- g p1 ll t a!5-- congre-whic- - 1 port? 1 h us |