Life — September 27, 1900 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE « Life’s Ticket. FoR Prestpent, Ww. W. For VICE-PRESIDENT, ASTOR, L. H. CHANG. CABINET: SECRETARY OP STATE, JOSEPIL CHAMBERLAIN, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, JNO. P. ALTGELD. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, COM. W. 8. SCHLEY. SECRETARY AN MARY L BECRETARY OP WAR, H. H. VREELAND. SECRETARY OF THR INTERIOR, Cc. M. DEPEW. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, RICHARD CROKER, DISBURSER OF PENSIONS, , of Kansas. Pratrorm: The World Is Ours! vs is the most important campaign, freighted with the most momentous consequences, that the country has ever seen. No donbt this remark will startle our readers by its originality, but we are not here to utter plattitudes. A crisis has arisen, and we are here to meet it. The nation is in great danger. New magazines are being started every day, and the deadly canteen system is spread- ing rapidly. Even children can be seen carrying to school these awful engines of destruction. To appreciate the full extent of the ruin that is certain if McKinley is elected, read the Democratic side, and to be alive to the total destruction we are to meet if Bryan is elected, read the Republican side. There is absolutely no hope, except to vote for Astor and Chang, those staunch adherents of good form. Read and be convinced, our New anp Revised DECLARATION or InpepP! ‘CAMPAIGN When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one nation to disguise the motives which have made them enter upon a policy of Plunder, Injustice and all around Aggression, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station which all these things have entitled them to, an indecent dis- respect for the opinions of the “ sona oF soLoMoN.”* majority requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to benevoleut assiriilation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable wrongs; that among these are life, slavery, and the hopeless pursuit of hap- piness. That to secure these wrongs governments are instituted among men, deriving their unjust powers from the inability of the governed to help themselves ; that when- ever any form of government becomes destructive and upholds these ends, it is the right of those in power who have the money and the upper hand, to continue it as long as there is anything in it for them, abusing anyone who dares to criticise them, calling them traitors and various other appropriate epithets, Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, and those in power reaping the benefit which only an abuse of power and skill through practice have given them, should not be changed as long as the reins can be held on to; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to bear the ills they have, rather than to fly to those they know not of. But when a long train of trusts, unnecessary warfare and blatant aggressiveness evince a design to reduce them under absolute markhannaism, it is their right, it is their bounden duty, to throw off such government and provide new poli- ticians who will do the same thing all over again. To prove this, we will refrain from submitting any facts, as they are wholly unnecessary. We, therefore, solemnly prblish and declare that these United States ought to be free and independent, but we are absolutely certain they never will be; that they are bound heart and soul to the policy of the British crown, ana that they have full power to levy war on every smaller nation, preach peace, contract unholy alliances, establish unheard- of pensions, and do all the other dis- astrous and disgraceful and criminal acts which no private citizen would think of doing, but which free and independent States think nothing of doing. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on all the moneyed interests, we pledge our bank accounts, our reputations (such as they are) and our sacred dishonor. Disastrous Leniency. ought to be a serious offense to start race riots in this country. When a rough pitches into a negro, or a Chinaman, or an Italian, and begins ‘to hammer the life out of him for reasons relating solely to his com- J" plexion, it is not mere assault. It is more like arson, for it tends to fire the passions of the crowd, and lead to murder. To fine him ten dollars amounts to encouragement.