Whitelaw Reid: “The people of Sitka and the Aleutian Islands enjoy the blessings of ordered liberty and free institutions, but nobody…”

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.