The daily gazette., 1883-04-14
DEL, SATURDAY, APRIL IA. 1888.
SENATOR BAYAKD's SPEECH.
Response to Toast at n Banquet In
Chicago OH Jenerson's Birthday.

Response to u Toast at n Banquet In
Chicago OH JefTerson's Birthday.
The Iroquois Club of Chicago gave it's
second annual banquet in the Palmer House
that city, last evening. After the supper,
the following toasts were drunk: "Our
Country" Senator Bayard, of Delaware;
"Thomas Jefferson" James o. BroadLead,
of Missouri; "The Democracy, Past, Present
and Future" Col. W. F. Villas, of
Wisconsin; "The Constitution" Lyman
Trumbull, Of Illinois; Manifest Des-
Kentucky; "Tariff for Revenue Only"
President e. P. Wheeler, of the New York
Free Trade League; "The Democratic
Press" William II. Hurlburt, of the New
York World; "The Great Northwest" ex-
Governor John NJ. Palmer, of Illinois;
"Monopolies Shall Not Rum" William M.
Springer, of Illinois; "Public Office Public
Trust" Mayor Carter H. H. Harrison, Of
Chicago.
Senator Bayard was greeted with round
of applause by the 400 guests present, and
spoke at some length. A portion OF his ad-
dress is given below:
The enduring greatness of our country is
| founded upon what is really elevated and
great in the miL de and hearts of our people.
Let us never forget that We have embarked
our hopes upon trust aud not upon distrust
in human nature; upon what 1t contains of
strength and worth and not upon its weak
ness and depravity; upon the belief that the
instinct OF preservation LETT free to recoi
from natural and necessary errors and mis-
takes will not repeat them; and that with
free and recurrent opportunities for popular
elections, misconduct In rulers and mis-
takes in public policies can and
will be corrected and remedicd
under peaceful, orderly and effective forms
of law. Aud can we he mistaken in the
present indications SO manifest an.
abundant, that we are soon to be witnesses
in the election of 1854 of a splendid and
potent, proof of the popular wisdom and
power to redress grievances, to reform un-
| wise policies, to rebuke corruption and
| purify and strengthen popular institutions
by driving out of the temple of our liberties
mercenary and machiue politicians, who
have betrayed the popular trust and dis
graced and degraded the administration Of
our Government !
After speaking of the great strides made
| in the way of invention and the ease by
| which wealth is accumulated in this coun-
| try, he referred to the damages of monopo-
| lies and the way to prevent them. In that
| connection he said: The GENERALIZATION of
power and action is an obvious result of the
| invention of steam and telegraphy. The
| safety of our popular institutions demands
| the decentralization and distribution of
/ power and its exercise for the local self
government by those whose daily lives and
interests are to be affected by it. Home
| rule, or local self-e eovernment, Is a right and
/ a necessity of American citizens, and the
| intent and meaning of the written Con-
| sitution of the Union. The strength of the
| State rests upon the number of upright, in-
dependent, self-reliant and self-respectiug
| individuals 1t contains, and under our Dem
i ocratic theories of government, all invasions
| OF individual freedom and acts not essential
| for the preservation of social order and the
| protection of individual and public rights
are unwise and unwarranted. All the tend
encies of legislation which, ignoring indi-
vidual responsibility, substitute Government
control in matters social and personal, tend
TO weaken the powers of the individual and
enfeebling them by disuse, lessen theil
agency In god government.
In this mischievous substitution OF gov
ernmental power in matters personal and
social, lies the objection to sumptuary laws
| interference with conscience in social and
religious affairs, invasion of the domain OF
private opinion and personal liberty, which
seeks to impose penalties for anticipated
| acts and offenses yet uncommitted. The
| spirit of unwise and unjust interference by
Government is the objection to laws
which, under the name of taxation,
favor Gel tain classes aud occupations
at the cost of others, and abridge that free
dom of commercial intercourse which al
enlightened and enlarged sense of self-in-
terest should control. 1t Is, in fact, the
principle OF socialism and communism
paternal oversight by the Government sub
stituted for individual endeavor, guided by
intelligent selfinterest and restrained by in
dividual conscience. 1t is to promote q
healthy sentiment and habit of selfreliant
manhood that the Democratic party
throughout the United States insist upon
the fullest degree of individual liberty O.
| conscience and action consistent with public
safety and the rights of others, aid fo
that reason we deprecate all unneces
sary interference with the righ
of local seEgovernment, and all class
legislation by the general government which
assumes guardianship and protection ovel
the business of private citizens and contro
over matters OF domestic and local interest
We must carefully and jealousy insist tina
the true germ and real basis of the great
ness of our country should not be obscuret
and overlooked and public control allowe'
over matters properly belonging to privat
, Jurisdiction. We need this as check upo
! centralizing influences, the consolidation c
wealth and power and the tyranny of part
organization, all of which tend to withe
individual manhood and conscience, and t
!, absolye men from sense OF personal dut
and obligation.
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