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Show -f -f -f -f 4- -f 4- - i Republic Jn Danger-1 The Party of Lincoln Trying to 3Fak' the Conn- t try Half Slave. Half Free. t BY BISHOP RYAN. 4 Alton. Ills., Jan. 15. 1000. The solti 0f Ameri- a. is with the Bo. r rind affainst the war in the Philippine Why d.ts it m.f. .-. ik ...nt with the strong voice of earlier days, as it.s,,ke f..r Gre.-. e. the land ,,i " Kosciusko, for Hungary, for every land struggling !".r liberty? Has the Si'asp of gold .throttled us and paralysis come over rs. Hiiilic- the mighty heart and voice of old? Why, else, the eomparativ; ly t'-a town meetings ris-ing in protest over the land, why tie- hurdt i.r siletv.-e in tn- Z halls of congress? Yet the struggle of the Boer w the n,: thniMr. -' thing in history. " - The soul of America should speak out. Its instinct is liu-lit: it leadn to the path of justice, and the path of ju.-i;io is the path o;' satV.v. THE REPUBLIC IS IN DANGER IX DANGER FROM WITHIN. - IN DANGER FROM WITHOUT BECAUSE IN DANGER Fl'ov WITHIN. At the door with imperialism stands militarism. Here v. here a. fair navy has place indeed, but only a small army, every citizen r.adv t step to arm in need, the proper army of the i're-p. THE COUNTRY PURSUING A WlLL-H'-TH E-WfSP of EM PI RE. But, further, through the old Norman guile and the w a km s- and fatuity of the administration, the c.mntry is pursuing a will-'-fhe-wis; of empire, a shadow of commerce commerce, which it could and did " obtain much better without colonies. without empire, by Pap.-; ard " boundo under the old flag of the free, with friendship for ail nati-m.- a;d entanglement with none. What does the country or commerce i 1 in the Philippines but Subig Bay and a few coaling stations, as was th- first, the true, the wise policy? Vainly has- the Nestor of Ohio Cried to his party that it h.w g.,ne far --from --from home and business. Recklesw of expenditures and of the Mood and burdenst of the people, it must have colonies, forsooth. The party of Lincoln is dead; it? heroic days of principle are over; great leaders, stepping aside. It has set itself to reverse its own career, to reverse Lin- coin, to tear out the embodiment of his work from the Constitution, t maka the Republic ag'ai'n half slave and half free, though he said that it -could net so endure. THE FLAG OF LINCOLN HAULED DOWN. Lincoln mad the land all A't,ivlmruvi.r 5a u,.i;, i 11. reach, w herever its flag should float; the party now uy.-at the mouth -f of one of its wiseacres but yesterday that, under a limited written Con- atitution, it can do as it pleases. The Hag of Lincoln in hauled down. 4- The Republic in danger. -t- The Norman in, history had pushed his way more by craft of eUn- 4 ning than of arm. In England he hn taken the money interests, com- 1 - mercial and manufacturing, into partnership, but they are still fawners i at nis feet- He controls and can at any time make the pre.-; and the thousand other voices take his cue. At the breaking out of the war with Spain ire was with" us no more, nay, less, than th.; nut of Europe. His: - -f- hope then, as at the time of the Civil War, was: "The bubble will burs::-' ' OUR BIG LITTLE MEN OF EMPIRE. f But 'Manila opened his eyes to a new vision. Tie saw a double ad- vantage to lead the country from its sphere, from home, where he had designs, and to the East, where, .8 elsewhere, he needed at least the Z 4- nimi' r.f olliic Th . L, i . , . ...... w ct(. 0. a. hit vue nu i'iuiupiiv given UiOO'I uef:i;T.o tntcKer I than water, and our big little men of empire, who have outgrown the Con- i 4 stitution and the Fathers, and hardly think them worth di.-v losing, have 4 been in clover ever isince. patronized to their bent; and Hanna Aas " I taken out of his drifting, drifting. I 4- But interests may clash and a lightning change come at any mom-nt: 1 the cue be reversed, and the old, deep, underlying Tory haU burst . J 4- forth. And all the while the Norman statute planted in hie Gibraltar of if 4- San Lucia and in Alaska, with forts, all around. Driven out of South j; Africa, John will be a mad Bull, liable to use his monster tl.-. t on the 4- I 4 first country in the way to retrieve his humiliation. If n -t driven out. ' and the two republics crushed, he will be a more swaggering bully than- ! -t- ever. J 4- The Republic is in danger. The magnificent, the triumph mi t struggle " J 4 of the Boer is ju.st in time to open oUr eyes to the danger without and the " j 4- danger within, and to revive the Spirit of former and heroi - days. I 4 FREEMEN OF AMERICA. THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH AND -I 4 BREADTH. TO YOUR FEET WITH A HAIL TO THE BOER-GOD BLESS HIM, GOD SPEED HIM! .1 4 Again, the path of justice is the path of the country's honor, the " 4 path of itsi benign influence upon the world. Let us, with our old sacred "i 4 memories of the flag and its meaning to us and to mankind revived and "f 4 renewed, back from the Philippines. Gloriously has the s'tarry banner f -f waved now more than a century, the beacon of hope to the thoughtful "i 4 lover of liberty in every land lift it higher, that it may wave mow H 4- gloriously than ever. JAMES RYAN, f 4 Bishop of Alton. 111. j j |