he powers
more than us, all actions of Congress or Cabinet are sooner known in
the Cabinets of Europe than we hear about them. There is today a "Cato"
in the Senate of every country and in the folds of his cloak he has
concealed several figs of unusual size, everyone of these figs
represent one of our great American Trusts, and he concluded every
speech with Carthage must be destroyed. With our Union destroyed we
would cry with the Israelites in the desert: Lead us back to the meat
pots of Egypt, give us a thousand trusts sooner than one third termer.
If we think that we need a one man's rule, whose place cannot be filled
by another among millions intelligent citizens, then it were about time
that we got a licking from somewhere. What are we about to do, do we
want the great building we have helped to build tear down and give
everybody a brick, the people which is only the present generation
cannot do what they want, for what they have and what they are they are
greatly in obligation to the past and earlier generations who also
helped to build up, therefore this generation called the people cannot
do as they please which is so ardently advocated by the third termer.
Have we learned no lesson about a one man's rule experienced in France
with such disastrous results as the end of the reign of Napoleon I and
Napoleon III.

We are trying to establish here a system like our ancestors have done
in Europe which all revolutions of a 1,000 years could not abolish, it
would be useless to forcibly remove a third president because the
system would then be established. Are we under no obligation to the
heroes of all wars for freedom and independence, are we overthrowing
our republic while the heroes of the French revolutions and the martyrs
of 1848 gladly gave their lives to establish republican institutions.
May God enlighten the nation, may the spirit of 1776 still be alive,
and when they tell us that there is a Rome on the other side let them
understand that U. S. A. is not Carthage. In this campaign we may
observe that prosperity is as dangerous to our institutions as hard
times are, people are too busy making money, they gradually lose all
interest in politics, unless a third termer tells them that government
is only medium to enrich them still more, how else can we explain his
remark that Mr. Perkins wants his children to live better in this
country after his departure, a millionaire's children can only live
better when the t