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THE JULESBURG GRIT-ADVOCATE.
VOLUME 12.
The New Nationalism
By Volney Parker
To the reader and close observer
there is manifest today umong the peo
ple a strong undercurrent of political
and social unrest. The wide circulation
of independent magazines and news
papers, the facilities of travel and con
sequent cireulation of the people, a
national tendency of the American peo
ple to criticize office holders and to
hold them strongly to their pledges, a l
wider dissemination of intelligence due |
tobetter schools and telegraph facilities, |
a breaking away from rigid political |
affiliation, may among other things be
resbonsible for some dramatic scenes ‘
in the Congress of the United States.
When Wm. Taft took office as President |
b+ he called an extra session of Congress
"’ to consider the tariff and enact legisla
tion with regard to the welfare of the
people. There happened to be in the
national legislature at this time, anum
ber of men of independent thought and
ideas. Their political affiliations were
such that they might honestly repre
sent their constitiuents without strict
adherence to the old party lines. In
the disussion of the tariff they endea
vored to block that legislation which
discriminated against the people. They
were spoken of in derision as Insurgents.
They are men of sterling character and
hard fighting qualities. Most of them
were sent to Congress by the people and
not by a state or local ‘machine. l
They have taken notable action several
times, They stirred the Senate to in
vestigate the Lorimer case, they took
Speaker Cannon fram the rules com
mitnee, they made this committee
elective instead of appointive and they
preventedgwhat might have become a
monstrous fraud in Indian lands in!
Oklahoma. (
Some prominent Insurgent has saidl
that an Insurgent is a person who at'
least likes to read a bill before voting |
onit. This is true as far as it goes, |
but Insurgency is greater than any one
man or group of men. It is a move
ment of the people, and the term ap
plies to the people. Webster defines ’
Insurgency as the state of being in op
nostition to legal, civil or political au-’
..ority. Gifford Pinchot has defined
. Yag_movement thus: ,:Thgmmliysl
movement is nothing more than the
crystallized determination of the people
to take their ownaffairsinto their hands
and manage their own business them
selves.”’ LaFollette, Clapp and such
men are only the tactical officers.
They plan the campaign and marshall
the troop leaders. Shall we not all
enlistin this-army of the common good
and makes this goverment genuinely a
goverment of the people, by the people,
for the people, and not a goverment of
the people by the interests?
After Mr. Lorima’s election to the
Senate of the United States then came
rumors of bribery in securing his elec
‘tion, These rumors became so per
sistent that the Senate appointed a
committee to investigate and report.
This committee exonerated Mr.
Lorimes, finding that he had no know
ledge of these corrupt practices if they
did exist. Senator Beveridge an Insur
gent brougbt in & minority report in
which further sensational things were
related. The net result of this agita
tion has been to increase the popular
demand for the election of Senators
by the people, to furtherinquiry into the
methods of state legislatures in general,
to deepen the growing suspicion of the
(file that legislators were in many
. «XDs, betraying their trusts, and to
draw recruits to tne ranks of the In
surgents. The legislature of Illinois
and Wisconsin passed votes of censure
upon their representatives for vouting
for Lorimer. Various commercial
bodies about the country called indig
nation meetings where resolutions were
adopted to the effect that the Senate
of the United States had lost the
dignity of = a law-making body.
Roosevelt refused to sit at a banquet
in Chicago in company with Lorimer.
In short, the Insurgents have stirred
the country. The people are shocked
at this perversion of the ballot. Dem
ocracy means failure whena man can
buy a seatin the U. S. Senate.
For seven years Hon. Jos. Cannon was
Speaker of the House of Rep. His
term of offiice was one parliamentary
.struggle after another, Mr. Cannon
wsually coming out ahead. The power|
to recognized members for debate
' wheu he chose to do 80, the seletion of
committees for certain ends, counting
a quorum when a quorum was not pre
sent, the selection of certain bills for
action and the rejection of others, each
Jof these has been exercised by Clay,
Colfax, Blaine. Carisle. Reed, and
Crisp, in term but in Cannon all these
powers were combined. He preformed
the duties of his office arbitrarily, he
ffered progressive legislation which
e ple plainly demanded, Thus the
mm came to feel that the power of
e ‘etkerm more than any mad
ought tohave in a democracy. Without
Cannon the present Insurgent move
ment might never have attained its
present proportien. Rep. Norris led the
attack. He found support outside the
Hous: in Dolliver, and Cummins of
lowa, LaFollette of Wis., Gore of
Oklaboma, Beveridge of Ind.,Bristow of
Kansas and others. Cannon fought to
tne last ditch but was overthrown.
