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Show " The Enemies Of Native Land THERE are eight or ten pronounced candidates candi-dates for the office of president of the Units' Unit-s' ed States; there are more than as many more who are praying that the lightning will I strike in their immediate neighborhood. The I shibboleth of nearly every one of them is in sub- r stance that his code must be adopted, for until iit is the poor of the land are but the prey of'the grafters. In addition the rule among them is to preach a doctrine which in its nakedness as- f, sumes that if a man or company is rich, he must J have obtained that wealth dishonestly, must have taken it is a corrupt way from the poor. Most f ,, of these candidates assume that the courts, the i last refuge of a trusting people, are so many of them corrupt, that the law should be changed, i so that the people may judge whetner they prob- s ably are corrupt or not, and be given tho power J to unseat the judges at will. This has been going on for along time; dur- ; ing the past six years the statement has been repeatedly, almost constantly dinned into the people's ears that dishonesty among all officials, nation state and city, is the rule, not the excep-I excep-I tion. ' The natural result is becoming more and more manifest daily. Courts are no longer re- vered as they formerly were; employees are no longer as faithful as a rule as they formerly were; crime and general lawlessness are Increasing In-creasing as never was seen before; fiendish crimes of all grades are reported every morning i the needed discipline is passing away; and tho jt loyalty of the people to the free government of their country is apparently growing less and less every day. There is quick impatience at any form of restraint, no matter how necessary it may be. The situation in Mexico fills us with contempt t and we point to the warring faction there as to a people incapable of self-government, f But have we very much right to assume su periority over them? How far are wo removed from a like criticism? How long can a race of demagoguers go around and toll a people daily that they are being oppressed and robbed by the rich men and rich combines of tho country, un-i un-i iT til some leader will rise up and choose the Mex ican plan to get what he will call justice, when, in truth, it will be revenge only that he will strike for, even though ho will "have no one to blame save himself, and that will be for a misspent mis-spent life? r And if under the reading our free government govern-ment is ever overthrown, the inscription over its remains, if honestly written, will read like this: "Died from too many blessings, and from poison distilled from the gall of partisan demagogues, dema-gogues, and demagogic partisan newspapers." |