His defeat was the handwriting on the
'wnll. Thus did the House purge itself
| and could then fittingly seek to reform
l the methods of electing senators. Again
| was Democrocy a Victor. Again did
' the New Nationalism rise to prominent
notice.
' In June 1910 there came before the
| Senate a bill relating to the Choctaw
and Chicasaw Indian lands in ()kla-‘
homa and Indian Territoy. The bill
provided in part that all contracts with
these Indians need only be opproved by
the Pres. and Sec. of Interior. This is
wonderfully valuable containing vast
deposits of aspaltum, coal and oil Sen.
Gore of Oklahoma offered an amene
ment providing that .Congress as a
whole pass on these contracts. The
attention of the country was aroused.
Dabate became heated. The subject
was thoroughly investigated and dis
cussed. The bill failed to pass and an
other victory was won by the Insur
gents,
This Insurgency movement is a move
}ment of the people. Party lines are
breaking, a new party may result.
From the stronghold of Republicanism
in New England, from the central States
and even from far off Cal. and Ore.
came reports of Governors, Senators
and Representatives elected because of
Insurgent sympathies. . Roosevelt is
|the grentest Insurgent. Woodrow
| Wilson and Hoke Smith are the most
]prominel.t Democrat representatives.
This avalanche of public sentiment
’is moving, it is gaining momentum.
i May its latest energies soon become an
irresistable force sweeping down the
‘bnrrier of Partyism, political parties,
'sweeping clear the political mountain
‘side for a new growth. Our free in
stitutions are threatened by two foss
‘plutocracy and mabocracy - lawless
'wealth and lawless mobs. Thege two
agents -destroyed. Grecte 'i}fiflom
Shall we allow them to destroy us?
}Jamns Bryce writes of the U. S. gov’t
‘this: ‘‘The elective offices are so num
‘erous that ordinary citizens cannot
‘watch them and cease to care who
igets them. The conventions come so
‘often that busy men cannot serve in
;them. The minor offices are so unat
‘tractive that able men do not stand for
'them. The mass of voters are ignorant,
: knowing nothing of the personal merits
‘of their candidates they are ready to
follow thier leaders like sheep. Even
the better class are swayed by the in
vetrate habit of party loyalty and pre
fer a bad candidate of their own party
to a better man of another party. It
is leas trouble to put up with trickery
and jobbing in politics than to sacrifice
one’s own interests.’’
At present our hope is with the
Progressives. Honest men can be
trusted in any office. ‘““Let every
American whether d-mocrator repub
lican forget party interests and party
loyalty and work only for the people
and the upbuilding of this great nation.
Let our ideals of political right and
wrong be high for as the majority of
the individual ideals, such is the na
tions ideal. .
Let us remember that
The world advances and in time
outgrows
The laws that in our fathers days
were best;
And doubtless after us some purer
| theme will be worked out
By wiser men than we, made wiser
| by the steady growth of truth.
| We cannot bring Utopia by force.
But better almost, best work in sin
Than in brute inaction, browse and
sleep. : a
Advertised List
'Miss Gladys Bottz
‘Mrs. L. M. Petersen
'Mrs. B. F. Porter
Mr. C. W. Shaffer
' C. W. White
' P. M.
Card of Thanks
I wish to thank my many friends for
their help in securing one of the cou
pons in the piano contest and it will
long be remembered by me.
Lillian Ballinger.
} Mrs. E. N. Kelsey entertained a
‘number of her freinds this after
}noon in honor of Miss Hazel Win
‘terbotham.
{ Rev. W. D. Waller, of Holyoke
‘brot.her of Rev, A. J. Waller of
\t.his city mill lecture at the M. E.,
Church at this place tonight.
J ULESBURG. COLORADO, THURSDAY, JUNE SB, 1911,
The Spirit of America
By Joseph F. Labaree
Europeans get their impression of
America largely from American trave
lers. Afew foreigners like James Bryce
who made a political study of Amer
ica and Tocqueville who made a philo
sophical study really know what they
wrote about. But these men spent
years in our midst and were men of
wide comprehension.
One can hear in Europe or read in
current literature by foreign authors
that Americans love the sdmighty dol
lar more than the Fnglish love the
pound; that America is a lawless land,
that in America we have no sociai or
der, that America is an accident born
of circumstances. One can hear or
read also the opposite, that Americans
are spendthrifts, that America is
governed by ridiculous laws which
govern the speed of the automible and
prescribe the number of workman's
hours; that in America Social distinc
tions are sharply drawn. that America
is a definite political experiment so
far fairly successful. These things are
all true in some sense but not in a
complete sense.
The spirit of a nation is hard to
circumscribe. It may be found in part
in our self-reliance, our spirit of fair
play and in our literature. Perhaps
we are best known in Europe for our
energy which lieg behind our self-reli
ance. Our strenuous life is typefied by
Theodore Ruosevelt whodoes everything
and goes everywhere. We are a stren
uous people in contrast with Eastern
people. We have little time for vaca
tion or leisure. We are more or less
enslaved by our restless activity, or
chise for material wealth, our reduc
tion of the wilderness and our creation
of gigantle enterprises. Have we not
subdued a continent? Have we not
throwh off Fnglish leading strings and |
written a Declaration of Independence?
Have we not kept the Monore Doc
trine inviolate? And finally did the
Civil War keep us divided? We were
a self-reliant people and we are. Our
ancestors braved a wilderness, bhuilt
homes and made a living. They came
by a process of natural selection. Col
onists, pionegrs..are .always a hardy
race, strong willed,resolute unflinching.
independent, shirking no hardship, ac- |
cepting any risk. They left the feeble,
the timid, the lazy, the indefferent
behind. They broke old ties. They cross
ed the seas. They faced lonliness and
solitude.
The spirit of self reliance rejected
foreign guidance, and assumed the
right of self direction. It has persisted
through two centuries and remains to
day a vital factor in the spiritof Amer
ica. Also the spirit of Fairplay is a
compelling force in America.
President Roosevelt’s square deal
‘stmck a Yesponsive chord in the hearts
of the American people. It explains
his popularity. The objector asks,
Does not the rule of the boss in the
cities destroy democracy and the square
deal? The answer is, ‘‘Good men too
often allow bad men to control.”” A
weakness in our system does not indi
cate a permanent sickness. Men will
have good government as soon as
they want it.
It is again asked‘‘Dowe not have legal
delays, miscarriage of justice and failure
to convict the guilty in America?”’ We
have, but it is the exception which
proves the rule. What country has
not? What country has less?
Democracy does not follow a rose
bordered path. Liberty is the price of
eternal vigilance. The spirit of fair
play early took form. This is found in
our constitutional Book of Rights.
They cannot be repealed. They are
beyond the reach of our state legisla
tures and of congress. The English
Bill of Rights may be repealed by Par
liament. The decision of our Supreme
Courts are inspired by them. Fair
Play is found in our Declaration of
Independence. There is written *‘just
powers are derived from the consent
of the people. Men are endowed by
their creator with certain inalienable
rights. Special prerogatives of rulers
are not of divine origin. All men are
created equal In opportunity. Every
man shall have a chance to rise; every
man shall be free to pursue his happi
ness, protected in the enjoyment of
his liberty and secure in the possession
of his life,
The spirit of fair play is shown in
our religious liberty, the highest kind
of fair play. Tolerance was early
marked among the Quakers of Penn
sylvania, the Babtists of Rhode Island
and the Catholics of Maryland. The
intoterance of the Puritance of Mass.
gave way. Our laws afford equal
protection to a Jewish synagogue, a
Catholic Cathedral, a Buddhist Temple,
a Quaker meeting-house and a Protect
ant church. In Roosevelts cabinet was a
Jew, a Catholic, a Presbyterian, an
Episcopalian and a Methodist, The
President himself was member of lhc!
Dutch Reformed. President Taft is al
Unitarizn. No faith is prescribed, |
no unfaith penalized. An agnostic or |
an atheist has the same right and .
privileges as any other man. opinions
are not always admired, but every man
is entiticd to form his own, i
Fair play today gives the Indians
eitizenship, is providing the negro
better und better opportunities for self
development, is receiving almost all
r@ces as members of our American
family. The spirit of fair play has
seme problems yet to solve, but in!
Americi today there is more plain |
buman kindness, friendliness, hospi!al-‘
ity and cordial feeling than any where
else in the world. |
Finully perhaps, The Spirit of Amer
icais best shown in *her literature. |
The shrewd and genial Franklin will
find readers after many present day
wrilers are forgotten. High School
students will always like to read hum
orous Irving, adventurous Cooper and
negiected Poe. Mark Twain and
Howells have an international reputa
tion, Rhodes, Fiske and McMaster.
|Our sympathies for the south are
asoused by Cable, Allen and Page.
Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow,
Whitter, Holmes and Lowell form a
group unexcelled as yet in America.
Markham sings the song of labor,
Riley is entertaihing to old and young
and Whitman’s audience is growing.
The sentiment of humanity underlies
all our literature. Tne plain p(-oplg*
furnish subjects for many of our |
writers. High-life novels are gener
ally satirical. The hero is seldom rich,
the villian seldom poor. The humane
sentiment has impressed upon our lit
erature the stamp of a moral purpose,
the wish to elevate, to purify, to
fortify the minds and the lives of those
who read. Surely American literaturc'
has done much to perpetuate the
Spirit of America. |
Manual Arts and Agriculture in
our Sedgwick County Schools
Before maunal arts and agriculture |
can be of the greatest service, we
must have schogls that recognize and
Use & cou:se adapted to the needs of |
modßrii soctety. They must lead both |
collegeward and lifeward. The boyl
| and girl for whom the college door never
inward swings must be provided for‘
as well as the child whose parents are
financially qualified to continue his ed
ucation in higher institutions of learn
ing. All subjects from the Kinder
garten to the University are presented |
to youths because of the present andl
past demands of society. Civilization
must hold to the past because slow
elimination is conrtantly dropping off
while assimilation is slowly changing
the o!d with new structures.
Here is the field for the great ed
ucational leaders. Thoughtful teach
ers and members of professions other'
than teaching, and superintendents feel
the need of a change in our conrse of
study 8o as to include Manual Arts and |
Agriculture. ) I
The greatest demands now upon our
public school teachers are directing and
working with patrons and pupils in
interpreting these educational move
ments of the present time in away
that our boys and girls will enter lifes
work with a maximum preparation.
These duties are not, nor never can be,
defined by statute.
Here enters the personality of pat
rons and teachers. All the patrons in
Sedgwick county and all of the differ
ent school directors have done and are
doing everything that will be advan
tageous for our school system. May we
all stand for the best, for the better
courses, for new ideas, for everything
that will help to make Sedgwick County
Schools the best in the state.
E. W. Babcock,
County Superintendent of Schools.
The Ovid Sunday School will give the‘
following program at the Owid Hall,
Saturday evenini, June 11.
art I
The Holiday’s Carnival
New Years - - Hazel Dutton
Lincoln’s Birthday - Hazel O’Connor
Valentines Da§ - Elmer Bennett
Washington’s Birthday - -
- - Myrden Erickson
Easter - Laura Alexander
April Fool’s Day - Lynn Fuller
Arbor Day - - Lydia Leuck
May Day - - Pauline Froid
Memorial Day - June Truax
Children’s Day - Irma Bennett
Fourth of July - Van Dutton
Labor Day - Norvil Erickson
Hallowe’en - Grace Henderson
Thanksgiving - - Mabel Short
Pilgrim’s Day - Budd O’Connor
Christmas - - Ernest Davis
Part I
Flag Salute “‘Our Flag”’, -
- - Sixteen Children
A collection will be taken, proceeds
to be used toward a new organ for the
Sunday School.
Every body come prepared with
small offering. -
Restricted Immigration
By Ethel Sorenson
J Ty WY SRRy
| Last year 1,400,000 immigrants en
(tered the U. S. Of those leaving
foreign ports few were returned. For
'the many accepted our government
‘must care. They have become our
]reuponsiblitiy. our problem.
Some of them tonight are in com
‘tartable homes adjusted to the life of
this free country; many are crowded
'into tenements in foreign districts of
| the city; a poftion are at work in the
i mines and factories while others sulk in!
| cells of our institutions for the punish
ment of crime.
I Of those who have migrated hither, |
| perhaps § representing such countrics|
|as Germsny, Scandinavia, Denmark |
| and Great Britain aid us socially and |
Imaturinlly. Of immigrants fromi
Russia, Poland, Italy and the ()ricnt‘
few are helpful or helped even at the
great expense of our money and effort.
Because of the detrimental effect up
on industrial and financial advancement
|of the U. S; and because harmful in
fluence upon her morals immigration
should be restricted.
The presence of s 0 many foreigners
from other countries, and their accept
ance of lower wages, deprives our lab
orers of the opportunity to earn their
livelihood, for even in vast Americui
work enough for all is not yet possible.
Unskilled labor is especially croWded.
As a large per cent of the foreign
workmen are untrained, they accept
the work of railroad construction, road !
building, mining, subway and canal
building at lower pay than our work
men command. Expert labor alsol
brings competition.
The skilled and the unskilled Chinese '
and Japanese pouring into our west
ern states have usurped opportunities
in agricultureal and domestic lines.
' If competition were lessoned by the
presence of fewer foreigners, prepara- |
‘ tion for skilled workmanship and in- '
dustrial progress would result. ‘
! Low wages and the high cost of |
| living binc the foreign employer to ig- |
norance and often squalor- To himl
i who counts Americas remuneration as
| great, after the poverty and iron heel
'oi his own country . rapid - develepment
is impossible. These ambitionless
l thousands block our country’s pro
gress. Incompetency results in child ‘
llabor with all its attending evils. The
! parents are encouraged in indolence,
greed. or inhumanity. The manufac
'turing and mining companies, who se
| cure services of many children for a
few cents each per day, are enriched.
lßy such criminal action the state is
demoralized. The child dwarfed in
mind and body, is denied his god-given
right to develop to maturity for useful
citizenship. Senator Beveridge an '
orator of the U. S. senate has worked |
diligently against this evil, raising his
' voice for its eradication. State laws
have passed, and violated. This evil is
}largely a result of unrestricted im
| migration, and its blotting out depends
upon the honor of the American citi
zens.
Another fact to be considered as de-(
trimental is that of the immigrants
temporary resicence here, and the re
mittance of his salary t) his native
land. Our toiler usés his wages for
his family here. The alien sends most
of his to his family across the sea.
‘The American buys a home; the other
‘exists in miserable lodging house or
rents a room in a rickety tenement.
‘The American workmans dwelling is
often a cozy cottage, among trees and
flowers the place wherein develop noble
citizens, an American stronghold—a l
home. Upon this institution our future
depends. If the stranger of our land
takes from it his income never estab
lishing a home it weakens the struc
ture materially and socially. To him
who uses America as a means for per
sonal benefit alone, her privilege should
be denied.
Here the immigrants interest is in
juriodsly used in class strife encourag
ee by trade unions, and in strikes.
Many of the laborers, pessimistic be
cause of years of poverty at home,
lead fellow workman to strike,
to obtain demands for higher
wages, and shorter hours. Intelligent
‘'workman lead the forces. The poverty,
the restraint of trade, the bloodshed,
which often follow are results of the |
presence of immigration to whom con
trol of self is unknown. The more in- l
telligent and grateful workmen are
rational, demanding rights, and making |
for them an honest struggle. The un
principled, irrational immigrant finds
his fullest development in class strife,
and the strike.
The grasping corporation demahding
long hours, and giving small wages are
by the strike compelled to recognize
the right of labor. The strife controll
ed is the workman’s safeguard, the
bridge by which is spanned capital and
labor in the hands of the uncontrolledit
i 8 the countries menace, widening the
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gulf between wealth and poverty.
The suspicious alien commits crimes
As a result courts settle the cases.
For the trials, and maintainance of
penal institutions large sums are ex
pended. Were it not for the undesir
able, such institutions would be few
‘and small. For the maintainance of
‘the penitentiaries and reformatories,
‘the American people are heavily taxed.
Because of their preseuce, the moral
\standard is permanently lowered.
| To gain liberty from the spying of
}the police the best and worst men
chafing under ovr system- The lawless
are revolutionists, and nihilists, On
recent years our president fell by the
hand of a Russian anarchist. The edu-
Lratcd lawless influence the uneducated
ilo commit such atrocious crimes, as
ithusn- commited by the Black Hand.
Against these our immigtation laws
ish()uld be formed and executed.
| The moral effect of unrestricted im
| migration shows clearly in the educa
itionul world. In the public
schools, teachers and equipment are
increased by the presence of foreign
children. Even then hundreds of them
in the cities are crowding the American
pupils. The teaching of English to the
foreign children retards the school’s
progress. If these children are edu
cated to good citizenship the price is
well spent, This is our responsibility
with these already here. But why in
crease the responsibilty greatly? Why
lower the moral tone by the entrance
into this country, and into the schools,
the children of the unmoral? Why
not limit the number of immigrants
‘and admit only the moral?
| The control of elections by the irre
‘sponsible foreigners is another resnlt
of unrestricted immigration. The N.
Y. City ring, Tammany, like the ring
of Chicago, and many cities votes the
the untrained, thereby placing in office
the unpatriotic ringmen. Justic and
municipal progress is stifled; graft in
the cities which control much of the
political power is fostered by the evil
against which our gates should be
§ closed. ’
| When will this state cease? What
(is the remedy? A more radical and
' effectual means should be applied for
fthe selection of these immigrarts, and
'more rigid law for their entrance
passed and enforced.
‘} The steamship companies are inter
‘ested only inquantity of passengers.
'They bring all whocan pay their pass
age. The more aliens they bring, the
more are to be returned if met by
failure. These companies are to be
cambatted.
If the inspection of these strangers
was made at the embarkation on their
physical, mental and moral fitness, in
‘'stead of here, briefly and as now with
out care as to their moral, few would
pas their passage to America. If a
country refuses to issue the passport
on character, the U. S. can refuse ad
mittance to the subject. Congress
should cunsider this plan, and should
adopt it. The situation is grave. No
greater evil exists in America than
that of unrestricted immigration.
Americe has her own burden, that of
developing the children among one
hundred millions of people, and of ad
vancing industrially and morally. If
every year thousands of incompetents
are admittcd, the burden will remain
gigantic and hopeless. America is nct
harsh, she is kind. She is not heart-
Jess, she is charitable. For this reason
she must protect her own citizens for
the realization of their hishest capa
bilities. Oaly the advancement of all
individuals, industrially, intellectually
and spiritually wili maintain the past
and elevate the present standard of
our nation.
Under the Throne of The Czar
By Joe G. McSarren
Old forms of goverment have given
place to tue new. As people have ad
vanced through Christianity and Edu
cation kingdoms have passed to Con
stitutional Monarchies and Republics.
England, Spain, Germany, even Turkey
and Italy have become Constitutional
Monarchies. Many South American
countries, Switzerland, France and the
United States are Republics, but Rus
sia remains practically an absolute
Monarchy—a despotism.
In a country reaching the far north
almost to the torrid zone and one third
around the world, embracing one-sixth
of the land surface, lives Russia’s
one hundred and sixty millions, ruled
by an absolute Monarch in whom is
vested legislative, executive and judi
cial power. The Douma, representa
tive of the largest cities, owes its elec
tion to property owners who have the
right of suffrage. Constantly under
the supervision of the Czar, the Douma
executes his dictated wishes or dis
bands under his right of dismissal, only
to be formed again for the farce of
representation.
(Co;;nued on page two)